I love that your reviews involve a painting of some kind. Ironically, it's something that's rarely seen on youtube. Most people consider swatching a review, which it isn't.

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Most thorough demonstration of the Derwent Drawing pencils that I have found. Also appreciated your extensive side-by-side of all the colored pencils. I've never seen that before. Thank you!

@helencryer

4 ай бұрын

Thanks very much - that's very kind of you!

I love the bird - it really came to life as you drew.

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

What I love about these pencils, in addition to the creamy muted colors, is that you can erase them…

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

I've never tried that - good to know, thanks!

i love them and their formula~ kinda wish derwent came out with a set of 24 pastel tones in the same formula as these.

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh - how good would that be?!?!

@cazkiwinz4300

Жыл бұрын

Ooooo… **swoon**

Your little bird is just beautiful! I love using Derwent Drawing pencils - among my favorites!

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Same here!

I really love these pencils, specially for painting over watercolours!

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

They are gorgeous aren't they? Yes, these and Luminance are my over watercolour choices!

I liked that bird that you painted at the end. Your quite accomplished with pencil colours.

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I’m sold ! This set is officially on my birthday gift list

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

😂 I'm pretty confident most people would love them!

I’ve got that same original set, also about 30 years old but unlike yours, mine have barely been used!! I’m feeling inspired to give them a go. I’m so in love with my travel art kit that I forget to try using other supplies when I’m sketching at home hahaha. Your little bird is stunning! I really love it!

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Haha - I know the feeling! I've used my travel kit a lot at home! Glad you're feeling inspired though!!

Thank you for this wonderful video. Helpt me a lot in desiding what to buy. Beautiful bird❤

@helencryer

Ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad!

They are a great pencil also love the lightfast, coloursoft, cromaflow, have a set of artists pencils bought 26years ago and a couple sets of studio.

@helencryer

3 ай бұрын

Oooo - lovely!

I adore them, my favorite colours are mars violet, solway blue and wheat - not that I use them much, I’m just a color addict 😅 I love how your bird came out and I really like that you left white grain, I’m fond of pencil drawings that look like drawings. And the retro set - just wow, so precious

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

I love the greens and blues! And I think it's just fine being a colour addict - I strongly relate! Thank you!

@beckymadrid5894

9 ай бұрын

​@@helencryerwhat paper did you use for the bird?

@helencryer

9 ай бұрын

Strathmore Drawing Pad - the link is in the video description.

Thank you for this wonderfully detailed video. The part at the end where you blended, burnished, and use solvent with different results was very eye opening. Thank you Zest-it for maintaining the tooth of the paper!

@helencryer

10 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much!

Lovely informative video especially how you’ve explained using the zest it. Beautiful painting of the reed bunting. I’ve got a couple of similar colours in luminance, plus smoke blue, olive earth and Chinese white in the drawing pencils already so might hang fire on this set (for now!)

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm sure you can get along fine with those!I have to admit, mine are eye candy as much as anything!!

Beautiful stuff. Love these pencils had most of the range for years and just got the full 24 set (finally) for my birthday! I’m looking forward to trying out the 7 I had been missing for years!

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Yay! I'm enjoying having the ones I never had too!

Lovely muted colours and they look so creamy and nice to use. I love that sanguine colour. 😍 Thank you Helen. 😊 Beautiful bird, you rock at birds. ❤

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Panda! Must be due to my mis-spent youth in the Young Ornithologists' Club 😂

Beautiful bird!😊

@helencryer

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

I really appreciate watching you sketching. Let me please give you some hints with your photographic device: 1. set the focus manually or it continually changes focus trying to get your hand instead of the paper 2. set the exposure manually or it tries to make what's under the exposimeter reagion of the frame result as GREY and it changes as you move your hand - exposimeter are set to give the correct exposure for mid grey. if your subject is white you should overexpose, if it's black you should underexpose -. 3. similarly decide yourself what whitebalance gives the more accurate result or it changes similarly with the exposure when your hand moves.

@helencryer

4 ай бұрын

Thanks ever so much! I appreciate the advice! I definitely would do, if possible, but I only film on my mobile phone, and I can't do these.

I love that tiny white!!!

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Probably ought to get a pencil extender for it!

