had to watch this again. I just broight 2 pencils from Cult Pens I got Pale Lavender and Royal Purple to try out ...I love my drawing pencils .Thank you for sharing .Happy swatching
Hi Becky, I remember using Derwent 60 years ago, and I always enjoyed using them, It's amazing how many colours they have now, I haven't done any drawing or colouring in for many years, always enjoy watching you, and seeing how many things have changed over the years, have a great day hugs Sarah, 🥰❣️
Derwent has really come a long way over the years, and they have so many different sets. It is great to see a company still going strong, like they are! The coloured pencil industry has just gone crazy in the last few years; so many new companies and sets popping up, it's hard to keep up with them all, haha! And thank you! ❤
It seems like there are so many more options than thirty or even twenty years ago. In the '90s, I used Prismacolor pencils which were vibrant but expensive. Now, hardly anyone talks about them and there are dozens of other sets from various brands. Thankfully, you're here to clear the confusion!
The coloured pencil sector has just exploded in the last couple of years especially! I have numerous other sets queued up to review as well, lol! I should actually also review the Prismacolors. Future Becky can deal with that, ha!
There are plenty of videos focusing on prismacolor pencils and content creators/artists who mainly use them. Prismacolor are still highly sought after in other countries, despite how expensive they can be. Unfortunately their quality has decreased since the 90’s.
All of your birds are always great. I would say a diffused background and tighter main subject are carefully thought out methods for your main subject being more prominent. A+ for the kingfisher.
I have tried both colorsoft and procolor 12 tins and I prefer the colorsoft. They are more easy to use and have a higher lightfast rating over all. They do remind me of the prismacolors to use. I have a mars staedtler 180 crank sharpener for all my pencils and they can handle the colorsft and prismacolor no problem, touch wood.lol. But thanks to your video on derwent lightfast I have now purchased a 72 set and I love them so I will not be buying any big sets of colorsoft I may cherry pick a few colors. Thanks again Becky another great video always a pleasure to watch.:) OMG 3k Congrats.
The Lightfast easily beat out the Coloursofts (and the Procolours)....how exciting you got the 72 set - it really is lovely! Sharpening pencils is always the bane of my arty life, lol. And thank you! ❤
Oh I LOVE kingfisher birds ❤️❤️❤️ Well done Becky!!! 👏👏👏👏 I've never been game to really dive into coloured pencil work, mainly because it is a slow medium and I am a bit time-poor.. but I LOVE watching others work with them, so thank-you for sharing this with us!!! 🤗🤗🤗
Pencils are so incredibly slow when doing realistic drawings! I enjoy using them in colouring books too, which is a bit faster. But I thought I would try and draw something this time with these ones. 😄
Congratulations on 3K. It's well deserved. Thank you for your review. Sometimes reviews are handy to sort out the "not for me" from the "maybe" as much as "oh, I want that". So love your artwork. I have patience to do some kind of daily artwork but not for a complete colored pencil picture. Glad you have more patience than me because you have become such a good artist.
Thank you so much! I find it most helpful watching reviews when I am on the fence about an art supply, so it helps my decision. Coloured pencil art is very time consuming! 😬
Oh great, I hope you enjoy the full set! I think it has a pretty good range of colours (just missing a really dark blue!). I may have ended up ordering the Procolour set during Cyber Monday sales, so I am definitely going to be comparing those with the Coloursofts at a future date! Next year at this rate....ahhhh I can't believe it is already December when I am writing this!
Coloursoft really are lightfast? I’m getting conflicting information regarding if they are actually lightfast - you think they would last 50 years+? Thank you for reviewing these.
At this point I have no idea! There's too much conflicting information, as you say. I've given up worrying about it to be honest, and just enjoy my art supplies in the here and now. ❤
Congrats on 3k Becky! I’ve been following you from the start and it’s just wonderful seeing how your channel has flourished. You’ve got me wanting to dig up the coloured pencils now: love your kingfisher.
