Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. Because they are erasable, pencils are often the first tool creative people use when ...

They were not yet reliable tools for serious writing or drawing. We still await an ... as you will inevitably do, for pencils of any kind fall into that class of objects—along with umbrellas ...

Water-soluble pencils tend to be softer than ordinary coloured pencils. Charcoal is a fast and responsive drawing media. It gives both soft and strong lines depending on how it is used.