Derwent Lightfast Colored Pencils with Wooden Box, 48-Piece Set (2305692)

These are beautiful 100% lightfast colored pencils in muted tones. These are perfect for all kinds of art, but especially for art that you intend to last for a long time. The pencils are creamy and easy to blend. They are an investment in high quality art supplies.

Thank you, Derwent! For me, the pencils and the carefully curated colors are perfect! The pencils are oil based, lightfast, and hold a point well.. They are softer than Polychromos. When I saw them swatched on youtube, I knew this color selection was what I wanted. They are beautiful, natural colors, that were so carefully selected. The swatch videos showed very dark colors, using a heavy hand holding the pencils near the point. When I did my swatch chart, I held the pencil half way up laying down light layers. Doing this showed the potential and the extensive range of colors that could be obtained from each pencil. The color range is stunning. I chose these over the Luminance because the Caran D’Ache Luminance are waxier and have brighter colors. I could supplement with my Polychromos, but will probably stick with the Derwent Lightfast range of colors when using them. They even included a sample of Derwent lightfast paper. These are very special pencils.

The Derwent Lightfast Coloured Pencils are amazing pencils with professional colored pencil painting results. They are creamy, cover and layer well. They seem more opaque than my other oil based colored pencils and I am excited to have this option. I was able to cover a large background area more quickly. Smears from working on other areas that couldn’t be covered with other pencils were more effectively blended over. They can be blended well with Gamsol or colorless blenders. Beautiful rich colors! Although the palette at this time is limited to 36 colors they can be blended together to achieve other desired colors and work well with Faber-Castell Polychromos. I am finding that the softer lead of the Derwent Lightfast is better for coverage and the Ploychromos for detail lines but they both blend and layer beautifully with an oil painting quality. Not worrying about lightfastness is a bonus. I use them for fine art and not for adult coloring books but imagine that they would also be very good for that use depending on the quality of the paper because they are not too hard. My experience has been that paper type and quality is very important when doing colored pencil drawings/paintings due to all the layering, blending and erasing. Love these pencils!

I started swatching these and have discovered my favorite color pencils! Threy are soft and creamy, the colors are perfect, they cover the page evenly, blend as well as Prismacolor, or better. I am using a Stillman & Birn Alpha series sketchbook for swatching my collection: Prismacolor premier, Caran d'Ache Luminance, Faber Castell Polychromos, Posca, etc. The Derwent Lightfast is my latest addition. I am a fan!

These were recommended to me by a well established artist, and when using a colourless blender with them it brings out all the colours. I love them but I can still get better

It goes to say that Derwent Lightfast pencils are going to just be amazing (and for the price they should be). However, it would have been nice if they were handled better. The tin box was dented and the pencils were shaken around. Fingers crossed none of the leads broke in the pencil shaft.

great product thank you for the sale price..

I absolutely love this item! It was well packaged and arrived in perfect condition! And the packaging cleared customs and arrived sooner than expected! You guys are the best! Thank you.