Congrats on 3k subscribers! That's amazing! I only have a few pencils of the Colorsoft and haven't used them for years but I remember that I wasn't that keen on them. The Procolours are also not my cup of tea. Some people love them but they feel to me like they are not very pigmented.That's not true, only my feeling. I like the Lightfast, Luminance and Polychromos. But to be honest I haven't worked in CP for almost 2 years. I used to do a lot of pet portraits, sitting there for 20, 30 hours. Now I rather use pastel pencils, they are easier to blend and quicker to work with.
Thank you! It was nice to wake up to that milestone this morning. 😊 I am still somewhat tempted to get the Procolours but it is more "For The Channel" than actually needing them, lol. The Lightfast are vastly superior! ❤️💜 I can't be sitting for 20-30 hours on anything; I have not the patience for it. 😱😂
Congrats on 3K!!! So exciting ❤️ I have never tried the color soft pencils before, I have heard they are even softer then prisma ones. I really like how your kingfisher came out but I;m like you where if I do the main subject first I rush and other elements to get it done because I don't like doing them as much lol.
Thank you! I have been watching my counter for days! 😂 Haha yeah I tend to get impatient, especially with coloured pencils because they take so long, lol. But I still enjoy using them...I might need to do a direct comparison of softness between the Coloursofts and Prismacolors because I feel like Prisma might be softer again but I honestly can't remember. They do feel quite different from each other though.
In terms of feel (softness, thickness), how similar are these to the Drawing pencil line? I love the Drawing set and they are fairly soft, but was wondering how Colorsofy compares.
First of all, congrats on 3k!!❤️❤️ that’s so exciting and I’ve seen your channel grow so much in the time we’ve known each other on TH-cam! Second of all, I’ve only tried a few individual pencils from this set and I felt like maybe they were too soft and didn’t have enough “traction” if you will? They definitely glide over the paper but maybe too much. Then again, I’m not a fan of ultra soft pencils like these and prismacolors, so I’m biased. The color range looks nice and bright though and maybe it’s a good palette for coloring books! It also seemed to be a good palette for the kingfisher since its so bright, but yes I have qualms with Indigo to begin with as you might remember (grrrrrr) and that indigo is too vibrant and not deep enough! I definitely would choose them over the procolours. Those were hard with a capital H!
Thank you! It's fun watching our channels grow (you have done amazingly well with subscribers!) and I hope we both manage to keep going with it next year too! The indigo is definitely too bright and nowhere near dark enough, and I agree with the "traction" thing. Great word to describe it, by the way! I put the Coloursofts into the "I like them well enough but they're not my absolute favourites" category, lol.
Hello Becky, I really like the coloursoft. I don't have a set, but a few colours and found them really soft and vibrant. I have one Procolour pencil and find it 'harder' than the Polychromos and I'm not keen on it. Lovely drawing, by the way. See you, Valerie
Thank you! I have only used a few Holbeins, and I really liked them. Apparently my local art shop is getting in singles, so I might aim to build my collection a bit more.
Honestly I prefer the Polychromos. Maybe one thing to try before you commit, is getting a few individual colours from each brand and see which one feels better to you? It can be quite a personal preference! But I'll pick the Polys all day long! 😊
I was gifted this set for Christmas, it is a shame about all the non-lightfast colours, but it is quite a nice set otherwise. I like the way the colour lays down. Nice video review and I like your kingfisher :)
I love the Colorsoft pencils...they were some of my first "professional" colored pencils and I really like them. Also I bought a set of the Procolor Pencils and in my opinion they are horrible! The Procolor pencils are so hard and you really have to push hard to get a good color pay off...they are so hard and cheap that when coloring with them they actually squeak when going back and forth on the page, like smooth hard plastic...So yea in my opinion I dont think anyone should spend their money on the Procolors...Im sorry to sound harsh and cold but that is my opinion, i dont mean to offend anyone and I appreciate and understand all opinions and like and dislikes. Anyway great video. Thanks for sharing💙💜🧡
Thank you so much for your feedback! I may have found a really great price on the Procolours, haha, so I am definitely going to review those early next year. I am so curious to see what happens....I shall make the sacrifice for my channel, LOL!
