Colored Pencils

Colored Pencil Reviews

Traditional (wax- or oil-based) colored pencils

Colored Pencil Smudging Tests with Blenders
Rainbow Pencils Make Me Happy
Product Review: Koh-I-Noor Tri-Tone Pencils

Colored Pencil Reviews: Intro

Colored Pencil Review: Blick Studio

Colored Pencil Review: Derwent Coloursoft

Colored Pencil Review: Caran d’Ache Luminance

Colored Pencil Review: Spectrum Noir ColourBlend

Colored Pencil Review: Faber-Castell Polychromos

Colored Pencil Review: Caran d’Ache Pablo

Colored Pencil Conclusion: One is Not Enough

Cheap Colored Pencil Throwdown: U Brands and Sivo

Product Review: Blackwing Colors

Notable Pencils: The Many Dresses of Blackwing Colors

Colored Pencil Review: Derwent Procolour

Colored Pencil Review: Tombow Irojiten (Plus Bonus Head Explosion)
Colored Pencil Review: Tombow Irojiten (36-color set) (published at the Well-Appointed Desk)

Pencil Case Review: Tombow Irojiten Set with Portable Case (published at the Well-Appointed Desk)

Vintage Colored Pencils: Faber-Castell Goldfaber 4100 (Contemporary Goldfaber Comparison)

Product Review: Derwent Drawing Pencils (Plus Bonus Fire Drill)

Product Review: Derwent Lightfast Colored Pencils 
Contemporary Bicolors

Pentel Multi 8 + Koh-i-Noor Leads = Win
Vintage Colored Pencils: A.W. Faber "Castell" Polychromos (Contemporary Polychromos Comparison)

My Felissimo Colored Pencil Coup
White Party: White Pencil Comparison

Review: Koh-i-Noor 5340 Clutch with Magic Leads
Review: Uni Pericia Colored Pencils (published on the Well-Appointed Desk)
Review: Uni Posca Colored Pencils
Wallet-Friendly Traditional Colored Pencils
Review: Koh-i-Noor Polycolor, Retro Edition (with Vintage Comparison)
Review: Castle Arts Colored Pencils (Urban Collection)
Review: Koh-i-Noor Diamond Lead Holder Drawing Pencils (published on the Well-Appointed Desk)

Review: June Gold 2mm Colored Leads

Review: Holbein Artists' Colored Pencils

Indian Colored Pencils Comparison

Review: Non-Photo Blue Pencils (published on the Well-Appointed Desk)

Quick Look: Blackwing Non-Photo Blue Pencil

Review: Mitsubishi Uni Colored Pencils

Review: Lamy Plus Colored Pencils

Review: Marco Tribute Collection

Review: Kokuyo Dual Color Pencils

Review: Derwent Chromaflow Colored Pencils

Day for Night (Plus All the Whites) (comparison of various white colored pencils)

Review: Karst Woodless Artist Pencils
Quick Look: Blackwing Lab 02-22-22 (Red)

Notable Pencils: The Colors of Michael Graves

Review: Arrtx Colored Pencils

A Few Thoughts on Metallic Colored Pencils

Budget Colored Pencil Showdown (Brutfuner, Arteza, Schpirerr Farben)

Review: Midori MD Colored Pencils (published on the Well-Appointed Desk)

Review: Techjob Mechanical Colored Pencils

Review: Derwent Metallic Colored Pencils (20th Anniversary Limited Edition)

Review: Be Goody Color/Graphite Bi-Pencils

Mini Review: Kita-boshi Bicolor/Single Color Set

Review: Stabilo Original Colored Pencils (Plus Tar Pencil Sightings)

Review: Faber-Castell Black Edition Colored Pencils

Water-soluble colored pencils

Product Review: Graphitint Pencils

Product Review: Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle Pencils

Product Review: Caran d’Ache Fancolor Pencils

Water-Soluble Colored Pencil Comparison

Ripe (Plus Derwent Inktense Comments)

Product Review: Moleskine Watercolor Pencils

Product Review: Caran d’Ache Supracolor 30th Anniversary Set

Product Review: Staedtler Karat Aquarell Colored Pencils

What Persimmons Taught Me About Watercolor Pencils (Three Mini-Reviews)

