grease pencil

American  

noun

1. a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.

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Example Sentences

Sheriff’s officials maintained a map of evacuation areas covered with clear plexiglass and a grease pencil to mark it.

From Los Angeles Times

In 2016, Gesner told Curbed that he drew up the design for the home on a surfboard using a grease pencil.

From Los Angeles Times

Written in grease pencil on the acetate surface of the chart were columns and rows of numbers—the numbers of American and enemy troops killed or wounded in battle.

From Literature

From there he made the initial drawings for what became his most famous building, the Wave House, using a grease pencil to sketch its curving, wavelike roof directly onto his longboard.

From Washington Post

In fact, Gesner later told Curbed that he designed the building “while sitting on a surfboard out by some rocks near the shore. I drew it on the board with a grease pencil.”

From Los Angeles Times