I love Polychromos pencils; I have that whole set too, lol. Somewhere in my video collection there is a review I did for them. It was from earlier this year sometime.
I do love them, they work great on Fisher paper. when it comes to coloured pencils, lightfastness isnt a huge issue and when i need more lightfast pencils i use Luminance pencils
My local art supply store has these open stock. I've fallen for the black and as I run out of my prismacolour scholars I plan to use these to replace them
These pencils are perfectly acceptable, as are any of the other Derwent pencils of professional grade, for doing pro artwork. If you want lightfast artwork, then you use Lightfast pencils. For anything else that you might sell or hang, just create your work and then scan it to make a print. Though, if you want to have a lightfast work in these pencils, just use those lightfast colors. I sometimes think that too much is made of lightfastness when it comes to creating an artwork. It all depends on how you want the final piece to be represented and what you want to do with it.
Yes that's very true. I don't worry about lightfastness very much, I just include these observations in my videos so that people can make up their own minds as to whether the product might be suitable for their type of art. 😊
Enjoyed video helpful information on pencil set,interesting to learn about this pencil set..woyld it be better just to get like a kum. Sharpenerwhere you just sharper5the tip of pencil?.....mikelle art mom✍🎨👩🎨
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3000 subscribers!!! 😱 Thank you all so much. 😆❤️
Woo-hoo! You've done so well, Becky, and you totally deserve every bit of your success. 🥳
@@INCWorks Aww thank you! It certainly isn't easy! But I love it. ❤️
Becky, CONGRATULATIONS!!! Well-deserved 👏👏👏👏 You are so CONSISTENT and we all love hanging out with you!! 🤗🤗❤️❤️
Woohoo, grats!
3K, yea! That's awesome!
had to watch this again. I just broight 2 pencils from Cult Pens I got Pale Lavender and Royal Purple to try out ...I love my drawing pencils .Thank you for sharing .Happy swatching
Hi Becky, I remember using Derwent 60 years ago, and I always enjoyed using them, It's amazing how many colours they have now, I haven't done any drawing or colouring in for many years, always enjoy watching you, and seeing how many things have changed over the years, have a great day hugs Sarah, 🥰❣️
Congrats Becky, that's great,
3000 yeah!! 😁😁😁
Derwent has really come a long way over the years, and they have so many different sets. It is great to see a company still going strong, like they are! The coloured pencil industry has just gone crazy in the last few years; so many new companies and sets popping up, it's hard to keep up with them all, haha! And thank you! ❤
It seems like there are so many more options than thirty or even twenty years ago. In the '90s, I used Prismacolor pencils which were vibrant but expensive. Now, hardly anyone talks about them and there are dozens of other sets from various brands. Thankfully, you're here to clear the confusion!
The coloured pencil sector has just exploded in the last couple of years especially! I have numerous other sets queued up to review as well, lol! I should actually also review the Prismacolors. Future Becky can deal with that, ha!
There are plenty of videos focusing on prismacolor pencils and content creators/artists who mainly use them.
Prismacolor are still highly sought after in other countries, despite how expensive they can be. Unfortunately their quality has decreased since the 90’s.
I watched this once again.. I love the style of your Art .I'd love to bere able to be free like you .Happy Christmas 2023 Becky
Thank you so much! I think making videos pushes me to finish artworks because then I have deadlines, haha! And Happy Christmas. 😊
I know I'm not much of an art critic but I love the technique you used for the bird. For me it's a happy, light hearted creation-just my cup of tea.
Thank you! It's my kind of art; nothing too serious. 😁
All of your birds are always great. I would say a diffused background and tighter main subject are carefully thought out methods for your main subject being more prominent. A+ for the kingfisher.
