This felt like an unfair comparison. If you’re going to use those specific sets of Derwent pencils, I probably would have used the Faber Castell Polychromos. They’re more similar in price and are my personal favorite. They layer and blend well, feel really sturdy, their led has never broken before, and are nicely pigmented.
As a Polychromos-lover I totally agree with you. When he was doing the last one I thought: "Wait, there are also artist grade pencils from Faber-Castell!!!"
olivia lane exactly what I thought. The ones he uses here are basically school supplies where I live...better school supplies....but school supplies :D
Hmm, I thought he was comparing expensive vs cheap color pencil, like can you make good art with affordable color pencils, to encourage beginners. Instead of derwent vs faber castell.
*Video idea:* Start off with a set amount of colours like 10 and once you use a colour, you can't go back to it and use it again. I think the results would be really cool!
I think that would be an awesome idea. An addition to your idea could be that the viewers can pick what he draws as well. (My idea can also go separate from yours too but I think that our ideas combined would be super cool.)
because you did -- the ones he used are the child range (notice the red packaging). The pro art supplies from Faber Castell are in a dark green packaging.
Well if you bought this ones yeah, they are cheap but this does not mean they are bad. But if you bought Polychromos, these are high quality, expensive, and one of the best colored pencils on the world. So Faber castel is definelitly a good brand.
Faber is one of the best brands out there when it comes to colored pencils. I'm pretty sure that if you got an "artists" set and not a "kids version" one you'd be surprised with the quality. They're not the cheapest but they're really really good
True. In Germnay most of my primary school students have them and they are pretty robust (while drawing and sharpening). I bought myself some Staedler reinforced ones with a white lead supporter inside, that should prevent the coloured lead from breaking...guess what's breaking almost every single time, making them almost unusable?
Oh? Are they? I have Zenacolor that I loved until I noticed these went dull faster than than my cheaper ones. Someone of them are half gone. I'll need to replace them soon.
This comparison is a little unfair. Those are the essentially the 'school' range of Faber castell vs Derwent's artist range. Derwent are also wax based like Prismacolor so perhaps that would have been a fairer comparison, where as Faber Castell is oil based which is why they are firmer and can hold an amazingly sharp tip. Also Faber Castells artist lines come in tins, the same as Derwents.
The point of the video was to test different quality and price range pencils to see if expensive pencils were worth it how can he do that if they are all the same price range?
Ozkan Ozkan Ozkan he literally said Derwent are on the pricey side of getting started $45-50 as you know they Faber ones are cheap around 10 and I want to see if they hold up at all or if they expensive ones are far and away better
Whenever I use coloured pencils, I never really resort to one brand in particular. I find each colour is different depending on the brand (for example, one brand's light blue could be slightly different than another brand), and it totally depends on what you're drawing. I have a big cup full of coloured pencils and I don't even look at the brands anymore, just the colour.
I do that with my markers. I have them all mixed up in my case and I choose which ones I use by looking at my swatch cards. I have memorized a cuple colour combinations as well so that makes coloring pretty easy.
They arent available in Europe (well you can order them but they are sooo expensive). Don't know about Australia, but i think they are pretty American based.
I do ask myself, just because I never heard of Derwent before: Don´t you have Polychromos by Faber Castell in Australia? They are really really good but by far the most expensive pencils you can by in Germany.
I remember the Christmas that my uncle got me a set of 48 faber castell pencils when I was about 10. I had mostly had cheap, dollar store pencils up till then, and colouring with the new pencils made me feel like a "real artist". I spent that summer filling up an entire sketch book with art, and treasured those pencils like they were gold. 20 years later I still have the sketchbook, though the pencils got used up long ago.
The Derwent Artist and Studio pencils actually have the exact same core. The only difference is the thickness of the core and shape of the barrel. Also, it wasn't really a fair test because the Derwent pencils you used were Artist grade, while the Faber Castell were either for kids. Faber Castell have their own equivalent Artist grade pencils (Polychromos), which would have been a fairer comparison.
these are generally the brands of pencils that you will find side by side at any department store or newsagent in Australia, and therefore are probably the brands that many beginner artists start off playing with. to get the polychromos you need to go to an art shop or buy online, and then Derwent have the lightfast range to compete alongside those.
Probably it would be fairer to compare Derwent Pro Colour to Faber Castell Polychromos as their cores are slightly more similar but definitely this! Either that or Derwent Academy is a thing!
@@cohenpeters7200 I expect you're right, although like @Cassandra Hanley said, the Derwent Lightfast are probably more comparable to Polychromos. I'm not a 100% sure, but I think they are both oil based pencils. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Not looking for the prize, just thought I would point out that people generally feel beginners should always start with cheaper materials, and gradually work there way up to more well known and expensive brands. I just want to say that you should not feel obligated to stop using cheep brands just because of your level of skill. I know I sort of went through that phase where I wanted every expensive art supply I could think of, because of the conception that your medium should improve with your skill. You don’t have to think that way.
I agree with the idea of choosing the supplies you like best no matter brand and cost. There is the long term quality to think about though if you wish to sell your art pieces. Student grade doesn’t always have the best pigments and can't therefor be considered museum quality pieces. Also I find using better quality supplies makes creating art or testing out different techniques easier. Things just go more smoothly and need less elbow grease than the cheap supplies.
True, cheaper stuff can be harder to work with, than the mid range and expensive ones, but you can still start with cheap materials, whatever floats your boat in drawing really
I always found this funny, partly because I usually had to "settle" for cheaper stuff because of financial limitations as opposed to skill. But then I started to find that like all limitations, that would tend to encourage more creative thinking to make something that would seemingly stretch beyond the bounds of those limitations.
Same. The Faber Castel ones where what I used because the derwin's were too expensive. I have water color ones they expensive. Still have them over 20 years old.
@@lisa4471 And a third one you could call "studio", the Goldfaber series. They have been revamped and come in dark blue tins. They are comparable to the Polychromos line (dark green tins) but a with a thinner barrel, and they are more affordable. www.amazon.com/Faber-Castell-Creative-Studio-Goldfaber-Pencils/dp/B074GX76H3/ref=sr_1_2?crid=28FE7H9854KF2&dchild=1&keywords=goldfaber+colored+pencils&qid=1597212017&sprefix=goldfaber%2Caps%2C327&sr=8-2
"The packet is not really reusable for any extended period of time..." Me, who patches the paper packet up with tape and uses it to the bitter end: _pathetic_
Pathetic: Noooo, what we’re doing is extending and preserving the life of some...thing by creating and enveloping it in a whole new outer sticky tape casing. Aha, that’s it.
