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hah your to kind my friend. the set was 10 dollars and its a range of pencils from hard to soft led as you can see there is a lot of contrast in the picture I used a 4h for the lightly shaded background and a 8h for the deep jacket tones

Cool! My drawing would be improve with that kind of pencils? 😉

no doubt! with more contrast adds more realism. When you look at things in real life they are not usually a flat grey, they have light whites from light reflection and extreme darks where the light doesn't touch (shadows)