DerwentDrawing Colouring Pencils, Drawing & Writing, Set Of 12, Ideal For Illustrating & Detailing, Professional Quality, 0700671

the comparison between quality and price is good

The White is great. Really good. Other colours are nice but super smudgey and I can't control the mess that they make on my page. I'm not very professional; At all! Obviously you need to work more carefully and use tracing paper to protect the page from your hand smudging it. In other words, you need to be organised. They are also thick pencils, not so good for detail. Probably better for looser work?

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I love these pencils, and the Black gives you the Blackest of Black pencils. Rich colours, layer well.

Wonderful quality pencils and they do handle beautifully but I couldn't get on with these and I regret buying them.. they just don't suit my style. I couldn't get on with graphitint either, so I think there's a connection. They really are drawing pencils. Muted colours. The overall end product is going to be dull unless you are an expert - (which I am certainly not and maybe that's why I couldn't get on with them) - and know how to make the dullness shine. Sorry, Derwent, my honest opinion. I would say these really are for genuine artists, not hobbyists such as myself. Maybe I will grow into them. I hope I do.

Arrived in a dusty out of date tin, with some old shop security label attached to it, I have this tin design from some years ago. So not as advertised in the pictures, these are old stock charged at new prices. Very disappointed sent back for a refund.

Used with Fabre castle They work fantastically together and add that a little extra of colour that the range doesn’t have. For colour pet portraits or wildlife portraits these are fantastic, I wish I had discovered them before as they have transformed my art

I must now have five or six sets of Derwent pencils, but these, the latest are my favourites. They are a selection of browns, muted greens and blues, off whites and other naturalistic colours. For drawing and sketching naturalistic scenes I think they are a clever selection. You can always add others from the range for bright colours, but these bring a sense of understated beauty to your drawings.The pencils themselves are round with thick leads. they are quite soft - similar to Derwent's coloursoft range and do not hold a fine point for very long. I suggest that (1) you keep a good quality pencil sharpener close by and that (2) Derwent consider making a hexagonal finer leaded version for people who want to do detailed drawings.The colours, like most of Derwent's insoluble coloured pencils blend well if you don't put down too much at once. If you really scrub hard you'll end up with a slightly waxy bloom and it's difficult to put more colour on the top and blend the colours. Almost it acts like a wax resist when you try to pencil over, and definitely like a wax resist if you try to water colour over.If I have a problem with these (and for that matter, most coloured pencils) it's the white. It's pretty translucent. Which may be what it should be and maybe what you want. But I would like a white that was really opaque and you could use for highlights.In summary, if you're into naturalistic drawing these are a good selection and deliver; there's a smaller set for the cautious but I'm glad I got the whole 24.