I've actually gone into an art store and bought every shade of red pencil of every brand. I wanted to make a comparison and I found the more expensive brands tend to blend better and have better saturation. But one must remember buying fancy supplies does not make you a fancy artist. lol
This. Absolutely love my Polychromos set. In my opinion, Derwent doesn't come even close, they feel hard and somehow uneven quality to me. If I had to switch to something else, it would be Caran D'ache Luminance. I consider Luminance to be the best among Faber Castell Polychromos (sometimes I even mix white from Luminance to poly). But I guess it's also a matter of personal preference which feels better. Lightfast range is another thing though.
I have recently been gifted the caran d'ache luminance coloured pencils by my grandma as I couldn't afford them myself. And I have to say that they're my absolute favourite now when it comes to making realistic art.
I tend to gravitate toward Faber-Castell, as they were my first love when it came to high-end colored pencils. Recently bought the Polychromos set and really think you should give them a try! They're pricey, but incredible. On the other hand, I had been wanting to try more Derwent products, and seeing this video has helped me to choose my first real set. So thank you for that! And seeing that you have apps available to help with daily drawing is fantastic. I've been lacking inspiration lately and it's been a bummer, so I can't wait to give this a go.
You’ve clearly never tried Caran D’ache Luminance they are absolutely outstanding. I own every set of derwent colour and graphite pencils, own the full range of Faber Castell colour and graphite pencils and own the Caran D’ache luminance colour pencils and grafwood graphite and they are absolutely outstanding.
I disagree. I think Polychromos are amazing but I think the Luminance are better. I have all Derwent pencils too and some of them are up there with the best of them.
@Lila Jouer that kind of depends on your preference. I personally love the coloursoft as they are very creamy so layer and blend amazingly but they don’t do fine lines well as they are very soft. If you prefer a harder pencil then the artist range is great and the pro colour are a great range. They are sort of in the middle in terms of firmness. The Derwent lightfast range offer the highest lightfast rating of any pencil. I would recommend the Derwent drawing range to anyone. They only have 24 colours but the black and white are the best you can get.
Here's some extra information on colored pencils: There are two types. There's wax-based and there's oil-based. They differ in consistency, oil pencils tend to have a firmer lead and hold their point better whereas wax-based pencils have a creamier consistency and can be blended better. You can also use these differently. For example, you could do some extra blending with the solvent method, but it will generally work best with wax-based pencils. Kirsty Partridge Art did an amazingly comprehensive video on how to use colored pencils (aimed at beginners but can be used for anyone to up their game). Hope this helped!
When I started actually trying to use colored pencils in my art I only had crayola pencils and while they are amazing quality pencils for being less then a dollar for a set they weren’t what I needed. When I finally upgraded to prismacolor premier it was night and day. While I am still learning the nuances of using colored pencils my art has improved 10 fold since acquiring my prismacolors.
I think this is why it's such a shame that we give children such bad quality supplies. For years, I thought I was just bad at art (and a huge disappointment to my artist grandmother). Nope - the minute she started sharing her $$$ art supplies with me, my art improved radically, and I discovered hey! I'm NOT that bad of an artist, I just need the right tools. (These days, when I'm trying to pick up a new medium, I try to find the least expensive artist-quality brand, because I know I'm not getting a good idea of the quality of a medium if I use the children's version.)
I love how Jazza does his challenge videos and also makes time for videos like this! It's super helpful for someone like me- an almost college student- so that I don't have to waste my money trying out new products!
Or, if you're gonna go all out, get the free pencils for making lists of stuff you want at Ikea. Those are pretty decent, but you might be expected to walk around the store for hours pretending to shop if you take one.
My grandson received 2 crayons at the place we ate one night, and he didn't want them so I was playing with them. My son looked over and goes "I never thought I would see shading and blending with 2 crayons..."
That's the children's range for the faber castell. The other brand had it's artist/studio grade matched against children's grade. It's nowhere near a fair match up.
Thank you. Came here to see if anyone else posted this. My polychromos and Albrecht Durer are over in a corner ugly crying. "I've never compared them before"... and you still haven't. This is like comparing rose art Crayola to oil pastels.
Same! I was a bit disappointed when I saw the cheaper Faber Castell pencils. I really love my Albrecht Durer and Polychromos, I'd love to see a video with those
I love love love prisma color. I was blessed to get prisma color color pencils way back in elementary school, I’m in 10th grade now. So they were super cheap and no one new the brand and you could buy them from 5 below, a store where items cost $5 and below. But even with years using them they still amaze me with how smooth they are and the variety of colors that comes in the 24 pack. I might try out Derwent color pencils but prisma colors really take the cake for me.
When I was an art student, everyone was allllllll about the prisma colors! I still have a tin of them somewhere I think. But to be honest, I never actually made a point of comparing different brands and finding the one I liked. I just went with prisma because everyone else did. :0 Now I'm thinking it's time to try something new.
Try making a collection of Faber Castell Polychromos. You can start out small (say 6-8 basic colors) and then gradually add more as time goes on. What's absolutely amazing about Polychromos is how well they blend and how great they feel when you work with them. They don't work like Prismacolor, they are oil based, hard, but creamy at the same time and they layer like a dream. The catch is you have to build up the color by adding thin layers of color on top of one another, so you have to be VERY patient with them, but the reward at the end is SO worth it.
@@ntex9722 Agreed. I have some 20+ yr old ones my dad gave me. And a 75 set of my own I bought. I need to work with them more because i've never been good at colour pencil. But they are amazing
rather then that, I think he was trying to compare standard cheap color pencils to expensive ones. but regardless faber castell is getting a bad name, when he could have compared cheap FCs with expensive FCs 😑
I have been drawing with Faber Castel pretty much my whole artist career, There's really good artist versions which are more expensive than 10 $, but also give way better results. I especially love the deep green tones that Faber Castel provides since I specialised myself on environmental drawings. :) The Faber Castel sharpies can also be used and even combined with the coloured pencils. I tend to use the dark sharpie tones like black or brown as outline while I use the coloured pencils for the flat colouring and shading.
He bought the childrens pencil line from Faber-Castell. The studio line would be the Goldfaber and the artist line the Polychromos. They are of course more expensive but would have been a more acurate comparison. Still Faber-Castell has a very high standard even for their childrens line!
@@Charlieto I guess it depends where you live? I'm from Europe so Faber-Castell is the most common brand and you get it everywhere, followed by Caran d'Ache then Derwent and Prismacolor.
Everyone: likes this comment so Jazza sees it Me: man Jazza goes through so much pain already making videos Also me: likes the comment with multiple accounts
One colored pencil art tip I have never heard from Jazza is that you should color your strokes in directions that follow the volume of the object. For example, a cylindrical shape like an arm should have arcs going “around” the shape.
