pastel pencils

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Pastel pencils

These are thin sticks of pastel encased in wood, and come in a relatively limited colour range. The "leads" are typically harder than soft pastels, although they may also be somewhat softer than hard pastels. Their main advantage is that they are clean to use and easy to control. As with hard pastels, you can make use of their linear qualities to add crisp finishing touches to a rendering mainly worked in soft pastels.