and smooth plastic

semi-gloss lines that “stay put

controlled watercolor work

makes it easy to understand the backbone of every comic

and absorbs into the surface

caran dache grafstone woodless graphite pencil Chrome Season and smooth plasticCaran d'Ache Grafstone is a solid, uncased pencil made entirely from pure graphite rather than a wood cased lead a woodless pencil rather than a standard one. It's wrapped only in a micro thin plastic film to keep fingers clean while writing or drawing, and it feels noticeably heavier in hand than a standard wood pencil of the same size. Because there's no wood casing, the graphite itself sets the limits: sharpen it to a fine point for detail work,