If you’re used to heavy drafting pencils that have rougher grips, the Blick Premier may be too smooth for you—you’d be better off with the heftier rOtring 600 Mechanical Pencil 1 with its ...

If you’re looking for a complete drawing pencil set, the Nicpro 6PCS Art Mechanical Pencils Set is definitely worth considering. Pros. The non-slip Comfort Grip of these drafting pencils making ...

As Staedtler’s pencils’ name suggests, the tools are made specifically for drawing and sketching. But interestingly, just as many artists (three) told us that Bic’s mechanical pencils are an ...

I’ll never forget the first mechanical pencil I tried to use. It was a gnarly mustard-yellow, and I had to twist the conical tip to advance the lead.

I write notes in pencil: It seems more polite. ... and finely-engineered mechanical drafting pencils: I have them all. I use them to write in my notebooks, ...

A good drawing pencil is the Faber-Castell 9000, $1.75 list price, but you can probably get it cheaper with a coupon at your local art store.

Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in the right hands, it can also produce incredible works of art. Pencils are often relegated to sketching and drafting.