Colored Pencils

Colored Pencil Reviews

Traditional (wax- or oil-based) colored pencils

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

Colored Pencil Review: Derwent Procolour

Colored Pencil Review: Tombow Irojiten (Plus Bonus Head Explosion)

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

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)

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

Tutorials and other resources 

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)

For colored pencil geeks only

Embracing My Inner Colored Pencil

Surrounded by Color

My Best Colored Pencil Geek Moment