Derwent Academy Watercolour Pencils for Drawing and Painting, Tin of 12

Good quality watercolors, easy to sharpen, beautiful colours, comfortable grip and dry quite quickly. The colours are vibrant and very easy to apply on your creations. Good quality pens.

Love these pencils. Great colours, which can be mixed. Gives greater control for finer detail. Not cheap but worth the price.

They are good as a colour pencil, it's a bit more difficult using them as painting pencils. You need to think about wetting either the pencil or the paper and if you go the paper route, where, exactly, you want the paint to bleed to. Wetting the pencil is more easily controlled, but a nuisance having to keep wetting the pencil.

Great value for money, good colour selection, the usual Derwent quality.

My first purchase of watercolour pencils. Lots of colours to choose from. I've made a simple Swatch of the 24 colours and used a wet brush to see how they fair. So far so good. Pencils seem strong.You can transform the pencil marks into translucent washes, like traditional watercolor painting and I was looking for something portable and convenient to give urban sketching a go.I highly recommend giving watercolor pencils a try.

A superb set of skin tone colour pencils from Derwent that are student grade and are excellent value for money. They lay down very nicely and blend quite easily. The pencils that have the colour names along the shaft, do have the colour at the base; however, do completely swatch to gain the true hues. The set includes an excellent white - perfect for blending and softening, plus a very good black. The pencils sharpen smoothly without any breakages or splits and are comfortable to hold. Of course, one could always want more colours, but with a little patient layering, a variety of skin tones are achievable. The colours are different to those in the 72 pencil watercolour set, but there are similar colours to be found there, as can be seen with the horizontal comparison bars on the swatch. All round, an excellent starter set before investing in the 72 set, plus a great bonus is that Derwent have a skin tone tutorial page.

Nice tactile , and fine control

Okay but not quite what I wanted - there is a selection of yellow, pink, red and brown pencils but none that is a standard pale eurasian 'flesh' colour (without blending them).

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I ordered these while in the hospital with severe injuries and long rehab. They arrived and brought joy with them. I love how the colours compliment each other, I.e. the colours that are shades and hues simply are lighter or darker versions, which makes it easier to blend for colours you may not have. That being said the selection of colour families is quite good and there wasn’t a single pencil that I haven’t used! I love this set, and from what I’ve seen of other brands, Derwent is a top brand to me!

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Great pigment and lovely tin to store.

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