it was 5.0 lead mech pencil with HB an 9B woodless faber castel pencils, faber castel kneaded eraser, an array of tortilions an blending stumps, faber castel perfection 7058 sharpened eraser pencil, sandford art gum eraser, an a tuff stuff eraser stick."... in the question post, someone found the original photo this was derived from: (click to embiggen) upon seeing the original photo, it should become fairly obvious that the artist is either temporarily confusing photoshop with a pencil; posted an incorrect description of how she did it (hey, i've been known to get a little crazy with the cutting and pasting between windows); or is just plain misrepresenting her skills.... the dead giveaways that reveal that it's not a pencil drawing: the lack of individual stroke marks from the pencil no indentations in a paper surface no eraser marks no smudges no paper grain or texture in the image no wobble or tremor in the lines extremely even width in the lines of the hair, which would have to have been done with an extremely fine eraser for comparison, let's look at a real, photorealistic pencil drawing by john howe, whom we can safely say is a professional artist: see the difference?