Derwent Lightfast Pencils Set Of 12 In Tin, 4mm Round Core, Premium Core Strength, Creamy Texture, Ideal For Fine Art Drawing & Colouring, Professional Quality, 2302719

I love these, thicker than polychromos and seem better when sharpened to a point with little breakage. The colours are not garish and subtle enough for me with animal wildlife art. I would purchase these again though I expect them to last me a while. Love them and highly recommend

I bought this tin of 24 for a test and I can say I'm really happy and satisfied, soon will invest more to buy the largest set of 100s. This particular set of 24 pencils is really great - it has a lot of skin/brownish/muted colours, thought as a lover of brighter colours I found it lacking more blues and greens, but it will be another challenge to try and use limited palitra, so not so bad as a choice. :) Derwent's Lighfast series came as a competitor against Caran D'ache Luminance and personally for me I think Derwent's are better. Great pencils quality - both wood and core are exquisite, can be sharpen to a very sharpy point without breakage and they are softer and creamier, easily blending compared to Luminance (from mine experience with Luminance), not to mention the lighfastness guarantee.

These oil-based pencils beat wax-based water colour pencils by a country mile. The colours are vivid, and incredibly easy to apply, blend, layer and manipulate. I am not a professional artist but really enjoy 'advanced' colouring books with thicker higher quality paper, such as those in the Kew Garden series or the delightful Mousgaard (see illustration) which resist water colour pencils. The ease of use cannot be over expressed. The effect achieved is like an Arthur Ransome illustration. These are expensive pencils but worth every penny.

I have just started using colouring pencils and bought this set to try out. Great selection of colours, they are very smooth and lay down pigment beautifully. Highly recommend.

I normally use Caren d'ache Luminance and Faber Castell Polys though I have Van gogh and Prismas as well so its great to see a range of Lightast pencils made in Britain a that was something that was sadly missing.I bought these because they are 100% lightfast and oil based so shouldn't bloom. I have to say I am most impressed as they are really lovely to use and very creamy for an oil based pencil so they really do go down very well and blend beautifully.If I have any minor complaints then its that they are really quite pricey and it's that in my set there is not enough variety of colour instead some of the colours are really similar like Ruby earth and Venitian red, Racing green and Spruce green, Seaweed and Olive Earth so I wish they had changed three of them for brighter colours, plus in my box a couple of the leads seem to break quite easily when sharpening which doesnt bode well but other than that they really are a dream to use and being lightfast they will stand the test of time.One of my pictures above shows the set I bought and my colour chart but the other shows a Kingfisher I have just finished using Poly Chromos, Caren d Ache and another derwent range, Inktense which are also lovely, with a Highland cow that I have just started using the new Derwent lightfast pencils and a few of my exisiting ones where I needed more colours, as you can see they really produce nice tones.My review is based on the original 36 colour set so perhaps the new 36 colour set , which provides the remaining 36 colours currently available, will provide a fuller set of colours but so far I havent seen that set available on Amazon and I only do this as a hobby so the full price is beyond my pocket.On the Derwent site it says the full set will offer 100 colours but only 72 are available at the moment so I don't know if the remaining 28 colours will be available as a separate set too, when they are released, but if they are then is they are affordable that would be wonderful, and certainly be added to my Christmas wish list.

Really nice quality, combined with electric pencil sharpener can get some great results.

I ordered this set on special offer after having read such rave reviews. I must be one of the only people who wasn’t bowled over by them. Perhaps I was unlucky but they did not sharpen well and I lost quite a lot of lead. I think I will give Derwent a miss with their coloured pencils as the Coloursoft 72 set I bought many moons ago had exactly the same problem. (I tried 4 different sharpeners with similar results.)However, their Graphitint pencils are amazing, just wish they were available in bigger sets.

An absolute joy to use - creamy, rich and luxurient. They are lightfast and of professional quality. they layer up amazingly well... with no wax bloom. Derwent have certainly made the perfect colour pencils. Recommended.

How are these different? They are thick! Derwent's pencils in general are among the thickest pencils on the market. The wood is solid hard and sharpens beautifully. 1 of these pencils is equal to 4-6 prismacolor's in coverage

These pencils are wonderful! They not only have beautiful pigment, but they are easy to sharpen with the Derwent pencil sharpener & I like the size of the barrel. Highly recommend!

This is such a great mix of primary colors. What do I mean by that? This assortment of colors will allow you to achieve many different colors by layering. I recommend using Arches hot press watercolor paper or strathmore colored pencil paper... I illustrated a complex novel cover illustration with this set and I didn't need too many extra colors. Skintones are easy to achieve with this set too. Extremely thick barrels. They sharpen beautifully. I use and M and R sharpener with replacement blades. It's kind of mind blowing at how much coverage 1 pencil gives. So superior to Prismacolor. I love this brand, polychromos and luminance. Derwent lightfast allows lots of layers. They have a slightly dry texture but they are amazing.. Perfectly paired with luminance and polychromos. I have the 100 set now but this is a great starter or sampler set.

Very creamy, lightfast, mixes well. Top of the line professional pencil

I actually bought this set as a gift but they wanted something different. My review is based on my smaller set.They are excellent. I use them for colouring. As I don't sell artwork the lightfast ratings don't apply to me, but it's cool to think maybe my kids' kids might see my colouring some day.They blend well, layer well and lay down easily. They are more expensive , but worth it IMO. I'm very happy with them.