Professional Colored Pencils,Set of 300 Colors,Artists Soft Core with Vibrant Color,Ideal for Drawing Sketching Shading,Coloring Pencils for Adults Artists Beginners

I purchased this 300-color set of KALOUR professional colored pencils for my artistic daughter, and she absolutely loves them. The range of colors is amazing, the pigments are vibrant, and the soft cores make blending and shading effortless. ✅ Pros: – Massive selection of 300 unique colors for endless creativity – Soft cores lay down smooth, vibrant color – Great for blending, layering, and shading – Works well for both professional artwork and beginner practice – Sturdy case keeps all pencils organized and protected ❌ Cons: – None so far—my daughter is thrilled with them 💡 Tips: – Perfect for sketching, detailed coloring, and large art projects – Keep pencils sharpened with a quality sharpener for best performance – Store in the included case to keep them organized by color family 🧠 Bottom Line: If you’re looking for a gift for an artist or want a huge range of colors for your own projects, this KALOUR 300-color set is fantastic. The quality, vibrancy, and variety make it a joy to use—highly recommended!

These colored pencils are pretty good. You definitely get a lot of colors for the price. Which is very convenient so you don’t have to constantly buy various colored pencil packets, considering they do start to add up and become costly. I think for beginners these are perfect. The quality of the pencil is very nice. The colors are very vibrant and you can blend them nicely. I would like to say that they do feel slightly different compared to when you use prismacolor. Prismacolor, for me, feels to have more of a waxy texture so it blends just a tiny bit easier and smoother. I found that when sharpening them, they didn’t break off like some colored pencils do. They also pair up very nicely with acrylic markers. I used Arrtx markers and they gave me no issues. Genuinely very happy with my purchase and I look forward to using these for various sketches that I have.

The pencils come presharpened and out of this entire set none arrived with a broken tip and only two had the tips break when using them. Beautiful colors and they color so smoothly. Very comfortable to use and fun. The trays are nice to keep the pencils at hand although I'm not sure why they aren't grouped by color when they ship. The included color chart makes it easy to know exactly what each pencil will look like, once you color it in, so you can easily pick the right pencil for shading. This is a great gift for anyone who enjoys drawing or coloring, or for yourself.

- there is fluorescent, metallic, pastel, and bright and dark color. Provides pretty much everything you need in colors - they are soft but not as soft as prisma, they blend together better than prisma even though the texture isn’t as buttery. The texture is still very smooth and pigmented - there’s numbers and names provided with a template sheet. The names are funny, I personally love it! - they are affordable and high quality with a huge variety of colors to use for art or coloring in coloring books! Don’t regret buying!! 😇

