I picked up a couple of Derwent Inktense pencils years and years ago, and I was hooked. They are incredible and just perfect for art journaling. I would keep buying one or two colours for the following months and years, some get a coffee when they go to the city centre, I would treat myself to a new pencil. I now have the whole collection except for the very last colours they came out with a couple of years back I think. You wont regret collecting those, they also last very long.
I adore my Luminance pencils. I also love my Holbein and Derwent Drawing pencils. They are a joy to work with and I don’t care if they make me an expensive date 😁😁😁
I work mainly with colour pencils and have the full sets of the luminance and the polychromos. Luminance are seen as ‘the rolls Royce’ of colour pencils and they are beautiful to use. But they kind of do a different job to the polychromos pencils. Polys are much better at holding a sharp point and drawing in fine detail. They are more oil based so they have a harder core so are best suited for this. They are also fabulous for glazing and especially things like eyes where you want lots of layers with transparency to be able to see the layers below. Luminance are more wax based so have the qualities you describe and have excellent opacity, are fabulous as blending and getting a creamy lay down. Work well for base layers if you want to use a slice tool on top and give a smooth opaque coverage. So they’re both kind of king of pencils in their own departments! Love your videos by the way, you’re so real and relatable. only found your channel today and have been binge watching 🥰
Oh my gosh thank you for this really interesting comment, I wish someone would have explained this so clearly and succinctly to me before. This makes perfect sense now and I will try using the Luminance and Polychromos in different ways now - THANK YOU! Oh and thank you so much for your kind words, your comment really made my day 🥰🫶❤️
Perhaps the best way to describe the difference between Luminance and Polychromos pencils is to compare them to gouache and watercolor. Luminance definitely has the quality of gouache with an immediate opaque coverage that causes the color to pop. Polychromos have a more transparent quality like watercolor and are best applied in layers. A color pencil artist on UA-cam called Lachri Fine Art has done several videos over the years describing the different qualities and why she uses both in her practice. If I could only pick one, it would be Polychromos. Though it takes more work to layer the colors, Luminance feels chalky to me in a way that I haven't gotten used to but am trying to learn to tolerate. Also, I love the color match system of Faber Castell products. However, I think one of the greatest advantages of the Luminance line is they provide pigment information as does the Derwent Lightfast line. I find that I prefer the Derwent Lightfast over the Luminance pencils because, to me, they have a smoother application compared to Luminance. Nevertheless, both lines offer a beautiful color range with hues unique to each, so I have a collection that I've built by purchasing open stock from both lines. But if you prefer a pencil that feels like a gouache and you don't need a lightfast pencil, nothing beats a Prismacolor. They are the Sennelier oil pastel of pencils, creamy and opaque.
Thank you so much for this lovely detailed comment! It’s so informative and I’m sure I’m not the only one reading these comments who appreciates learning more about these pencils. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🫶💙
At 42:46 where your little dog is doing that pose to get your attention, my cat does the exact same pose and I call it ‘power paws’ because she knows I can’t resist her when she puts her paws like that and looking too cute so she has the power to get anything she wants 😂😂😻😻 oh for the love and joy of our animals 💕
Ah ah ah ah that is such a good name, power paws! It’s so true! Who can resist?! Animals are the best, I love my little ones with all my heart, especially when they use the power paws (by the way, I will now be using this terminology, it’s too good not to ☺️)! 🥰🫶
I loved this relaxing swatching video. Seeing all the beautiful colors along with hearing your calming voice was a great diversion from the craziness of the outside world. I was especially intrigued by the Turner Acrylic Gauche. The dark green, red, and gold reminded me of colors from a Renaissance painting. I look forward to seeing the projects you make with these. And as usual, your little dogs were charming! Nina looked so cozy and made me want to curl up and go to sleep and I’m thinking that Renley must be high-spirited from hearing his scurrying paws in the video. He must want to party, party, party! 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for your lovely comment, i’m also very excited to try the Turner acryl gouache for a piece soon - and that is so true, I also got rennaissance vibes from it! Nina and Renley also thank you being mentioned, and yes, you’ve got him spot on, Renley is little party boy! 🥰🥳🫶
Wow, Amazon for Canada wants $76.22 Canadian for that light Cobalt Blue Caran D'Ache pencil but you can get 12 in a set for $63.99. Of course, more basic colours in it though. The acryla gouache was very pretty.
