Hi Lindsay! I think they are very similar to each other. This time next week I am going to swatch all of the Luminance and Lightfast pencils. Together they make an epic set! 😆💜
@@BeckyTregear HOW COOL to have a comment from the lovely Lindsay!!!! Did this just knock your socks off or what? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 She is an absolute QUEEN of art videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ You are both wonderful sources of inspiration for me as well ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I have both the sets, of these pencils (except for the newer colors) and both are great. However if you like to use OMS to blend I find the lightfast blends better that way. Luminance is slightly less opaque and need to be layered a bit more. They both hold a good tip and are great for details. The lightfast lays down a bit faster and opaque so a good choice for backgrounds. I still end up reaching for my Polychromos a lot over these, but it might be because I’m just more used to the colors and can pick my colors faster. Hope that helps a bit ❤️
I still love watching reviews despite owning the pencil already😂 (pencil obsession). As you were swatching the colors in order, I really could see how many skin tones there are. No wonder I’m having so much fun coloring the portrait with them right now! The picture came out bright and pretty, I’m tempted to buy that lightfast paper but eeekk the price! Also, I am excited for your lightfast + luminance video👀 they look so similar. My Cassel earth is scratchy also, but luckily my Indian yellow isn’t and I hear that one is a problem for a lot of people
Thank you for this review. I sold my prisma pencils as i dont like wax ,I really love my 60 set of Faber Cstell Polys I desire the 120 set .....I dont think Luminance are for me . Happy crafting xxxxxxxxx
They're a big investment for sure! Even in Switzerland they cost the earth. 😵 The Art Shop in Melbourne was by far the best price I had seen at least in Australia, and not a lot of shops stock them because they're such a boutique item by comparison to other brands. I have no regrets with these pencils. 😁❤️
Becky, I loved your artwork so much! And it looked like the paper DIDN'T BUCKLE AT ALL, even though you used solvent!!! So, I think you've shown us that it is worth the price! Beautiful work, well done 👏👏👏👏 Thank-you for this video! ❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗
Thank you! The Lightfast paper is truly excellent, and so it should be for the price! 😂 The Art Shop stocks it, but when I got mine, it was from Cult Pens because they had it on sale and who can resist that? Not I! 💕
Thank you! They do some as singles but if you're like me, it is much nicer to get the set. It took me a lot of scrimping and saving to have enough to buy these. 😂
Hi Becky, sorry to see Melbourne is in another lock down, I'm sure we feel a bit bit smug here in the West, but it might be just a matter of time. Time will tell. Another great review, I only have a couple of pencils I bought from Jackson's UK. I haven't found a stockist here in the West. I have just completed my collection of all polychromos buying a half dozen at time over the past five years, feels wonderful and I just loved swatching them out. I also lashed out with birthday money I got and bought the full set of prismacolors as raved about by Lindsay the frugal crafter. I loved them both swatching and running my fingers over them and admiring the colour spectrum...mmm. love your videos and watching you draw, sketch and colour paint or even diamond, keep safe and a big thanks for great content
Yeah six lockdowns is really taking its toll, but I am soldiering through as much as I can. I love the sound of your growing pencil collection. The Prismacolors have a wonderful range too! Hope you're well and enjoying your non-locked-down situation. 😉
Yeah, the cassel earth has always been like that, it is a mix of pr101, pbr7 and a couple of blacks. You can find the pigment informations easily on Google
Yes, the scarlet does look beautiful! I love the dark green you put under the bottom butterfly. If I have any of these pencils, it would only be a few that may have come in an art subscription box. I'll have to look in my drawing drawer. Seems like I have received some.
Great to see a review of all 100 pencils together !!!! I still only buy them open stock though but they are by far my favourites - Great review and new friend to the channel Big Like👍🏻 Really enjoyed the content - Great work thanks for sharing✨🌈✨🌈✨🌈
Thank you! I love seeing entire collections together, and it is always great when coloured pencils are sold as singles, for when those favourites get worn down as well! I always seem to go through the black ones really quickly, lol.
I have the 76 set as well and all the writing is white, I wonder if they changed the print in newer productions? Thanks for the review! My Cassel earth is also gritty, and there's a yellow one with brown spots in the core, that one's scratchy too, but I can't find it now!
I never usually use the boxes/tins the pencils come in so the cardboard box would get chucked out pretty fast, just takes up too much space. lovely piece you made with them 😀
I did have the pencils all out in a pencil tower but Gandalf almost knocked whole whole thing over so I put them back in their tins and now they're in a set of ALEX drawers, lol.
