Looking for advice on which coloured pencil range to buy?

Help and advice is at hand if so....

In this post is a link to our article that focuses on coloured pencil brands. I decided to do a trial on various pencils that I have in my collection. 

This article shows the 5 most important factors that I look for when selecting my professional pencil range:

• I need to have a range that allows multiple layering
• I need them to blend well for backgrounds and skin tones
• Will work well with fixative
• The pencils must be extremely lightfast and the colours strong
• Need soft and hard pencils for different areas of my work

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The 5 'tests' shown in this article includes:

1. Black & White Test
2. Hardness V's Softness
3. 10 layer test - 'Mixed' layering
4. Fixative test
5. Blendability

This article also gives information on the importance of paper weight (gsm), information on each pencil including costs (GBP) and lightfast ratings as well as my own thoughts on 'adapting to coloured pencils' . I hope that this will be of help to all coloured pencil artists out there from those starting out looking to buy their first range to those interested in how each compare. 

​Any questions, just ask!