Cretacolor Compressed Charcoal Stick – Medium

Cretacolor's charcoal sticks give you a choice of character for every stage of a drawing. Compressed charcoal sticks, in soft, medium and hard, deliver a deep, dense black with more control than loose willow charcoal and are ideal for building strong darks and confident lines.

The thick sketching charcoal and the Chunky Charcoal Stick are made for loose, expressive work and covering large areas fast, while the Nero stick offers Cretacolor's oil-based black in a square stick, giving a velvety line that resists smudging more than charcoal does. A blister card of soft, medium and hard charcoal leads is also available for use in a lead holder.

Use them together to block in a drawing broadly, then refine and strengthen the darks with the harder grades.

Key features

• Compressed charcoal in soft, medium and hard
• Thick sketching and Chunky Charcoal sticks
• Nero oil-based black in stick form
• Deep, dense blacks for strong contrast
• Ideal for life drawing and large-format work
• Made in Austria

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