Oh wow! That's pretty expensive, but I guess with import and shipping costs... I am loving it though and using this pencil all the time for my undersketching. The acryla gouache is really pretty but suuuuch a learning curve, I'm struggling each time I use it! So nice to hear from you all the way from Canada 🫶
Well actually… I think you may be saving money! 💰 Expensive art supplies pay off in the long run, don’t they? 😉 Those will last and you will treasure them 🎉 I am delighted to have discovered your videos recently, thanks to your watercolour book reviews. I love and collect art books too. Keep up the good work! 👩🎨 💙
Thank you, what a delightful comment! I definitely find myself reaching for my supplies and using them more often when I buy the better ones - and it does increase the pleasure of making art. A pleasure hearing from you, and thank you again for sharing! 💙🫶
party - i love swatches. I have a large selection of Derwent Inktense, both in pencil and block. I do love them. I also have a set of Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils. They are good, but the Caran D'ache Museum Aquarelles are better. I have a small selection of them. I recently purchased a few of the Neocolor II crayons. I like them, but they are more opaque than I am accustomed to - quite similar to gouache. I have been experimenting with several brands of coloured pencils, a few at a time (Derwent drawing pencils and Derwent Lightfast as well as some Luminance and Holbein).
Thanks for watching and thank you for sharing your experience! I also am discovering more and more fondness for the Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelles since I started using them last month, they are a dream to work with. Neocolor II is still a hit and miss situation though 😅!
Please try all these water soluble products with watercolor paper, to see the difference. The Ecoline works better on watercolor paper. Ecoline is liquid watercolor in a brush pen. I love this video.
Thank you for mentioning this, I was very confused by the ecolines when testing them in the Strathmore for this video. I will try them in my watercolor sketchbook next then. Thanks for the great advice! 👍
I love hearing which supply appeals to you! And luminance has been such an eye opener for me, I can’t seem to put them down anymore and find myself always reaching for one even just for doodling! 🫶
You’ll have a much better time using a cotton based watercolour paper that has a decent amount of sizing when using the Ecolines (and any other water-soluble media). Sizing gives you more working time and you’ll have a lot of fun with these tools. 😊
I loved learning this, thank you for sharing your knowledge! And yes, you were right! I tried it this weekend and this is definitely a better user experience on watercolour paper 😉
Swatching party indeed! 🥳WOW, that gouache is intense and rich! I might give that set a try. I have some Tim Holtz Distress watercolor pencils, they are just okay. I do like the colors and, that they are woodless, You can run them through a pencil sharpener and use the shavings in some pans. I like them better as pencils using a water brush, mostly use them in coloring books and art journaling. Really they are over-priced for what they are $117 for 75 pencils. I have always wanted to try Inktence pencils. However, I am saving up to build a new PC so I have to draw the line somewhere, aye? 🤣
Thank you! And those woodless pencils look really cool, I’d love to give them a try at some point, but as you say, budget is always the limiting factor! For now I’m happy with the 2 inktense I picked up and will probably slowly collect more over time - until we win the lottery or find rich benefactors 😂🫶🥳
Hi hun I have both sets of the polys and the lumerance colouring pencils I have a lovely colour of artist grade pencils I do adult colouring in.. thank u for sharing ❤❤❤😊😊😊xxx
Fabulous review. Art is an expensive party as is my other hobby, knitting …. I’m not interested in cheap yarn. I’m feeling curious about the neocolour pastels and the Derwent Inktense.
Oh my goodness, luxury knitting! This I would love to see more of, fancy yarns and beautiful colours and textures… you should share this! And since I made this video, I have been regularly doodling and sketching with the derwent inktense, and I can confirm: more of these need to be ordered 😂 Expensive hobbies, but what fun! 🫶🥳
I have the Caran D Ache Neo color II. A word of caution with them. They are not light fast despite with the company says this crayons are not light fast. I had mine sitting in the window to test them and unfortunately they faded. They are great in a sketchbook, but nothing you’re gonna hang up on the wall.
I picked up a couple of Derwent Inktense pencils years and years ago, and I was hooked. They are incredible and just perfect for art journaling. I would keep buying one or two colours for the following months and years, some get a coffee when they go to the city centre, I would treat myself to a new pencil. I now have the whole collection except for the very last colours they came out with a couple of years back I think. You wont regret collecting those, they also last very long.