@@vhacker71 Thank you, I appreciate it. ❤️
Ty for the review my parents were thinking about buying this and now I can show them this ❤ ur a very nice youtuber that reply’s on almost all coments
Thank you so much, I'm glad my review was helpful and it's always good to do some research before buying expensive sets of pencils. 😊
Excellent video, thank you!
I have tried both colorsoft and procolor 12 tins and I prefer the colorsoft. They are more easy to use and have a higher lightfast rating over all. They do remind me of the prismacolors to use. I have a mars staedtler 180 crank sharpener for all my pencils and they can handle the colorsft and prismacolor no problem, touch wood.lol. But thanks to your video on derwent lightfast I have now purchased a 72 set and I love them so I will not be buying any big sets of colorsoft I may cherry pick a few colors. Thanks again Becky another great video always a pleasure to watch.:) OMG 3k Congrats.
The Lightfast easily beat out the Coloursofts (and the Procolours)....how exciting you got the 72 set - it really is lovely! Sharpening pencils is always the bane of my arty life, lol. And thank you! ❤
Super review Becky, you covered everything and also made a super job of the kingfisher. Thanks for the review.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
New and amazing videos inspire many people. Together in the future, 😍😍 And may you grow big.
Oh I LOVE kingfisher birds ❤️❤️❤️ Well done Becky!!! 👏👏👏👏 I've never been game to really dive into coloured pencil work, mainly because it is a slow medium and I am a bit time-poor.. but I LOVE watching others work with them, so thank-you for sharing this with us!!! 🤗🤗🤗
Pencils are so incredibly slow when doing realistic drawings! I enjoy using them in colouring books too, which is a bit faster. But I thought I would try and draw something this time with these ones. 😄
Congratulations on 3K. It's well deserved.
Thank you for your review. Sometimes reviews are handy to sort out the "not for me" from the "maybe" as much as "oh, I want that".
So love your artwork. I have patience to do some kind of daily artwork but not for a complete colored pencil picture. Glad you have more patience than me because you have become such a good artist.
Thank you so much! I find it most helpful watching reviews when I am on the fence about an art supply, so it helps my decision. Coloured pencil art is very time consuming! 😬
Thank you for your review! I have a small set that I really enjoy. I think I will commit to the full set. ❤ 💙 💜 💖
Oh great, I hope you enjoy the full set! I think it has a pretty good range of colours (just missing a really dark blue!). I may have ended up ordering the Procolour set during Cyber Monday sales, so I am definitely going to be comparing those with the Coloursofts at a future date! Next year at this rate....ahhhh I can't believe it is already December when I am writing this!
Coloursoft really are lightfast? I’m getting conflicting information regarding if they are actually lightfast - you think they would last 50 years+?
Thank you for reviewing these.
At this point I have no idea! There's too much conflicting information, as you say. I've given up worrying about it to be honest, and just enjoy my art supplies in the here and now. ❤
😅 thank you - Ive decided I will be staying with Luminance.
@@BeckyTregear ive contacted Derwent about this issue 😊
Congratulations on reaching 3,000 subscribers!! Your kingfisher is lovely! 🤩
Thank you so much 😀
I was about to go to sleep and yaaaay! Becky has just posted a new video 😍❤️ Congratulations on your channel growth 💪
Haha good timing! Sleep well (if my video was too boring then it certainly will help for that, LOL!).
Congrats on 3k Becky! I’ve been following you from the start and it’s just wonderful seeing how your channel has flourished. You’ve got me wanting to dig up the coloured pencils now: love your kingfisher.
Thank you so much! I love that you have been here for the whole time, and I really appreciate all of your support. It means a lot to me. ❤️
Hi. I have arthritis so I want to get softer pencils that don't hurt my hands. Should I go for the colorsoft or the chromaflow?
I only have a small set of the Chromaflow, but they are really lovely, and I think I prefer those over the Colorsofts.
Your bird turned out beautifully! I only dread using colored pencils when I think of having to sharpen them, lol!
