It’s truly a multitasker that lets me draw marks ranging from fine and ghostly transparent (like those you’d get from a 2H graphite pencil) all the way to dense and pitch-black (as if they were drawn with a stick of charcoal). My Prismacolor Premier has that ideal softness, but also allows me to vary the thickness and darkness of my lines, depending on the angle at which I hold it - something hard leads 2H and beyond can’t do. (At its darkest, the pencil is just as opaque and black as my favorite Faber Castell markers.) On the whole, I like pencils that are soft, because they glide easily across paper and create dense marks. But still, my beloved Prismacolor Premier Black gives me the softest, darkest, and blackest lines of any pencil or colored pencil I’ve tried. But the pencil I reach for most often, both for drawing and for jotting down ideas or making to-do lists, is actually a colored pencil. Inside the case, there are always brush and chisel-tip markers, as well as several pencils, including a statusy Palomino Blackwing, with its satisfying rectangular eraser, and a Prismacolor Ebony Jet Black Extra Smooth, which I learned to covet as a kid while watching my mother sharpen hers with an X-Acto blade. Like many other artists, I carry a sketchbook - a Muji A5 paper bind - and a pencil case (mine is Snoopy-themed) at all times. So, as an illustrator myself, I started to think about my own preferences. While talking to a bunch of artists I admire for a piece about the best drawing pencils, it became clear that, for the most part, the relationship between artist and drawing tool is as personal as that between chef and paring knife.
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