While I usually love prisma colored pencils for their rich lay down of bright and beautiful colors, the lead in this pencil was off center. The lead broke so many times while sharpening that it was 3/4 of the way through with in a week! I'm beginning to become discouraged with prisma color since they started producing out of Mexico and have started to use polychromos by Faber castell instead. Hopefully they regain some of their quality control and fix this issue.