Erasable Color Leads

I’ve just discovered something new! I typically like to start my drawings using an erasable blue pencil (a Prismacolor Col-Erase 20044 Blue) and then use a mechanical pencil (Pentel Twist-Erase) to finish the drawing. This process works fine, but I am constantly having to stop and hand sharpen the blue pencil. I have tried to find blue leads to use in my mechanical pencils, but they are all too brittle and not erasable at all.

Then I discovered PaperMate Erasable Color Leads. These are soft leads, fit my mechanical pencils perfectly and work like a charm… AND you can get them at your local WALMART!! …well, you can’t get them at MY local Walmart because I just bought every one they had last night… but you might want to give these a try sometime. I love em.

4 Comments on “Erasable Color Leads”

Chuck Clore
January 18, 2018

Dennis, Thanks for the tip.

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Lynne Marie Studios
January 18, 2018

Great post. I’m so glad you posted this. I added a link to it at the bottom of a post I was writing about drawing pencils. Thanks for the tip. My readers will be happy to learn this. If you would rather I didn’t include the link in my post, you’re welcome to check it.
https://arthauntsme.com/kill-your-artist-block-365-day-series-lesson-2-drawing-materials-sketching-pencils-sharpeners-erasers/

Thanks so much for all your great posts.
Lynne

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John Sketchcat Meyers
January 18, 2018

Dennis, is blue the only color these leads come in?

~Sketchcat

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- Dennis
  January 18, 2018
  
  …actually they come packaged in three packs of red, blue and green… and three other colors are available I think.
  
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