General Pencil Compressed Charcoal Set, 4B, Medium, 2/Pkg.

My mom would buy me these pencils when I was a child as I was always very passionate about art and drawing. I've always loved drawing very detailed portraiture and animals. To this day they're still my all-time favorite pencils. I've tried many other brands but always come back to these. They're an amazing and versitile medium. I just wish they weren't as expensive (even though they're 100% worth the price).

I absolutely love them. Next to the Derwent drawing pencils, although I love all my colored and watercolor pencils, they are some of the most cherished of my supplies. I use them wet and other times dry. I use as a wash base and then use the pencils dry over. Sometimes I use them with other pencils. They work well with watercolor pencils, colored pencils, and can be used as a base that has been blended with water and work pastel over! I have used them on wood boxes and they work good. But if used dry only remember you must spray with a fixative to seal it. As I have the full line of rich colors and they are so bendable I have never done a project in which I felt they lacked a color to get the effect. Of course, they work well with Derwent drawing pencils too. As I live next to the coast I always have in my pencil roll while out, the greens, a few greys, indigo, and the aubergine. They are so buttery and such a joy drawing with.

I really feel that Inktense pencils were created just for me. I love them that much. I have a question about the 28 new colors. I read that Derwent is selling them as a set in the UK. Are there plans to sell them that way in the US? I cannot wait to buy them!

I was led to believe these would not reactivate once dry. I used them on a small piece as a test thank goodness as they were a runny mess. I let the piece dry 3 days and then coated it with matte medium and presto smears of colors ruined everything. So don't buy these unless you are not planning on additional layers of anything near them.

Love it !