If this pencil works, it will change your life. 

@@shnoooooo It's called having an opinion

I think the shine looks pretty cool too!

@@shnoooooo no

@@shnoooooo say u are stupid without saying your stupid you:

@@shnoooooo no it wasnt, you arent as funny as you think you are.

Staedtler is a good pencil period. I like wolff for carbon too. However, Farber Castell makes really good art supplies and I like these matte pencils too. They do what they advertise.

General Pencil in the US has had a matte graphite in their Kimberly line for years, but only in a 9B, or as they brand it 9XXB.

@@edwardcollins741 Yes, General Pencil has their Carbon Black pencil. I LOVE all General Pencil Co's pencils.

This was what I was wondering. i've got the Lumograph set and love them. Carbon black matt graphite has been around for a while.

You guys mention carbon pencils (such as the Wolf pencil) as a comparison to these “new pencils”. Carbon pencils are very useful, but I don’t see them as a substitute for graphite. They have a very different feeling while drawing. Also, graphite pencils are much easier to erase than carbon. I haven’t tried these “new pencils” but it sounds like to me the that these are just carbon pencils being marketed as something new. Am I wrong?

Thanks for the support, I am so happy my classes have been helping you improve 🥰

@@KirstyPartridgeArt me however don't have any money to support you, though your RU-vid classes are helping me improve aswell

How am I the third reply to this comment lol

How am I the fourth reply to this comment lol

PLEASE, sorry to repeat myself, but every time I try to sharpen the softer pencils, right from 4b up, I find that the soft lead breaks as I sharpen the wood, am I missing something that is, for myself anyway, MEGA important..it's such a waste. HELP PLEASE ?

Hundreds of hours that is how she did it every day every year over many years!

@@sorrowinchrist3387 I know there are thousands of hours behind, I hope I didn't come across as if she was born already being able to do this haha

@@anthropomorphicpeanut6160 And that is how she did it and she started young too so that is how you get better. :) And draw so amazing!

​@@anthropomorphicpeanut6160 The cool thing about it is anyone who wants to learn can learn how to at any point in life, just need the right instruction and time.

@@anthropomorphicpeanut6160 don't worry, you didn't come off that way.. to me anyway :) I think everyone knows its takes loads of practice to get to that level 0f amazing for sure!! I do think some pick it up a bit faster then others... but it can be mindset too,telling ourselves we're not good enough. I did that my whole life, telling or being told I couldn't possibly be capable of a lot of things, so you assume, as a child, they must be correct. But in my mid, maybe early-ish 40's i hit a bad spot with some big stuff and knew more meds or any meds was not going to fix them amd that I desperately needed an outlet. Art had always been something I loved and had many in extended family, but never felt good enough. But, this particular moment, it felt like the biggest need to draw or paint that I've ever felt. So, started small, like super easy, looked at a drawing of very very simple, and very forgiving, poppies :) I knew thinking about it as a whole made it feel overwhelming to me, so I had to make myself just try a petal, and another and another, without comparing, just getting those simple bits down... and I was honestly shocked when it looked even remotely recognizable as a poppy. Then I tried shading, which I knew nothing about, just knew where I thought they'd naturally go, and I realized the shading is one of my favorite things to do!!! Even when a drawing feels blah at first, shading makes things come alive in a way I'd just not known before doing it. Then I was hooked...it wasn't great, and I'm still nothing great, and with my severe health issues I am not able to practice as much as I'd like... but, it's still something I find SO much pleasure in. I wish I had begun early in my life, but, I didn't, and thats ok :) now I love trying all types of things, just because I love it all and it helps my mind tremendously :) so, as was brought out, its never too late to start learning. I've never had classes, can't afford them...but there are SO many amazing artists on here that are so generous with sharing their work that on my days when I can't sand or even use my hands, more often then not now, but, I love being able to watch gorgeous art being made right in front of my eyes and always learning things along the way to try when I'm able amd of course being super inspired, which helps to keep my mind focused in front of me and on positive things :) You'd be surprised what you can do when you're not worried about how it turns out, just that you're doing it. If you want to, and not everyone wants to spend loads of time learning as their deeper passion lays elsewhere, which is great too! But, you didn't say anything wrong at all :) I just thought you were appreciating this gorgeous work of art!! I'm sure, with my physical issues, I won't ever be this good... but that's ok, I love the effort and focus it takes for me to just do the simple things I can do, so, as along as it brings me joy, I'm cool with that :)

Thanks for the interesting info, I was wondering what they put into the pencil lead to make it less shiny 😃

@@KirstyPartridgeArt It's kind of an educated guess on our part, since the formula is proprietary. Makes sense, though, based on experience. Thanks again for this great video!

How did you write a whole like 50 paragraph based on the pencils..

@@iris--ro1nw We thought 51 paragraphs might be overkill. Admittedly, we can get a little long-winded on the topic of art supplies. Must be why everybody we meet at parties suddenly has like a dentist appointment, court date, wedding, or family reunion they just remembered they have to attend...

@@Blick_Art ... Thank you for the chuckle (and the info you gave before). Great reply 😀 ...

