Stumbled upon a few pencils that I had not tried before on a recent trip to the
Utrecht an
Pearl stores in Miami. The latter in particular has so many open stock pencil racks, that anybody is bound to find something new when browsing through them. Found a
General's "Wet-Proof" 881 pencil and several other graphite and oil base pencils to play with. Also picked up some 2 mm graphite lead refills (
F &
B grades) that were on sale since they are becoming so hard to find at brick-and-mortar stores. The few stores that still carry leadholders and their lead refills seem to carry just
HB as fellow leadholder users must have already noticed.
Koh-I-Noor Magnum Black Star large-lead pencils carded 2-pack.
View of the back of the card. From the copyright date, it can be determined that the pencils were packaged 10 years ago. Good thing I have a couple of oversize sharpeners laying around for when I crack this pack open.
Pencil marks comparison chart drawn on
Piccadilly sketchbook. Most of them were fairly smudge-resistant and handled cleanly.
Cretacolor Nero Hard 4 pencil. While I already had several 5.6 mm
Cretacolor Nero drawing leads, this would be the second Nero wooden pencil I have ever come across.
3 different grades of
Faber Castell Pitt Oil Base pencils. I had been wanting to try these pencils for a while, but they had eluded me thus far. Found the Extra Hard pencil at
Pearl, and the other two at
Utrecht. They must be popular among the locals, for their bins were pretty empty and neither store had all 5 grades on-stock. Really like their feel and performance on this initial doodle test. I wonder why they are so hard to find since they are such a nice pencil choice.
The
Cretacolor Fine Art Graphite 9B pencil tended to crumble under my normal drawing pressure and was the messier choice of this group. Plan to spotlight each of these recent pencil additions to my collection in their own demo sketching videos soon.
Stumbled upon a few pencils that I had not tried before on a recent trip to the Utrecht an Pearl stores in Miami. The latter in particular has so many open stock pencil racks, that anybody is bound to find something new when browsing through them. Found a General's "Wet-Proof" 881 pencil and several other graphite and oil base pencils to play with. Also picked up some 2 mm graphite lead refills (F & B grades) that were on sale since they are becoming so hard to find at brick-and-mortar stores. The few stores that still carry leadholders and their lead refills seem to carry just HB as fellow leadholder users must have already noticed.
Koh-I-Noor Magnum Black Star large-lead pencils carded 2-pack.
View of the back of the card. From the copyright date, it can be determined that the pencils were packaged 10 years ago. Good thing I have a couple of oversize sharpeners laying around for when I crack this pack open.
Pencil marks comparison chart drawn on Piccadilly sketchbook. Most of them were fairly smudge-resistant and handled cleanly.
Cretacolor Nero Hard 4 pencil. While I already had several 5.6 mm Cretacolor Nero drawing leads, this would be the second Nero wooden pencil I have ever come across.
3 different grades of Faber Castell Pitt Oil Base pencils. I had been wanting to try these pencils for a while, but they had eluded me thus far. Found the Extra Hard pencil at Pearl, and the other two at Utrecht. They must be popular among the locals, for their bins were pretty empty and neither store had all 5 grades on-stock. Really like their feel and performance on this initial doodle test. I wonder why they are so hard to find since they are such a nice pencil choice.
The Cretacolor Fine Art Graphite 9B pencil tended to crumble under my normal drawing pressure and was the messier choice of this group. Plan to spotlight each of these recent pencil additions to my collection in their own demo sketching videos soon.
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3 comments:
Ah cool you found the oil based Faber Castell. I love those!
The Koh-i-Noor pencils are really Magnum.. Do you know what makes the General pencils wet-proof?
Thanks for spotting the typo on the tags. I have not been able to find out anything about the General's Wet-Proof pencil, but it would follow that they must have either wax or oil in their formulation to be waterproof. Since it handled quite similarly to the the Nero and Faber Castell Pitt Oil Base pencils, I'd bet that the Wet-Proof must also be oil-based.
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