@AL-lz1hb

2 ай бұрын

@@helencryer Ha! I have tiddly white anxiety. Was thinking it could be solved with a special trip to the Art Store. When or if ever Chinese white is actually in stock?? Seriously since Covid, things have gone downhill.☹ A pencil extender could be just what I need! Why didn't I think of that?🤔😊

Beautiful picture as always

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Lovely!!

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I love your little bird!! Back home and getting caught up on a few days worth of videos 😅. I have never used solvent with pencils (I really have not used pencils much at all, except when adding to a mixed media piece); I think I need to pick some up, love the effect of using it as you illustrated!! I really love the Derwent drawing pencils. I think they’re a beautiful range when doing landscapes/nature, however, I haven’t used them on their own so haven’t needed them for fine details.

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

I hope you had a brilliant trip!! In some ways it's like doing pencil over the top of a watercolor wash, but you have more control, and can 'wash' the pencil out as much or as little as you like. Yes, I wouldn't usually use them on their own, but wanted to show for the sake of the video, what they can do on their own.

Your bird came out beautifully! I really love these pencils and so wish Derwent would give us a full 100 colors (instead of wasting time on stuff like Chromoflow 🤨 )!

@helencryer

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yep - I and many others would agree!

I love these pencils so much and I just don’t understand why they don’t come out with more colors.

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Me too!!!

@tlembro

Жыл бұрын

I love these pencils and the white i grab all the time….best white out there!

@beckymadrid5894

9 ай бұрын

What kind of paper did you use for the bird?

@beckymadrid5894

9 ай бұрын

What type of paper did you use for the bird?

@helencryer

9 ай бұрын

It's a Strathmore Drawing Pad - the link is in the description.

I have the Holbein pastel tones set which has some really nice pale earthy tones, but I think I’ll get these too for the rich earthy tones. Great demonstration, thanks!

@helencryer

8 ай бұрын

Ooo - I'd love the Holbein Pastels!! These really are great though.

I love mine…love the colors and so creamy…beautiful sketch

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

They're beautiful are they?! Thanks!

Well done to keep the classic Derwent Drawing pencils so long

@helencryer

7 ай бұрын

It probably means I should have used them more!!

Just acquired the full 24 set this Christmas. I don’t usually.ike a soft core but these I’m finding irresistible.

@helencryer

5 ай бұрын

Rather nice aren't they?!

@christopherwarwick5956

5 ай бұрын

Yes! The colours are so subtle.@@helencryer

I love these pencils even though my drawing skills aren't worthy of them😅 I love the colors. I also love my inktense and graphitint pencils. You bird is gorgeous. There is a pencil artist in my area that has classes occasionally and have been keeping my eyes open for it.

@helencryer

7 ай бұрын

A pencil class sounds great fun! You absolutely are worthy of good pencils!!

@SabineLeppanen_Art

5 ай бұрын

I started with only this set and the tin of 12 Polychromos and I still love my first projects.

What paper did you use for the bird drawing? And what papers do you recommend with these pencils? I got a set of them few months back and I haven't used them yet! Waiting for some free time to try them out.

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

I used a Strathmore Drawing pad. It's quite smooth, though not everyone will like the off-white colour. I haven't really used much else for coloured pencil drawing. Hope you enjoy them!

Your 30yo tin is as muted as the pencils 😂… I actually first thought that was a drawing/cover of a sketchbook you’d done…and I liked it, a lot! Would look cool as patterned paper or fabric like that…. Hmmm….

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

😂 I'll have to do a re-creation of it!

@cazkiwinz4300

Жыл бұрын

@@helencryer Oooo, yes!

Очень полезное видео! ❤

@helencryer

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad - thanks!

I love these pencils so much but it’s sad we don’t have it in the Philippines!

@helencryer

28 күн бұрын

That's a shame!

This is so inspiring. What solvent do you use?

@helencryer

10 ай бұрын

Thanks! I use Zest-it

Wow the bird is so cute!!! Do you have any idea that how can i blend these colors, should l burnish them or should I add white color above the colors to make them blend for skin tones😊😅

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm afraid I don't really like doing either of those methods - I just prefer to use solvent to blend. Without solvent, I guess I'd just keep layering colours till I liked the outcome, regardless of whether it had reached the point of being burnished or not.