Thank you! I am with you on that; sharpening pencils stresses me out. 😱😂
The Black is one of the best Ive come across
Congrats on 3k subscribers! That's amazing!
I only have a few pencils of the Colorsoft and haven't used them for years but I remember that I wasn't that keen on them. The Procolours are also not my cup of tea. Some people love them but they feel to me like they are not very pigmented.That's not true, only my feeling. I like the Lightfast, Luminance and Polychromos.
But to be honest I haven't worked in CP for almost 2 years. I used to do a lot of pet portraits, sitting there for 20, 30 hours. Now I rather use pastel pencils, they are easier to blend and quicker to work with.
Thank you! It was nice to wake up to that milestone this morning. 😊 I am still somewhat tempted to get the Procolours but it is more "For The Channel" than actually needing them, lol. The Lightfast are vastly superior! ❤️💜 I can't be sitting for 20-30 hours on anything; I have not the patience for it. 😱😂
Congrats on 3K!!! So exciting ❤️ I have never tried the color soft pencils before, I have heard they are even softer then prisma ones. I really like how your kingfisher came out but I;m like you where if I do the main subject first I rush and other elements to get it done because I don't like doing them as much lol.
Thank you! I have been watching my counter for days! 😂 Haha yeah I tend to get impatient, especially with coloured pencils because they take so long, lol. But I still enjoy using them...I might need to do a direct comparison of softness between the Coloursofts and Prismacolors because I feel like Prisma might be softer again but I honestly can't remember. They do feel quite different from each other though.
@@BeckyTregear I would love to see a comparison between the two brands :)
In terms of feel (softness, thickness), how similar are these to the Drawing pencil line? I love the Drawing set and they are fairly soft, but was wondering how Colorsofy compares.
Kind of similar but the Drawing pencils are quite unique and feel a bit more pastel-like when compared with the Coloursofts.
First of all, congrats on 3k!!❤️❤️ that’s so exciting and I’ve seen your channel grow so much in the time we’ve known each other on TH-cam! Second of all, I’ve only tried a few individual pencils from this set and I felt like maybe they were too soft and didn’t have enough “traction” if you will? They definitely glide over the paper but maybe too much. Then again, I’m not a fan of ultra soft pencils like these and prismacolors, so I’m biased. The color range looks nice and bright though and maybe it’s a good palette for coloring books! It also seemed to be a good palette for the kingfisher since its so bright, but yes I have qualms with Indigo to begin with as you might remember (grrrrrr) and that indigo is too vibrant and not deep enough! I definitely would choose them over the procolours. Those were hard with a capital H!
Thank you! It's fun watching our channels grow (you have done amazingly well with subscribers!) and I hope we both manage to keep going with it next year too! The indigo is definitely too bright and nowhere near dark enough, and I agree with the "traction" thing. Great word to describe it, by the way! I put the Coloursofts into the "I like them well enough but they're not my absolute favourites" category, lol.
Hello Becky, I really like the coloursoft. I don't have a set, but a few colours and found them really soft and vibrant. I have one Procolour pencil and find it 'harder' than the Polychromos and I'm not keen on it. Lovely drawing, by the way. See you, Valerie
Thank you for your insight on the Procolour; it seems to be the general consensus that Coloursoft pencils are preferable! 😊❤️
Beautiful Becky and congrats on the 3k!!!!! Have you used Holbein pencils if so what did you think?
Thank you! I have only used a few Holbeins, and I really liked them. Apparently my local art shop is getting in singles, so I might aim to build my collection a bit more.
I can't decide whether to buy the Faber Castell Polychromos 60 or Colosoft 72, which one do you recommend?
Honestly I prefer the Polychromos. Maybe one thing to try before you commit, is getting a few individual colours from each brand and see which one feels better to you? It can be quite a personal preference! But I'll pick the Polys all day long! 😊
@@BeckyTregear Thank you very much, I think my choice will be polychromos.
