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Your cart is empty.At Tombow, we're passionate about offering the finest and most innovative executive pens, office, arts and crafts products on the market today. The Tombow MONO professional drawing pencil is the ultimate instrument for drawing and drafting. It features superior extra-refined, high-density graphite, high point strength, and is break-resistant. With the MONO drawing pencil you will get smear proof lines for crisp, clean drawing combined with slow wear for smooth, dense writing. Fourteen different degrees of hardness are available so there is MONO pencil for every drawing need. We know your projects are important to you. That's why Tombow art products are designed to last a lifetime.
Gina Beth Lanier
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2025
I love Tombow Pencils, especially, soft dark lead. I write a lot, as I am forced to do timekeeping by hand. The way the lead feels on the paper is one of my OCD’s about pencils. I am a fan of the new Blackwing matte pencils. They are very expensive; well, 12/$30+tax. These Tombow’s are amazing and my new favorite and for the price - Wow! I will be back for more.
Betty Newhouse
Reviewed in Canada on December 7, 2024
I bought paper mate HB pencils and they keep breaking in the sharpener. and now I bought these Tom Bow HB pencils and they sharpen beautifully. no breakage. write so smooth. I just love them.
Kate O'Keefe
Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2024
These are great pencils for artists! They're really good quality, slow-wear, and they're smear proof, so if you paint with watercolours like I do you don't have to worry about the lead bleeding. Highly recommended.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on April 29, 2024
A very nice 4B that does not require so much pressure. A great pencil to keep in your arsenal.
stoolpigeon
Reviewed in Singapore on April 26, 2024
Ona par with the Mitsubishi (although the Mitsubishi had a nicer box)
Anne Lea Hart
Reviewed in Canada on December 19, 2023
I wanted a pencil that was softer than the traditional HB2 that we usually find. I like to write with pencils and so I found these perfect for what I was looking for. I just wish they had erasers at the ends, but I do realize they are made for artists sketching.
Jason
Reviewed in Canada on January 3, 2023
I am happy with the quality of the pencils and the price. I use them daily for technical drawings and writing. I will definitely look to repurchase this brand.
Queensman
Reviewed in Canada on June 23, 2022
Not an artist. Use fountain pens to fineliners. Bought these because I saw them on “Tokyo Vice”. Not disappointed. On the contrary, these are brilliantly good pencils. A literal delight to use and sharpen and use. I fell in love with these pencils. Well done.
Iohn Born
Reviewed in Canada on January 20, 2022
Several reviewers have complained that these pencils are not made in Japan any longer but instead in Vietnam. Personally, I've never tried the Japanese version but was looking for an alternative to Staedtler 2B Lumographs which are my favourites to sketch with as a professional illustrator, but which are also among the priciest pencils you can buy. As such, regardless of their Vietnamese birthplace, I find these Tombow Mono pencils very good with no evident flaw in their build or lead quality. The latter is as soft as and possibly even slightly darker than the Lumographs's, gliding on paper easily without any of the scratchy feel or brittleness of low-quality graphite leads. The wood casing seems equally good and sharpening the pencils multiple times with a Kum automatic sharpener produced a nice long fine point each time with no breakage or cracking. The varnish covering the pencil is not slippery and drawing for hours with the Tombow was comfortable and easy. As a bonus, these pencils look sublime: the glossy black casing with white and gold accents feels classy and upscale, and look like they belong among a professional artist's tools.One downside is that they are not actually that significantly cheaper than Lumographs depending on where you buy them from but nevertheless they are perfect alternatives to the latter in quality and, subjectively, they even look better.
Yao
Reviewed in Saudi Arabia on July 18, 2020
Price is good for the quality
lipsadwivedi
Reviewed in India on October 27, 2020
My all-time n only one favourite...tombow😍😍
Prem Singh
Reviewed in India on February 28, 2019
Good Quality Product, though I received H pencil instead of 4 H.But anyways good quality
PRB67
Reviewed in Canada on October 3, 2019
Darker lead and smoother writing than Staedtler or Palomino pencils. Also far less expensive than Palominos. There is no fixed standard for pencil lead hardness or softness, so it can be a hit or miss proposition finding a dark soft lead. Generally, pencils produced in Japan write smoother and darker than those produced in UK, US, or Germany.
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