@@fuzzydragons He lept, landed, the whole shebang wobbled scarily, all while I was across the room running in slow motion yelling "Nooooooo!"😱 It was a miracle they stayed upright. I took it down not long after, haha.
These are the cats' meow of colored pencils! and love how you didn't just talk but showed a painting with comments! If you were to recommend an artist grade set of say 48, would you recommend the Luminance or the Derwent Lightfast? It would be my only set so wanting rich colors with the most versatility. Excellent content, Becky! ❤️
Oh wow that's a tough question! 😵 Next week I have a video scheduled which swatches out both entire sets of Lightfast and Luminance, and you'll see how the colours are all different to each other with pretty much no identicals, so it makes one giant set of awesomeness, haha! Maybe it will help to pick out 48 of them? 😂 The two brands are very similar and they work well together also. Almost impossible for me to pick!
@@BeckyTregear LOL! Love your response! Actually I've listened to many artists and most seem to have a preference. Anyway, I'll be back for next week to see "in person" the colors, but I was rather referring to their functional effects like layering, blending, soft-hardness. Will listen next week to pick up tips, and thanks, Becky 🤩
Great review of the pencils! I like the new colors they added and may eventually pick them up. I always had to add a deep blue so it’s nice to see it now. Also is that the oil pen you were mentioning? Uni oil paint marker. I need to look into that now 😍
The new blues are the best! And yes that is the oil pen....I just got it in a stationery store. It smells strongly of solvent though which I am not a fan of. 🤢
Have the portraits set , I've scene the set off 100 expensive its $660.00 Ausy dollars picked up the Derwent lightfast set of 100 in the wooden box was on special payed $500.0 Ausy dollars.
They've really gone up in price, along with everything else! I'm glad I bought mine a few years ago when they weren't quite as insanely expensive. You got a good deal! 😄
That is correct! My 76 set is a few years older than the portrait ones, and I've noticed now all of their pencils have switched to white letters, which is great because they are much easier to see!
Lovely painting, Becky. I have the 100 Luminance as well but haven't used the new colours yet. (Shame on me). The cassel earth I have is a bit gritty as well but not as bad as the cassel earth from their pastel pencil line. It is basically not usable at all.
@@BeckyTregear there were several others which were not creamy and buttery at all. That's what they claim. Jason Morgan has a video about them and the problems he had.
@Becky Tregear Art Oh, that's amazing! Thank you so much for replying. I've been googling and youtubing for a good few days now and couldn't get a straight answer 😂 thank you for this lovely video as well, so excited to get these beauties 😍🙏
@@Hayleysmy I had a moment there where I was questioning myself, haha! But on Caran d'Ache's website there is a pdf file of all the colours in the 100 set, and yes indeed those portrait pencils are in there. 😁
Hi I actually was looking at videos on RUclips to see what people were saying about these pencils specifically for some of the reveiws on the darker earthier tones as I had found them gritty and almost a hard chalky consistency it's been very frustrating as I can't seem to get a smooth line on these colours even when the led is at its sharpest ... not good when doing portrait drawings where fine line work is needed . Im actually wanting to know are the prisma colour pencils better for this I just spent so much money on the luminance :(
Oh I'm sorry to hear that! I have found the darkest Cassel Earth to be the worst in the bunch. Prismacolor are usually smoother but my set has been an absolute nightmare for sharpening as they will break really, really easily and it drives me insane! Might I suggest Derwent Lightfast. They have some nice dark browns, such as chocolate, which I've found to be very good. Somewhere in my video collection is a review on the Lightfast pencils, and I also swatched both entire sets of Luminance and Lightfast together, so you can see how the colours complement each other. I hope this helps!
Fair point! I think the difference is when you start looking at the lightfast ratings of the purples as they are notoriously difficult to gain a high rating, and so I think from memory Caran d'Ache's ones are the limited few which are known to be lightfast, whereas Polychromos do have a few in there which are rated closer to the fugitive side. I'd need to go through both sets to compare them, but I am sure that's one of the main differences. Otherwise, Polys are a great set of pencils so I have nothing to complain about with them either. I enjoy both brands! 😆❤
@@BeckyTregear I think that’s exactly the reason: sacrificing colour scheme to be able to market them as more light fast. However, for me I’d prefer the inclusion of more purple even if they aren’t the most light fast instead of colours too similar to the existing ones because when you have barely any purples you’ll have to create them from scratch every time, which can be a hassle if you want to use a type of purple that is simply not included quite frequently. Because of this, Caran D’Ache have a less versatile colour scheme that is more suited to portraits or very nature centric visuals (with more neutrals, greens, browns, blue-greens) , whereas with the Polychromos there’s a more versatile colour range that enables you to do that but also space themed and a bit more fantastical visuals (with a more balanced amount of pencils per colour, including more pinks and purples and also great blues).
