Yes, but Crayola kind of waxy is nothing on the crayons they’d hand out to children at restaurants like Big Boy.
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Just as long as kids continue to draw purple and green whales and Uncle Harry with huge red teeth and blue hair, it’s all good.
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Fauve-ulous
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A great example of how Primitivism worked well with Fauvism.
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of Crayolas is nothing compared to the even more horribly waxy texture and almost total lack of pigment in cheaper crayons. Many use only enough pigment to fool viewers into thinking they have a color. I’d grow frustrated with my Crayolas, but a brief attempt at coloring a restaurant placemat with the provided off brand wax sticks always quickly changed my perspective.
Crayola’s fat fluorescent crayons had almost no pigment at all and cost a lot more than the same # of their regular fat boxed crayons. Hope they’re way better now than they were in the '70s.
Crayolas are rather feeble b/c for kids to play with. They’re nothing like oil crayons, ferinstance.
I wonder whether kids would have more fun playing with eyeshadow and lipstick crayons than the hyper-waxy ones in boxes. It’d cost a lot more, tho.
Children should have access to good water color paints like Prang almost as soon as they’re coordinated enough to use crayons. They’re great for mixing, and Prang is a higher quality than many realize.
Most finger paints were feeble when I was little, too - I remember often being frustrated w/them b/c they wouldn’t do what I wanted 'em to, and were so thin & runny…
Bonus:
There are youtube tutorials re: how to make actual lipsticks using your choice of crayons. 
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They should do this and let him write the educational explainer for the back of the box.
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… in fact this whole reform proposal should really go the other direction — the color theorists should base their next colorspace on the rate at which different crayon colors have to be replaced 
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Thanks! Though i am not very good at CUI (coloring under the influence).
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Fantastic breakdown and nerding out over coloring; I am here for it.
Crayons do kinda suck in general, but they are ideal for a rudimentary tool for very young artists to use; as you thoroughly noted above.
Cray Pas was the shit!
As are oil pastels, which I sadly did not discover until high school.
Then came professional grade markers and watercolor pencils in college…
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I’m going to cast a vote for grease pencils, too. Not quite as easy to transfer as oil pastels, but you can still get good coverage and a nice effect on both textured and non-textured paper.
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Saw a t-shirt in an artists’ supply catalogue what said
Don’t Drink and Draw
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Absinthe makes the art grow fonder
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LOL LOL LOL
I thought an absinthe ad screen printed onto the back of that shirt would be xlnt XD
ETA: I wonder how art schools of a certain period viewed absence due to absinthe?
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Thank you for your service.
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They change it every few years, so that wouldn’t be my first guess. If I had to guess I would lean towards usage data in their target market. The lighter teals and yellow it adds aren’t going to pop on the paper and might not be as popular in daily use. When I worked in printing our offset team didn’t keep anything close to an even color distribution in stock, our inks skewed strongly towards dark greens and blues, because that’s what our customers were more likely to want.
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Hell yeah. They’re versatile and awesome, I love them! Pastels are OK, but they’re a bit “dry”, I much prefer watercolour pencils. Even dry they layer nicely.
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A while back I had a side project of getting a little drunk and doing really crazy porn work. It was a little sloppy but it was fast and fun to do and people paid decently for it. Later on a large portion of my graphic novel was done hanging out at a bar with other artists. Drinking and drawing is pretty nice.
Even longer ago I had a policy that it was fine to do the roughs or the finishes of a piece while drunk/stoned, but the other part of the process had to be done sober. Now that I am a grizzled pro I can easily do a fine job while completely tizzy and/or baked. We’re not talking “too drunk to hold a stylus” or “so baked it starts to become a psychedelic experience”. Just altering my mindset enough to care less about obsessively fiddly details, and to reshape my attention span.
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Eventually you’ll end up with a Methuselah crayon that barely has the tip worn down and has seen dozens of generations of red, black and blue come and go. I’m guessing it will be poor yellow (white gets a shocking amount of use from kids for some reason).
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