Mars Lumograph Black Drawing Pencils Set: 6 Pack – Carbon Blend for Deep Black Tones, Professional Artists Pencils, 8B–HB Grades, Storage Tin, For Sketching, Shading & Fine Art Drawing

I’m really impressed with the Staedtler Lumograph Black pencils. They’re way darker than regular graphite, with a rich matte look that makes sketches pop. They sharpen easily, don’t crumble, and feel really smooth on the paper. Great for shading, outlines, or just doodling when you want deep bold values without that excessive shininess that most graphite brings. They erase just as well as a comparable pencil made of regular graphite, and feel comfortable in the hand to use. My one complaint is that I feel the leads skew a bit harder than the listed firmness, but I think that just comes with the territory of a matte ‘black’ pencil. The upside is that they won’t smudge everywhere quite as easily as a lot of deep dark pencils do, where it somehow gets all over your hand, wrist, arm, shirt, and face. Definitely worth it if you like sketching!

I love Staedtler products! These pencils are no exception. The color is fantastic, darker than your standard sketching pencil, sharpens easily, doesn't break easy, and smooth writing. I'm extremely happy with them. They are worth the price. It's also great that they have their own little tin to keep them in, too.

Very dark graphite pencils that are soft and don’t hold point well. Mostly matte no shine finish which is very good.

Absolutely outstanding. Other brands do not compare. Dark rich color, easy to handle, easy to erase, lead is very durable and long lasting.

I really like the Staedtler Mars Lumograph Black pencils. They have a rich, dark value range and are great for expressive drawing, sketching, shading, and dramatic line work. Like most Staedtler products, they feel well made and dependable, and the marks have a nice matte quality compared to regular graphite. They work especially well on paper with a little tooth, where the pencil can grab the surface and build up darker tones. The only issue I’ve had is that they are not quite as good on very smooth surfaces like Bristol. On smoother paper, they can feel a little slick and do not always layer or grip the way I want. Overall, these are excellent pencils and definitely worth having, especially for charcoal-like drawing without the mess of traditional charcoal. I’d give them 4 stars because they perform beautifully, just not on every surface.

I hope I’m not the only one that wanted to see a comparison between these and the Faber Pitt-Matte set. I would first like to say I’m a fan of both brands but neither is my all time favorite brand, so I sway neither direction in a biased opinion. So let’s begin. After a scale hardness check, these pencils were exactly on scale where they are claiming to be. Paint on these pencils are very nice. While holding them, they feel exactly like the regular Lumos. And after a few hours of testing these, I will admit that these are better than the regular Lumograph set, and they are slightly above the faber-9000 series, however, they fall short of being as good as the faber Pitt-Matte set. Why? Well they just don’t have that matte charcoal finish that the Pitt set is able to achieve. I have also did a review on that set if you happen to stumble across it here on Amazon. Listen, don’t get me wrong, these pencils are definitely in a serious race here. And could possibly be in the top 5th or 6th place of the best woodcase pencils being made. And I don’t have to tell you there are thousands of wood case pencil companies. Hundreds of them claiming to be the best artist grade pencils. If you can make it into the top 10 on my list, your pencils are definitely worth buying. And these Lumo Blacks are definitely on my list. These are the types of pencils that make you want to draw. I know you are not bound down to artistic creativity by tools, however, any artist will tell you, you can only get as good as the tool will let you. So when you by cheap supplies, your progress will only go so far before you must upgrade to better supplies or your abilities will fall short of your capable talents. ...A set like this will not only help you achieve better work, but will also make you strive to push them and yourself to higher levels of progression. I definitely suggest buying this set and testing them out for yourself. Or if you are also a collector like myself, add this set into your collection. I always buy 2 sets of every pencil so I will always have a brand new set to put into my massive pencil collection. I hope this review helps out

I purchased these for my husband for Father's Day. We compared these to the Faber-Castell graphite Matte, and was fully impressed with both. These, however are darker. I decided that I wanted my own set, but went back and forth between the 12 set or the 6. The pictures that I attached, show why I made the decision to go with the 6 set. The 7B and the 8B make me want to DRAW!!!!! The amount of dynamics and contrast that can be achieved with the set of 6, cannot be achieved without those 2 pencils that are not included in the bigger set. So the 6 set, it was!!!

Good pencils. I still use them after a couple years. So they are durable, and easy to use. They sharpen well too. The variety in shades is good. I would say worth your money.

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Review for Soft Degrees 6 pack (Mars Lumograph black) Much darker than other pencils at the same hardness. 8B is even darker than Faber-C's Pitt Matt 14B. Very nice to work with.

Nice mars carbon pencil. 8B is very dark pencil & also can be used over the graphite pencil with no any dust. These are adhesive with drawing surface so u can not blend well. Useful for dark portion of drawing.

Best pencils I ever bought! Literally carry them with me everywhere, beautiful case. You basically ditch the annoying graphite shine