ABSTRACT
Wax crayons are widely available in a range of sizes and thicknesses, and in a large range of colours, including metallic, fluorescent and flesh-tones. They are useful for drawing on a large scale, and for creating shapes and textures, example for taking rubbings, used on their side. Coloured pencils are suitable for small-scale, detailed work, but may also be used for loose larger-scale work involving broad, sweeping movements; detailed work on a large scale is time-consuming, however. Ball-point pens tend to be under-estimated as a drawing medium, and suffer from a reputation for being notoriously unreliable, with a tendency for blobs and blotches, smearing and leaking. Artists' chalk pastels provide colour in its most intense form, as compressed pigment bound in gum or resin; there is a vast range of colours available, although colours may also be overlain and mixed on the paper.
