Creative Mark Cezanne Premium Colored Pencils Cobalt Blue 6 Pack - Highly-Pigmented Drawing Pencils - Coloring Pencils for Drawing, Blending, Coloring, and More

Packaged well. Product was as described. Would order from this seller again.

Wonderful product, just hard to get!! I would quit using DHL as they are not up to the best delivery standards!

You can apply any pressure you want, these pencils won’t break, even keeping sharpening very fine.Beautiful color

These pencils aren't ever going to be as good as Prismacolors, top of the line Faber Castels, Caran d'Ache or Derwent. All those brands are expensive and have varying core strength, highest light fastness ratings, and blendability depending on preference. You get what you pay for in a lot of the art world and pencils aren't the exception. Can you make good art without them? Yes! I've seen artists use Crayola pencils for pro grade art. However, better tools make for less frustration and faster results most of the timeCezanne have been a fantastic middle ground.Pros:Good coverage. Far better than Crayola but not quite up with PrismacolorGood core strength. Unlike Prismacolors, you don't have to warm the cores before the first use to help prevent breaking. (Do a quick search for this trick, there's a number of ways).Can be sharpened with any cheap Big Box or office supply hand held sharpener. Prismacolors tend to do best with a specialized sharpener.Price. I paid $30 for 120 pencils. The same type of set would cost over $100 for any top brandCons:Nothing in this price range will have the light fastness of the expensive brands. For work you want to last for years, these won't be your go-to.Will not cover or blend on the same level as top brands. They're good, but where Prismacolor white will cover almost anything, this white just does a good job - not an exceptional job.Final Thoughts:Great for learning/practice or art you plan to scan and keep digitally.If you end up grinding down 25% of a pencil on a project you don't want to finish, it's not as big a deal as it would be if you were using a set priced at $100-$200+I'll buy these again for practice, coloring books, cards, other temporary art, and art ported over into a digital paint program.

Everyone always asks the same several questions about pencils when deciding whether or not to purchase a new brand of pencils. Probably the most commonaly asked question is "how do they compare to Prismas"? I have generally avoided that question, because EVERY brand is different. Well this time, in my review, im going to compare these new Cezanne Professional pencils to Prismas. This is one review that should or will, surprise many people. So let's get started.One of the biggest, and constant complaints about Prismacolor is how easily they break. The reason that they break is cost cutting factors. When prismas are made the core or for lack of better words, the lead is laid into a shallow "ditch" on one half of the pencil. Then the 2nd half of the barrel is put over it (like a sandwich) and the 2 halves are glued together. That pretty much leaves the core of the pencil just to easily move around. When the pencil is dropped, for example, the core can sometimes shatter, leaving you with many smaller pieces of the core that will basically just fall out of the pencil each time you attempt to sharpen it. The entire pencil, or the vast majority of the length has just become trash. Cezanne pencils, like prismas , have a wax based core. But the actual core of the Cezzane pencil is glued to the barrel. Now should you drop a Cezzane and break the core, you probably won't lose very much of it, if any at all because that core is glued to the barrel. Pencils with glued cores are generally your expensive brands .These Cezzane Pros are very creamy and soft. Honestly almost the exact consistency of Prismas. The Pros are being tested for light fastness right now. It takes some time to get those results. This is something that the Prismas have never done.All in all (just my opinion) I honestly think the Pros have surpassed the quality of Prismas for approximately half the price. I have been using mine for about a month and have not missed my prismas at all. Everything about the Pros is equal to or better than the Prismas. For the time being, my prismas are collecting dust.One last little note about the Pros. I think that the manufacturer must have consulted artists 🎨 in regard to what they expect from a good artist quality pencil. The color pallet really shows this. You are going to get some really wonderful colors that you rarely see from any brand. You get a large number of pinks, reds, greens, etc. These pencils are gonna become very popular once the word gets out.As always, have a most blessed day and color on!!!

To start with, I just loved the beautifully decorated tin the set of 72 came in. When I first opened them I was overwhelmed with the same strong chemical odor others mentioned. However, my husband who IS an artist, said he believed that it was not the pencils but the plastic trays they came in from the tin. Since I had also gotten a more portable product to carry them in, I had immediately removed them from the trays and closed the tin. No more odor. Yes, the pencils did have some of the odor from being in the trays, but it was much milder and quickly dissipated over a few hours to a day or two. I have not smelled that odor since and the tin has remained closed, with empty trays in it, stored on the shelf in my home office. Not one pencil was broken or damaged in any way. The colors are beautiful and for me, totally NOT being an artist, I am thrilled with how they layer and blend. My husband tried them out too and agreed. And as an artist, he does have a set of colored pencils that costs well beyond what any set you can get on Amazon costs. As a non-artist, I just wanted an affordable set for coloring in adult coloring books and this is a great set, recommended by me, the beginner, and my husband, the expert. That being said, I do not know anything about other brands, sets, types, or quality, so I could not say if this is a good pencil for the pro / expert. My guess is that with several options on the market available that was designed for the pro / expert in mind, go with that. I imagine anyone that is quite familiar with those lines of colored pencils are probably not interested in looking for the more affordable sets such as this one that are more suited to beginners and moderate level hobbyists that don't actually pursue a living at their art.

There was no extra padding for rough international posting! The case is pretty banged up and there are several pencils that have problems when sharpening, I suspect from the travel issue. Overall good for a budget pencil. Pigment level is good. Nice range of colours. Will take a few good layers, and blending is satisfactory for this level of pencil. I would recommend as a good starter set for the budget conscious.