What Are Stomps and Tortillions?

Stomps are double ended compressed paper, while Tortillons are soft paper twists for more delicate shading.

How do you use stumps and Tortillions?

Layer the graphite or charcoal with a stump to shade your image. Sketch an image on your paper and use a little more graphite or charcoal than you usually would. Then take the blending stump and rub it over the material so the stump picks it up. Rub the stump along your drawing where you'd like to create depth.

What is stumps and Tortillions?

A tortillon (/tɔːrˈtiːjɒn/; also blending stump) is a cylindrical drawing tool, tapered at the end and usually made of rolled paper, used by artists to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing utensils.