Really love how the sorcerer turned out! Colored pencils are one of my favorite things to make art with. I started with Prismacolors, which are buttery and nice for the blending but I always have problems with them breaking. My favorite two brands to use together now are the Faber Castell polychromos and the newer Derwent Lightfast line. I’ve never tried any of Derwent’s other sets but those lightfasts are *fantastic.*
Something about that firefighter’s pose and expression makes him look like the kind of “firefighter” who shows up at bachelorette parties and not fires... 😂
When I was in Primary school (in the *cough* early 90's), Derwents were THE pencil to have. If you came back to school with a set of them (that you likely got for Christmas) you were the drawing King/Queen of the class. I still have some of mine that I got around 1993 and still use what's left of them.
Jazza: "Derwent are 50 bucks per tin" Me: Shifty eyes at the tin of Derwent on top of my wardrobe I got for my birthday years ago, that I haven't been using. I feel bad now :(
Don't feel bad. I have Faber Castell Polychromos pastel in blocks I got for my birthday and I never touched them because they're hella expensive and I don't want to waste them for low quality work lol.
@@themikatoon if you learn to work with "cheap" material you might find it quite hard to work with the more "expensive" one. Saves your wallet overall though. Maybe you'll end up giving it away
@@Pavlinka__ Expensive materials are easier to work with, but a lot of bad habits are picked up with cheaper materials. going over the same place too many times, pressing too hard, etc.
When it comes to colored pencils, for cheaper brands I would definitely choose crayola. They come in much larger packs for a vary of colors and are easy to blend and layer. They are also most of the time on sale which also lowers the already lower price. But when it comes to more expensive pencils, I would pick prisma color. The colors are vibrant and rich. They blend and layer perfectly and are still cheaper when it comes to higher end pencils. I love using them on mid toned paper. This really helps the highlights pop more than if used on normal white paper.
I feel like this was an unfair comparison because Faber Castell has their Polychromos line that should be just as good and rich as the artist quality of the Derwent
Wait, Is this guy comparing Derwent's Lightfast to anything that's NOT Faber Castell's Polychromos? Fuck, that's a huge "dislike" coming. EDIT: Oh, he's comparing mid-range to mid-range. Not bad, then.
@@isam1542 No, he's comparing mid-range to the 'play-and-learn'-range of Faber Castell, that is meant for children. Mid-range of Faber-Castell would be 'Goldfaber' pencils.
As a fairly new person in the drawing biz, i went out buying some colored pencils. I bought some Caran d'Arche pencils. I got them on sale, and i think they are great... A bit to the expensive side tho
@@irishizan I have no idea. I don't have a lot of time or patience for learning to sketch so there we go. Some of the spare CrazArt pencils refuse to return from the dead for me, lol.
My absolute go-to pencils are the polychromos, I love them soo much! But having said that, I am specifically a colour pencil artist, and I am creating pieces that I want to be lightfast and give the absolute best results. I did start off with a set of Derwent artists though, and while I don't use them anymore, they still sit proudly on my shelf in their pretty wooden box to remind me of where I came from :)
Na he's kind of lost it he used to be great at art but now the quality is deterierating like he actually used to be good at coloured pencils but now he's not really
Honestly, this video came at just the right time as I happened to be doing some artwork with my WHSmith coloured pencils (only British people will probably know them though)! They're probably not for professionals, but I got a 36 pack for £5 and I'm not complaining! It was great that I could put your advice into practice straight away!
I have a set of FC Alfred Dürer watercolor pencils that I got about 2 years ago. It was around £200 and in US dollars it would be $ 267.09. Right now on Amazon Nov 2021 they cost $304.99. Polychromos 120 set is $299. Where did you see them for 600?
My favourite pencils are the Faber Castel because I am on a budget and they work the best in my opinion on the cheaper side of pencils but I would love to give derwent a go once I am able to afford them. Also you only used basic Faber Castell’s it would have been cool to see the higher tier versions like the polychromos (not sure how to spell it 😂)
I think he was more so comparing the the professionalism of both products. Because the F-C colour pencils are still considered professional level, even though the are significantly cheaper than both the derwent pencils and the polychromos. So I think it was just a comparison of what is considered pencils for “beginners” and such.
@@chellie3118 The Faber-Castell ones Jazza used are the good (not crappy), but "normal" school pencils nearly every school kid uses (at least here in Germany, where they are from). I never considered them as "professional."
Mille Fiori Well, god, things must be a lot better in Germany, because, at least here in England, our schools can’t even afford basic stationary, let alone actual art equipment. So most of us who did/do art, at least from the artists I’ve met, we buy stuff like the basic F-C colour pencils because the were affordable but still of a more professional quality then, say, crayola.
I love to sketch with the Faber Castell, but I've never really tried any of the more expensive ones - the Faber Castell always did a good enough job for me :D
I personally love Faber Castell😍 Their more "professional" pencils are so good! I got them as a gift from my dad a couple of years ago and the color saturation is so good, you almost need no pressure. With other color pencils I often find myself pressing too hard because the coloring is so weak.
Moon Queen it’s not illegal to have the pencils, just illegal to sell. The US determined unsafe levels of pigments, I believe? There is such a long history of using dangerous substances in pigments I wouldn’t be surprised- cadmium and lead being standout examples. But, that’s just what I’ve heard, I don’t have any proof or anything.
When i was growing up on my birthdays my parents would always try and get me some colored pencils because pencils were my favorite thing to draw with. I noticed that as i got older the pencil brands got better. My favorite brand was the prisma color pencils because the lead isn't too hard and goes well down on the paper.
I'll be honest, when it comes to "non-professional" colored pencils, Crayola is FANTASTIC. I grew up using those all the time. Don't feel too bad, they are actually pretty capable!
I have all three, and I think the Faber Castell Classics do a better job overall, but Crayolas aren't far behind and have a better colour range. A lot depends on the paper you're using. With good paper it doesn't make much difference what brand you're using. Plus Crayolas work better on plain paper too.
