I was looking for a good and attractive mechanical pencil for drawing and saw a review on this pencil. I love that it has a double clutch mechanism allowing me to draw down to the last couple of millimeters of lead -- that plus the long twist out type eraser (mechanical pencil erasers in most other pencils are almost useless) that provides a good amount of erasing PLUS the attractiveness of this graph machine sold me. I got it in and fell in love. I really like that there is no extended lead guard -- I have other pencils for use with straight edges and the like. If you love mechanical pencils, this one is a good one for writing and drawing. I wouldn't use it for drafting though-- nor do I think it's meant for that.