As you could have guessed from the very name of Sarah’s blog, she has elevated the art of crayon caricatures to a new realm of minimalist awesomeness. (Check out her crazy-awesome drawings of her favorite artists)

We bought her some new supplies tonight so she could rock out a new piece, featuring Laurie Anderson, and I convinced her to buy some Crayola Slick Stix, because, to be frank, I’ve got a bit of an unhealthy office supply fetish and am compelled to try out every even remotely unique method of making marks on paper.

I was expecting a lot, and my god, I was not disappointed. These things are the greatest. You know how purposeful and vivid the calligraphy seems in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon? That’s how I felt drawing with these things. Every stroke was slippery and smooth and rich and bold and vivid and I can’t really do it justice in words. Let’s just say I felt like Master Chong, here, despite the fact that I’m using a mass-produced crayon on copy paper and he’s using a mop full of ink and a room-sized easel. We’re practically the same:

Here’s the final result of my quick initial sketch and it already looks 150 times better than anything I’ve ever drawn before. Such is the power of Slick Stix.