On my last
shopping spree, I picked up these two pencils that caught my eye and that I had not tried before. They both sported easy to read markings and I liked their barrel colors. The glossy lacquer coating on the
Utrecht Drawing pencil felt particularly smooth and pleasant to the touch.
For a quick comparison test, I grabbed a couple of similar pencils from my regular wooden pencils case. While I do not use non-photo blue pencils often, some artists like to use them to save the time required for erasing graphite lines before the inking stage. The light blue lines are not picked up by some recording methods like photo-copying and a stat camera.
The
Staedtler Non-Photo Blue 108 30 pencil glided smoothly on the test card stock and produced darker marks that were easier to see than the
Eberhard Faber Colerase Copy-Not pencil that laid down rather faint marks. The Czech
Utrecht Drawing 47148 8B graphite pencil produced fairly satisfying dark lines. While perhaps not as smooth as the Japanese
Uni Penmanship 6B pencil, it is still a fine choice for laying down some shading quickly.
Both pencils performed well during this initial testing and would make fine additions to a
sketching kit.
On my last shopping spree, I picked up these two pencils that caught my eye and that I had not tried before. They both sported easy to read markings and I liked their barrel colors. The glossy lacquer coating on the Utrecht Drawing pencil felt particularly smooth and pleasant to the touch.
For a quick comparison test, I grabbed a couple of similar pencils from my regular wooden pencils case. While I do not use non-photo blue pencils often, some artists like to use them to save the time required for erasing graphite lines before the inking stage. The light blue lines are not picked up by some recording methods like photo-copying and a stat camera.
The Staedtler Non-Photo Blue 108 30 pencil glided smoothly on the test card stock and produced darker marks that were easier to see than the Eberhard Faber Colerase Copy-Not pencil that laid down rather faint marks. The Czech Utrecht Drawing 47148 8B graphite pencil produced fairly satisfying dark lines. While perhaps not as smooth as the Japanese Uni Penmanship 6B pencil, it is still a fine choice for laying down some shading quickly.
Both pencils performed well during this initial testing and would make fine additions to a sketching kit.
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