The Cretacolor Monolith pencil is woodless – just 7mm of graphite with a thin lacquer coating – which means that you can use a huge range of strokes & techniques. You can create everything from broad strokes to tiny details using the same pencil, & it’s easily sharpened, just like a conventional pencil. This is the 9B version – the softest variety, which produces very black, easily smudged & blended marks. Cretacolor Monoliths come in a range of hardnesses.