Jakar 7623 Assorted Greys Compressed Charcoal Stick (Pack of 12)

Tonalidades desde el blanco, grises y negro. Suaves para difuminar. Excelente

What i expected...came in one day

They blend well enough, but don't work well with hiding the stray marks from the vine used to graph everything out before I used these to go over and add more details and schemes of different grey tones. I did my best to make a self portrait of my "ideal self" for the class project. This was my first time using charcoal so... if anything I feel like these were a nice and affordable kit for a malnourished artist like myself to implement into the majority of the semester. As a class we didn't start working with colors until the final, I'd have to admit that I'm not the best at drawing real life human beings and this was my first time doing a self portrait as well, but even so I still ended up getting a satisfactory grade for my hard work and the student critique went well too (it took some explaining, but eventually I was able to cement it into their heads that this was a self portrait of "me" and not a portrait of anybody else. I even showed the selfie I used as a reference and at that point I even had to explain that with makeup anyone could make themselves look like a completely different person with enough time and patience). Either way the drawing class ended up being fun and I even ended up becoming friends with another student too, I'm really glad even after the previous year had been heart wrenchingly cruel in September... that I someway somehow managed to pick up my pieces and instead of rotting away in my room I choose to go back to school. I'm still unsure about the future, but for the first time in years I feel that their may be some worth to life.

Excellent quality and perfect value of the gray shades

These are very nice charcoal sticks, however, they arrived in a flimsy bubble Amazon branded envelope and most of them were damaged. Unfortunately, having a class I needed these for the day after their arrival, I was unable to return them for a refund.

Very hard. Behaves more like chalk than charcoal and the sticks are thick as standard chalk. Package was damaged on arrival so the black was splintered into several pieces. Probably better for a chalkboard than a toothy paper.

It was damaged first I got it, also colors are not good, all looks like similar. Definitely return it

Je travail le fusil depuis des années, et j adore le produit

Son unos gises prácticamente, y llegó uno roto. No los recomiendo como carboncillo

Il prodotto di per sé è buono peccato siano arrivati tutti rotti, non so se dovuto ad una disattenzione nell'imballaggio o al trasporto. Anche la confezione era danneggiata.

He comprado esto, y lo puedes utilizar tanto en barra como hacer polvo con ellas y aplicarlo con pincel

I've been doing art all my life and I probably used every medium there is, from the very expensive to the dirt cheap. These charcoal sticks are very cheap, but their quality is amazing. I originally bought them to use as fillers for large sketches, and wasn't expecting much. I'm pleased that the price tag doesn't match the quality. They're on par with the much more expensive brands. Also, the idea of having grades of grey never appealed to me. The thought was that you can always create gradient shades with only black and white, the tones in between can be achieved with varied mixing. However, I found the greys quite helpful, not least because they save time. Check the attached picture: this is only a warming-up very quick sketch to try the charcoals. You'll notice the grey tones were quite helpful in achieving the desired effect without spending too much time or effort blending.