I got Derwent coloured pencils for my birthday this year and I’ve finally had a chance to play around with them a bit.
This isn’t really a review, I don’t know enough about pencils to talk about them properly, I will say that they’re better than the eclectic mix of unbranded and student quality pencils I’ve had since I was in primary school and are all tiny stubby things with shattered lead. So to be honest it’s not that hard an improvement.
It was a second hand box of Derwent pencils so I had to buy in some extra purples to replace the missing ones, even then I think I’ll still be going back to my box of old pencils for purples every now and then. The range of purples on the website wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. All very natural tones.
One thing I do really like about the Derwent pencils is actually the coating on the outside, it’s matt and nice to hold.
So here’s the test drawing I did with them, using Maria Amanda’s stock photo as reference. Not much to say about this one, other than it was nice to play with pencil again.
