Amazon Basics Sketching and Drawing Art Pencil Kit, Artist Supplies with Pencils, Erasers, Sharpener, Charcoal, Black, White, 17 Piece Set

Growing up, I watched the Jon Gnagy Learn to Draw Show every week. I credit it with my interest in art. My folks gave my sister and me a Jon Gnagy kit, which is pretty scarce these days. However, searching for it on Amazon, I found this kit and grabbed it.I am delighted with the quality of every piece and look forward to resuming my "Learn to Draw" habits. If you are starting on your own drawing journey, this is an affordable way to get quality "tools" to start off right.

Basic, starter kit for simple pencil or black & white sketching. Nice simple collection of supplies.

I appreciate the whole line of “Amazon basics.” The quality of these items is not cheesy cheap and I’ve been happy with my purchases because the prices are not just competitive, but they’re almost always better.

The media could not be loaded. The pencils are good. I haven’t used the charcoal sticks. The kneadable eraser lost its softness after a few months of use.

My preteen really liked this. It's a great, quality set for anyone that likes to sketch and draw. Price is perfect.

No idea what you're doing? Not sure if you're going to stick with the hobby? Got one of those "Learn-How-To-Art-in-30-Days" books? This is the beginner's kit you want.It's cheap, but that doesn't mean the quality is low. This isn't a set of professional artists tools (though I'm sure a pro would say, "yeah, it could suffice" in a dismissive tone) - but neither is it one of those cheapo plasticky art sets your weird aunt got you for your birthday when you were 5. Everything is perfectly adequate and does what it's supposed to do; you've got all your basic supplies: pencils, charcoals, erasers, even a sharpener! This will probably cover 80% of the stuff you'll need to take that course at your the local library or community college.Are there better tools out there? Can you find a higher quality kit? Probably. But you don't need those until you've gotten some practice in, and besides, this costs $7. That other kit comes with a wooden pencil box to hold everything? You're not shopping for a box, you're shopping for art supplies! Besides, this comes with a functional plastic tray to hold everything; you can save the display lid and put some tape on it to hold everything together.You can go through three sets of these for the same price as some other beginner's kits out there. And if you're thinking of buying this kit, you're probably still at the beginning of your new art habit, so get 3 of these, make some bad art, make some decent art, and then go back and get that fancier-looking, more expensive kit and use that to make some good art.

I'm impressed with the quality of the product

This is a standard beginner art set. The pencils are good, no issues. Everything seems to be standard. The only thing I would recommend is purchase a seperate kneadable eraser because the one that comes in the kit is terrible. It hardens like a rock after a few weeks/month and is not usable. Good luck!