Koh-I-Noor Polycolor

Koh-I-Noor Polycolor Colored Pencil Review.

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Check out my review on these artist quality coloured pencils from Koh-I-Noor, the Koh-I-Noor Polycolor. Coloured pencil art is fast becoming a highly sought after medium, allowing the artist to simply begin creating with very little to no art supply preparation. The coloured pencil artists themselves are so incredibly talented, I myself am not an artist, I am in the process of learning and pretty much all self taught. In the process of learning I have created this channel to help other beginners to the world of colored pencil art trawl through the vast array of pencils available to them, which to look out for and which to avoid.

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[visty]

I live in the Czech Republic. I have all products from Kohinoor. I love them for their quality and price. They are great pencils for me. Thank you for the review :)

[ewapospiech]

Hi. I've got 72 set and portrait set and these are my favorite colored pencils EVER. I'd also bought myself full set of Faber Castell Polychromos and full set of Prismacolors, but I've decided to resell them, as I simply prefer my Polycolors... Polychromos are to transparent for me and they do not blend easily, Prismacolors give "too much at once" and they are not erasable. Polycolors are the happy medium. I love the way they lay down pigment. They are not grainy, no greasy layer, they erase nicely, they blend beautifully. One warning - they are NOT lightfast. I've learned about it hard way and then I started testing other brands, I wasn't pleased, though - and now I'm just scanning my work. But I do note sell my drawings, and never will.

[jannsteiner]

The core size indeed is 3.8 mm. I have the brown line as well. There are only 3 colours that are not in the 72 set. In the portrait line, there are 6 additional colours. Please note that the numbers 17, 131, 177, 178 in the 36 set are not very lightfast. By the way, this is the list of colours:

[mjpete]

I have used the watercolor pencils from Koh-i-Noor for many years and I recently purchased their soft pastels and they are more of a medium pastel like Rembrandt sticks. Nice Review Harry, I like your newer review a bit better but it is nice to go back and see your early work! Thanks!

[veronikastrakova]

I love these. I live in Czechia, so...they are cheap in there. I would love to buy Prismacolor pencils, but they are 6x more expensive than Koh-i-noor. So...i have everything from Koh-i-noor 😂 I love their quality and colors. Yes, some of the colors are similar, but I don't mind, sometimes you need them. I have watercolor pencils from them, please try them. These are great quality, too.

[suewilkinson]

I love these pencils. My husband bought me the 72 set a year ago. They were my first "adult" pencils and I love using them. They are hard wearing, easy to sharpen, lovely to use and the colours are vibrant and beautiful. And above all, they smell gorgeous.

Don't throw that sleeve away. It's great to hold the tin together if you wan to stand the tin on end for storage. I'm still using mine.

I have since gone on to get a decent collection of FC Polychromos (because I couldn't help myself!) and I have some Derwent Coloursoft. Coloursoft are my least favourite. I can't really choose between the FC Polys and my Koh-I-Noors. I love them both. But the K-I-N are really the best value.

[Psychett]

I recently purchased the 24 color set of the Koh-I-Noor pencils and I love them. I have a 24 set of Prisma's and I prefer the Koh-I-Noor set. I know everyone raves about the Prisma's, but I think these are as good or better then the Prisma"s. TFS your review. :)

[VynilNostalgia]

If you choose the 12-set of grey shades, there is not one of them included inthe 72-set, which is great. Not so in the 12-set of browns, there are only 5 or 6 shades new. Nevertheless i love Kooh-i-noor pencils. The brightness and richment of pigment is great. They are vibrant and just beautiful. Not completely in the league of Polychromos but they come quite close and of course are much cheaper. I found somewhere online a list with the lightfast ratings and there are big differences between the pencils. Especially the pinks, violets and oranges are NOT really lightfast. So that is something one has to be careful about. They blend beautiful but because of their wax basement you cannot do as many layers as with Polychromos or even Prismacolor. They are bright but get shiny. They also are quite crumbly but nevertheless can get sharpened to a fine point always and don't break. I love to use them in combination with other brands. One thing I don't like at all: the reds in the 72-set are much too similar. Maybe my impressions can help...

[przykran]

I've found that the core is 3.8mm, at least that's what most Polish sites say. :)
Portrait set of Polycolors seems so nice (so many colours exclusive to this set!) but it's hard to find here, unfortunately…
Great review, I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
(sorry if I made any mistakes, English is not my first language)

[anitaagler]

I am color blind and yes I work with colored pencils. Thank you so much for pointing out that the pencils need to be labeled with the color. Otherwise I am relying on someone or a color identification app which either one I don’t trust.

[applestree]

Just found your reviews today on the internet thank you so much for posting really enjoy enjoyed them

[terencemolloy]

Google Koh I Noor Polycolour images and you'll find colour charts and lightfast ratings on there.

[juli]

Thank you Harry. These sound great. We will all have to e-mail the company for the all inclusive set to be made :)

[adab.]

I have recently bought the portrait set, and yeah, couldn't find any info on the colors included... The Koh-I-Noor website isn't exactly helpful.
There is the "basic" 72 pencils set, numbered, well, 1 to 72. Then there's the gray set, numbers starting with 4 (401, 403, 458 etc.); the portrait colors, 350-355 (the rest of the portrait set contains colors from the 72 set); the brown set (don't know the numbers) and some new colors I found in the open stock, namely 126, 131, 177, 178, 180 and 182, all orange / pink / violet. As far as I know, these are all kinda new and it looks like the info is just lagging a bit :)

[AB-vbmm]

10 Colours are not in the 72 Set. I compared my 72 Set to the Full Polycolor List.
Not in the 72 Set:
Light cobalt blue, Peach Orange, Salmon pink, Amaranth Pink, Bluish Pink, Light Portrait Pink, Portrait Peach, Dark Earth Brown, Caput Mortuum, Burnt Sienna.

There is even an Polycolor Blender Pencil!

Hope it helps.

[diana]

These are oil based just FYI and the ones I have but open stock the only one that doesn't have the Colorado an hour would think would be the burnt sienna or a brown because all the other colors I have have the codes written on them I don't know if they're older but I don't know why these don't have the colors on them – mine do on the other side where the barcode is– thank you so much for your reviews - I would suggest checking out their progress so would Liz pencil line there's only 12 or 24 and they are also oil they feel like oil they lay down like oil and they have a no casing they're actually wonderful and they have the color written down on them and you can buy them open stock just FYI again

[DorisSK]

I haven't tried any Koh-I-Noor products. I've heard good things about them though. I'm waiting for Black Friday to see if there's any sales...

[CzitusCraft]

I am considering buying a 72 set. I am new to coloured pencils, but I have regular pencils set from Koh-I-Noor which is wonderful. I bought standard gold, titanium white, ice blue, sapphire blue, dark yellow and carmine red ones (40, 1, 15, 19, 4 and 7 in colour chart) to see how they blend or look on paper. I tried them on regular printing paper which is not a good quality paper, but results were decent. I can only find Canson papers in my area, but I need to check if these are good ones. I found a colour chart on Koh-I-Noor website (you need to look at a single coloured pencil) and I don't think they will do a bigger set than 72, because there are only 84. Thanks for the video!

[brynnstephens]

I was gifted Koh-i-Noors as a middle schooler and coming from a 100-set Rose Art box? I was spoiled. I had a lot of trouble trying to find them in the US (didn't look online, just stores) and ended up getting Prismacolor and Faber Castels. Ended up getting the 72-set so they'll last longer. I love these pencils though. They're bright and layer nicely for the kind of art I do.

[cardsbypanda]

Hi, they have added more grays and purples to the range. That can be bought open stock. Loving your reviews!