PrismacolorPremier Colored Pencils Portrait Set Soft Core Adult Coloring 24 Pack

Worth the price!

Please help my daughter make the most beautiful drawings and shading art projects for school. Make sure you buy the special sharpener that goes with it so that you preserve these pencils and get the most use out of them.

These are a good quality, professional-grade pencil. I'm a student, though and find them a bit picky for learning. Just a bit harder than the other brand I bought. But wonderful, neutral colors. This set will overlap the other sets for colors, so unless you are going to use a lot of browns, you might want to just buy the larger set with more colors to begin with.

Muy Bueno

Prismacolor are the best colored pencils.

I'm not very experienced with colored pencils, so I can't comment too knowledgeably on their comparative quality. (You can read other reviews on that.) But even so, I can still say that I'm extremely pleased with my purchase.As a set in itself, this is a beautiful box of colors! I love drawing the human figure and greatly enjoy working with skin tones, so this is a dream come true compared to most other sets which only give you a few browns and that overused "peach" color. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who wants to render more realistic skin!However, I should point something out. I bought this because I wanted to follow the tutorials and methods in Ann Kullberg's Colored Pencil Portraits, and if you intend to do the same then take note-Kullberg said she uses Prismacolor, so I went on the Prismacolor site to have a look, and that's where I discovered that they sold this convenient Portrait set. Unfortunately, this does NOT mean that the set includes all the colors that she uses in her skin tone lessons. For example, this set doesn't contain Deco Pink and Mineral Orange (among others), which are colors that she frequently refers to. This means that you'd have to buy those colors open-stock, try to find substitutes, or leave them out of your portraits altogether.The latter 2 options are unsettling to me because I'm a beginner at rendering with colored pencils, and want to follow her tutorials as closely as possible. And if you, like me, live in a country that doesn't sell Prismacolor, then buying those individual colors online is both troublesome and pricey.But enough complaining! I do want to emphasize that this IS a GREAT set of colored pencils, and well worth the money. I'd recommend it not only to artists who want to create believable/realistic skin, but also to those who color "flat" (like in cartoons and manga) and just want a wider range of skin tones. :)

I love the range of colors in this pack of colored pencils. They perform incredibly well, and have an almost creamy texture when using on paper. You can blend the colors and layer them to get a myriad of color variants in your drawing. These pencils sharpen well, meaning you won't grind away half of your pencil because it breaks. These leads hold up to serious use/pressure and don't snap when you are using them for fine or bold heavy lines.

My granddaughter loves these. These are her favorite pencils as they are great value for the money. They don’t break easily. They have a good quality. The colors blend well. you can buy different color packages they make great gifts.