@marysartwork2573

Жыл бұрын

@@helencryer thanks for helping

So do you always use the solvent in the beginning And do you use it at other times also? I don’t know much at all about colored pencils.

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

If I'm doing a detailed, more realistic pencil drawing (not that I've done one for ages now), then I'd blend the first layers, and maybe some details after that, just so it's as soft looking as I'd like, then built up sharper detail on top. If I'm doing a more sketch-y look, I probably wouldn't use any, and leave the white of the paper showing through.

Ive just ordered these to put away for christmas for my self, I got them for £30 on ebay brand new, they were £48 on amazon!!!

@helencryer

9 ай бұрын

Oh that's great! Well done!

What paper did you use to draw bird?

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

It's done in a Strathmore Drawing pad.

What sharpener do you like to use for these pencils?

@helencryer

6 ай бұрын

I've been using the Kum small double one.

@rving642

6 ай бұрын

@@helencryer oh nice. I have the one hole kum and tried it just now and it works perfect. Thank you!! I had completely forgotten about this sharpener bc I don’t use it for anything. Thanks for the tip!!

@helencryer

6 ай бұрын

That's great!

Can these be blended?

@helencryer

8 ай бұрын

16:01 Yes, you can see a bit of how they blend from here.

Nice drawing of a bird. The pencil set looks suitable for portraits. Are the pencils worth it for the vast majority though? Here is why my answer is no. One reason is that they can't be found indvidually locally as the vast majority of sellers only sell Derwent as sets. A person can't be expected to keep buying sets when it comes to replacements. Where they can be found as open stock they work out a bit on the expensive side which might be why retailers choose not to sell them. With both Faber Castell and Caran d Ache being the leaders in quality and price, Derwent would do well to bring the price down. More sellers might then think about carrying open stock. Then they might be worth thinking about.

@helencryer

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! Where do you live? They are readily available for well under £2 in the UK.

@stevejones1682

6 ай бұрын

@@helencryer thank you for your reply. A few years back, Spectrum Art Supplies would create their own open stock. That might have been cheaper than for them to buy in open stock. I used to use the Artist and Studio pencils but was persuaded to move over to the Faber Castell Polychromos. Pencils4Artists currently sell the Drawing pencils for £1.95, but then there is the postage on top and the risk of breakage. They are based in Dartmouth. Amazon are a lot dearer. I don't think they are intended as a professional pencil as the Artist and Studio pencils have a larger range and are more expensive individually. I live in Birmingham, where you would think Derwent open stock would be easy to obtain. I am sceptical of the Drawing pencils being lightfast as they have been producing the Lightfast range since 2018. Derwent don't say the Drawing pencils are lightfast on their web site and the pencils don't show any indication on them for lightfastness either. Where the drawings are fixed and kept out of sunlight, I don't think lightfastness is really an important issue though.

@helencryer

6 ай бұрын

Cult Pens, Jackson's Art, Crafty Arts, The Art Shop are all cheaper than that currently. I tend to wait long enough till I have enough in a shopping basket not to pay any postage. The Derwent website does talk about Lightfast ratings of the Derwent Drawing pencils - you have to click on the full colour chart PDF. They use the Blue Wool Scale. It's not important for sketchbooks, but I like to know, as I sell framed art.

@stevejones1682

6 ай бұрын

@@helencryer The only shop there I've heard of there is Jackson's which I understand is based in London. Those shops might be useful to some but certainly aren't local to me. A link to that chart would be useful as I can't find it on their web site, but there is an external one I've found which states as you have said . I can't help but wonder why they don't state the grading on each pencil.. The Drawing range has always been small and was extended to 24 in 1998. I think it was. The Lightfast range is 100 and introduced in 2018. As they aren't interested in extending the Drawing range maybe they will cease production of that now.

@helencryer

6 ай бұрын

www.derwentart.com/en-gb/p/0700672/professional-products/pencils/drawing-pencils-24-tin Underneath the coloured squares, there's red writing which says 'Download the full colour chart PDF', and it gives you the info there.

Hi, are these wax pencils?

@helencryer

11 ай бұрын

Yes, they are wax based.

@twingytwango6971

11 ай бұрын

@@helencryer Thank you

And not first… again! Im loosing my mojo! Better go by a replacement mojo 😂.

@helencryer

Жыл бұрын

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