Reviewing The Faber Castell Professional PolyChromos Pencils - Are they the best? Lets test them!

Today I sat down to do The big review, on the Professional Polychromos Pencils By Faber Castell.
How good are they? Are they worth the money? Are they the worlds best?
We'll you'll just have to watch and find out.
This is the first of a new series i have done, where we take pencils (and art supplies) and throw a series of tests at them. Some scientific, some opinion based, but through it all i've tried to give you enough information that you can make your own mind up about them.
The good, the bad AND the ugly lets check out The Faber Castell Professional Polychromos Pencil.

0:00 - The Introduction
1:05 - The Design of the Polychromos Pencil
6:19 - Test 1 - Saturation and Vibrancy (How Saturated and Vibrant are the Polychromos?
15:44 - Test 2 - The Straight Gradient (How well do the Polychromos Gradient?)
19:46 - Test 3 - The Blending Test (How well do the Polychromos Blend?)
22:09 - Test 4 - The White Factor (Whats that white pencil do?)
24:21 - Test 5 - Color Accuracy (How accurate the pencil barrel is to the pigment)
26:14 - Test 6 - The break factor (We break some pencils!)
30:56 - Test 7 - The Joy Factor (My opinions using the pencils)
33:05 - The End and the Big Score

Hope you enjoy!
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[greekveteran]

Polychromos is an Artist grade pencil, designed to work in layers.That's why, Fabriano Artistico, is considered the most ideal paper, to use with Polychromos.For beginners though, Canson 160gsm and Fabriano Accademia 200 or Fabriano drawing books in 160gsm, are an ideal choice to begin their coloured pencil journey. Polychromos, is a slow medium.don't let that discourage you, it's just it's nature!

[ciannacoleman]

I splurged during a sale last year and got (for the first time) full sets of Prismacolor, Polychromos and Albrecht Durers. I went more than a little overboard lol. Unfortunately I have barely touched them all year. I really like the feel of both colored pencils, the Prismacolor feel almost like a high quality crayon to me and I have used them in coloring books, vs the PCs very obviously are meant to be worked in a million layers and honestly feel way higher quality.
2024 is my year to really get into my art supplies and experiment, making an ATC every day to build the habit and skill.

[igorm]

Great touch with the scale test.. never thought of it.

[Tban]

How can this channel only got 1600 subs ? The video looks so professional and informative I thought she got over a 1 mil subs 😂

[TravisBrady-wnfr]

I'm getting that set and the 150 prismacolor set I'm getting back to my arts roots and loving it!

[aaronfoley]

Really in depth, I never even though about the correlation with pencil break points and quality

[pantoufflesart]

Really informative! Thanks for taking both a fun and scientific approach, I learned a lot!

[dianecarty]

The most professional and dynamic video I’ve ever seen! Well done!

[taurus]

I love Polychromos. I don't like wax pencils too much and prefer oil based.
Polychromos are excellent for layering, have great colour payoff, great for details. When you have them in your hand, you can feel high quality.
They are hard led, but to me they feel very smooth and silky on the paper.
Also, they have the biggest range of reds compared to other professional brands. And this is a huge plus +++

[infadibulum]

I'm so impressed by your videos these days! Nailed it! It looks incredible.

[timcooper]

Like the vid.
I'm noting all 6 of the tested pencils are in the tin of 24, so for people that lean into the blending of primaries, the 24 is a great set.
I agree with most of what you said there.
I'm particularly curious how you feel they compare to Derwent Chrimanflow pencils. I find the feel, vibrancy and blend-ability quite similar.
I have tried a few quality tine in the 24-36 size ranges and so far I think Chromaflow and Polychromos are my favourites.

[colincannings]

Apart from a quality demo, your presentation is an A+

[SandExperiment]

It was fun to watch! I don't use colored pencils, but Faber Castell is my favorite for graphite 👍

[russrh]

This is everything i wanted to know about pencils!

[melsherbert]

Everything I could possibly want to know about this set! Thanks!

[jeraldbaxter]

Thank you! Your presentation is very logical and easy for novices to understand.

[afterfauve]

Sunshine you are an excellent scientist
Your experiments were exceptionally well done and I trust your observations.
Your experiments show an odd quirk of light and color, something I to have observed in other media of art supply.
To be a bit extra sciencey.
Color saturation also depends on the color's -light wave length.
Red has a larger - weak wave length, so red pigments have to be heavily saturated for our eyes to see them.
Blue has a smaller - strong wave length, so blue pigments have to be less saturated to keep from dominating over other colors.
Green is in that sweet zone between saturation and and wave length.
So on the pressure test everything went as a quality color pencil should.
There is also a quirk of wave lengths and wave interference way to complex to explain, that is demonstrated in the gradient test.
The gradation experiment showed what I would expect, alternating from heavy to light, with the effect becoming more noticeable the further away you get from red.
I even watched you fudge the white gradient test, which in itself is a confirming test, because we expect a consistency from white, and instinctively think the mistake was hours.
You thought you made a mistake but the white really does go from solid to light and back to solid .
In the strength test, I am surprised that the red was stronger, they must have a special binding agent for red to compensate for heavy pigment saturation.
As for the bar code on the pencil – it means I can buy a color individually and not have to buy packs to get one color.
I think the key word is “Professional” in this set, meaning the artist is aware of the quirks of light, and knows the techniques to adapt to them and use them.
Many artist materials compensates and has quirks in other areas, that I find annoying prefer materials to act according to their pure nature, as I have an idea on how to compensate.
Going buy your observations and experiments, that I completely trust, I would give the Faber Castell Professional PolyChromos Pencils an S.
I will be saving up for a set.

[DamirAlexanderZajec]

what a nicely shot and well scripted video... i enjoyed it thoroughly!!

[dianneallen]

You should go through sharpening the pencils.

[neggit]

29:11 The black pigment is essentially made out of carbon, thus it being harder (diamonds are also made out carbon btw). it's also why carbon based inks/pigments are fade proof.