Thank you I was really pleased with it, and it felt so special. I definitely recommend giving the pencils a go 😊💕

Thanks for the amazing tip! I will have to try that with my next drawing 💕

That sounds pretty reasonable, will try it.

How easy it is when she does it ❤

Cool, i will try that out.

You cam also try the EE pencils. Harder to get, but amazing pencils. Basically no shine, super dark.

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Yea it’s nice

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Thanks so much 💕

Aww thank you for the lovely message Edward. So glad you are enjoying the legacy collection 🥰

4b and 6b are the ones that I Love the most.

Yeah they were great and it is nice to be able to solve most of the big issues with shine and be able to use the same set of supplies for a whole drawing rather than using lots of different types of pencils 😊

I think Faber-Castell pencils are great, but I don't use them. My first choice has always been General's. But I find pretty much any brand will do the job, including a number of very cheap Chinese brandsd I've tried. Really, I have sets of so many brands that I can't remember half of them. The best brand of pencil ism always has been, and always will be whichever brand a giver artist orefers,

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Sorry to hear that. Hopefully these kinds of supplies will become available to you soon. But really you can make great drawings with any sets of pencils so not having specific supplies doesn’t need to hold you back 😊

@@KirstyPartridgeArt Thank you for your interest and glad to hear back from you. Greetings from Alexandria

Some of the very best graphite drawings I've ever seen were done using paper and HB pencil stubs that the artists found in the city dump. You don't need matt pencils to create a masterpiece. It's the artist that matters, not the pencils the artist uses.

Have you tried them again?

@@olanrewajuatanda533 Yes. For some reason they feel "drier" than I expected, I feel they need a little more pressure than I'm used to. They do the job, but I'm not sure I'll buy them again, because the difference with a good set of regular "shiny" pencils does not justify the outrageous price in my eyes...

@@Nihonium7 oh no!

What kind of paper are you using? The paper can make a difference in the tones. As for me, my favorite paper to use for graphite is either Arches hot press watercolor paper (holds graphite well and the paper holds up well to layering) or Stonehenge polar white paper (very white in color which leads to some good contrast).

Thank you glad you found it helpful! I was so happy my husband liked the drawing

Yeah this drawing was so so fun! Shading darker values can feel super scary, especially if you have put hours into a drawing already. The white pencil on black paper is really fun as well and I am sure it will help you improve judging values and how dark things need to be to stand out 😊

@@KirstyPartridgeArt which white pencil will you recommend for that?

@@olanrewajuatanda533 Hi. I’m not sure what Kirsty would use but I use a Caran’d ache white coloured pencil 🙂

My mum has claimed it lol and is going to hang it on her wall 😊 I am using the Tombow mono stick eraser for those little details 💕

@@KirstyPartridgeArt …🤣 typical mum behaviour. Thank you so much, I’m off to Amazon now 😂

Thank you so much 🥰

I believe they are a combination of carbon and graphite.

I love how dark these types of pencils go, but I just don't like the feel of them.

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Yeah having these has honestly changed how I feel about graphite drawing now. The shine made me just avoid the medium for years but now I am so excited to have these pencils!

Various grades of smooth vellum (sometimes called onionskin) would be amazing. I adore that paper with pencil.

damn forreal?

wow amazing, thank you

I don't think they will run. They don't have legs 🤔

I don't think Faber Castell makes leads. I've never seen them, but I've not gone looking, so I might be wrong.

@@marenjones6665 I have their "regular" graphite leads and clutch pencils. If not yet, I hope they're planning to release matte leads in the future.

Hello! I invite you to visit my young RU-vid channel!

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Thank you so much 😊

Omg can’t believe you remember that! A lot has changed 🥰 thanks for all the support over the years 💕

@@KirstyPartridgeArt aww you’re very welcome x

Graphite doesn't have to be nearly as shiny as many artists make it. There simply is no need to go as black, or to layer as much, as so many artists do. These high B pencils haven't even been around for very long, and I've seen no overall improvement in graphite art since they were put on the market. All I've seen is more artists trying to get deeper and deeper black, even when it isn't needed, and intense graphite shine is the result. I guarantee that if a pencil company come out with a 40B pencil, artists would be using 10B, 12B, and 14B as their lighter tones. Now many artists use layered 2B, or even 4B, as their lighter tones, or low mid-tones, which is almost as bad, which means they need a very high B pencil to get enough contrast. They need to use HB pencils more, and even 2H, 4H, and 6H, or values between these, 3H or 5H, much more than they do, and use 8B on up far, far less. Pencil companies will keep widening the range as long as artists keep thinking they need such pencil. It goes in both directions. Now we have 14B, and on the other end we have 9H. I don't need a 10B, a 12B, or a 14B. Only rarely do I need an 8B. No one did when I first learned to draw. I don't need a 7H, an 8H, or a 9H, either, though I have used all three to see what they could do. Too much shine is caused more by the artist than by the pencil. Too, shine isn't seen when a drawing is looked at from straight in front, as it should be. There are even frames that help with shine be rstricting the angle a drawing can be seen from.

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