6pcs Artist Blending Sponge Pen, 2 Sizes Double-Headed Pastel Blending Stump Pencil Sketch Brush Rubbing Drawing Art Foam Blender Stick Blender Tool for School Students Beginners Supplies

I have never used a blending sponge before. I've always used a stump or tortillon with my graphite drawings. I saw these sponges on TikTok and thought I'd give them a try. They make for an extremely seamless and smooth blend using graphite. I cannot speak for any other type of medium because I don't use anything else, but they really smooth out and even cover up those little white spots from paper texture. I do wish the smallest size was smaller for more detailed and smaller work, but all in all a good find.

I have just started working with pastel pencils again and I bought these blending sticks because I do not like using my fingers and the paper sticks were just not working for me. I love them. I use the sponge tip to blend base colors before I layer in details. I was afraid that the pastels would get imbedded in the sponge and transfer color where I did not want it to go .... but they don’t. I simply clean the sponge off on the palm of my hand between uses. I have drawn several pictures of birds in different colors and have not had to wash the sponges yet. I use the harder white tips for blending smaller more detailed areas. These will definitely be part of my pastel kit from now on.

I like using these when I work with charcoal and chalk pastels to blend.

I purchased this for my wife whose primary hobby is painting rocks. But she does a little sketching. on the side When we tried them with paint and paint markers, we basically made a mess. With paint from a brush, the pen spreads or smears the paint. Sort of pushes it around with ineffective blending. With the paint markers, the paint dry's too fast. We then did some testing with a pencil sketch and the little pens worked as they should. Very good for developing shadow or creating a fade from dark to light. It more or less worked as it should. Both ends worked good. The white end is harder, and you can push harder. The soft end can be more subtle. As I explained about, my wife is primarily a painter and is always looking for tools for that craft. These were not so good. But she was able to experiment with them with some pencil line work and they perform very well with this medium.

The best applicators for soft pastels and blending for graphite as well. The shape and sizes are great for portraits in soft pastels, graphite and charcoal. Most blending tools are fragile and break, which is frustrating and impractical. These are solid, and I don't worry that they will break. I would love of they made the in even more sizes, especially small ones for fine details.

Pretty good product for blending and shading, but the black sponge part has been coming out of some of them while gently blending with them. Can’t put it back in either, so that part is disappointing

I am so happy to have discovered these wonderful pastel tools. One end is soft sponge for dabbing color and the other is like a scrubber for smoothing out and redistributing it.

Super hard brushes and a couple fell apart after a use

These tools work great with soft pastels on the black end. The blending is so smooth and the chalk seems to go farther on the page. They rinse well. I will buy again if these wear out.

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Very good kit for blending my graphites portraits. It’s worth well. Highly recommend

These worked really well. The heads are sturdy and do the job of blending really well. I like how they are washable and I don’t have to keep buying Conte blending sticks. I actually wish they came in bigger packs with more small ones or finely point ones. I still have to use sticks for fine detail blending.

They wear down rather quickly...