Magicfly 72 Colored Pencils, Professional Oil Based Colored Pencils for Adult, Art Colored Pencils for Coloring Books, Drawing Arts & Sketching, Coloring Pencil for Adults and Kids

These lay down like a dream! They're smooth, creamy, and easily blendable. The tin is pretty but here's the con...the trays are HORRIBLE! They're flimsy and the little notch intended to help lift the trays are useless unless you have a lifting type tool. As I was inspecting the package a few of the pencils popped out of the tray as I lifted the trays. Other than that the pencils are great, they're named, numbered, nicely weighted, and highly pigmented. I enjoyed these so much this is my 2nd set and they do have light fast ratings on each pencil ranging from 2-5, only 4 were rated a 2, one a 3, the rest is all 5!

I got these for my daughter along with a Black Widow set to try. I usually use Staedler or Prismacolor but the latter is too expensive in my opinion. The color range of this is nice, the colors are rich and they blend fine, but not as good as the Black Widow set. I don’t regret buying them, I would say they are comparable to the Staedler but I’m pretty sure the price is lower, so I’d pick these over Staedler, and probably over prismacolor too considering the price. I thought these would blend better and be smoother than the Black Widow since these are oil and the Black Widow are wax, but they are not as smooth and don’t blend as well but come pretty close. All in all I’m pleased with them and don’t think I’ll ever need to shell out a ridiculous sum for prismacolor again. Someone who is a more avid user of colored pencils may disagree, but for my usage these are a great alternative. Black Widow is even better.

My girls loved it

These are oil base pencils. I Paid $19.99 for them on Amazon, which is an incredibly awesome bargain for oil based pencils that perform this well. The only downside is that there are no names and no numbers printed on any of the pencils as of today’s date 1/2020. ( I number them myself. )If they had a name or a number on them, I would’ve given them five stars. If you are thinking about purchasing them, I would grab them quickly as I have a feeling that the price will go up for this kind of quality. So far I have been coloring with them for about five weeks and I have had about three leads break on me. And no, I am not exaggerating with this. I believe part of this is due to the quality of the pencil and part of it is due to the awesome pencil sharpener that I use. I use a Tgaal pencil sharpener, available on Amazon, and with this particular pencil sharpener set on number one, I rarely have any pencil breakage including my Prismacolor premieres. Almost every pencil is translucent or very near translucent. Transparent colored pencils are almost a must when it comes to coloring in grayscale coloring books. These pencils perform outstandingly in grayscale coloring books, I cannot stress this enough! They are the best transparent colored pencils I have found to do grayscale coloring with, considering the outstanding price. Also, they are creamy and not scratchy, which makes for a great colored pencil experience whether you are doing grayscale coloring or traditional line art coloring. They feel like a much more expensive pencil in the hand. I am stocking up on them while they are still $19.99, as I have mentioned earlier that this price could go up at any time because these pencils are definitely worth more, I would say within the $30-$40 range. They are a budget pencil, yes, but they sure can outperform other budget pencils, and even some mid range pencils which I have tried. Including Schpirer Farban colored pencils which went from $25-$52 in a matter of months. I am not saying that they can outperform Faber Castell polychromos, but for the price and the performance/quality, I would use these colored pencils over the polychomos every day and twice on Sunday! Also, I have fibromyalgia which is like a muscular arthritis. Polychromos cores are just too hard for me to use. I get pain when I press down hard on them. I do not have any such problems when using the magic fly colored pencils. All in all it is a great colored pencil set. It has a very nice color palette with some very pretty rich and vibrant Colors in it, especially considering that there are only 72 of them. There are about six shades of gray total, three warm and three cool, and about six browns. This is my honest opinion and I have NOT been paid or compensated in exchange for it. Happy coloring! :-)

Bright colors and a lot of different shades. Can immediately spray over them with lacquer.

I’m by no means an artist or expert colorist. I purchased these pencils because I was curious about oil based colored pencils.As I was charting these out, I used the cheapest printer paper ( the Jot brand from the Dollar Tree) and was pleasantly surprised by how well they went down because now I have a sense of how they will do in the coloring books made with the cheaper paper. I even charted them with the blunt tip they came sharpened with. So I was excited to see what they could do on a more toothy paper with a sharp tip.The picture I attached is Springhill Vellum Bristol Cover 67lb. As this is my go too paper for coloring. I compared them to Prismacolor Premiers because that seems to be the one brand everyone wants to know how other pencils compare too.So In the picture, I did 6 light layers( held the pencils at the end of the pencil to make sure I got as even pressure as I could get to get a fair comparison). One is unblended, the other is blended with a Prismacolor blending pencil.As I was coloring I didn’t get any dust from the Magicfly and a small amount from the Prismacolor. They both went down smoothly. The Magicfly does erase a lot better then the Prismacolor’s. I sharpened the Magicfly and Prismacolor pencils only once through these 6 layers. Please excuse the messiness of it, I wasn’t trying to be perfect, just give a general sense of things.I purchased these because I have an anxiety attack every time I sharpen my Prisma’s (lol), and I wanted to find a comparable pencil that didn’t cost as much and I think I did. I also have the Castle Art 72 count colored pencils, but they, in my opinion, are nowhere near as good as these and are more expensive.Now the things that I don’t like are obviously the fact that they don’t have numbers or names on them. Now when I charted them out with the color names and numbers, there are two completely different colors numbered and named the same, Camel M110. One is more of a bronze color and the other is like a yellow green color. This doesn’t really bother me too much and I’m not sure if it’s really worth mentioning, but there you have it.All in all I think these are my new go to pencils. I would definitely recommend giving them a shot if you color in layers. I would probably not recommend these for people who have a heavy hand and lay down the color all at once.

Going from lead based to oil based was incredible. The oil based pencils fill in so much more of the paper than lead. My drawings are richer and deeper with these pencils