I totally agree! I like your strategy of slow and deliberate collecting, I will copy you 😊🫶
I adore my Luminance pencils. I also love my Holbein and Derwent Drawing pencils. They are a joy to work with and I don’t care if they make me an expensive date 😁😁😁
I totally agree! I love these pencils and let’s agree that being an expensive date is a compliment 😉🫶
I work mainly with colour pencils and have the full sets of the luminance and the polychromos. Luminance are seen as ‘the rolls Royce’ of colour pencils and they are beautiful to use. But they kind of do a different job to the polychromos pencils. Polys are much better at holding a sharp point and drawing in fine detail. They are more oil based so they have a harder core so are best suited for this. They are also fabulous for glazing and especially things like eyes where you want lots of layers with transparency to be able to see the layers below. Luminance are more wax based so have the qualities you describe and have excellent opacity, are fabulous as blending and getting a creamy lay down. Work well for base layers if you want to use a slice tool on top and give a smooth opaque coverage. So they’re both kind of king of pencils in their own departments! Love your videos by the way, you’re so real and relatable. only found your channel today and have been binge watching 🥰
Oh my gosh thank you for this really interesting comment, I wish someone would have explained this so clearly and succinctly to me before. This makes perfect sense now and I will try using the Luminance and Polychromos in different ways now - THANK YOU!
Oh and thank you so much for your kind words, your comment really made my day 🥰🫶❤️
Lovely haul, great experimenting! It is good to try new things.
Thank you! Trying new things is the best, and it’s one of the things I love about being a beginner 🥰🫶
Perhaps the best way to describe the difference between Luminance and Polychromos pencils is to compare them to gouache and watercolor. Luminance definitely has the quality of gouache with an immediate opaque coverage that causes the color to pop. Polychromos have a more transparent quality like watercolor and are best applied in layers. A color pencil artist on UA-cam called Lachri Fine Art has done several videos over the years describing the different qualities and why she uses both in her practice. If I could only pick one, it would be Polychromos. Though it takes more work to layer the colors, Luminance feels chalky to me in a way that I haven't gotten used to but am trying to learn to tolerate. Also, I love the color match system of Faber Castell products. However, I think one of the greatest advantages of the Luminance line is they provide pigment information as does the Derwent Lightfast line. I find that I prefer the Derwent Lightfast over the Luminance pencils because, to me, they have a smoother application compared to Luminance. Nevertheless, both lines offer a beautiful color range with hues unique to each, so I have a collection that I've built by purchasing open stock from both lines. But if you prefer a pencil that feels like a gouache and you don't need a lightfast pencil, nothing beats a Prismacolor. They are the Sennelier oil pastel of pencils, creamy and opaque.
Thank you so much for this lovely detailed comment! It’s so informative and I’m sure I’m not the only one reading these comments who appreciates learning more about these pencils. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🫶💙
At 42:46 where your little dog is doing that pose to get your attention, my cat does the exact same pose and I call it ‘power paws’ because she knows I can’t resist her when she puts her paws like that and looking too cute so she has the power to get anything she wants 😂😂😻😻 oh for the love and joy of our animals 💕
Ah ah ah ah that is such a good name, power paws! It’s so true! Who can resist?! Animals are the best, I love my little ones with all my heart, especially when they use the power paws (by the way, I will now be using this terminology, it’s too good not to ☺️)! 🥰🫶
Absolutely! They’re adorable, my girl is my world 🥰 they do those power paws and they know they have you in an instant 😂💖 x
I loved this relaxing swatching video. Seeing all the beautiful colors along with hearing your calming voice was a great diversion from the craziness of the outside world. I was especially intrigued by the Turner Acrylic Gauche. The dark green, red, and gold reminded me of colors from a Renaissance painting. I look forward to seeing the projects you make with these. And as usual, your little dogs were charming! Nina looked so cozy and made me want to curl up and go to sleep and I’m thinking that Renley must be high-spirited from hearing his scurrying paws in the video. He must want to party, party, party! 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for your lovely comment, i’m also very excited to try the Turner acryl gouache for a piece soon - and that is so true, I also got rennaissance vibes from it!
Nina and Renley also thank you being mentioned, and yes, you’ve got him spot on, Renley is little party boy! 🥰🥳🫶
Someone has been watching lots of UA-cam and decided to get all the top tiered supplies 🤣 you remind me of myself 🙃
Oh my goodness you saw right through me! 😂🫶
Wow, Amazon for Canada wants $76.22 Canadian for that light Cobalt Blue Caran D'Ache pencil but you can get 12 in a set for $63.99. Of course, more basic colours in it though. The acryla gouache was very pretty.
