Faber-Castell Pitt Monochrome Graphite Sets

These opulent sets boast expert craftsmanship inside and out!

Faber-Castell's Pitt® Graphic range provides all creative artists with an extensive range of pencils and crayons in different degrees of hardness for sketching, graphic design and shading work. The "green pencil from Faber" which was approved by Van Gogh and Goethe, has now become part of everyday life. The 16 grades of hardness range - from a delicate grey hue to a deep graphite black - offer artists a wide range of possibilities. The Pitt® Graphite Pure leads are ideal for creating contrasts and shading extended areas. These pencils offer unparalleled possibilities for spontaneous expression, creating different effects based on the pressure applied and grade of hardness. The Pitt® Graphite Crayons are an ideal and very economical medium for working on very large sketches and areas.
Natural charcoal sticks are the oldest sketching and drawing material in the world. The Pitt® Natural Charcoal sticks greyish-blue shade glides softly across the paper, rubs and smudges easily, and can be erased without difficulty and repeatedly overlaid. This bluish hue has always held a fascination, even with the old masters. The Pitt® Charcoal Pencils leave a much blacker line. Charcoal, compressed with soot and clay, give the charcoal pencils their deep black color and can be produced in different degrees of hardness.
The monochrome colors of black, white, sanguine and sepia can be found in life drawing classes at almost every art school. They bring pictures to life with vitality and expression. This is an old tradition of figure drawing that dates back to the Renaissance, enhanced with white and with shadows deepened with black. Faber-Castell's Pitt® Monochrome Crayons hark back to this long tradition of figure drawing, which is why the crayons designed for sketching are harder than conventional pastel crayons. For this reason, the lines do not disappear completely when smudged. Oil-free and oil-based drawing pencils for detail sketching supplement the sanguine and sepia crayons.