@@Carolina-rd3gh Have you checked out the Derwent Lightfast range of pencils? There are some interesting purples in that set. Somewhere in my video collection is one swatching out all of the Luminance and Lightfast together as a set of 200 - the colours are all different so it makes for a pretty huge set, haha!
Hi Becky! How do the luminance compare to Derwent lightfast? I love my derwent!
Hi Lindsay! I think they are very similar to each other. This time next week I am going to swatch all of the Luminance and Lightfast pencils. Together they make an epic set! 😆💜
@@BeckyTregear HOW COOL to have a comment from the lovely Lindsay!!!! Did this just knock your socks off or what? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 She is an absolute QUEEN of art videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ You are both wonderful sources of inspiration for me as well ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@artbydrbee *Tries to stay nonchalant*...oh you know this has made my day, haha! 😆
I have both the sets, of these pencils (except for the newer colors) and both are great. However if you like to use OMS to blend I find the lightfast blends better that way. Luminance is slightly less opaque and need to be layered a bit more. They both hold a good tip and are great for details. The lightfast lays down a bit faster and opaque so a good choice for backgrounds. I still end up reaching for my Polychromos a lot over these, but it might be because I’m just more used to the colors and can pick my colors faster. Hope that helps a bit ❤️
I’ve never swatched out any supplies in my life. But it makes for great RUclips content 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 great drawing ✍️
@@vhacker71 it must be time to start swatching your collection! 😁
Thanks for sharing. I have been considering these pencils for years.
I hope it helps! I have a few more videos coming out using these pencils so that might further help your decision. 💜☺️
I still love watching reviews despite owning the pencil already😂 (pencil obsession). As you were swatching the colors in order, I really could see how many skin tones there are. No wonder I’m having so much fun coloring the portrait with them right now! The picture came out bright and pretty, I’m tempted to buy that lightfast paper but eeekk the price! Also, I am excited for your lightfast + luminance video👀 they look so similar. My Cassel earth is scratchy also, but luckily my Indian yellow isn’t and I hear that one is a problem for a lot of people
They're really excellent for portraits! My Indian Yellow is a dodgy one...I forgot to mention that. I might seek out a replacement for it. 😵
Beautiful work with what look like fantastic sets. You know they're high quality when each pencil has its own 'bed' in the box.
The foam beds are excellent and are far less annoying than the plastic divots of other sets that flex too easily and send them all flying, lol.
Thank you for this review. I sold my prisma pencils as i dont like wax ,I really love my 60 set of Faber Cstell Polys I desire the 120 set .....I dont think Luminance are for me . Happy crafting xxxxxxxxx
The Polychromos are such a great set; I love those too! ❤
Thank you. Lovely Schmetterlinge 🦋🦋🦋. Looks amazing. Best wishes from Germany by Judith
Thank you...also that is my favourite German word! 💜
Omg I've literally dreamed about these pencils a while ago.. I don't have them as you imagine XD expensive as hell but I imagine they are great :)
They're a big investment for sure! Even in Switzerland they cost the earth. 😵 The Art Shop in Melbourne was by far the best price I had seen at least in Australia, and not a lot of shops stock them because they're such a boutique item by comparison to other brands. I have no regrets with these pencils. 😁❤️
I had to watch this again..... Happy Swatching
Becky, I loved your artwork so much! And it looked like the paper DIDN'T BUCKLE AT ALL, even though you used solvent!!! So, I think you've shown us that it is worth the price! Beautiful work, well done 👏👏👏👏 Thank-you for this video! ❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗
Thank you! The Lightfast paper is truly excellent, and so it should be for the price! 😂 The Art Shop stocks it, but when I got mine, it was from Cult Pens because they had it on sale and who can resist that? Not I! 💕
@@BeckyTregear Good to know, thank-you Becky!! I hope you're doing well in this, our SIXTH lockdown.. stay safe and well ❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗
@@artbydrbee Isn't it just the worst, I am so over it! 😭 I hope you're staying safe and well too. 💜
I just got my 76 and I am getting ready to swatch them.. Yes Christmas comes early here
Oh lovely, I hope you enjoy using them! Yay for early Christmas ⛄🎄
Great little drawing. Those pencils are as good as they are expensive. Worth buying, if I could. Have a nice weekend, Becky. V.
