Does anyone use Crayola Crayons for renderings?
If not, why? They have every color under the sun and a new pack can be bought for the price of one Prismacolor marker.
I never have, but I can’t think of a good reason why not.
I have never used them for a render but I have had a freelancer use them. They seem ok for certain applications, but they dont layer without getting smudging all around and they have a certain texture to them. You can never really get smooth consistant color out of them.
but they dont layer without getting smudging all around and they have a certain texture to them. You can never really get smooth consistant color out of them.
zippo lighter refill fluid on a paper smudge stick. Creates great smoothness, blending, and eliminates the “cakes”. Learned this tecknique in jounior high. Works best even better with the cayola penciles. Even works on prisma pencils.
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Every time I wander around a toy store I am consistently impressed with Crayola’s product design. Well concepted, unique toys, nice designs and obviously the packaging is good too to attract me away from the toy store visual cacaphony.
I have used Crayola for art purposes, if you really want to you can blend them using a tissue and sharpened powder, but I find there is an inconsistency to the result depending on the type of paper you use.
Prismacolor crayons however seems to be more consistent on different types of papers even the ones with minimal tooth or marker papers.I have used them for rendering the results are very satisfying IMP.
I have not used the crayons but the colored pencils are good. Also, the sketch section of their website is fun to play around with. My seven year old sometimes uses it at school.
they are pretty damn good for touching up dings in protos and trade show exibits, man they can take a beating. The trick is to have a butane lighter at hand, common for a long time less so now, and use it to blend and fair. This works best with black, white and red but with a bit of time in the hotel room you can work wonders on repair of dings the shipping company gave you.