Prismacolor 2476 Verithin Coloured Pencils, Assorted Colours, 12-Count

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These pencils are less waxy than Premier Prismacolor, which is just what I was wanted. The colors are layerable, blendable, opaque and saturated. They hold a point well and really are erasable. I often draw on black paper and most of the colors are visible on the paper. A great buy!!!

I bought these to make colored lineart for my drawings. Works like a charm. I sketch with prismacolor col erase pencils and do the lineart with the verithin pencils. ❤️ (They do come unsharpened though.)

These are very thin pencils, useful for outlining and small details. I use them infrequently, but I don’t dislike them. They are not the typical pencil that I expected with Prismacolor. Color saturation just isn’t there and the leads are really hard.

I love my Prismacolor Premier pencils, so when I wanted a pencil with a harder, thinner lead, it made sense to try out the Prismacolor Verythin set of 12. I see a lot of people who reviewed them here really liked them, but alas, I am not among them. Keep in mind that this review only reflects my own opinion and experiences. Your mileage may vary.I found these moved very smoothly across the paper, which is the one thing I liked about them. The core is hard, which I expected, but either it's very hard or it's not very pigmented, but I can't quite tell which I've never worked so hard to get so little color on a page - not even with my Sargent Art watercolor pencils. I've used other harder pencils, but these Verythins actually hurt my right hand to use, and I've never had pain from using any colored pencils before. I found I had to really layer on the color to get good saturation, and then I also got bloom. That doesn't bother me particularly, but it's worth noting.This next one could be me or my sharpener, but these are the only pencils where the points broke off while sharpening and getting the point to the shape I wanted was quite the event - even my new Derwent Chromaflows, with their super thin and light bodies, weren't a problem to sharpen at all, so I suspect the problem isn't me. in any event, the cores weren't always centered.And speaking of sharpening, these don't come sharpened - not a huge deal, but a pain in the butt. My Prisma Premiers came sharpened, but since the Verythins come in a flimsy cardboard box, perhaps sharpening them would have simply caused a lot of breakage during shipping.Everyone is different, so if you love hard pencils that require some work to get the most color from, you will probably like these better than I do. I've gotten budget pencils, student pencils and art grade pencils, not to mention cheap pencils from little-known Amazon brands, but I disliked these pencils the most of all of them, and they're the only ones that have ever made my hand sore. No big deal, as they're also less than $9, and I do love to try new art supplies, so it wasn't a total loss.