Have you ever had to choose between crayons and colored pencils? This is why you should definitely choose to use crayons. Crayons are better than colored pencils. First, crayons are softer than colored pencils. Second, they are more true to their color. Third, you don’t have to sharpen them.
One of the arguments against colored pencils is that crayons are softer than colored pencils. That is a good thing because the color goes on smoother and isn’t streaky. There isn’t any variation in the color. That is good for coloring because you don’t want your art project to be a lot of variations of the one color.
Crayons are more true to their color. In class we produced a test with 10 different colors of crayons and colored pencils and 9 times out of 10 the crayon color was more true to what was on the paper. This is good because when you are coloring a picture you want the color you see on the utensil to come out on the paper.
You also don’t have to sharpen crayons. When you are coloring with colored pencils for a long time they get dull and you have to sharpen them. When you use crayons, when they get dull all you have to do is peel the paper down and it is sharp again.
Even though colored pencils are a good coloring utensil, crayons are softer than colored pencils, they are more true to their color, and you don’t have to sharpen them. So go out and make some beautiful pictures with you nice 64 pack of Crayola crayons.
While you have a very sound argument, you failed to address the one trait of colored pencils that trumps crayons. Colored pencils are more accurate; it is easier to make precise, controlled drawings with them rather than with crayons.
Consider this: have you ever tried to draw a picture using crayon? I’d bet that it looked messy. This is because most crayons dull easily. After brief use, all crayons become dull, and thus cannot draw sharp, thin lines. What more, the wax on the crayons does not come off smoothly onto the paper. There are often many spots where the wax has not covered, requiring the artist to re-administer the crayon.
As you pointed out, crayons have many advantages over colored pencils. However, the precision that colored pencils exert should not be overlooked, and thus they are the better coloring utensil. Perhaps your study case for crayons could be improved by acknowledging or disproving the benefits of colored pencils.
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I honestly disagree. CoLoring pencils are way smoother.
Plus, colored pencils: the factories that make them release 35.6% percent less methane into the air than crayon factories do.
Take that, crayons!
There are so many disadvantages to crayons.
1) Crayons is too soft to maintain a sharp point if you want to draw precise details, it does not give you the crisp look of colored pencils (colored pencils can also look like crayon when applied slightly harder with a blunt tip, there is versatility with colored pencil)
2) Crayons looks too reflective for some artists, colored pencils only become a bit reflective after many layers of heavy application
3) Crayons easily make the user’s hand dirty and waxy, this does not happen with colored pencil
4) Crayons break too easily, colored pencils are more break-resistant in general
5) Crayons lack transparency (or translucency) when you apply multi-layers, each new layer tend to cover the lower layers, while colored pencils give nice nuanced translucent look when multi-layered
6) Crayons develops wax bloom much more easily than colored pencils. Some colored pencils especially the oil based and watercolor ones avoids the wax bloom problem.
Ok first of all colored pencils are much easier to use because they are like normal pencils but color and it’s easy to color in the lines
Pros of crayons:
Great at covering large areas quickly due to dulling so fast
Stays true to its color
Cons of crayons:
Dulls so fast that if you’re trying to draw you can’t get the same consistent line
Not sturdy and breaks easily (so many crayons have snapped in half while I was coloring lightly)
Leaves patchy layers
You cannot layer them
You have to sharpen them (yea you actually do)
Terrible at blending
Hard to color with after they get too dull even if you pull down the wrappers (when you have to pull down the wrappers that’s when its time to sharpen them)
Reflects
Pros of colored pencils:
Stays sharp for hours of coloring
Great at layering
Blends so guuuud
Super sturdy (I have never broke a single colored pencil)
Great for lining after sketching
You get different colors from different pressures making there over 20 thousand different shades in one colored pencil :D(don’t buy the bigger packs unless you’re heavy handed like me lol)
You can stay inside the lines better
Smooth and sturdy so you can glide over the paper (atleast I know this is true for PrismaColor Premier cause I use it)
Cons of colored pencils:
Can’t stay a consistent color unless you force yourself to keep the same pressure at all times and don’t take your pencil off the paper until you’re done with that shade (Again I don’t have this problem cause Im heavy handed)
Respectfully, I hear all of your carefully laid out arguments, but I challenge to consider this. Crayons are relatively inexpensive, making them a utensil that is available to the masses. Colored pencils are the choice for the 1% and the bourgeoisie.
Crayons are also safer for children, due to the lighter quality and non-toxicity of the material, especially when compared to that of the colored pencil, specifically when you look at the name brand Crayola crayons.
Finally, crayon art emphasizes the melding of crayons to form new colors. Crayons have the unique ability to be melted, giving them the capacity to be mixed and create new colors. You may be able to create unique pieces of work that are only possible with crayons, not colored pencils.
I hope you consider these points, even if your opinion does not change. Ultimately, I hope we can all be civil and respect our differences.