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Anonymous01/12/26, 02:20No.7855593
ITT pencils only you like
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Anon01/12/26, 02:26No.7855598
Don't nips use these all the time?
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Anon01/12/26, 04:45No.7855686
better than the 9000.
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Anon01/12/26, 05:41No.7855717
So what's the difference you notice when using these as opposed to a cheaper pencil?
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Anon01/12/26, 07:24No.7855753
Why are these pencils considered better? What makes them different
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Anon01/12/26, 07:34No.7855758
These are amazing but nearly impossible to get in Europe and if you find them they are wildly expensive. Tombow or Staedtler are the next best thing.
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Anon01/12/26, 08:03No.7855771
pyw
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Anon01/12/26, 08:23No.7855776
I just use shitty exam standard papermate pencils... am I... Am I not gmi guys?
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Anon01/12/26, 09:04No.7855793
you aren't japanese, you can't use these pencils.
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Anon01/12/26, 09:11No.7855796
How are there this many people here who've never used an artist-quality pencil? They're not even expensive. Does anyone here DRAW?
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Anon01/12/26, 09:57No.7855818
How about i post pencils nobody likes? THESE THINGS SUCK
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Anon01/12/26, 10:07No.7855824
I have a pretty heavy hand and only use hard pencil for architecture. H2 is the best balance for me. I do wonder if, with architecture now being full digital, my precious Hs are at risk...
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Anon01/12/26, 22:21No.7856311
How do I sharpen my pencil for wide mode so i can sketch with the overhand grip?
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Anon01/13/26, 13:52No.7856858
2H for drafting
2B for the finished linework
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Anon01/13/26, 15:33No.7856949
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Anon01/14/26, 17:44No.7857925
Hello GOAT
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Anon01/14/26, 19:27No.7858006
Real pencil sketchers swear by Dixon Ticonderoga black. Super cheap and awesome erasers. Lead holders for more rendered/finished work. Or just plein air sketching without worrying about bringing a sharpener. The big wooden one is super fun to draw with and can go extremely dark
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Anon01/14/26, 23:14No.7858168
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Anon01/14/26, 23:48No.7858185
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Anon01/16/26, 03:04No.7859157
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Anon01/20/26, 23:34No.7863352
used to buy tombow mono-J's when they were still made in japan. 4b ones, when the back of the pencil wasn't painted over
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Anon01/20/26, 23:37No.7863357
I just buy pencils from the dollar store
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Anon01/28/26, 03:53No.7868981
Carpenter pencils
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Anon01/28/26, 12:29No.7869172
Thoughts on these?
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Anon01/28/26, 13:10No.7869187
this shit is so cheap, I could buy one American blackwing and get 2 dozen of these mitsubishiwhat the fuck
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Anon01/29/26, 08:54No.7869872
never fails
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Anon02/08/26, 07:01No.7876767
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Anon02/11/26, 18:34No.7879623
Why does the existence of slightly more expensive things make people here seethe uncontrollably?
It must be this corny ego thing 'if you can't draw a masterpiece with your own feces then you aren't a REAL artist'
Goofballs
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Anon02/11/26, 18:52No.7879636
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Anon02/11/26, 18:57No.7879639
I like them
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Anon02/14/26, 00:15No.7881386
Picked one up recently and its felt better in the hand than any other pencil I've tried
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Anon02/14/26, 00:32No.7881395
F pencils (lefty)
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Anon02/21/26, 23:37No.7886313
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Anon02/21/26, 23:50No.7886316
Why does this thread have so many trad pencils but nobody ever posts in the trad thread (well its a shit flinging general for some reason anyways). So where do all the trad posters post then? Do they just not post at all?
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Anon02/26/26, 23:57No.7889162
I tested pencils at an art store few years ago.
Here were my findings:First off, parameters. I used shitty notepad paper. I may redo this at a later point. The graphite shine doesn't show up on a scan, obviously. But I generally do not like shine. Easily-burnished pencils rated low for me. I also do not like scratchiness (nails on chalkboard) or excessively smooth (feels greasy and gross).
These are MOSTLY 4B. Some either lacked it or were not labelled, and one was a 5B that was in the wrong cubby and I grabbed it by mistake.THE WINNERS:
>General Kimberly (USA)
>Blick Studio 4B (Czech)The Blick was similar enough to the Kimberly that it would work well, but it was slighltly less-easy to get a good gradient with it and becomes shiny sooner.LOSERS:
>Faber-Castell 9000
Felt real greasy and gross. I do not recommend this one. I don't know why people rate it highly.
>Mars Lumograph Black
>Derwent Ivory Black
>Conte a Paris Pierre Noire
>Wolff's Carbon
These all are either pure charcoal or a mix with graphite. Extremely scratchy, vibrated the worksurface to the point I felt it in my arm bones.
>Lyra
Literally a graphite crayon, not a pencil. Feels like a crayon, blech.That said all of this is up to personal preference. If you like the feeling of charcoal or a "buttery" feel, use it.I should redo this using a piece of my usual drawing paper and see how it goes.
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Anon02/27/26, 01:25No.7889205
i swear by papermate brand sharpwriter twist-top mechanical pencils. they don't spew lead out the tip when aggressively using the eraser the way push-to-click pencils do, and the eraser itself is pretty high quality. only problem is that my autistic little sister chews the erasers off of them so i keep buying a new box every month and they're like $20 on amazon
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Anon03/03/26, 00:14No.7891585
I made a silverpoint stylus using six inces of 12 gauge fine silver wire and a 2mm clutch pencil
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Anon03/03/26, 10:34No.7891843
Blackwings, especially the 602s. I feel like I'm posting a meme answer but I've gradually gathered that Anons really don't care for Blackwings, but I love them. My one complaint is the erasers don't last long enough and their replacement erasers aren't as good. It's like the difference between a rubber eraser and a kneaded eraser. I don't get why they can't just sell the pink erasers in a replacement package that would be amazing.The 602 is technically intended to be a writing pencil and is half the size of a regular but I find the line slightly better and the eraser is a little more silky smooth.My all time favorite would probably be a Prismacolor 935, though (pic related) it's quite literally the best drawing experience I've ever had and produces the best line quality I've ever seen and is actually the pencil that Loomis liked to use (I got it recced from the margin notes in one of his books) but the only drawback is that being a colored pencil is near impossible to erase. If I could find an eraser that worked for prismacolor colored pencils I think I would permanently switch to the 935 and only use that.
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Anon03/09/26, 12:50No.7895542
which ever
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Anon03/09/26, 13:17No.7895546
What's a good graphite pencil for drawing construction? It should be light but also not too hard, so you can erase it well
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Anon03/10/26, 13:17No.7896126
9B sketch stick, pared to a fine point. If you don't press too hard and maintain the right angle, you won't need to sharpen it again - that's the thing I like most about full graphites.
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Anon03/14/26, 06:10No.7898638
I'm thinking based
