Category: Product Reviews

Castle Arts have a selection of different pencil sets. They have general sets such as their 72 and 120, but they also have smaller 24 pencil sets with particular themes. I was lucky enough to be gifted their Seascape set which has a selection of colours specifically chosen for colouring sea-based pictures. I thought it […]

Derwent Chromaflow pencils are fairly new into the UK although they have been available in other countries for longer. They come in a set of 12 or 24 and both sets come in a tin. The 24 set contains a good range of colours with white, black, grey, three browns, three greens, four blues, two […]

I was lucky enough to be sent a set of coloured pencils by a company called Grabie to review. I have done a video review which you can find here: I have used the pencils a bit more since the review, so thought that I would add to it in this article. The pencils are […]

Bambino Crayons have now got their jumbo crayons back in stock. Although they call them crayons they are actually pencils and so if you want something larger than their crayons they could be a good option for you. They come in the same 24 colours as their large crayon set so you get a good […]

Bambino crayons might not be something that any colourist would naturally reach for. It is more common to use pens and pencils and perhaps even paints than it is crayons. This is probably because typical wax crayons do not really blend or give a nice texture. However, these are clay crayons and are very different. […]

The Staedtler Ergosoft pencils are a budget brand and they come in sets of 12, 24 and 36 and you can get them open stock (singles) but only for the ones included in the 12 and 24 sets at the moment. The new ones from the 36 set are not yet available. The pencils are […]

I only have the tweleve pastel tone set of these pencils at the moment, so it is those that I will base my review on. Only having twelve means that I often combine them with other pencils and find that they work really well with my polychromos. I used them for the buildings in the […]

This is a review of the tube of 48 Arteza pencils which are triangular. There are actually two tubes available as Arteza has updated them. The colours vary a bit, so I will not go into detail about these as they may be different depending on where you buy them from. The pencils themselves have […]

I would say that these are probably my favourite brand of pencil. They were the third set that I used and I have kept using them ever since. They sharpen to a good point which I like and they have a good variety of colours in the 120 tin. They do not smoosh and blend […]