First things first: I'm not an artist. I'm an adult colorer, and my coloring is not art. In all honesty, I purchased this set because I decided to put my best colored pencils--and some of my favorite budget-friendly sets--away for the most part. I'm stuck in a situation where I little control over who is around my stuff--and how they treat my possessions. I'm tired of vanishing pencils and broken pencil cores. Yes, Prismacolor Premier and Polychromos can be replaced one at a time, but it gets really expensive, really fast. Especially since I can't buy open stock locally (no art supply stores in my area), and have to order online. I have some Brutfurner square pencils--and really like--but they've been hard to get from Amazon, at times. And, I have them reserved for a few books that they work the best in. I also really like MarkArt, but I have a few plans for them. All I really wanted, when I purchased these, was a larger set with lots of colors. Something to replace my go-to every day coloring set (I'd trade off between square Brutfurner and MarkArt), for times I wanted to preserve the other sets (especially my beloved, favorite set, Polychromos). Particularly, I wanted a big enough set that if a pencil or two vanished, it wouldn't be a big deal. I chose this three hundred set, e thought $50 to $60 isn't budget-friendly for me, until you look at the per pencil cost. I'm not going to lie, however, $50 is a real stretch on my limited income. I didn't have to--or really want to--really like these. The problem is, the more I've used these, the more impressive they've actually become. First of all, they feel really pretty good going down on the only paper that my expensive Brother laser printer (late 2018 purchase) can print on: regular copy paper. The toner still wore off the page as I swatched, but the pencil work itself went well. And, I hate swatching with a passion. The first thing I noticed was that the number on each pencil is pretty low, instead of up by the Kalour logo, where it'd be more convenient, for the long run. I was using the A Tailored Image chart (by Stacy Bledsoe). As a result, I put the pencils in the chart order, and put numbers stickers on each (also securing each sticker with a bit of transparent tape over it), back by the logo. The pencil names and numbers will disappear over time, due to sharpening, but I'll still be able to identify each pencil. As much as I loathe swatching, I think it's a really good idea, for this set. Some of the colors aren't what you'd expect, from going by barrel color, core color, or name. I really wish pencil manufacturers wouldn't use metallic lettering on pencils, because it makes it difficult for some of us to read. There are a few pencils here and there that sharpen really unevenly, because the cores are really poorly centered. However, quite a lot--maybe even most by now--of my full Prismacolor Premier 150 set are dramatically off-center. Since I can't hand pick open stock in person, and have to order online, I get what is sent my way. As a result, I cannot fault this Kalour set too much, for the same issue. Especially since it's not even close to be every pencil that's affected. There is a nice color range, including a wonderful amount of pastel colors, and even some muted, earthy colors. Sometimes earthy colors are missing altogether from inexpensive sets. Many times in cheaper Chinese sets, most of the brown lean very heavily to reddish browns, but there are quite a few rich browns here that don't. That's really, really nice, because some of the more expensive sets lack light colors and nice browns. I haven't found very many pencils that are scratchy no matter what kind of paper is in play. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I don't remember any pencil always being scratchy. Even Prismacolor Premier aren't totally immune to scratchy pencils. Often Eggshell and a few of the darker greens can feel scratchy. Some people say that Prismacolor's Electric Blue is always scratchy, but that hasn't been my experience. So far, these pencils sharpen very easily, and well--even with a hand sharpener. I do feel like a lot of the individual pencils may be softer than people credit them for, because I'm not very heavy-handed, but have to sharpen regularly. That said: no, they're not Prismacolor Premier soft. These are not the Prismacolor Premier killer that a lot of people seem to be looking for, but at a fraction of the price. I've worked with these on a variety of coloring book paper. I've colored multiple images on both "Amazon paper" (Jade Summer's Fairy Homes, RJ Hampson's A Frog's Tale, and The Colors of Fall by Stephany Elsworth) and Creative Haven paper (Teresa Goodridge's Gnomes books). They worked great for me on both. They also worked well, in smaller spots tests, in a variety of books. In a Kerby Rosanes' book and the American edition of Johanna Bradford's Rooms of Wonder (which is supposed to be the same paper), I thought they went down exceptionally well, even though the paper is one of the smoothest I've experienced. They also worked well for me in Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest (American edition). Previously, the only other pencils that had worked really well for me on that yellowish paper were Brutfurner square pencils and Prismacolor Premier, so that's exciting. These also did a really nice job for me in the American edition of Johanna Basford's Worlds of Wonder. In Johanna's newest book, Small Victories, I felt like a few colors resisted transferring to the page a bit, but I have dexterity issues (so it could have been me). Others felt fine in that book. Small Victories uses the same paper for the American and UK edition, so maybe it's not something I'm used to yet. What I found really impressive was that these really worked well for me on the paper in Lulu Mayo's _A Million_ series (In this instance, A Million Little Monsters). I hate that paper most of all, because only Prismacolor Premier pencils, Bambino clay crayons, and Albrecht Durer feel natural to me in those. I also felt like these did really well for me on Colouring Heaven magazine's newish paper, but I haven't had too many issues with Polychromos or Prismacolor Premier pencils on it either (but again, I'm not an artist). I also thought these played nicely with the paper in my Japanese edition of Symphony of Cute Animals (Kanoko Egusa). Finally, they also felt nice to work with in Rita Berman's Asian book. The blended and layered pretty well, depending on user skills and paper limitations. Overall, I think this is a very nice set of pencils. I'm glad I purchased them. I've become more emotionally attached to them than I wanted. Now I actually care if a few vanish. :-p I still feel like, at their price point--the 300 is set isn't a budget-friendly set--for those with a fixed income... Until you look at the per pencil cost But, it is a really, really good value. However, "budget-friendly" is subjective. Those that can comfortably afford really high-end artists' pencils (and set maintenance, through open stock)--like Lightfast and Luminance--probably see Prismacolor Premier and Polychromos as budget-friendly. For most coloring adults on tight budgets, however, those sets aren't realistically priced options, they're luxury sets. I'm very pleased with this product.

So. Let's first take Prismas and Polys off the table. We love them, they are very good pencils, and can be purchased individually. But Let's be honest? They are quite pricy. Last month I restocked both sets on Blicks' 40% off sale, and even on sale it was over $175. Yup. I color alot. So when I read the reviews on the smaller sets of this brand and saw the AMAZING deal on this set, I figured, "Why not?" I am 3/4 through swatching (300 pencil-swatching is sort of epic?) and I'm very impressed: Creamy, but not too creamy, sharpen very well, hold a point without crumbling and the colors are fabulous (if you like greens you will be in love...). I've only had two pencils that are scratchy, and one of those was a metallic. (There are metallics and florescents in the set.) They lay down and blend better on a paper with a bit of tooth...I tried Bristol and it was not as nice as my better coloring book paper. I blend more than layer so I can't comment on that quality. The pencils are color tipped, numbered AND named. The packaging is very good considering 300 pencils need to fit in one tin you can carry! I'm a "jars by color" girl so the stacking trays don't work for me, but the pencils sure stay tidy that way in the tin. I like these so much I bought another set to tuck away and replace them as I need to. Happy Coloring!

The color selection and quality is amazing!

This is a lot of pencils but although there are many similar colors I don't see any duplicates. Now - the real reason for this glowing review. The colors are creamy and go on thoroughly and easily. The pigments are strong and consistant. The metallic colors are interesting. All the pencils are wax based. The only difference with the metallics are that they have mica flakes mixed in with the pigment. You'd think that this makes them sparkle. It doesn't. But it does have an indefinable effect on the pigment. The metallic colors are a bit more complex. Time will tell if that translates to the finished art project. Truth be told, there isn't much difference between the metallics and the colored pencils with most of the brands I have tried. The flourescent colors, however are much brighter. I'm truly pleased with Kalour colored pencils. It is a surprise that they are this inexpensive. Oh - I should add that all pencils have a color number, a color name, and a color-fastness rating on each pencil. You should buy a large pencil case to house them. I also bought a Stedtler 501 pencil sharpener. It is a professional product which is outstanding at getting the pencil sharp with a minimum of waste.