I liked the character design session. It's been a minute since jazza has done a character design session. Refreshing to go back to that. I miss the prompt requests on twitch when he used to stream
When I was 8, my grandmother gave me her artist Derwent pencils that she bought individually while she was studying to become an architect. It was a right of passage in a way. I was so proud that I was trusted with these pencils. I think there are about 20 also in a home-made fabric pencil case. I loved those pencils and in the same year my auntie gave me a couple of lessons on how to use them. I’m pretty sure I completely spent at least four of those pencils right down to about 2 cm tall by the end of that school year. So my mum bought me a 12 pack of Derwent studios. This would be back in 1995. Nine-year-old me could tell that they just weren’t as good as my grandmother’s pencils. And I learnt that I don’t like scratchy pencils. But I used them to within an inch of their lives and can I just say Jazza those tins are shit in kids schoolbags. My tin was crushed and the plastic casing was completely shattered to smithereens even though I was doing my best to care for them because I had valuable pencils and I was proud to be looking after them “like an adult”. I have since had Derwent’s artist grade pencils and I actually think that they’ve change the recipe on me the closest thing I’ve come to finding that replicate that feeling I got when I was eight years old is the Fabre Castel Polychromos. Thanks to you Jazza I got to try those pencils in your box. Prismacolor premier pencils remind me of old school Crayolas. Both are like butter on the paper. I really wish that nine-year-old Me had been given a lesson in what the difference is between the pencils. 20 years later I was still searching for the right feeling Without understanding why I couldn’t find what I was looking for. I was so brand loyal to Derwent because my grandmother gave them to me and yet they never satisfied me.
I completely agree. My hubby bought me a 72 timber boxed set ofDerwent Artists over thirty years ago (YES I married him!) Their formula is SOOOOO much better then the modern Derwent Artists. Compared pencil to pencil the colours are the same or near enough but the lay down and feel is much much better.
This is a bit of a niche product but I always use the marco wooden colored pencils. Mostly because I was looking for the most eco-friendly pencils I could find. They are made with sustainable wood and not rainforest wood which most higher up pencils can't say. And that's a cause I stand behind so that's what I always use.
On a separate note... I just realized when you colour, you do so in lots of different directions. That would've drove my dad nuts, man. He always made sure I coloured in one consistent direction throughout my whole piece when I did art around him. Mostly now I colour like you tho. It's more fun when I'm not thinking about what direction my lines need to go...
Moral of the story: If you're a good artist, your artworks turn out amazing (like in this case) irrespective of your supplies! Also my go-to has always been Faber-Castell!
Faber castell polychromous is my favorite, I have the 120 pack I love your art and I love your app, I wish I was that good at art. My favorite drawing is the monkey 🐒
I actually have never used either dervent or Faber Castell. I've tried several brands, but those 2 aren't available in my local stores. I actually helped put together a care package for a coworker fighting cancer with a couple coloring books, pencil sharpener, pencil case, 24 pack of prisamacolors, 50 pack crayola colored pencils, lotions, snacks and sodas.
Back in 1988 I got my 1st Derwent set. I have always gone back to them from quilt design to drawing landscapes and creature portraits. My favorite is my armadillo man. I did one that's called a portrait of a personality. Anyway, I have like 7 with extenders.
He said at the start he was going back to basics and to the ones that you see everywhere (meaning in shops). At least in Australia you don't see prismacolour products often unless you go to an actual art shop.
Crap. The Champions League are Faber-Castell's polychromos (three stars), Caran D'Ache's Luminance and Derwent's lightfast. I particularly I HATE Derwent's color selection, but the pencils are good. I love the Caran's and the Fabers. In my opinion (and I own the 120 Faber Castell set), the best option would be to make a collection of: Faber Castell 72 set. This set should include all the 3-stars lightfast pencils, so the best and most lasting colors. It's also more manageable than the 120 set, which is way too much. Caran D'Ache's 20 pencils luminance set. It adorably complements those previous 72 Faber Castells and they are creamy and wonderful to use. I particularly have a beef with Derwent's Lightfast set. I bought the 32 one and not only did it have colors that were so similar they were almost the same, the color swatches on the box didn't match the colors inside, so you get a VERY dark, dull, lustserless set. If you draw only skin, nature or military settings, it might be interesting. I wrote to them infuriated and they were so kind as to send me 6 lighter pencils. I re-did the set taking the too similar colors and adding the six new ones and now it's a nice set, but it's still very dull and I can't recommend buying it unless you really like your browns and not-pure greens (brownish green, army green...) If like me, you love your blues, skip it completely. So... In my opinion, the best option is the 72 Faber Castell (Polychromos, of course) and compliment with the 20 Caran D'ache (Luminance, of course). If after that you want something more brownish, more realistic, more skin tone, the 36 Derwent (Lightfast, of course) set, could be a nice addition for collecting purposes, but I wouldn't recommend the Derwents on their own. Prismacolor? Not even in the same league. Tips break like bitches.
Funny Story : I once received the some Faber Castell colored pencils as a gift and on the tin it came with it advertised it as being watercolor that meant the pencils looked like water colors but my incompetent mind perceived it as meaning the pencils were basically paint brushes! So I dipped the colored pencils in water and was sorely disappointed when they didn’t paint a masterpiece so long story short don’t dip your colored pencils in water as if that wasn’t a given.
Chicken Butt watercolor pencils usually work by laying down (eventually mixing) the color and *then* you can go over with a brush loaded with water for blending/watercolor effects and texture. Though I have to say you can get better results using actual watercolor that is cheaper than watercolor pencils.
There’s a technique for those types of pencils that actually involves the pencil sitting in warm water...i did it for a project a few years ago...mainly for anywhere i wanted sharper lines instead of the classic watercolor look.
This felt like an unfair comparison. If you’re going to use those specific sets of Derwent pencils, I probably would have used the Faber Castell Polychromos. They’re more similar in price and are my personal favorite. They layer and blend well, feel really sturdy, their led has never broken before, and are nicely pigmented.
or used the Derwent academy range which the there cheap/kids range
As a Polychromos-lover I totally agree with you. When he was doing the last one I thought: "Wait, there are also artist grade pencils from Faber-Castell!!!"
olivia lane exactly what I thought. The ones he uses here are basically school supplies where I live...better school supplies....but school supplies :D
I was thinking the same!
Hmm, I thought he was comparing expensive vs cheap color pencil, like can you make good art with affordable color pencils, to encourage beginners. Instead of derwent vs faber castell.
*Video idea:* Start off with a set amount of colours like 10 and once you use a colour, you can't go back to it and use it again. I think the results would be really cool!
I think that would be an awesome idea. An addition to your idea could be that the viewers can pick what he draws as well. (My idea can also go separate from yours too but I think that our ideas combined would be super cool.)
I agree
Sounds like 12 Tone music to me haha
Good idea
G E N I U S
Basically you used the Faber Castel 'Kids Version' :D Faber also has more artists versions in tin storage.
I thought the same. That's like to compare a Ford with a VW-but they have Porsches(polychromos Pencil) that's not fair
Haha I thought the same and got annoyed
Jea and they are still competitive hahah
Right? I was like "…I've never seen Faber Castell at THAT much cheaper than Derwent, is this an Australia/America difference?"
