Derwent Graphic Pencils - Assorted - 8H

Derwent Graphic Pencils The Derwent Graphic Pencil is ideal for highly-detailed work, shading and adding texture, in a choice of different degrees ranging from fine and crisp to soft and smudgy. Unsure on which you need? See this guide below H pencils are hard and they leave less graphite on the paper. This means that they are lighter. B pencils are softer and leave more graphite on the paper, meaning they are darker. F means Fine Point. This is quite a hard pencil and is easy to keep sharp, but generally a bit too hard for general drawing. The more H's, the harder a pencil is. This means that a 4H pencil is harder than a 2H and therefore also lighter. The 9H is typically the hardest and lightest graphite pencil available. An HB pencil falls in the middle of the scale. For drawing, it's still reasonably hard. The more B's, the softer a pencil is. This means that a 5B pencil is softer than a 2B and the 5B will produce a darker mark. The 7B is the softest and darkest of th