Ticonderoga® Erasable Checking Pencils, Presharpened, Carmine Red, Pack Of 12

Really Good Quality Pencils The Best! I use these pencils for my sketches! Thank you Ticonderoga for making these pencils and in very good quality!

They say these things are for checking things off on a paper document, but I got these to see how they compare the similar Prismicolor Col-Erase colored pencils, and they work really well! I was hoping it would be similar to the light blue color for those pencils. It's a little darker than that pencil, but there are two reasons why that's nice. 1: It hold back a little more than the light blue prismicolor. Meaning it shows up better with some distance away from the paper. So you don't have to squint or bring your head closer to the paper as much as with the light blue prismicolor. 2: It has the same effect when scanning it. Anyone who does cartoon and comic inking knows that the ink lines need to scan in cleanly on either a strait black and white or line art setting on a scanner, and this pencil does it just as nicely as the prismicolor equivalent. No more erasing pencils on your drawings!Now there is a minor quibble I have with these pencils but it's actually goes for most other erasable colored pencils, and that's sharpening. With an electric sharpener you won't have much of a problem, but for on the go manual sharpener, they tend to not have as easy of a time as regular graphite and many sharpeners will just break the tips off the lead. They also wear down sharpeners so it might be a good idea to stock up on the one you find that does the job, Also keeping an exacto knife and/or sand paper to sharpen it with would also be a good choice.So yea, really good pencil and I recommend it.

Great for drawing/sketching. Faint but builds color over time, doesn't smudge, and still erasable. I use these things for everything.

Perfect pencil!! Write super smooth and also erases pretty good. The quality and design of this pencil will keep me coming back and buying more. The price helps too!!

These pencils shade and made line art easy to doodle or draw.I use these for entire sketchbook that was 120 pages.Only con was sometimes the lead of the pencil would break easily.

Great

Great lead

does not erase well but work well for under my watercolor. not very smooth