Very expensive
"Faber castles are the cheap ones"
*Me who just bought faber castles and feels like I just bought the most luxurious pencils ever*
because you did -- the ones he used are the child range (notice the red packaging). The pro art supplies from Faber Castell are in a dark green packaging.
Well said!
Well if you bought this ones yeah, they are cheap but this does not mean they are bad. But if you bought Polychromos, these are high quality, expensive, and one of the best colored pencils on the world. So Faber castel is definelitly a good brand.
Because thease are the kids sets if u go with polychromos the are luxury
And i'm just bought faber castell classic 👁💧👄💧👁
Faber is one of the best brands out there when it comes to colored pencils. I'm pretty sure that if you got an "artists" set and not a "kids version" one you'd be surprised with the quality. They're not the cheapest but they're really really good
Thank you!!!!
True. In Germnay most of my primary school students have them and they are pretty robust (while drawing and sharpening). I bought myself some Staedler reinforced ones with a white lead supporter inside, that should prevent the coloured lead from breaking...guess what's breaking almost every single time, making them almost unusable?
Yep! I'm using the Faber castell polychromos and I LOVE them. They barely break when sharpening and you can layer them pretty well.
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👌gottie
Oh? Are they?
I have Zenacolor that I loved until I noticed these went dull faster than than my cheaper ones. Someone of them are half gone.
I'll need to replace them soon.
I've probably tried every single colour pencil out there and my faves out of those two are the Faber Castell's
What’s your favorite out of all color pencils you’ve tried mine is prismacolor
totally Tori Caran D’ache Luminance
@@TemiDansoArt But the price tag though....
totally Tori CrAyOla
Have you tried the Arteza ones?
i love how the music at the end matches all the different personas if the drawings. nice touch jazzer
Me who plays the Persona series: "dId I hEaR sOmEtHiNg?"
Jazza* not sure how you mess up the name of the channel
Jazzer haha
Jordan Hooper no need to be rude
Jazzer is my favorite roblox youtuber
This comparison is a little unfair. Those are the essentially the 'school' range of Faber castell vs Derwent's artist range. Derwent are also wax based like Prismacolor so perhaps that would have been a fairer comparison, where as Faber Castell is oil based which is why they are firmer and can hold an amazingly sharp tip. Also Faber Castells artist lines come in tins, the same as Derwents.
What he said in the video said it all: he's biased towards Derwent. He would've wanted to make his favourites remain his favourite, it seems.
The point of the video was to test different quality and price range pencils to see if expensive pencils were worth it how can he do that if they are all the same price range?
@@Jgh122293 Was that really the point? It didn't seem like an expensive vs cheap kind of video to me
Ozkan Ozkan Ozkan he literally said Derwent are on the pricey side of getting started $45-50 as you know they Faber ones are cheap around 10 and I want to see if they hold up at all or if they expensive ones are far and away better
Ozkan so again how can he test if the expensive pencils are better than cheap pencils if he buys pencils that are the same price?
Whenever I use coloured pencils, I never really resort to one brand in particular. I find each colour is different depending on the brand (for example, one brand's light blue could be slightly different than another brand), and it totally depends on what you're drawing. I have a big cup full of coloured pencils and I don't even look at the brands anymore, just the colour.
I love that idea
I do that with my markers. I have them all mixed up in my case and I choose which ones I use by looking at my swatch cards. I have memorized a cuple colour combinations as well so that makes coloring pretty easy.
I really enjoy using my Prismacolors, I really like how they feel.
Karen Spinosa I’m a prismacolor kid, too!
Me too
Same here!
They arent available in Europe (well you can order them but they are sooo expensive). Don't know about Australia, but i think they are pretty American based.
@Apple Pro they do break a lot but they are affordable for me compared to other pencils and I love how they feel :))
I do ask myself, just because I never heard of Derwent before:
Don´t you have Polychromos by Faber Castell in Australia?
They are really really good but by far the most expensive pencils you can by in Germany.
Are you sure? Caran d'ache are sooo much more expensive in my country! (The netherlands, haii neighbour.)
Yeah we have them but they arent as widely available.
Derwent are English pencil so not sure how wide spread world wide they are,
I second your opinion
am i the only that thinks its funny how an australien is using austrian pencils (faber castell)
I remember the Christmas that my uncle got me a set of 48 faber castell pencils when I was about 10. I had mostly had cheap, dollar store pencils up till then, and colouring with the new pencils made me feel like a "real artist". I spent that summer filling up an entire sketch book with art, and treasured those pencils like they were gold. 20 years later I still have the sketchbook, though the pencils got used up long ago.
That's happy sad I just fbggbgfcg ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The Derwent Artist and Studio pencils actually have the exact same core. The only difference is the thickness of the core and shape of the barrel. Also, it wasn't really a fair test because the Derwent pencils you used were Artist grade, while the Faber Castell were either for kids. Faber Castell have their own equivalent Artist grade pencils (Polychromos), which would have been a fairer comparison.
these are generally the brands of pencils that you will find side by side at any department store or newsagent in Australia, and therefore are probably the brands that many beginner artists start off playing with. to get the polychromos you need to go to an art shop or buy online, and then Derwent have the lightfast range to compete alongside those.
Probably it would be fairer to compare Derwent Pro Colour to Faber Castell Polychromos as their cores are slightly more similar but definitely this! Either that or Derwent Academy is a thing!
THANK YOU!
Vitallani polychromos would probably be better than the Derwent s to
@@cohenpeters7200 I expect you're right, although like @Cassandra Hanley said, the Derwent Lightfast are probably more comparable to Polychromos. I'm not a 100% sure, but I think they are both oil based pencils. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I feel like Polychromos, which are my faves, would have been better for the comparison than the basic Fabers.
That's what I was thinking. Went with Studio and Artist with Derwent, but the basic 10 dollar kids coloring book set.
Vet4FallujahCJ and fc still held up...just shows the better brand
Yeah. commented that as well. I chalk it up as insufficient knowledge, AKA maybe he did not even know they exist.
@@antoineleswan6670 I said that in my post too. Even in his drawing comparison, the 10 dollar FC looked actually brighter and richer in color.
@@siph0r154 doubtful, being a professional artist, that he wasn't aware of their existence. I think it was simply an oversight.
Not looking for the prize, just thought I would point out that people generally feel beginners should always start with cheaper materials, and gradually work there way up to more well known and expensive brands. I just want to say that you should not feel obligated to stop using cheep brands just because of your level of skill. I know I sort of went through that phase where I wanted every expensive art supply I could think of, because of the conception that your medium should improve with your skill. You don’t have to think that way.
