CRETACOLOR CLEOS FINE ART GRAPHITE PENCIL – B

✏️🖤Smooth, versatile graphite with just the right touch of softness. The Cretacolor Cleos Fine Art Graphite Pencil inB produces darker, softer marks than HB while still providing excellent control for linework, shading, and everyday drawing.

Part of Cretacolor’s extensive20-grade Cleos range from 9B through 9H, B is a terrific all-purpose drawing grade — soft enough for expressive tonal work without becoming excessively dark or heavy.

FEATURES ✨

• B graphite grade
• Smooth, consistent graphite laydown
• Slightly softer & darker than HB
• Excellent balance of shading ability and line control
• Ideal for building gradual tonal values
• Hexagonal barrel for comfortable, controlled handling
• Designed to be break-resistant
• Easy to sharpen
• Suitable for fine art, graphics, design & architectural drawing
• Made in Austria 🇦🇹

WHY B? 🖤

B is one of those wonderfully useful middle-ground drawing pencils. It gives you noticeably richer graphite than HB while retaining enough firmness for clean lines and controlled detail.

Use light pressure for delicate gray values, then increase pressure to develop darker shadows and stronger contrast — making it especially handy when you want to accomplish a lot with a single pencil.

IDEAL FOR 🎨

• Drawing & sketching
• Preliminary drawings
• Portraiture
• Figure drawing
• Shading & blending
• Tonal studies
• Hatching & cross-hatching
• Illustration
• Still life & landscapes
• Everyday studio drawing
• Students & professional artists

SPECS 📏

• Brand: Cretacolor
• Series: Cleos Fine Art Graphite
• Product: Graphite Pencil
• Grade: B
• Item No.: 160 01
• Shape: Hexagonal
• Lead Diameter: 2.2–3.5 mm across the Cleos range
• Pencil Diameter: 6.9 mm
• Length: 174 mm
• Made in: Austria

FINAL NOTE ✨

B is the dependable little overachiever of the graphite drawer. 🖤 Darker than HB, more controlled than the really soft grades, and useful for damn near everything from the first sketch line to the finished shading.