These sets were created through the recommendations of over 500 art teachers from across the United States. The Basic Set contains 12 pieces including a 2B and 4B fine art graphite pencil, two medium charcoal pencils, a 6B Monolith woodless pencil, a compressed charcoal stick, a monolith egg eraser, a kneaded eraser, a paper stomp, sanguine and burnt black pastel sticks and a small sand paper sharpener in a tin box.