Product Review: Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer Watercolor Pencils

Product Review: Faber-Castell Goldfaber Aqua Colored Pencil (Albrecht Durer Comparison)
Product Review: Caran d’Ache Prismalo 100th Anniversary Edition and Vintage Comparison (Plus Bonus Insight)
Wallet-Friendly Watercolor Pencils (F-C Goldfaber Aqua, Staedtler Triangular, Cd'A Swisscolor)
The Dry Test: Durer, Museum, Supracolor

Winsor & Newton Studio Collection Watercolor Pencils
Product Review: Cretacolor Marino Watercolor Pencils
Caran d'Ache Bicolors: Wish List Fulfilled!
Review: Paul Smith + Caran d'Ache Artist Stripe Supracolor Set
White Party, Part 2: Water-Soluble Colored Pencils
Product Review: Arteza Professional Watercolor Pencils
Review: Caran d'Ache Mechanical Pencil 2mm Colored Leads (published on the Well-Appointed Desk)
Product Review: Koh-i-Noor Mondeluz Watercolor Pencils (Woodcased and Clutch Leads)

Review: DOMS Aqua Watercolor Pencils

Review: Mitsubishi Uni Water Color Pencils

Caran d'Ache Water-Soluble Colored Pencil Comparison

Review: Cretacolor MegaQuattro Multi-Color Pencil

Even More Fugitive Than We Think? (Derwent Inktense)

A Few Comments on Tinted Graphite

Festive! Caran d'Ache Wonder Forest Prismalo Bicolors

Tinted Graphite Comparison: Derwent, Staedtler, Spectrum Noir

Golden! Caran d'Ache Color Treasure Prismalo Bicolors

FOMO PSA: Albrecht Durer Magnus Watercolor Pencils

Review: Derwent Inktense Pencils (and New Colors)

Vintage and collectible colored pencils

Vintage Colored Pencils, Part 1: My New Year’s Resolution

Vintage Colored Pencils, Part 2: Eberhard Faber Mongol

Vintage Colored Pencils, Part 3: Prismacolor and Verithin

Vintage Colored Pencils, Part 4: Eberhard Faber Colorbrite

Vintage Colored Pencils, Part 5: Wallace Motif and Invader

Vintage Colored Pencils, Part 6: Col-erase

Vintage Colored Pencils, Part 7: Try-Rex Omega

Vintage Colored Pencils, Part 8: American Venus (Watercolor)

Vintage Colored Pencils, Part 9: Caran d’Ache Prismalo

Vintage Colored Pencils, Part 10: Stabilo Schwan

Vintage Colored Pencils, Part 11: Rexel Cumberland Derwent

Vintage Colored Pencils, Part 12: Empire Sunset Dual-Kolor

Vintage Colored Pencils: Eberhard Faber Design Spectracolor Doublecolor

Vintage Colored Pencils: Faber-Castell Goldfaber 4100 (Contemporary Goldfaber Comparison)

(Not Quite) Vintage Colored Pencils: Mitsubishi JR Kyushu Trains

Vintage Colored Pencils: Laurentien and Venus Paradise

Vintage Colored Pencils: Eberhard Faber Aquarello

Product Review: Caran d’Ache Prismalo 100th Anniversary Edition and Vintage Comparison  (Plus Bonus Insight)

Hard and Soft

Hard Enough to Write With
Vintage Colored Pencils: Conte Criterium
Vintage Colored Pencils: Rexel Cumberland Derwent Drawing
The Fude of Pencils

Vintage Colored Pencils: A.W. Faber "Castell" Polychromos (Contemporary Polychromos Comparison)
Vintage Colored Pencils: Eberhard Faber Design

Vintage Colored Pencils: Staedtler Noris-Duetto and Mars-Polycolor
Vintage Colored Pencils: Berol Karismacolor

