The Mont Marte Signature 13 piece Sketch Set is a great set that provides all the sketching basics for the student artist. Includes 4 Graphite pencils - 4 different grades to create a variety of shades of grey. Superb for detailed drawings. 4 Hard Pastels - Excellent for loose expressive life drawing. May be sharpened with the sand paper for small details or used on the side for broad areas. 1 Eraser - Erases graphite cleanly and can be used to reveal highlights in pastel sketches. 1 Sharpener - Brings all your sketching pencils to a sharp point. 1 Sandpaper Block - Can be used to quickly bring back the point of your graphite pencils with a few small strokes on the sandpaper. Also great to produce a point on hard pastels for details.1 Blending Stump - Made of soft paper and is used to blend large areas of pastel. 1 Tortillion - Made of spiral wound paper and is used to blend small areas of pastel and to add small details.