Ebony pencils are a wonderful artist tool. They are used for sketching, drawing, layout or design work. They can be used with a gentle hand to get very light values or you can create a very dark graphite for heavy shadows and dark tones. They smudge nicely like other softer lead pencils for gradual shading and medium tones. Because these pencils have a soft lead, they are gentle on the surface of your paper and sharpen to a point quite easily for fine details.

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For the price, ebony pencils are super affordable and can make your pencil drawings stand out. Working with sketching or fine art drawing, ebony pencils are a staple to artists in many trades. Give them a try if you haven’t yet, they do not disappoint.

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