Oh wow! That's pretty expensive, but I guess with import and shipping costs... I am loving it though and using this pencil all the time for my undersketching. The acryla gouache is really pretty but suuuuch a learning curve, I'm struggling each time I use it! So nice to hear from you all the way from Canada 🫶
Well actually… I think you may be saving money! 💰 Expensive art supplies pay off in the long run, don’t they? 😉 Those will last and you will treasure them 🎉 I am delighted to have discovered your videos recently, thanks to your watercolour book reviews. I love and collect art books too. Keep up the good work! 👩🎨 💙
Thank you, what a delightful comment! I definitely find myself reaching for my supplies and using them more often when I buy the better ones - and it does increase the pleasure of making art. A pleasure hearing from you, and thank you again for sharing! 💙🫶
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These are beautiful, I want to try them all but the decent ink-tense and the nei color II are my favorites the color really makes the party pop! 😅
Thanks for sharing which ones you preferred, I totally agree! The inktense are so vibrant, I can’t wait to buy a few more 🥰🫶
party - i love swatches. I have a large selection of Derwent Inktense, both in pencil and block. I do love them. I also have a set of Albrecht Durer watercolour pencils. They are good, but the Caran D'ache Museum Aquarelles are better. I have a small selection of them. I recently purchased a few of the Neocolor II crayons. I like them, but they are more opaque than I am accustomed to - quite similar to gouache. I have been experimenting with several brands of coloured pencils, a few at a time (Derwent drawing pencils and Derwent Lightfast as well as some Luminance and Holbein).
Thanks for watching and thank you for sharing your experience! I also am discovering more and more fondness for the Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelles since I started using them last month, they are a dream to work with. Neocolor II is still a hit and miss situation though 😅!
Please try all these water soluble products with watercolor paper, to see the difference. The Ecoline works better on watercolor paper. Ecoline is liquid watercolor in a brush pen. I love this video.
Thank you for mentioning this, I was very confused by the ecolines when testing them in the Strathmore for this video. I will try them in my watercolor sketchbook next then. Thanks for the great advice! 👍
Party! I love the neocolor II's!!
Thanks, I love hearing which supplies you love! 🥰🫶
@@TheCherrypipangel You're very welcome!! 🤗😍
Great video!
Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it 🫶
I would love to get Luminance ❤
I love hearing which supply appeals to you! And luminance has been such an eye opener for me, I can’t seem to put them down anymore and find myself always reaching for one even just for doodling! 🫶
Daniel Smith makes a water color stick that would travel well.
I saw! I have my eyes on those now, and also the Faber Castell gelato sticks which look very juicy… 😉🫶
You’ll have a much better time using a cotton based watercolour paper that has a decent amount of sizing when using the Ecolines (and any other water-soluble media). Sizing gives you more working time and you’ll have a lot of fun with these tools. 😊
I loved learning this, thank you for sharing your knowledge! And yes, you were right! I tried it this weekend and this is definitely a better user experience on watercolour paper 😉
Swatching party indeed! 🥳WOW, that gouache is intense and rich! I might give that set a try. I have some Tim Holtz Distress watercolor pencils, they are just okay. I do like the colors and, that they are woodless, You can run them through a pencil sharpener and use the shavings in some pans. I like them better as pencils using a water brush, mostly use them in coloring books and art journaling. Really they are over-priced for what they are $117 for 75 pencils. I have always wanted to try Inktence pencils. However, I am saving up to build a new PC so I have to draw the line somewhere, aye? 🤣
Thank you! And those woodless pencils look really cool, I’d love to give them a try at some point, but as you say, budget is always the limiting factor! For now I’m happy with the 2 inktense I picked up and will probably slowly collect more over time - until we win the lottery or find rich benefactors 😂🫶🥳
Hi hun I have both sets of the polys and the lumerance colouring pencils I have a lovely colour of artist grade pencils I do adult colouring in.. thank u for sharing ❤❤❤😊😊😊xxx
Hi, thanks for leaving a comment, I love hearing which supplies you use, and adult coloring sounds wonderfully relaxing! Now I want to try 😉🫶
Fabulous review. Art is an expensive party as is my other hobby, knitting …. I’m not interested in cheap yarn. I’m feeling curious about the neocolour pastels and the Derwent Inktense.
Oh my goodness, luxury knitting! This I would love to see more of, fancy yarns and beautiful colours and textures… you should share this! And since I made this video, I have been regularly doodling and sketching with the derwent inktense, and I can confirm: more of these need to be ordered 😂
Expensive hobbies, but what fun! 🫶🥳
I have the Caran D Ache Neo color II. A word of caution with them. They are not light fast despite with the company says this crayons are not light fast. I had mine sitting in the window to test them and unfortunately they faded. They are great in a sketchbook, but nothing you’re gonna hang up on the wall.
Hi and thanks for letting me know, that is very useful information to share! 👍🥰
Party. Might have to try Luminance.
You should! 😉🥳🫶
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Party 😀
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