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Universal
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All-consuming
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Intimate
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The artist's private notetaking; factor's: small, executed quickly,
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Note taking
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Sketches or ideas for a drawing
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Preliminary sketches
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Sketch made before beginning the real thing; a plan
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Investigative drawing
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Purpose is to understand the world around them and its forms
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Drawing surface
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Surface for drawing that expands beyond merely paper
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Pigment
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Powdered coloring material
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Graphite pencil
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Most common medium, comes in different levels of hard or soft, cheap, readily available, easy to work with
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Metalpoint (silverpoint)
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Not forgiving, thin wire of metal mounted in some kind of holding device, surface coated with poster paint or a similar ground, thin delicate line
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Charcoal
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Burned sticks of wood, different tone ranges, dark sometimes soft line occasionally harsh
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Chalk
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Nonfat binder, blend well and can be overlaid to produce shaded effects, respond best to paper with some tooth, fragile, limited range of colors
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Crayon
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Fatty/greasy binder, adhere well to paper and more permanent, difficult to blend for subtler tones and gradation, varying degrees of hardness'n'color
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Binder
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The substance that holds particles of pigment together
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Pastel
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The most well-known chalk medium, full range of colors and several degrees of hardness, easily blended
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Pen and ink
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Smooth uninterrupted line, pens made of metal, reed, or quill/feather, lines can be all one width or vary(calligraphic or gestural)
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