Pencil Charts are important and useful tools, they make your work more precise and dynamic. I try to do charts of every art material I’m working with. Subtle nuances of tonalities are important for me and charts are fundamental in my work.
They are really important for coloured pencils, as not always the colour of the barrel matches the core. Most of the time they are close, but some in some sets they are way off. It can be frustrating when you pick up a pencil thinking it is a Prussian blue and you end up with purple on the paper.
I have a method to create charts. I fill a blank chart with all the colours of my set, cut them all individually and reorganize them in order. After my chart is organized, I create a PDF of my definitive chart and complete it.
I will make available here the ones I’ve created for my sets, as I see many Colourists looking for charts. I hope you enjoy. Happy Colouring!
Pencil Charts – Click to download the free PDF
New! Prismacolor Premier 72 Chart
New! Prismacolor Premier 150 Chart
New! Derwent Coloursoft 72 Chart
Castle Arts Pasteltint 48 chart
Black Widow complete 144 chart
Irojiten Tombow complete 90 chart
Faber-Castell Polychromos 120 chart
Castle Art Soft Series 120 chart
Holbein Artists’ Coloured Pencils 150 chart
To print charts, I prefer paper that is thick enough but will print without problems, no jams. I use card stock (110 lb – 199g/m2), acid free, letter size (8 1/2″ x 11″ – 21.6 cm x 27.9 cm). I also try to look for paper that is green friendly and is part recycled. Here some examples of card stock: Neenah, Springhill and Neenah Cardstock.
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