Well, I just so happened upon a Derwent Dark Wash 8B the other day that has been really loved by someone. It is no bigger than my little finger, normally I would pass such a pencil, as 'stubbies' are as far as I am concerned, to be used in IKEA only. But my magpie pencil picking behaviour got the better of me and so now I have a Dark Wash.
First things first, it is round, so all good there, but it's not quite as much fun as you would expect, nice don't get me wrong, but when you name something, Dark Wash, you set up a certain amount of expectations from the user, which on every level fail to deliver. Dark: no, my 'milk and more' pencil can match it. Wash: ? water soluble pencils, it works but I am not convinced.
The saving grace of this pencil is how it works on photocopy paper, you see all the grain and variety of mark (specially if you use the pencil on it's side - easier with a stubby)
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