I was gifted this set for Christmas, it is a shame about all the non-lightfast colours, but it is quite a nice set otherwise. I like the way the colour lays down. Nice video review and I like your kingfisher :)
Thank you! I like the pencils; I hope you're enjoying your set too. 😊
Lovely kingfisher Becky - I prefer a stylised look anyway than like a photo - may as well frame a photo instead!
Haha yes, I feel that way too. And as someone who has done photography for a long time, I prefer my art to not exactly mimic my photos. 😊
I love the Colorsoft pencils...they were some of my first "professional" colored pencils and I really like them. Also I bought a set of the Procolor Pencils and in my opinion they are horrible! The Procolor pencils are so hard and you really have to push hard to get a good color pay off...they are so hard and cheap that when coloring with them they actually squeak when going back and forth on the page, like smooth hard plastic...So yea in my opinion I dont think anyone should spend their money on the Procolors...Im sorry to sound harsh and cold but that is my opinion, i dont mean to offend anyone and I appreciate and understand all opinions and like and dislikes. Anyway great video. Thanks for sharing💙💜🧡
Thank you so much for your feedback! I may have found a really great price on the Procolours, haha, so I am definitely going to review those early next year. I am so curious to see what happens....I shall make the sacrifice for my channel, LOL!
Just a question.. what do you think about the Faber Castell colouring pencils? I found a small set when organising art supplies and am curious XP
I love Polychromos pencils; I have that whole set too, lol. Somewhere in my video collection there is a review I did for them. It was from earlier this year sometime.
@@BeckyTregear not those xD it's a cheap set .. red package... but yeah those you talked are great :)
@@tempest6781 ohhh those ones! I have used them a few times but not for ages. They are so-so I guess? Polys are much better 🤣
I do love them, they work great on Fisher paper. when it comes to coloured pencils, lightfastness isnt a huge issue and when i need more lightfast pencils i use Luminance pencils
Fair enough! Luminance are definitely a step up. They would all work together too, I'm sure!
they all do work together, which is great when you need a colour that is only in one brand
My local art supply store has these open stock. I've fallen for the black and as I run out of my prismacolour scholars I plan to use these to replace them
It's always great when they are open stock, and the black in this set is a good one! 😊
@@BeckyTregear the white is pretty nice too. I went through half a black pencil in less than two weeks so that speaks for itself
There are great pencils to use I'm just a colour softy when it comes to these pencils.
I've used them further and they've grown on me more now. 😊
I don't mind the Coloursoft but still prefer prismacolor. I feel these need more layers to work with but they're still quite nice.
Prismacolor has such a bigger set of colours too! I need to find mine and use them again.
I have the bostitch quiet 6 it has six different size holes and stops when u have a beautiful sharp point even w prismacolors
I'll have to look that up!
These pencils are perfectly acceptable, as are any of the other Derwent pencils of professional grade, for doing pro artwork. If you want lightfast artwork, then you use Lightfast pencils. For anything else that you might sell or hang, just create your work and then scan it to make a print. Though, if you want to have a lightfast work in these pencils, just use those lightfast colors. I sometimes think that too much is made of lightfastness when it comes to creating an artwork. It all depends on how you want the final piece to be represented and what you want to do with it.
Yes that's very true. I don't worry about lightfastness very much, I just include these observations in my videos so that people can make up their own minds as to whether the product might be suitable for their type of art. 😊
Enjoyed video helpful information on pencil set,interesting to learn about this pencil set..woyld it be better just to get like a kum. Sharpenerwhere you just sharper5the tip of pencil?.....mikelle art mom✍🎨👩🎨
I do have some coloursoft I like them but they are not my colour style - I prefer Derwent drawing pencils - muted!
The Drawing pencils are a fabulous set! 💜
Bought them. 4 have broke like cheap prismacolor crap. Hand sharpen even, core just fell out
Oh no! 😭 Can you return or exchange them?
Why can't you say "colour"?
What do I say?