Tombow 51514 MONO Drawing Pencils 12-Pack - 4H Graphite Sketching Pencils for Artists, Drafting & Technical Drawing - Perfect for Sketching, Shading & Detailed Artwork

These pencils are outstanding & they write as smooth as room temperature butter. I love these pencils so much that I'm never going back to my Palomino, actually, because in my opinion the quality exceeds that of the Palomino.If you're a person that has hand pain flare ups, you may want to give these a try. They're slightly less dark than a standard 2B pencil (but still a high quality grade 2B!), they write super smoothly, the grip is easy, and the pencil is very light. Feels like writing with air and the pencil screams fancy, if you care about that kind of thing.This particular pencil is the reason why I journal more often these days.**Note: Although, the Mitsubishi Hi-Uni pencil also writes smooth and is light, it has slightly more resistance to the page than my Tombow 2B and it's way more expensive ($25 for a 12 pack compared to about $12 for 2B Tombow Mono 12 pack). The Test Scoring 100 pencil is a cheaper alternative to these Tombow Mono pencils ($17 for 35), but it writes a little darker and the hexagon shape is a little more pronounced.