DerwentColored Pencils, Coloursoft Pencils, Skintone, Drawing, Art, Metal Tin, 6 Count (2300217)

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I have built up a variety of 'pro' colour pencil sets, including Faber-Castell Polychromos 60 set, Prismacolor 48 set, Lyra 60 set and Derwent's Artist 72 set, Inktense 72 set and Colorsoft 36 set.Each pencil has different qualities so I mix pencils even on the same piece. I find the Colorsoft wonderful for laying down rich colour quickly and softly for beautiful backgrounds. The pencils lay colour easily even under very light pressure and the richness comes from overlaying the same or different colours. It took me a while to learn how to use these pencils as I was too heavy handed with them at first; the leds are noticibly more brittle (me being used to Faber-Castell Polychromos and Derwent Artist's pencils, which are harder than Colorsoft). Be gentle! Stroke the pencil across the paper and you can achieve AMAZING results. The pencils blend beautifully, so I don't feel deprived with only having the 36 set. I have supplemented via open stock some of the more natural greens and pale colours, which pop on black paper. In my experience these pencils lay down more like pastel pencils. They are a wax pencil, but feel dry and chalky for the first couple of layers. You only develop the creamy texture after three or four layers. I really like the feel of these pencils.On the nagative side, they are brittle if used with heavy pressure and the cores are sometimes broken which makes some pencils seem to disolve like wet sugar cubes once you start to sharpen them!They are expensive; but I love them.

A year ago my wife suffered a major stroke. Prior to that she was a’brilliant artist’ specialising in Animal pictures using pastels. One year on she has just started to attempt drawings with her ‘good hand’ - sadly her right hand is of no use at the moment and that was the ‘predominant hand’. I bought the ‘ soft pencils ‘ asa Christmas Present. She was ‘over the moon’ . The presentation is superb and the quality of the pencils is outstanding. The only snag is locating a reliable pencil sharpener - it would be really nice if derwent included either a sharpener or a recommendation as to which one to use.

Although I bought these from Amazon, mine never turned up. I bought these from a local art store which costs the same as Amazon so I didn't mind too much. Anyway.. the pencils are a fantastic little set that are my go to's for doing skin colour. They don't have every tone but for only 6 pencils I wouldn't expect any more; it's quality not quantity here. I'd definitely recommend them if you're new to colouring or want to add to your already big collection of mediums. They're also in a neat little tin (which I've chosen to keep them in) so they're easy for on the go colouring, plus they come with their own handy sharpener. I have other Derwent sets such as the Coloursoft & the Procolour & as usual, Derwent hasn't disappointed.

The 24 tin of Coloursoft was a great price and I have since added 24 individual pencils to make up a larger set. Being able to buy these pencils individually is helpful. I've had a breakage issue with the dark brown so will most likely need another of those soon since it's one of the better colour options. For me the colour range could be better; some of the greens in the Coloursoft are quite sharp in tone which is a pity because the texture of these pencils is perfect for use in colouring books if only the greens had more subtlety. Overall I prefer the Derwent Procolour, Artists and Drawing ranges for this reason.The Coloursoft are beautiful to colour with, very soft and well pigmented, they have a similar feel and finish to the Drawing pencils so the two sets work together very nicely.

I am a crafter not an experienced artist but I enjoy using colour in various media. I already own Derwent Inktense pencils and love them and the effects they produce. I decided I wanted to buy some regular colouring pencils too, specifically for colouring books. I took a look at Youtube for guidance and found Peta Hewitt's two videos comparing and demonstrating a range of different pencils from the staggeringly expensive Luminance pencils right down to Crayola. These were in her top half dozen and within my price range so I decided to go for the tin of 36 pencils. I love them. There is a good range of colours and they have behaved exactly as PH demonstrated. They blend well but they do have a waxy texture and this limits the number of layers that can be put down if you have a heavy hand; this does not affect my colouring attempts though. I bought separately the pack of two blender pencils, two burnishers, a sharpener and a rubber and, with the exception of the sharpener, these work brilliantly with the colours. I just use my old basic metal sharpener instead.I have a couple of slight gripes - I don't much like the red in this set because it's a bit dull tomato rather than a bright red and there's no dark green. However the pencils can be bought singly so I should be able to remedy that easily enough.