How do you preserve pencil drawings?

The following are some of the easy and effective ways you can try.

1. Protect it With a Fixative Spray.
2. Use Glassine Interleaving Paper.
3. Use Parchment or Wax Paper as Page Inserts.
4. Frame your Pencil Drawing.
5. Lay your Pencil Artwork Flat.

What do you call drawing with pencil?

Sketches can be made in any drawing medium. The term is most often applied to graphic work executed in a dry medium such as silverpoint, graphite, pencil, charcoal or pastel. A sculptor might model three-dimensional sketches in clay, plasticine or wax.

How do you make pencil drawings last?

To protect your pencil drawings from smudging, spray them with a fixative to create a barrier between the graphite and anything that might come in contact with it. If your drawings are in a sketchbook, you can also put wax paper, frames, or page protectors between the pages to prevent smudging.

Will pencil drawings fade?

Graphite has a maximum lightfast rating that prevents it from fading when exposed to light overtime. With a maximum lightfast rating, pencil drawings are expected to last for more than 100 years. That said, it’s important to protect pencil drawings from other harms, such as smudging. Graphite is composed of carbon.

Can I sell pencil drawings?

Simply because many artists find it more difficult to sell drawings than other forms of art. Put an oil painting and a colored pencil drawing side-by-side—even if both subjects are rendered equally well, many artists will find it easier to sell the oil painting than the drawing.

Are pencils permanent?

Modern pencil WILL fade , if it constantly exposed to light, heat, moisture, or continual use – there are SO many places that I’ve had to diagnose network issues, where the labels were written in pencil on paper, plastic, metal…and after 10 years they start to fade.