This round-up of high-end mechanical pencils has an emphasis on long-lasting materials, beautiful craftsmanship, and refined design, allowing you to click to sketch for many years to come. The ...

Student-grade colored pencils and professional-grade ones vary drastically not only in their price but how they're made. A set of 120 Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils costs $350, 14 times as much ...

The pencil “lead” is actually a mixture of graphite and clay. More clay in the mixture makes the lead harder. A harder lead has a higher number. Pencils are numbered from 1-3 but most people use a ...