I agree with the idea of choosing the supplies you like best no matter brand and cost. There is the long term quality to think about though if you wish to sell your art pieces. Student grade doesn’t always have the best pigments and can't therefor be considered museum quality pieces. Also I find using better quality supplies makes creating art or testing out different techniques easier. Things just go more smoothly and need less elbow grease than the cheap supplies.
True, cheaper stuff can be harder to work with, than the mid range and expensive ones, but you can still start with cheap materials, whatever floats your boat in drawing really
Uhhh... ok?
I didn’t know people felt like that because I’m the weird one that sketches instead of making an actual drawing :I
I always found this funny, partly because I usually had to "settle" for cheaper stuff because of financial limitations as opposed to skill. But then I started to find that like all limitations, that would tend to encourage more creative thinking to make something that would seemingly stretch beyond the bounds of those limitations.
Jazza: “Faber Castels are the cheap ones” Me: “I- I thought those were luxury..”
Faber Castells are definitely the luxurious ones! Once i tried them once - i immediately made the switch off of Derwent!
Same. The Faber Castel ones where what I used because the derwin's were too expensive. I have water color ones they expensive. Still have them over 20 years old.
Lol same
Edit: I was your 69th like
Faber castell has 2 grades: the student grade for kids/beginners and the artist grade (polychromos) for artists
@@lisa4471 And a third one you could call "studio", the Goldfaber series. They have been revamped and come in dark blue tins. They are comparable to the Polychromos line (dark green tins) but a with a thinner barrel, and they are more affordable. www.amazon.com/Faber-Castell-Creative-Studio-Goldfaber-Pencils/dp/B074GX76H3/ref=sr_1_2?crid=28FE7H9854KF2&dchild=1&keywords=goldfaber+colored+pencils&qid=1597212017&sprefix=goldfaber%2Caps%2C327&sr=8-2
Faber Castell has always been my preferred, Derwent gave me uneven colour every time
I use Faber Castell Polychromos. They're quality, and since they're oil based they blend and layer really well.
"The packet is not really reusable for any extended period of time..."
Me, who patches the paper packet up with tape and uses it to the bitter end: _pathetic_
Hahaha same, i still have and use a set like that, for the last 4 years :))
Like my
Me too
Pathetic: Noooo, what we’re doing is extending and preserving the life of some...thing by creating and enveloping it in a whole new outer sticky tape casing. Aha, that’s it.
Yep
I've actually gone into an art store and bought every shade of red pencil of every brand. I wanted to make a comparison and I found the more expensive brands tend to blend better and have better saturation. But one must remember buying fancy supplies does not make you a fancy artist. lol
I use Faber Castell Polychromos. I love them! They’re so smooth and can be blend very great.
The pigment is my favorite part. So bright! I personally think Prismacolor premier blends better but not as bright
I got the 120 pack when I first got into art. Used them once and havent touched them in 2 years.
This. Absolutely love my Polychromos set. In my opinion, Derwent doesn't come even close, they feel hard and somehow uneven quality to me. If I had to switch to something else, it would be Caran D'ache Luminance. I consider Luminance to be the best among Faber Castell Polychromos (sometimes I even mix white from Luminance to poly). But I guess it's also a matter of personal preference which feels better. Lightfast range is another thing though.
Me:
*sad Prismacolor noises*
I have recently been gifted the caran d'ache luminance coloured pencils by my grandma as I couldn't afford them myself. And I have to say that they're my absolute favourite now when it comes to making realistic art.
When it comes to colored pencils, I've always preferred Prisma Pencils, the control and blending ability was always an enjoyable experience.
I actually like the last drawing best... it feels more creative, and the contrast and everything feels just a little more natural.
I love crayola, cause its cheap thats my only reason.
Wow sarcasm
Your kidding right?
@@rakibul2794 I mean, if that's all you can afford, that's all you can afford.
I like Crayola because it's better then crazyart
@@madiz4228 exactly
PENCIL TOURNAMENT!!! We need it!
Yesssirr
Exactly
Jazza: reads comments
Jazza: looks at all the markers he bought
Jazza: looks at the money he spent
Jazza: NOT AGAIN!!!!
Yess pencil battle
I would love to see Jazza AND ADCArtAttack do a polychromos vs prisma vid.
I tend to gravitate toward Faber-Castell, as they were my first love when it came to high-end colored pencils. Recently bought the Polychromos set and really think you should give them a try! They're pricey, but incredible.
On the other hand, I had been wanting to try more Derwent products, and seeing this video has helped me to choose my first real set. So thank you for that!
And seeing that you have apps available to help with daily drawing is fantastic. I've been lacking inspiration lately and it's been a bummer, so I can't wait to give this a go.
Polychromos, all the way. Nothing else compares.
You’ve clearly never tried Caran D’ache Luminance they are absolutely outstanding. I own every set of derwent colour and graphite pencils, own the full range of Faber Castell colour and graphite pencils and own the Caran D’ache luminance colour pencils and grafwood graphite and they are absolutely outstanding.
Well.... there is a problem . They . be . hella . expensive .
I disagree. I think Polychromos are amazing but I think the Luminance are better. I have all Derwent pencils too and some of them are up there with the best of them.
Polychromos i think its the same faber castle right?
@Lila Jouer that kind of depends on your preference. I personally love the coloursoft as they are very creamy so layer and blend amazingly but they don’t do fine lines well as they are very soft. If you prefer a harder pencil then the artist range is great and the pro colour are a great range. They are sort of in the middle in terms of firmness. The Derwent lightfast range offer the highest lightfast rating of any pencil. I would recommend the Derwent drawing range to anyone. They only have 24 colours but the black and white are the best you can get.
"I can achieve perfectly professional results with these 10 dollars pencils" says the guy that can paint with skittles XD
Lol
Exactly! Its the skill not the tool :)
Spoiler!
He’s drawn/painted with rc cars, coffee, liquor, skittles, and so much more 😂 some cheap pencils shouldn’t be a problem
😆
Here's some extra information on colored pencils: There are two types. There's wax-based and there's oil-based. They differ in consistency, oil pencils tend to have a firmer lead and hold their point better whereas wax-based pencils have a creamier consistency and can be blended better. You can also use these differently. For example, you could do some extra blending with the solvent method, but it will generally work best with wax-based pencils. Kirsty Partridge Art did an amazingly comprehensive video on how to use colored pencils (aimed at beginners but can be used for anyone to up their game). Hope this helped!
When I started actually trying to use colored pencils in my art I only had crayola pencils and while they are amazing quality pencils for being less then a dollar for a set they weren’t what I needed. When I finally upgraded to prismacolor premier it was night and day. While I am still learning the nuances of using colored pencils my art has improved 10 fold since acquiring my prismacolors.
