The 772 Mitsubishi Pencil is double-ended with Vermillion and Prussian Blue. We brought this pencil in per the request of Zip Lehnus, who conducts the Zen + the Art of Urban Sketching class. Here are his comments:
"An advantage that pencils have over pens is that you can control value more easily; light strokes, dark strokes. Being able to move between a warm color and a dark color lets me build a more vivid picture with a single tool. The blue pencil end is nice as it mimics the old cartoonist's habit of using a non-photo blue pencil to sketch out cartoons, and then inking over the sketch with a more confident stroke of black. It doesn't smear as easily as a graphite pencil, which is inevitable in a sketchbook that gets carried around.
This bicolored pencil is also handy for taking notes - I use Field Notes notebooks to track everyday stuff, and two colors somehow lets me think more clearly. I gave them out as stocking stuffers last Christmas.
One of the new exercises I introduced towards the end of last season involved using the colored Pigma Micron Pens in order: one drawing with orange, one with purple, one with both. This pencil would certainly work for that exercise."
The pencil comes unsharpened.
