The Staedtler Mars Lumograph are the premium quality pencils Staedtler make for artists. I was curious to see how they compare to the cheaper Staedtler Tradition 110 and Staedtler Noris 120 pencils. My first impression was that they have quite a lot of resistance when you are drawing. They feel very similar to the Staedtler Tradition pencils to draw with. They do not glide over the paper like the Staedtler Noris pencils which I fell in love with. The Mars Lumograph pencils come in 24 degrees from 12B to 10H which is a really good range. They are very consistent as they go up through the grades, there are no sharp jumps in tone unlike the Faber-Castell 9000, which change markedly between the harder and softer grades. Below is a comparison between the Mars Lumograph and Tradition pencils and the Faber-Castell 9000. The Mars Lumograph also blend well and I found them good for fine detail. The only issue being that when I sharpened them, the leads started splintering, making it hard ...