Faber Castell Pitt Pastel pencil

Fit pastel pencil for drawing in selected shades of the Faber Castell company. The Pitt pencils contain a high level of pigments with excellent lightness and easy grading ability. Soft pit pencils do not get your hands dirty, suitable for smaller drawings in soft pastel, or for combining in a drawing with soft pastel colors. The diameter of a pit pencil is larger than a regular pencil, so you must have a sharpener for thick pencils or a double sharpener that has a hole suitable for sharpening a pit pencil.

Fit pastel pencil is highly recommended for use as a sketch drawing before painting and applying color

In oil, acrylic or gouache painting many artists make a sketch on canvas before applying the colors. Pete pencil is suitable for this purpose and unlike graphite pencils, will not produce dirt and will blacken the painting.

Soft pastel colors connect to daydreams. They convey optimism and aesthetics, and invite softness, lightness, a sense of flow and work in long and wide movements. They allow for layered work and thus deeper emotional work. Pastel pastel pencils can be combined with soft pastel chalks. The pastel can be easily spread with a rough spread on the paper and for precision and drawing small details, such as an eye, it is advisable to use a pastel pencil. To achieve a rating of color and transitions between different shades, you can use a finger, a dry brush, a piece of cloth but it is best to use a charcoal spreader. An elastic charcoal eraser can be used to lighten or collect paint grains. It is recommended to use fixative to fix the color between each layer and at the end of the work on the piece, as soft pastel colors are easily applied.

In soft pastel pencils, you should use a drawing on paper in different colors to get additional animals for drawing, for example a white pastel pencil on black paper or a brown pencil on natural beige paper.

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