THESE PENCILS ARE NOT WHAT I EXPECTED.. Faber Castell Polychromos Review & Test

Today I'll be reviewing the famous Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils. These are one of the top preforming pencils for their semi pricey price point....and they were NOT what I expected.

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[youtubefeiawithpets]

in the Philippines, Faber Castel is actually the #1 Color Pencils! There are different kind of Faber Castels to!

[VergilAvaritia]

The formula is consistent with these pencils.The texture difference you see happens when you start building layers, it doesn't matter whether it's one colour or many, it starts of highly textured, and the more you add on, the smoother it gets. I've used Faber Castell ever since I was a child, and refuse to use any other brand, as they have the best quality and most use for my style.

[nbd]

I remember when one of my classmates would keep on buying hella fancy color pencils and would complain that they were no good because she couldn’t draw or color well

[holxx]

I've got the 120 Faber Castell polychrome set and it was one of the best art investments I ever made, I love them so much, blending and the texture is a dream when your use to the pencils. I highly recommend !! I honestly love them!

[rarepearlz]

Is Faber Castell highly famous in the US?

Here in Brazil it is the most famous pencil brand (sorry about bad english)

[galacticskeleton]

Hard to blend?? I have polychromos myself and they are SOO easy to blend!! I mean it! Amazing vid Rae❤

[gmgaldin]

what I know about these pencils that is necessary to use light pressure to make a lot of layers (5, 6 layers) to blend a lot of colors and reach a good degrade. you are using too much pressure for them, try to use again with light pressure.

[lisathaviu]

One reason I prefer Faber Castell to some of the cheaper brands is that it is possible to replace and/or supplement the colors by buying them one at a time, which the very cheap brands will not let you do. Also, I have heard that they work really well with Color Pencil Blender on sanded paper and once I save up, I want to try this - it looks like it is almost like working with colored pastels, but you can layer much more easily.

[filiplucic]

Rae: these are so pigmented
Manny: yeah, like literally so pigmented

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"Imagine crayola colored pencils, but on STEROIDS "- Rae 2017




Lol thanks for all the likes peoples ❤️

[foxesofautumn]

They’re meant more for layering than blending. You build up light layers, much like with oil paints. You can get a lot of detail that way.

[Lucifer-kefd]

awesome drawing, but *listens to faaber castel pronounced in english* *ultimate cringe for my german ears*

[impala]

I’m a high school student and I started out with this brand of color pencils. My teacher bought one of the larger packs for us to use to create competition pieces. I personally have never had any problems with blending. You are right about the range of colors you can get with just one pencil! It amazing how light or how dark a color you can get just using one pencil!

[PromiseSoul]

i think the difference between the top & bottom of the skull is that you started pressing harder on the blue which made it blend better than a light layer of the green on the top

[silaspitch]

Thanks for the review! I'm not a color pencil artist, but I'm interested in getting started with the medium.

Actually, if a may point out an important technical matter, the difference in blending that you experienced with different colors is the result of variations in binder/filler/pigment formulation due to the different physical properties of various pigments used in the formulation of a particular color core. High quality pigments, many of them natural, vary greatly in hardness, solubility, and working properties. The result of this is that the formulation for each of the different color pencil cores must vary in an attempt to achieve consistency; this consistency is never really achieved due to the essential differences in these pigment properties.

In reality, variance in artistic handling properties across a color range is often the very mark of superb pigments used in the various formulations. Pastel artists, in particular, are intimately aware of this, and very often hold discussions as to the best way to work with a certain pigment from a certain brand. As high-quality pastels are nearly all pigment, it is quite easy to feel, and even see, the differences in pigment properties. Some pigments used in professional pastels are so soft as to nearly crumble under the slightest pressure and blend like pure fine powder, while others are soft but gritty, some are a medium hardness but are great for impasto effects, and others are harder still but seem to blend well, and so on.

[Tippel]

Different types of pencils need different types of blending and layering.
The formula is 100% consistent in every Polychromo pencil. Some Pigments are harder than others, but you will notice that in all pencils, that depends on the pigment itself.
The difference you experienced, is that you have more layers on the jaw than on the green spot. If you use Polychromos its all about layering and building it up. As more layers, as smoother the surface gets. Thats the main difference between oil and wax, very soft wax in Prismacolors. You can do so much more layers with the Polychromos (without waxbloom) that you wouldn't be able to with Prismacolors. Often you don't need blending tools because you blend it in while layering up and blending afterwards is harder compared to e.g. Prismacolors, simply because you don't have wax that you can push around. Hope you understand or can imagine what I mean. Prismacolors take the amount of wax on a so high level that you can't even compare them with Polychromos from how they work because that are two opposite extrems.

In germany Prismacolors aren't very common, most don't like the waxy look, so you buy them for a price of the lowest end of an artistgrade, more better studentgrade based from the pricerange. Maybe also 'cause it's not common to use OMS, what much people use with prismacolors. OMS is very hard to get here, usually you have to import them. I heard (often times) that artist or students that color with Prismacolors get bullied here and called fake-artist because they don't know how to blend and use the cheaty way.
I think it's personal preference what you like to use, yes you may need different techniques but it depends on all together what you choose and prefer for yourself. Even if you can build up and layer perfectly, that doesn't mean you like it. I use waxbased pencils too but Prismas are way to greasy for my preference. Maybe I'll try them out again, if the quality control gets better

[Rikulolx]

Teacher:today class we will be coloring flowers
Kids:*pull out crayola*
Me:*pulls out polychromos*
Has the best flower in the class

[TinchenBlubber]

I don't even know how I got here... but oh well...
I bought the 36-pencils-set a while ago, and at first I, too, struggled with blending. The thing with this pencils is, that they don't really smudge - as advertised - which makes it hard for everyone used to smudge the colours, as I for example am. But it does have great benefits and it just needs different handling to actually blend the colours. As I experienced it, you make the most out of the pencils if you have a high enough amount of colour on the paper - with the pencils being so hard, you also need some colour on the paper to get rid of the visible paper structure. That's also the point where one actually benefits from having a broader range of colours, blendig here seems to be more about layering the colours than about trying to mix/smudge two of them. So I'd say it's not quite true that the different shades blend differently, but the parts of your drawing, where you pressed harder on the paper, because you liked the darker look, are just the parts of your drawing that had a bigger amount of colour and therefore blended more nicely.

I hope that helps, those pencils are great once you get used to them. If you got any questions, or would like me to better explain what I mean just ask.
Have a nice day! :)

[wievppy]

i actually learnt how to use coloured pencils with these and they blend incredibly, layer perfectly, literally anything i have used them for they have been incredible. highly highly recommend

[SaraGarcia-iblo]

Faber-Castell are like one of the best brands sell on Spain, not surprised of their quality