Comments about Prismacolor Verithin Pencils:

Used for charting at our office. Sharpens to a point beautifully without breakage, writes fantastically! Doesn't get better than Prismacolor Verithin Red and Blue pencils. Very happy with the purchase. Shipped in a timely manner.

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received my viithins and the wood is too soft sharpens ragged which it didn't use to. Had an off center lead that makes it sharpen with wood all the way up on one side, poor Q.A.

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I use these daily for all my sketches at the tattoo shop. They are great!!!! These are the harder leads which make them perfect for rough in drawings to show customers. The only negative things I can say about them is that they are sometimes picky about the sharpener used on them but nowhere near as picky as the regular soft prismacolors. Overall they are the bees knees.

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These are really nice pencils to have and as others stated they are very good for fine details and other little intricate designs. They sharpen very nicely and give a nice sharp point.

If you've been working with the premier counterpart a lot, such as myself, you will notice a slight differences in the vibrancy with the color. For example the Verithin Tuscan red is a little lighter in color than the premier one. But the colors are perfectly compatible. So again if you work primarily with the premiers it may take a little getting use to, but you have to remember the verithins have a harder lead and it is to be expected.

Overall, I recommend it for Verithins are really great for cleaning up lines and adding nice details.

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I like the color pigment and the ability to create fine details, but when sharpening the wood casings on about half the pencils sort of dscinegrate and hinders a good clean sharpened pencils plus it exposes the color pigment and then sometimes it breaks.

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I have used these to sharpen detail in colored pencil drawings, and to burnish while adding color. For this use they are unsurpassed. There really isn`t a good alternative to these, they are perfect for the uses mentioned.. I can`t say i would use them for the main body of any drawing, as they are very hard, but i really could not do without them.

Comments about Prismacolor Verithin Pencils:

I use them for fine detail work on my paintings. They hold there point. The color is saturated and they blend well with other prismacolor products.

Comments about Prismacolor Verithin Pencils:

These pencils are the best and for ideal for initial sketching. If you are using the soft core color pencils from the same company for coloring, then they blend in seamlessly as the colors are identical. If find it easier than using graphite pencils to draw the outline and then color rubbing the graphite as you go on. Now I can use graphite for graphite pencil sketching and these 'verythin' pencils for sketches that I want to color. Great pencils at a great price.

The only drawback I found was that the pencils come un-sharpened. Sharpening 36 pencils took me some time. Other than that they are great and once sharpened you get really nice points for excellent sketching results.

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Prismacolor Verithins are great for outlining, detailing, and make the edges straight. I find these very useful when using my prismacolor premier colored pencils for my artwork

Comments about Prismacolor Verithin Pencils:

As others mentioned, Sanford occasionally has some quality control issues. the pencils should be presharpened, to weed out the issues.

i too have had broken lead inside the wood, and on more than one occasion have had the lead simply FALL OUT of the wood. which while a dot of super glue at the end will keep the lead in, it's not something that's dependable.