Tombow Mono Graph Mechanical Pencil - Lavender

I have a fancy for mechanical pencils but have been off-put by Tombow's mechanical pencil due to its different looking design. However, when they posted the new sweet pastel colors, I pounced on it. I wanted all the colors but settled on the two that caught my eye immediately - lavender and yellow. I am honestly impressed by the Mono Graph mechanical pencil. They have a nice weight to them that feels good to my hands. The barrel is easy to hold between the fingers when writing. The lead can be extracted by clicking the clip or shaking (knocking). Then, the interior knocking mechanism can be locked by pushing the spring clip upward toward the eraser. The included lead writes smoothly. The pastel colors make my eyes happy. The lavender color is soft and easy on the eyes. A lovely blend between purple and pink. I'm a new fan of the Mono mechanical pencil. I enjoy using them for drawing or for studying.

I love Tombow, so it's no surprise to discover my pastel lavender mechanical pencil is as gorgeous as it looks. In fact, I've been sketching with it all afternoon, and am thinking I should get other colors too. Tombow products are addictive, but a very happy addiction!

I've had this pencil for a few weeks now, and wanted to make a review once I had some time to put it through my usual workflow. As a mechanical pencil for writing, it performs just fine - if you've used a mechanical pencil before - you'll know exactly how this works. But to get into the details of why I'm giving this the title of favorite drawing pencil, let me explain my perspective. As a beginner artist, I've focused all my time with traditional materials to learn - why spend a lot of money when I'm still learning the basics right? Well I've gone through lots of standard wooden pencils, BIC mechanical pencils and even a few solid metal pencils. All of them are great and do different things very well, but I chose the Tombow Monograph for a different reason. I chose it partly because of the great color choices, partly because their erasers are by far the best I've used (and trust me, as a beginner artist you use a LOT of erasers) and also because the unique mechanism sounded interesting to try out. You see throughout my time with all these other brands, Uni, Zebra, BIC and rOtring, they all had roughly the same weight, and very similar (but not all) sizes. What set this pencil apart is it had a wider circumference which fit's my larger hands much more comfortably, but it also had extra weight due to the mechanism inside for shaking the lead out. For my preference, this actually improved the quality of my art because I tend to be a bit heavy handed - and the extra size and weight (though not by a lot mind you, this is not a 'heavy' pencil) seemed to be just enough to help guide my hand much more easily than the others did. This made for a very comfortable and enjoyable experience that I honestly have not yet found anywhere else, for me - this is now my default sketching pencil! It's also excellent at producing very soft / transparent lines when I need it for a base sketch, and going thicker when I need to put down some lines. It's shake mechanism is interesting, but I don't find myself using it much - I'm sure if I was writing more than drawing I would actually use it more often. Overall, for what I'm looking for and my preferences, this is a fantastic pencil that should hopefully find it's way into your selection soon! It's very affordable so it isn't difficult to add one to your list, there's a few very nice colors that pop and after weeks of daily drawing I can say that the quality of the lead and plastics feel and look great.

Mono Graph mechanical pencils are the best. Only pencil I'll use. Shaking to advance lead is a must to not interrupt your flow, it feels great in the hand and they hands down have the best eraser on any mechanical pencil. Throw in some beautiful color options because why not?  Thanks Tombow!

This is one of the best mechanical pencils I've ever used! The color is unique and it's so smooth! I would use another lead that's darker but the pencil is amazing! Would recommend!

I love it! It's a beautiful high quality Pencil. I would change the eraser and make it click into place, as it keeps turning and turning. I never know when I'm going to get the eraser or not.

I would definitely recommend this product for precise writing or drafting. This isn't a pencil for drawing with shading but it's GREAT for writing and I'm sure it would be an asset for drafting.

I'm a math teacher and this is my favorite pencil!

I Love the weight of this Pencil, Great balance, it is a great design tool.

Nice little pencil — sturdy and writes smoothly. The only thing keeping it from five stars is there is a loose part inside that rattles if you shake the pencil too much.