Conté à Paris Pierre Noire 3B Sketching Pencil

As an award winning illustrator quality materials make the process more dynamic. These are great! I have black and white - and a big set of professional color pencils and charcoals I use when I’m not painting - which I do most of the time. These are really good although I wish they were a bit softer and more opaque - but I just have to work a little harder. Enjoy! You can’t go wrong!

I love these pencils. The black the lay on the paper is amazing. Better than any 8b or 9b pencils I have used. I hate that I waited so long to try them out. I have seen many artist rave about them.

High quality, sturdy and a great piece to have in my set. Priced decently and shipped out in a timely manner.

I really wanted to like the Conte Pierre Noire 3B pencil, but it’s been nearly impossible to sharpen. I've tried everything from a sharp knife to several types of pencil sharpeners and no matter what I do, the tip keeps breaking or crumbling. Even worse, the wood casing cracked during one attempt, making it unusable. Additionally, when the pencils arrived, every single tip was already broken. Despite its black tone, it’s not worth the frustration. There are other black pencils out there that are just as dark and far more durable.

Either I got a defective product or the product itself has issues. It is very brittle and so hard to sharpen, breaks almost every time. It's really dark, which on that part is great but the quality of the product itself is really crap. Can't even use it because it breaks even when I'm not using much pressure.

These pencils were recommended by a YouTube Artist from Paris. Holy cow! I have a nice collection of pencils but these...HOLY COW! They are phenomenal! So smooth, soft, hard where you need it. So easily blended for crazy highlights. I've put darn near all my other pencils away cause these pencils are where it's at.

This is a great pencils. Disclaimer: You cannot put it on a pencil sharpen in ANY way to sharpen it. You MUST use a blade and sand paper. You will shred this (expensive) pencil into wood chips of you try to use anything other than a bland and sand paper.

With 50 years experience I can say with some authority that Conte a Paris's Pierre Noire is the blackest black of any pastel pencil, period. The fact that Jackson's had them shipped from Norway is impressive.

Comprei o lápis para meu filho, ele é desenhista e ficou impressionado com a qualidade e definição desse lápis, muito bom.

Compre 5 y 3 de ellos están quebrados de la punta!👎🏼

Ottima matita, arrivata puntualmente.

Mi serviva una matita carboncino che abbia un colore nero molto intenso per sostituire una di un'altra marca che non riesco a trovare facilmente, questa va benissimo. Nero davvero intenso, perfetto da usare con il carboncino. A differenza dell'altra che era più tipo gesso, questa è più oleosa, scivola benissimo sul foglio, ha una mina molto morbida ed è anche più grande, non entra dentro un temperino normale (servirebbe quello più grande), comunque lo sconsiglio... meglio usare un taglierino per evitare di rompere la mina in continuazione. È arrivata con la punta rotta, ma non è stato un problema. La consiglio assolutamente.

Excellent pencil for providing the blackest blacks. Be aware it will smudge easily, but this is also useful when drawing with it. Nicer, smoother texture than charcoal pencils I have used.