LYRA Rembrandt Carbon Extra Dark Oil Pencil – Professional Oily Carbon Pencil
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2057902
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0.050 Kgs
Who it’s for
Fine Artists and Portraitists who need total, light-absorbing blackness without the reflective metallic shine typical of soft graphite grades (e.g., 8B–9B).
Sketchbook and Journaling Artists who want to draw on the go without charcoal dust transferring onto facing sketchbook pages when closed.
Academic Realism Draftspersons leveraging mixed-media dry/oil drawing techniques for high-contrast, razor-sharp details.
Key features
Oily Carbon Contrast: Generates the deepest obtainable value range in fine art drawing.
Indelible Line Work: Excellent for placing permanent, precise structural outlines that won't smudge away during later rendering phases.
Sharp Detail Execution: Sharpens to a surprisingly resilient fine point unlike fragile natural vine charcoal stick alternatives.
Unique differentiators
Dust-Free Studio Environment: Eliminates messy charcoal dust clouds on your paper, easel, or hands.
Waterproof & Permanence: Once laid down on paper fibers, the oil-based mark becomes water-resistant, making it safe to overlay with watercolors or wet inks without bleeding.
FSC-Certified Cedar Shell: Manufactured with high-grade California Incense Cedar wood, securing the inner core against micro-fractures during heavy sharpening.
Why this product
Choosing the LYRA Rembrandt Carbon Extra Dark Oil solves the age-old frustration of ruined, smudged drawings and messy studio spaces. Artists often dislike dry charcoal because it sheds dust and loses tonal intensity after spraying fixatives. LYRA's oil formulation preserves its intense, velvety dark state permanently without needing extra chemical fixatives, offering German engineering that elevates every line you draw.
FAQ
Q: Can the LYRA Carbon Extra Dark Oil pencil be erased with standard erasers?
A: Because of its oily binder formulation, it is substantially more permanent than dry charcoal. It can be lightened or adjusted using a kneaded eraser or hard plastic eraser while fresh, but it is difficult to lift completely back to bare white paper.
Q: Can Carbon Extra Dark Oil be layered over dry charcoal?
A: Yes! A favored professional technique is to build large background values using dry charcoal, then use Carbon Extra Dark Oil to lock in the final, ultra-dark focal accents and hard edges over top.
Q: What is the best method to sharpen this pencil?
A: While a high-quality metal hand sharpener works well, the most precise method for oil-based carbon cores is hand-carving with an artist scalpel/craft knife and shaping the exposed point on a sandpaper block.
Q: Does the line produced by this pencil reflect light?
A: No! Unlike high-grade graphite which leaves a silvery, reflective sheen when viewed under angle light, the Carbon Extra Dark Oil dries to a rich, matte, deep black finish.