Thank you! They do some as singles but if you're like me, it is much nicer to get the set. It took me a lot of scrimping and saving to have enough to buy these. 😂
Hi Becky, sorry to see Melbourne is in another lock down, I'm sure we feel a bit bit smug here in the West, but it might be just a matter of time. Time will tell.
Another great review, I only have a couple of pencils I bought from Jackson's UK. I haven't found a stockist here in the West. I have just completed my collection of all polychromos buying a half dozen at time over the past five years, feels wonderful and I just loved swatching them out. I also lashed out with birthday money I got and bought the full set of prismacolors as raved about by Lindsay the frugal crafter. I loved them both swatching and running my fingers over them and admiring the colour spectrum...mmm. love your videos and watching you draw, sketch and colour paint or even diamond, keep safe and a big thanks for great content
Yeah six lockdowns is really taking its toll, but I am soldiering through as much as I can. I love the sound of your growing pencil collection. The Prismacolors have a wonderful range too! Hope you're well and enjoying your non-locked-down situation. 😉
Yeah, the cassel earth has always been like that, it is a mix of pr101, pbr7 and a couple of blacks. You can find the pigment informations easily on Google
Thank you 😊
Yes, the scarlet does look beautiful! I love the dark green you put under the bottom butterfly. If I have any of these pencils, it would only be a few that may have come in an art subscription box. I'll have to look in my drawing drawer. Seems like I have received some.
Ooh you'll have to find them and test them out! 😆
Great to see a review of all 100 pencils together !!!! I still only buy them open stock though but they are by far my favourites - Great review and new friend to the channel Big Like👍🏻 Really enjoyed the content - Great work thanks for sharing✨🌈✨🌈✨🌈
Thank you! I love seeing entire collections together, and it is always great when coloured pencils are sold as singles, for when those favourites get worn down as well! I always seem to go through the black ones really quickly, lol.
Love your artwork❣️
Thank you ☺
I have a lot of pencils. from expensive to inexpensive. These are my absolute favorite! However, I don’t have the Holbeins.
I have some Holbeins and they're lovely too, but I think the Caran d'Ache Luminance are better. 😊
@@BeckyTregear would you say they are your favorite? I love trying new pencils. Lol. What would be your second favorite?
I have the 76 set as well and all the writing is white, I wonder if they changed the print in newer productions? Thanks for the review! My Cassel earth is also gritty, and there's a yellow one with brown spots in the core, that one's scratchy too, but I can't find it now!
That's good to know, they must have changed it when the portrait set came out. So much easier to read than the silver lettering on my older set! 💜
I never usually use the boxes/tins the pencils come in so the cardboard box would get chucked out pretty fast, just takes up too much space. lovely piece you made with them 😀
I did have the pencils all out in a pencil tower but Gandalf almost knocked whole whole thing over so I put them back in their tins and now they're in a set of ALEX drawers, lol.
I would have cried if they got knocked over, or had a heart attack
@@fuzzydragons He lept, landed, the whole shebang wobbled scarily, all while I was across the room running in slow motion yelling "Nooooooo!"😱 It was a miracle they stayed upright. I took it down not long after, haha.
These are the cats' meow of colored pencils! and love how you didn't just talk but showed a painting with comments! If you were to recommend an artist grade set of say 48, would you recommend the Luminance or the Derwent Lightfast? It would be my only set so wanting rich colors with the most versatility. Excellent content, Becky! ❤️
Oh wow that's a tough question! 😵 Next week I have a video scheduled which swatches out both entire sets of Lightfast and Luminance, and you'll see how the colours are all different to each other with pretty much no identicals, so it makes one giant set of awesomeness, haha! Maybe it will help to pick out 48 of them? 😂 The two brands are very similar and they work well together also. Almost impossible for me to pick!
@@BeckyTregear LOL! Love your response! Actually I've listened to many artists and most seem to have a preference. Anyway, I'll be back for next week to see "in person" the colors, but I was rather referring to their functional effects like layering, blending, soft-hardness. Will listen next week to pick up tips, and thanks, Becky 🤩
Great review of the pencils! I like the new colors they added and may eventually pick them up. I always had to add a deep blue so it’s nice to see it now. Also is that the oil pen you were mentioning? Uni oil paint marker. I need to look into that now 😍
The new blues are the best! And yes that is the oil pen....I just got it in a stationery store. It smells strongly of solvent though which I am not a fan of. 🤢
Have the portraits set , I've scene the set off 100 expensive its $660.00 Ausy dollars picked up the Derwent lightfast set of 100 in the wooden box was on special payed $500.0 Ausy dollars.
