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I've never really used pastel, but was given some old pastel paper the other day and had a go; sufficiently successfully to suggest I might have another go. But I know very little about them - I found I had to use black, either charcoal or conté crayon, to get darks sharp enough to make any difference; presumably there are darker pastels than the landscape ones I've got, but before I buy more - do more experienced pastellists (well, you couldn't be LESS experienced..) have suggestions about achieving darks? Any suggestions/help appreciated. I don't know that I'll ever be any good in this medium, but it would be useful to make colour notes for paintings, apart from anything else if I can carry on improving as I seem to be doing (no, I'm not going to post it! There was an awful lot of room for that improvement).