I recently restocked my prismacolors to prepare for a series of CP illustrations, and in refreshing my color pencil skills I notice a significant reduction in quality, with many breakages, lead slipping from the casing, wood splintering when sharpening, etc- the only thing that hasn&#39;t changed for the worse is the working quality of the pencil. <div><br></div><div>Researching for five minutes leads me to believe the quality has gone to the dogs ( no offense to dogs of quality!) since the product was sold and manufacturing moved to Mexico.</div><div><br></div><div>Question is: what are people using for colored pencil these days? Are they just putting up with prismacolor or is there some better alternative? I know prismacolor are fairly inexpensive and able to restock easily. But the good price goes away when you have to sharpen a new pencil to 3&quot; long to get a point on it. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks all,</div><div><br></div><div>Maia</div><div><br><div><br></div></div>
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