They've really gone up in price, along with everything else! I'm glad I bought mine a few years ago when they weren't quite as insanely expensive. You got a good deal! 😄
Hi, i just watch that the new ones are white labeling on barrel, and not silver ?
That is correct! My 76 set is a few years older than the portrait ones, and I've noticed now all of their pencils have switched to white letters, which is great because they are much easier to see!
Lovely painting, Becky. I have the 100 Luminance as well but haven't used the new colours yet. (Shame on me). The cassel earth I have is a bit gritty as well but not as bad as the cassel earth from their pastel pencil line. It is basically not usable at all.
Thank you! I haven't tried their pastel pencils but if I do, I will bear that in mind about the cassel earth!
@@BeckyTregear there were several others which were not creamy and buttery at all. That's what they claim. Jason Morgan has a video about them and the problems he had.
Sorry if this is answered here, I just want to double check. But are the portrait colours included in the 100 set? X
Yes, they are. 🙂 The 100 set is the original 76 lot plus the 24 portraits all combined into one delicious box. ❤️
@Becky Tregear Art Oh, that's amazing! Thank you so much for replying. I've been googling and youtubing for a good few days now and couldn't get a straight answer 😂 thank you for this lovely video as well, so excited to get these beauties 😍🙏
@@Hayleysmy I had a moment there where I was questioning myself, haha! But on Caran d'Ache's website there is a pdf file of all the colours in the 100 set, and yes indeed those portrait pencils are in there. 😁
Does the 24 Portrait Set have any duplicates of the 76 set?
No, they're all different and so it turns the 76 set into a 100 set - they even sell them as a box of 100 now which is pretty awesome! 😊
Hi I actually was looking at videos on RUclips to see what people were saying about these pencils specifically for some of the reveiws on the darker earthier tones as I had found them gritty and almost a hard chalky consistency it's been very frustrating as I can't seem to get a smooth line on these colours even when the led is at its sharpest ... not good when doing portrait drawings where fine line work is needed . Im actually wanting to know are the prisma colour pencils better for this I just spent so much money on the luminance :(
Oh I'm sorry to hear that! I have found the darkest Cassel Earth to be the worst in the bunch. Prismacolor are usually smoother but my set has been an absolute nightmare for sharpening as they will break really, really easily and it drives me insane! Might I suggest Derwent Lightfast. They have some nice dark browns, such as chocolate, which I've found to be very good. Somewhere in my video collection is a review on the Lightfast pencils, and I also swatched both entire sets of Luminance and Lightfast together, so you can see how the colours complement each other. I hope this helps!
Hi becky tregear! I want to ask what do you think about derwent lightfast? Would a set of 72 is okay?
I love Derwent Lightfast! I have a few video reviews on those too. ☺️
Very cool :)
Thanks
Such an expensive set and there are barely any purple pencils. Polychromos has better colour selection in my opinion.
Fair point! I think the difference is when you start looking at the lightfast ratings of the purples as they are notoriously difficult to gain a high rating, and so I think from memory Caran d'Ache's ones are the limited few which are known to be lightfast, whereas Polychromos do have a few in there which are rated closer to the fugitive side. I'd need to go through both sets to compare them, but I am sure that's one of the main differences. Otherwise, Polys are a great set of pencils so I have nothing to complain about with them either. I enjoy both brands! 😆❤
@@BeckyTregear I think that’s exactly the reason: sacrificing colour scheme to be able to market them as more light fast. However, for me I’d prefer the inclusion of more purple even if they aren’t the most light fast instead of colours too similar to the existing ones because when you have barely any purples you’ll have to create them from scratch every time, which can be a hassle if you want to use a type of purple that is simply not included quite frequently. Because of this, Caran D’Ache have a less versatile colour scheme that is more suited to portraits or very nature centric visuals (with more neutrals, greens, browns, blue-greens) , whereas with the Polychromos there’s a more versatile colour range that enables you to do that but also space themed and a bit more fantastical visuals (with a more balanced amount of pencils per colour, including more pinks and purples and also great blues).
@@Carolina-rd3gh Have you checked out the Derwent Lightfast range of pencils? There are some interesting purples in that set. Somewhere in my video collection is one swatching out all of the Luminance and Lightfast together as a set of 200 - the colours are all different so it makes for a pretty huge set, haha!