2-Pack - General Pencil 321742 557BP - 4 Charcoal Pencil Kit with Eraser

General's are still the best pencil for me, more stable, less crumbling than others. And Amazon almost always gets the product here on time.

I love these Generals charcoal pencils. I want very dark rich black to do my sketches and these are perfect. I haven't found a darker black yet. They are smooth and easy to blend. Be careful sharpening them because like all charcoal pencils they will break easily if sharpen the wrong way. I use a special sharpener, utility knife or sandpaper. I would recommend these to anyone that does charcoal drawings.

The charcoal is fairly nice to use but has lots of hard "minerals" that constantly scratch the paper and force you to pass it on sandpaper to get it off...but another bit appears right after. I would love this to be a defective item but I bought several from different dealers and the problem persists, so I guess it is really how they do it. Just cannot understand why so famous...

Great for dark and hyper realistic drawings and amazing texture

Great quality

I love generals charcoal, they are great, definitely the best brand of charcoal pencils. Unfortunately, they were rendered basically useless by the way The item was shipped. It was just loose in a plastic envelope. If the pencils are dropped even once, the charcoal inside the wood breaks and every time you try to sharpen it it breaks, so I knew these stood no chance when I opened the envelope, yet I was hopeful. I had bought them to use on a project for my classroom, but they just break every time they are sharpened.

I've been using charcoals daily for about 5 years now and I've always used the cheapest materials I could find--it's all practice anyway.Finally I decided to experiment with some quality products and see the difference. I've heard General's are the best, so I bought some.The colors are dark and rich and beautiful and go on smooth.For a few seconds.Then you hit a dead spot and it just inexplicably stops marking and scratches or tears the page. I've ruined several pieces just trying to add a couple of edges. I'm honestly pretty shocked.I'll give them credit though, I threw one on the floor and the core didn't break.

I recieved the order. But it is not my order which damaged packages, very poor as the second hand products.