Academy Watercolour Pencils Set of 24 in Tin Box Sketching Kit

Great value for money, good colour selection, the usual Derwent quality.

Lovely pencils blending well good cover great price nice colour range

They are good as a colour pencil, it's a bit more difficult using them as painting pencils. You need to think about wetting either the pencil or the paper and if you go the paper route, where, exactly, you want the paint to bleed to. Wetting the pencil is more easily controlled, but a nuisance having to keep wetting the pencil.

A superb set of skin tone colour pencils from Derwent that are student grade and are excellent value for money. They lay down very nicely and blend quite easily. The pencils that have the colour names along the shaft, do have the colour at the base; however, do completely swatch to gain the true hues. The set includes an excellent white - perfect for blending and softening, plus a very good black. The pencils sharpen smoothly without any breakages or splits and are comfortable to hold. Of course, one could always want more colours, but with a little patient layering, a variety of skin tones are achievable. The colours are different to those in the 72 pencil watercolour set, but there are similar colours to be found there, as can be seen with the horizontal comparison bars on the swatch. All round, an excellent starter set before investing in the 72 set, plus a great bonus is that Derwent have a skin tone tutorial page.

Nice tactile , and fine control

I've never owned a set of watercolour pencils before and thought you can't beat standard watercolour tabs, until I bought this set. Just brilliant colours and so easy to use, I can't wait to use them in my projects into nature arts. The value of this set is amazing and quality is on a professional level.

My first purchase of watercolour pencils. Lots of colours to choose from. I've made a simple Swatch of the 24 colours and used a wet brush to see how they fair. So far so good. Pencils seem strong. You can transform the pencil marks into translucent washes, like traditional watercolor painting and I was looking for something portable and convenient to give urban sketching a go. I highly recommend giving watercolor pencils a try.

Okay but not quite what I wanted - there is a selection of yellow, pink, red and brown pencils but none that is a standard pale eurasian 'flesh' colour (without blending them).

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Conoscevo già la marca sono più che ottime e professionali. Tutto ok

Me gusta pintar con ellos se disyelven muy buen con el agua y da efectos muy bonitos para difuminar

Ik had van derwent méér verwacht maar moet helaas vaststellen dat mijn goedkope aquarel potloden het even goed doen.