this is a great vid! I also disliked the Holbeins, and not a big fan of Prismacolors since their quality issues began. Thank you so much for sharing this!
I appreciate you commenting on the video. I have to admit that my impression of holbeins have changed from the first time around when I first purchased my set and re-sold it and then re-purchased it years later. I realized that the problem was mostly me and the paper I was using with the pencils and not the pencils themselves.
Thank you for your review. Your pictures came out so well, I'm just not sure that I could deal with that many colors. Are a lot of them very similar to each other in each color family?
So glad you did this review. You have reminded me to use mine. I guess I was thinking that for that price, my other sets must be better. Your colored pictures were very good. I loved the beach scene Love the challenge you have given to yourself to do the whole book with Soucolors.
Thank you. The problem with setting a goal like to complete a full book is after a while you get tired of it and you move on to something else and then you forget your goal lol. I do highly recommend these pencils and I’m not even a fan of pencils because I feel like they take a lot longer to accomplish the pictures with pencils.
I thought you got beautiful results with these pencils in your Creative Haven book. Could you tell what kind of paper is in the book? Is it smooth, or does it have some tooth to it? I received a swatch sheet on very smooth paper with this set, and 1 tiny little square for each color, and I am trying to squeeze three gradients in each tiny box. Not easy. Could you tell me what the paper texture is like in the book you are using? Does it have any tooth at all or is it very smooth? I am not getting good results on the smooth as glass swatch sheet. When trying to layer, the new layer tries to lift up the layer below instead of laying down on top of it. It seems as though many older coloring books are being republished with very smooth paper, and that is what is giving me problems during swatching. Is it the pencils or is it the paper? I am trying to decide whether or not to keep these pencils and results on the smooth paper swatch sheet are not encouraging. I just bought World of Flowers and Secret Garden by Johanna Basford from Amazon and the older rectangular shape on both has been changed there to square and both have very smooth paper. I wanted to follow some coloring tutorials from the older copies but think they must have had paper with some tooth, because the teacher could lay as many times as needed for shadowing and adding real dimension to the objects on the pages. I'm running out of time for deciding whether or not to return the pencils. I hate to give up all those colors, but if they won't work in coloring books, those colors might as well not be there. Don't know what to decide.
Hi there. I understand your predicament. A lot of it is definitely trial and error. I can say that the swatch sheets usually provided with colored pencils are generally shiny sort of card stock or thin smooth inexpensive paper. Not necessarily meant for coloring, designs or pages. Especially when you consider the inexpensive cost of the pencils, they’re not going to put much quality or cost into the swatch pages. Creative Haven books are classically well-known to go good with most pencils, either wax or oil-based. I actually find the wax pencils work far better in creative Haven books than oil pencils do. Oil pencils can feel a little bit hard on the creative Haven paper. The trick is to start out light and do layers and don’t go heavy with pressure until you get to the final layer. There is definitely some tooth on the creative Haven paper. You can see the results I got in the creative Haven book with these pencils, which I would say is similar to Prisma color pencils with maybe a little less crumbling. The only pencils I don’t really like in creative Haven books are Crayola pencils unless it’s the adult Crayola signature line. I do find that color pencils work better in coloring books than they do on my printer paper I use for all of my Etsy and Patreon printable. I would suggest buying one of the creative Haven books you want regardless of which mediums you will use in it, so you can start testing out different mediums in it and get a feel for the paper. Another option I would recommend if you don’t like the tooth or smoothness of a paper is to do an under layer of alcohol markers and go over with pencil. Pencil goes over 10 times faster and easier.
this is a great vid! I also disliked the Holbeins, and not a big fan of Prismacolors since their quality issues began. Thank you so much for sharing this!
I appreciate you commenting on the video. I have to admit that my impression of holbeins have changed from the first time around when I first purchased my set and re-sold it and then re-purchased it years later. I realized that the problem was mostly me and the paper I was using with the pencils and not the pencils themselves.
Beautiful and colorful pages!
thank you for the review, your pages are really pretty
Thank you for your review. Your pictures came out so well, I'm just not sure that I could deal with that many colors. Are a lot of them very similar to each other in each color family?
So glad you did this review. You have reminded me to use mine. I guess I was thinking that for that price, my other sets must be better. Your colored pictures were very good. I loved the beach scene Love the challenge you have given to yourself to do the whole book with Soucolors.
Thank you. The problem with setting a goal like to complete a full book is after a while you get tired of it and you move on to something else and then you forget your goal lol. I do highly recommend these pencils and I’m not even a fan of pencils because I feel like they take a lot longer to accomplish the pictures with pencils.
Which is better stealer or this?
I thought you got beautiful results with these pencils in your Creative Haven book. Could you tell what kind of paper is in the book? Is it smooth, or does it have some tooth to it? I received a swatch sheet on very smooth paper with this set, and 1 tiny little square for each color, and I am trying to squeeze three gradients in each tiny box. Not easy. Could you tell me what the paper texture is like in the book you are using? Does it have any tooth at all or is it very smooth? I am not getting good results on the smooth as glass swatch sheet. When trying to layer, the new layer tries to lift up the layer below instead of laying down on top of it. It seems as though many older coloring books are being republished with very smooth paper, and that is what is giving me problems during swatching. Is it the pencils or is it the paper? I am trying to decide whether or not to keep these pencils and results on the smooth paper swatch sheet are not encouraging. I just bought World of Flowers and Secret Garden by Johanna Basford from Amazon and the older rectangular shape on both has been changed there to square and both have very smooth paper. I wanted to follow some coloring tutorials from the older copies but think they must have had paper with some tooth, because the teacher could lay as many times as needed for shadowing and adding real dimension to the objects on the pages. I'm running out of time for deciding whether or not to return the pencils. I hate to give up all those colors, but if they won't work in coloring books, those colors might as well not be there. Don't know what to decide.
Hi there. I understand your predicament. A lot of it is definitely trial and error. I can say that the swatch sheets usually provided with colored pencils are generally shiny sort of card stock or thin smooth inexpensive paper. Not necessarily meant for coloring, designs or pages. Especially when you consider the inexpensive cost of the pencils, they’re not going to put much quality or cost into the swatch pages. Creative Haven books are classically well-known to go good with most pencils, either wax or oil-based. I actually find the wax pencils work far better in creative Haven books than oil pencils do. Oil pencils can feel a little bit hard on the creative Haven paper. The trick is to start out light and do layers and don’t go heavy with pressure until you get to the final layer. There is definitely some tooth on the creative Haven paper. You can see the results I got in the creative Haven book with these pencils, which I would say is similar to Prisma color pencils with maybe a little less crumbling. The only pencils I don’t really like in creative Haven books are Crayola pencils unless it’s the adult Crayola signature line. I do find that color pencils work better in coloring books than they do on my printer paper I use for all of my Etsy and Patreon printable. I would suggest buying one of the creative Haven books you want regardless of which mediums you will use in it, so you can start testing out different mediums in it and get a feel for the paper. Another option I would recommend if you don’t like the tooth or smoothness of a paper is to do an under layer of alcohol markers and go over with pencil. Pencil goes over 10 times faster and easier.
@@thecoloringoasis5616 Thank you so much. I think I may have a Creative Haven book that is many years old but maybe the paper is the same.
I believe I paid close to $40.00 for the set.
That’s not a bad price. Prices are constantly changing depending on when you go to see the availability