Vintage Colored Pencils: Berol Karismacolor (the Sequel)
Vintage Colored Pencils: Sanford Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils
Vintage Colored Pencils: Design Watercolor
Vintage Colored Pencils: Nearly Antique Caran d'Ache Prismalo?
Caran d'Ache Watercolor Pencil History Update
Vintage Colored Pencils: Eagle Magicolor
Vintage Colored Pencils: General's Kimberly Watercolor and Color-tex
Vintage Colored Pencils: Caran d'Ache Aquarelle (Another Mystery)
Notable Pencils: The Many Dresses of Blackwing Colors
Review: Koh-i-Noor Polycolor, Retro Edition (with Vintage Comparison)
Vintage Colored Pencils: Caran d'Ache Polycolor
Vintage Colored Pencils: General's Multichrome
Notable Pencils: Polychromos 111th Anniversary Commemorative Set
Vintage Colored Pencils: Staedtler Mars Lumochrom
Vintage Colored Pencils: Caran d'Ache (Non-Watercolor)
Vintage Colored Pencils: Two Curious Bicolors
Vintage Colored Pencils: Caran d'Ache Supracolor with Erasers

Vintage Colored Pencils: Eberhard Faber Colorama
Vintage Colored Pencils: Canada- and USA-made Prismacolors

Vintage Colored Pencils: Eagle Copycolor

Notable: Vintage Red/Blue Editing Pencils

Vintage Colored Pencils: Wallace Invader (a Second Look)

Vintage Colored Pencils: Conté à Paris Aquarelle

Possibly the Coolest Colored Pencil Box Ever (vintage A.W. Faber Polychromos)

Vintage Colored Pencils: Alco Coloring Pencils

Vintage Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth Mini Aviator Colored Pencils

Vintage Caran d'Ache: 333 "Tulips" and Exciting Prismalo Update

Museum Aquarelle Leads: The Saga

Vintage Caran d'Ache Supracolor Soft Pencils (and History Update)

Vintage Caran d'Ache Prismatec Colored Pencils

Vintage Staedtler Mars Lumochrom Colored Pencils

Vintage Walnut Hollow Farm Colored Pencils

Vintage Eberhard Faber Aquarello Oval Water Color Pencils

Tutorials and other resources 

"Licked" Sky Mini-Demo
Another Storybook Tudor (Plus Grisaille Demo)
Erasing Demo
Watercolor Pencil Demo: Urban Sketching
Watercolor Pencil Demo: Still Life
Water-Soluble Colored Pencil Comparison
Colored Pencils Are Taking Over

How to Fill a Waterbrush

Three Big Learnings (Plus Waterbrush Vindication)

Material Lessons (In and Out of Class)

Soft and Hard

Soft and Hard, Part 2: Water-Soluble Colored Pencils

Hard and Soft

The Dry Test: Durer, Museum, Supracolor

What Persimmons Taught Me About Watercolor Pencils (Three Mini-Reviews)

Urban Persimmon Sketching

Wet or Dry: The Water-Soluble Dilemma

White Party: White Pencil Comparison

My Basic Caran d’Ache Palette

The Secondary Triad

Getting Over the Color Barrier

Italy, Part 6: My Colored Pencil Breakthrough

How Many Colored Pencils Do You Really Need?

Tree Studies in Color (Or a Lesson in Patience)

My Favorite Life-Drawing Tools

Cloud Experiments

The Ever-Versatile Colored Pencil

Product Review: Caran d’Ache Prismalo 100th Anniversary Edition and Vintage Comparison(Plus Bonus Insight)
More Primary Triads: Studying Warms and Cools
Wet-on-Dry with Watercolor Pencils
Dry-on-Wet with Watercolor Pencils
Watercolor Pencil Demo: Planning the Dry/Wet Sequence
If I Had to Choose Only One Colored Pencil
Demo: Sequence for Spritzing Watercolor Pencil

Demo: Stay Sharp

What is a Colored Pencil Layer?

For colored pencil geeks only

Embracing My Inner Colored Pencil

Surrounded by Color

My Best Colored Pencil Geek Moment
Most Cheerful Colored Pencils Ever
My Felissimo Colored Pencil Coup
Rainbow Pencils Make Me Happy

Colored Pencils Used in First Space Sketch

Other colored pencil resources

How to Pick the Right Colored Pencils (The Well-Appointed Desk)
Best Colored Pencils for Beginners: A Guide (Parka Blogs)