PURPOSE: To produce a nonbaked color pencil lead improved in mechanical strengths and suitability for writing by kneading a specified composition and water, extruding the resulting mixture, drying the extrudate and filling the formed pores of the extrudate with an oil or fat and/or a wax.

CONSTITUTION: A mixture of a pigment with an extender is mixed with 3-40wt.% N-long-chain acyl basic amino acid and/or N-long-chain acidic amino acid higher fatty acid ester of a mean particle diameter of 20μm or below and a water-soluble binder. The obtained composition and water are kneaded, and the resulting mixture is extruded, the obtained extrudate is dewatered and dried to obtain a porous product having pores formed owing to the difficult wettability of the extender and the pigment each modified with the N-long-chain acyl basic amino acid. The pores of this product are filled with an oil or fat and/or a wax.