good old Faber Castell pencils are my fav

Love love all my Derwent pencils...

Wow. Great video, I too have found colored pencils. Love them. Like you I started with some cheap ones from the dollar store and I’m now buying some artist grade pencils. Paper is also key. They are great for sketch books. I am into all types of mediums, I paint with oils and watercolors. The better I can draw the better all of my work is.

I like Sargent pencils.

I chose Polychromos because they're more on the hard side (precise, need to sharpen them less frequently, resistant to breaking even with lots of pressure) and Derwent Drawing (soft/creamy, muted color range that's very nice for portraits). Both are supposedly lightfast. I usually combine them with watercolor, but there's also something very satisfying about a simple two-color pencil sketch :)

Once again this was the right subject at the exact right time for me. I always had an aversion to colored pencils, but recently have been using them in a sketchbook with ink drawings. I am loving the rich color you can get even on thin paper with no bleed through to the other side and no rippling. I am about to step up from my 12-color set. I didn't know about all the different types. Thank you, Danny!

Now I want to run out & buy all 4 to try ! Thanks for sharing. Have a great colored pencil day!

@asexualatheist3504

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Same here.

Wow, the pencils are like tofu: soft, firm, extra-firm,…. Thanks for this video. It is very helpful.

Great info Danny!! Thank u so much!

Thank you, great information 😊

I just ordered Derwent academy pencils.

I like their water colour pencils. Bold colours

Colored pencils are a new medium for me. Very helpful video. Thank you!

I love your very encouraging positive approach to your videos. I am a beginner to the art world. I am looking at videos to get an idea of art supplies I need. I am on a fixed income on disability. I am a ruptured brain aneurysm survivor. Neurological challenges come with my recovery. The comments you make how art creates Neurological pathways from the brain, to the eye, to the hand. Well said. Could you recommend an economical affordable set of colored pencils comparable to the cromaflow pencils? I am going to start a sketch book after hearing the value of using one. I look forward to watching more of your wonderful videos. 🎨🙏😊

great tips, thank you

@SketchBookSkool

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My pleasure!

Thanks for this color pencil demo. These pencils are not just for coloring books! Your Information woke me up to a new experience.

I like pencils better than pens and, even though I found your channel months ago, have been resisting the idea of daily sketchbook drawing because of that. I love Prismacolor colored pencils, have for 20+ years. I am not good at all with sketching, but do love color-blending, I find it very absorbing and quieting to my mind. Thanks, Danny.

I love Derwent colored pencils, with Drawing being my favorite. I discovered last winter that the color palette in the Derwent Drawing set matches the colors I see in winter in upstate New York. I’ve been using Chromaflow this past spring and summer but I’m eager to return to Drawing pencils as soon as the leaves are off the trees.

I tried to use color pencils to paint my drawing before and didn't like it because it was too hard to cover everything and the color was too bland. I never realized until now that color pencils have different textures like regular pencils. Now I want to try new types of color pencils and discover if I can enjoy using then. Thank you for this video

Thanks for this. I didn't realize how many different colored pencils there are.

Derwent Inktense are my favorite pencils because: 1) they are incredibly vivid when activated with water; and 2) they are both colored pencils and ink, and are water resistant once fully dissolved. I also have the pans and the colors just pop. They have a beautiful range of greens, blues, violets. I would love to try the Inktense Blocks to see if they are the same as the pans. If you're a Derwent rep or know one, it would be fun to have them do a short video. One or two of the Spark instructors uses Inktense and the upcoming Yummy Colors has suggested them, so it would be great to get more info on the product! Thanks for the video. TBH, I've always felt a little sneaky because I love using pencils before inking but you've always discouraged them. Thanks for coming out in support of media diversity : )

Try watercolour pencils. Lots of fun

I like Staedtler Noris. They last forever, are smoth, can fall on the floor 10000 times without breaking.

The variety of color pencils is amazing. I know little about them, but after taking a botanical class from Wendy Hollander I bought a large set of Polychromos. That said, the soft and velvety pencils you showed look so cool!

Yes you picked a good one, I think, Danny! Juicy colors! 💖 I love woodless colored pencils bc they are creamy yet precise enough and highly pigmented and you can lay them on their side to fill large areas. It’s much easier to sharpen them, not annoying! Just don’t drop them on the floor bc they are like porcelain and will break. I use them only over carpet. 😅 If you use a sketchbook, lightfastness doesn’t matter nearly as much. Also, you can always take a photo for posterity, I guess. When I worked in a small, quiet, peaceful art supply store where I had time to ponder all kinds of things including mortality, it seemed like customers were way too concerned w lightfastness of their mediums over centuries, lol. Myself, I’ll pick a gorgeous eye candy popping opera rose whose days are numbered over a lightfast but dull pink pigment every time bc we are all just dust in the wind. 💀 😂

@michellebrown9090

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Ditto on the woodless pencils. Love them, but broke my favorite black Koh-i-Noor. Went back to the store, no black. Ended up with three shades of green and the cashier told me to draw Frankenstein. Art store people are so much fun!

@laurelb4193

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@@michellebrown9090 Heehee perfect time of year to draw Frankenstein! 😂

I hear you, I’ve avoided pencil ( coloured) would love to try some different mediums. Thank you Funny about the u ✌️🇨🇦

It took me a while to learn about pencils too. I was never interested until a few months ago, since I'm a watercolor artist. I never cared for ink works either. I have always loved graphite. I needed a new challenge! I contacted a color pencil brand company and found that all color pencils no matter if they are oil or wax based, are actually made with both oil and wax. Its just that one type will lean to more oil based and the other wax. Holbein actually said theirs was almost equally oil and wax. Interesting! I buy those open stock and chose only the top lightfast pigments. Most of the oil based ones have the hardest cores with a smooth glide Like Faber Castell Polychromos. As a watercolor artist pigment nerd, I know that its not the pencil formula that makes it lightfast. Its the actual pigments used. I know which are questionable and those that are reliable. The nice thing about Derwent Lightfast, they list the actual pigments used for each pencil! My 36 set of Polychromos (oil based, yet hard) are all 3 star top lightfastness and only one 2 star in the bunch. 3 star is around 100 years and 2 star around 50 in that brand. It was a good deal! I've been testing out different brands also. Thanks for sharing.

I have heard nothing but good things about Derwent Drawing Pencils, the only complaint being that there aren't enough colors. The biggest set they have I think is only 24 pencils, and seem to be the subdued colors one might want for landscapes and many animals. But they lack the brighter colors you would need for tropical fish, flowers, birds. And the Inktense are lightfast and can even be used on fabric.

Derwent LIGHTFAST 100%! They did rigorous testing and will not fade. 🇺🇲❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️🇬🇧