I think this is why it's such a shame that we give children such bad quality supplies. For years, I thought I was just bad at art (and a huge disappointment to my artist grandmother). Nope - the minute she started sharing her $$$ art supplies with me, my art improved radically, and I discovered hey! I'm NOT that bad of an artist, I just need the right tools. (These days, when I'm trying to pick up a new medium, I try to find the least expensive artist-quality brand, because I know I'm not getting a good idea of the quality of a medium if I use the children's version.)
I love how Jazza does his challenge videos and also makes time for videos like this! It's super helpful for someone like me- an almost college student- so that I don't have to waste my money trying out new products!
Shame Jazza made a shit comparison though!
I recommend the pencils at the child’s table in restaurants. Cheap and sometimes usable
i wish i wrote this comment
Or, if you're gonna go all out, get the free pencils for making lists of stuff you want at Ikea. Those are pretty decent, but you might be expected to walk around the store for hours pretending to shop if you take one.
My grandson received 2 crayons at the place we ate one night, and he didn't want them so I was playing with them. My son looked over and goes "I never thought I would see shading and blending with 2 crayons..."
Color pencils, or as I said as a kid 'pencil crayons' (weird Canadianism,) are so fun.. I like the Prismacolor Premier set.
yep, and everyone called peach ‘skin color’
I’m a Canadian too! Wait they don’t say pencil crayons?im an adult and still say that I haven’t grown up yet
same here man prismacolor is better because its very pigmented and it's easy to blend the colors
Jennifer Arbour Me too! To everything you said.
Prismacolors have wax right?
That's the children's range for the faber castell. The other brand had it's artist/studio grade matched against children's grade. It's nowhere near a fair match up.
THIS
Thank you. Came here to see if anyone else posted this. My polychromos and Albrecht Durer are over in a corner ugly crying. "I've never compared them before"... and you still haven't. This is like comparing rose art Crayola to oil pastels.
Same! I was a bit disappointed when I saw the cheaper Faber Castell pencils. I really love my Albrecht Durer and Polychromos, I'd love to see a video with those
right! Not sure why he chose to compare these two, it's not like he never seen or heard of polychromos before.
I love love love prisma color. I was blessed to get prisma color color pencils way back in elementary school, I’m in 10th grade now. So they were super cheap and no one new the brand and you could buy them from 5 below, a store where items cost $5 and below. But even with years using them they still amaze me with how smooth they are and the variety of colors that comes in the 24 pack. I might try out Derwent color pencils but prisma colors really take the cake for me.
When I was an art student, everyone was allllllll about the prisma colors! I still have a tin of them somewhere I think. But to be honest, I never actually made a point of comparing different brands and finding the one I liked. I just went with prisma because everyone else did. :0 Now I'm thinking it's time to try something new.
Try making a collection of Faber Castell Polychromos. You can start out small (say 6-8 basic colors) and then gradually add more as time goes on. What's absolutely amazing about Polychromos is how well they blend and how great they feel when you work with them. They don't work like Prismacolor, they are oil based, hard, but creamy at the same time and they layer like a dream. The catch is you have to build up the color by adding thin layers of color on top of one another, so you have to be VERY patient with them, but the reward at the end is SO worth it.
Prisma colours are some of the best coloured pencils out there
@@ntex9722 Agreed. I have some 20+ yr old ones my dad gave me. And a 75 set of my own I bought. I need to work with them more because i've never been good at colour pencil. But they are amazing
I think you can't compare the derwind pencils with the "standard" Farber Castell's, my opinion
Yeah, that's what I thought. At least buy F-C Polychromos and not the kid stuff.
I agree... This wasn't a fair fight😂
I think so too
rather then that, I think he was trying to compare standard cheap color pencils to expensive ones.
but regardless faber castell is getting a bad name, when he could have compared cheap FCs with expensive FCs 😑
@@NehalAkbor The video is about comparing the brands though
I have been drawing with Faber Castel pretty much my whole artist career,
There's really good artist versions which are more expensive than 10 $, but also give way better results.
I especially love the deep green tones that Faber Castel provides since I specialised myself on environmental drawings. :)
The Faber Castel sharpies can also be used and even combined with the coloured pencils. I tend to use the dark sharpie tones like black or brown as outline while I use the coloured pencils for the flat colouring and shading.
wow thank you for that knowledge
0:46
Prisma Color Pencils: Am I a joke to you?
Thinker, dreamer, sketcher, spy I love them though. Very good quality
@@thinkerdreamersketcherspy we have them in Australia in Jackson’s Drawing Supplies.
@Jenny Fält i use arteza because i cant afford prismacolors
Jazza: were gonna compare two pencil brands
Also Jazza: buys the cheapest Faber castell pack he can find
i mean faber castell really isnt expensive at all. the difference between the prices of their packs is how many pencils you get in the pack
He bought the childrens pencil line from Faber-Castell. The studio line would be the Goldfaber and the artist line the Polychromos. They are of course more expensive but would have been a more acurate comparison. Still Faber-Castell has a very high standard even for their childrens line!
@@sandraschwarz8464 never heard of them before
@@Charlieto I guess it depends where you live? I'm from Europe so Faber-Castell is the most common brand and you get it everywhere, followed by Caran d'Ache then Derwent and Prismacolor.
@@sandraschwarz8464 im in new zealand
We want a Pencil Tournument to find the WORLDS BEST COLOURED PENCIL 🙏✏️
Hopefully Jazza will notice this.
Everyone: likes this comment so Jazza sees it
Me: man Jazza goes through so much pain already making videos
Also me: likes the comment with multiple accounts
There are too many different colored pencils to be able to do that xD
This would be epic
Remember, happiness is money :/
Everyone else: Gives a very detailed explanation to why they like one of the drawings
Me: I like the monkey
Lol just that simple
You should get the monkey
Me too!
yes
Mmmm....Monkey...
One colored pencil art tip I have never heard from Jazza is that you should color your strokes in directions that follow the volume of the object. For example, a cylindrical shape like an arm should have arcs going “around” the shape.
Faber Castell or Derwent? I only have enough monz for crayola crayons my good sir.
The red coloured pack of faber castell colour pencil is pretty cheap as compared to the green box which is actually artist's grade!
@@ahanabanerjee01 i
Faber castell round here is very cheap
The faber castell watercolour ones are my favourite. Good for beginners and to start out, imho
@@MaverickRiou oh yeah i always used normal and when i tried watercolor ones they feel so gooooood
Really love how the sorcerer turned out!
