Charcoal | Graphite

Charcoal and Graphite Online in India

Charcoal and graphite are the two ends of monochrome drawing. Vine and willow charcoal is barely bound, lifts off with a cloth and is made for finding a composition before you commit. Compressed charcoal is dense and almost impossible to fully erase, which is what you want for final darks. Graphite sticks and powder cover ground far faster than a pencil and give an even, silvery grey that pencils cannot match. Most large tonal drawings use all three, in that order.

What we stock

Charcoal sticks, batons, compressed charcoal, graphite sticks and powder from Nitram, General's, Cretacolor, Koh-I-Noor, Conte a Paris, Lyra and Camel.

See Charcoal Pencils for detail and edges, Pencils for graded graphite, and Sharpeners & Erasers for the kneadable eraser that does half the drawing. Toothy cartridge and pastel papers are in Papers & Pads.

Stationerie has sold artists' materials in Kolkata for 25 years and ships across India.