Conté à Paris Sanguine Sketching Crayons

One came broken, but these are fragile, so it's expected. Worked great for my college drawing class. Good for sketching figures and shading.

These are exactly the type of conte crayons recommended by art instructor. He specifically said we should get the "Conte" brand of conte crayon. These are a nice, reddish brown color.I will add that one of them was broken when I received it. A shame, but not worth the trouble of returning. And, for my purposes (just learning), it actually doesn't really make much difference in terms of usability.

Cont'e A Paris is a brand name. Some beginning artists like me might think one conte is like another. This brand drawing sticks and their other products are very nice to use. The other cheaper brands that are just too hard. I use these for life drawing on newsprint. The other brands hardly leave a mark on the newsprint. One tip I use is to gently-carefully sharpen one end to a dull point. It wastes some of the stick but you don't have the square tip to break in.

I did a portrait of my grand daughter with these on some pale yellow paper and they worked great. I found a colored pencil almost the same color and was able to use it for fine details.

This is what I usually get from blick but I couldn’t go because of the pandemic. I really like them but these came broken.

Pigment ok

One of the crayons came in broken. I think they should have done a better job at packaging it to secure the crayon in place as these Conte crayons are pretty delicate.

Amazing! These sketching are top of the line and would highly recommend.