Top 3 Affordable Colored Pencil Brands for Artists

Top 3 Affordable Colored Pencil Brands for artists

When it comes to art supplies, choosing the best and correct art supplies plays a major role. 

Colored Pencils come in different types and are sold by different brands; making it very difficult for an artist to opt for a particular brand.

So, here’s a list of Top 3 Colored Pencil Brands that are absolutely suitable for artists as well as beginners.

The Top 3 Affordable Artist’s Colored Pencil Brands:

1.   Derwent Artist Colored Pencils

Derwent Academy Watercolor Colored Pencils

These set of watercolor colored pencils are perfect for painting at the same time of drawing.

It’s very useful while painting architectural or portrait paintings.

Features:

ü Made with Natural Wood Barrels

ü Contains quality pigments which allows transfer of color on paper evenly

ü Can be used as Dry Colored Pencils

ü Blend and incorporate easily for the creation of additional shades

ü Easy to sharpen and break resistant

Derwent Academy Colored Pencils (non watercolor)

These set of Derwent’s Colored Pencils provide a strong grip and smooth texture while coloring.

Features:

ü Made with natural wood barrels

ü Quality Pigment

ü Easy to sharpen and break resistant

ü Entire listing of color pencils is providing with the description

2.   Prisma Artist Set of Colored Pencils

Prisma is a well known brand for colord pencils and is often suggested by artists.

These are perfect for beginners as these come in different sets one can choose from.

Also, Prisma colored pencils include some special colors like golden and silver which are quite shimmery and perfect.

Prisma Premier Colored Pencils

Features:

• Soft, thick cores are perfect for shading and shadows
• Ultra-smooth, even color laydown
• Lightfast, richly saturated pigments
• Thick, robust leads resist cracking and chipping making them perfect for adult coloring books

3.   Faber Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils

Faber Castell is another well-known brand for its student friendly and artist colored pencil sets.

Apparently it has a large collection of sets one can choose from.

I suggested these set of polychromos as these give a decent smooth texture. Blending is very efficient using Faber Castell’s polychromos.

Features:

• Superior pigments of unsurpassed light-fastness and brilliance
• Thick pigmented break-resistance lead
• Intense color, smooth color laydown

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