Faber-Castell Pitt Graphite 9B Pure Pencil

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Faber-Castell's PITT Graphic range provides all creative artists with an extensive range of pencils and crayons in different grades of hardness for sketching, graphic design and shading work. They mention it's very soft and smooth as velvet on both smooth and medium grain paper, and it feels nice to hold. It shouldn’t shed a dust of tiny particles of graphite on your paper, an effect known as ‘ghosting’. The pencils are very dark: almost as dark as the Tombows and with an even more limited range of grades. Faber-Castell's Pitt Graphic range provides all creative artists with an extensive range of pencils and crayons in different grades of hardness for sketching, graphic design and shading work.

The only problem is that the attractive retro design of the casing is very restrained and grade of the pencil is only printed on them once and in tiny lettering. You will receive the credit within a certain amount of days, depending on your card issuer's policies. However from 3B upwards the pencils drew so darkly that it was as if they came from a different range altogether.

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The pencils are very popular in the UK where many people rate them for their blending ability, but I personally feel that they don’t match the standard of some of their rivals despite the fact that they often cost more. I was a little astonished when I opened the tin to see that the pencils have round casings, which is something that I’ve rarely seen except in children’s pencils. The pencils are fairly expensive here if bought individually and are better value when purchased in a tin, where because because the range of grades (only 3H to 6B) is so small you receive several duplicates. Based in Vienna, Cretacolor produces high quality and innovative pencils which have won several awards.We hope you are very happy with every purchase from Pegasus Art however if you are not entirely satisfied we are here to help.

They are light to hold and have their grade printed clearly on every other facet so that they are easy to identify. Conté à Paris is another illustrious pencil company and its founder Nicolas-Jacques Conté made a huge historical contribution to the development of the modern pencil when he patented his graphite and clay kiln-fired pencil in 1795. If you wanted to draw more lightly with them you’d need to use the H grades, but because these stop at only 3H there would be a limit to how light you could go.The Pitt graphite crayons are an ideal and very economical medium for working on very large sketches and areas. No problem, as long as you have not blotted your ink then we would be happy to refund you the full amount. Derwent's Graphic Pencils are made from the finest quality graphite and purest clays for a smooth line. This softness and the graphite dust that the pencils create do make them excellent for blending because they smudge so easily, and despite their dark tones they erase very well. Derwent Graphic Pencils are available in a full range of densities from 9B (softest) to 9H (hardest).