Colored pencils are one of my favorite things to make art with. I started with Prismacolors, which are buttery and nice for the blending but I always have problems with them breaking. My favorite two brands to use together now are the Faber Castell polychromos and the newer Derwent Lightfast line. I’ve never tried any of Derwent’s other sets but those lightfasts are *fantastic.*
Something about that firefighter’s pose and expression makes him look like the kind of “firefighter” who shows up at bachelorette parties and not fires... 😂
He was sexy
Lol
;-hi
Well... he was possessed by a cowboy hat😗
AquaHeartGirl agreed! That’s Mr (insert month) firefighter lol
Music were like...bad porn? Idk it just added to the “yep he’s a stripper” vibe
i love how you can make the worst art materials look like good ones and make the great art materials seem otherworldly!!
I don’t ever remember buying Faber Castell pencils. They sort of just showed up in my pencil case at school one day.
When I was in Primary school (in the *cough* early 90's), Derwents were THE pencil to have. If you came back to school with a set of them (that you likely got for Christmas) you were the drawing King/Queen of the class. I still have some of mine that I got around 1993 and still use what's left of them.
Jazza: "Derwent are 50 bucks per tin"
Me: Shifty eyes at the tin of Derwent on top of my wardrobe I got for my birthday years ago, that I haven't been using.
I feel bad now :(
Don't feel bad. I have Faber Castell Polychromos pastel in blocks I got for my birthday and I never touched them because they're hella expensive and I don't want to waste them for low quality work lol.
@@themikatoon if you learn to work with "cheap" material you might find it quite hard to work with the more "expensive" one. Saves your wallet overall though. Maybe you'll end up giving it away
@@Pavlinka__ Expensive materials are easier to work with, but a lot of bad habits are picked up with cheaper materials. going over the same place too many times, pressing too hard, etc.
Do not feel bad. :)
Ill take em off your hands
Jazza: kid castel pencils or professional pencils
chooses the kids one
Not everything thats for kids are bad
honestly, i have been using faber castle my whole life and i thing they have great coverage and pigmentation and they also are very affordable
When it comes to colored pencils, for cheaper brands I would definitely choose crayola. They come in much larger packs for a vary of colors and are easy to blend and layer. They are also most of the time on sale which also lowers the already lower price. But when it comes to more expensive pencils, I would pick prisma color. The colors are vibrant and rich. They blend and layer perfectly and are still cheaper when it comes to higher end pencils. I love using them on mid toned paper. This really helps the highlights pop more than if used on normal white paper.
I feel like this was an unfair comparison because Faber Castell has their Polychromos line that should be just as good and rich as the artist quality of the Derwent
Wait, Is this guy comparing Derwent's Lightfast to anything that's NOT Faber Castell's Polychromos? Fuck, that's a huge "dislike" coming. EDIT: Oh, he's comparing mid-range to mid-range. Not bad, then.
@@isam1542 My guess is that it was hard to get in Australia unless he just forgot
ilse iglesias I’ve read that they are hard to get there.
@@isam1542 No, he's comparing mid-range to the 'play-and-learn'-range of Faber Castell, that is meant for children. Mid-range of Faber-Castell would be 'Goldfaber' pencils.
JAZZA whatever you draw with your art is still unbeatable. YOU ARE THE BEST
I like the Prismacolor pencils most. Just had to sell my soul first to afford them XD
Hahaha i know! Right? Too expensive
I got a brand new set on ebay for like 100 and it was their larger set. I love them
Yeahh same thing here jaja :)
Hahaha I got mine from a friend so I still have my soul
@@bluemoondelight That's a reasonable price, but no, I live in Europe.
Personally I like using the "Staedtler Noris Colour" Pencils, they have a soft led, easy to blend and are reasonably priced-
I like them but for me they never seem to have a good colour pay off every time I’ve used them. It seems fairly washed out
As a fairly new person in the drawing biz, i went out buying some colored pencils. I bought some Caran d'Arche pencils. I got them on sale, and i think they are great... A bit to the expensive side tho
Who else was here when the arty games app was first developed? Time has floooown
Factss
yep XD
Me 2
Paula Antoinette ya YEETUS I was here when arty games was a feetus
I only remember because I've watched his old videos I am a v recent bb
My favourites were always the Derwent studio back in GCSE art class. The colours were always so vibrant and accurate to the indicators on each pencil.
RUclipsrs make something like $100 seem like nothing while I'm here sweating over what to spend my $5 on
I feel you. But we make it work
true
Tianna Heitzman Who’s we?
well yeah becaus eof the income difference... back when they were college students too they did the same as us tho :)
Feel you
Jazza: uses “getting started” pencils
Me for a year: coloring all my drawings with crayola pencils and outlining the drawings with sharpies
well nothings wrong with that
Crayola are a really decent colouring pencil. They are up there as the best cheap pencils.
Crayola is actually pretty good, actually. Better than CrazArt that's still good
@@Socasmx Are adult coloring books still a thing ? I was hooked on them. I prefer Crayola. The lead kept breaking alot more with the CraZArt.
@@irishizan I have no idea. I don't have a lot of time or patience for learning to sketch so there we go.
Some of the spare CrazArt pencils refuse to return from the dead for me, lol.
My absolute go-to pencils are the polychromos, I love them soo much! But having said that, I am specifically a colour pencil artist, and I am creating pieces that I want to be lightfast and give the absolute best results. I did start off with a set of Derwent artists though, and while I don't use them anymore, they still sit proudly on my shelf in their pretty wooden box to remind me of where I came from :)
My favourite are some 37 year old caran dache watercolor pencils which my great grandma gave to my mum.
i love how Jazza can just draw good pictures easily.
Na he's kind of lost it he used to be great at art but now the quality is deterierating like he actually used to be good at coloured pencils but now he's not really
Honestly, this video came at just the right time as I happened to be doing some artwork with my WHSmith coloured pencils (only British people will probably know them though)! They're probably not for professionals, but I got a 36 pack for £5 and I'm not complaining! It was great that I could put your advice into practice straight away!
My favorite colored pencils are the Faber castell polychromos👌💯🔥
I heard so much about them so I ordered them on amazon
Same BROTHER!
SAAAME. Tho I use the classics for pastel colors.
Amy the weird teenager good idea! You won’t regret it🔥💯
Billy ツ Guns 👌🔥
I’m confused
Faber Castell has a 120 pack that costs 650 US dollars
It’s called polychromo artist pencils
These are Faber Castel's professional line of pencils, and are amazing, hard to beat with any other to compare.
Faber Castel range from beginner's that come in a red cardboard box up to professional that come in a tin or wooden box called Polychromos.
Polychromos are the best, Caran D'ache Luminence are great, Derwent Lightfast too! Very expensive though - but you can buy them individually!
I have a set of FC Alfred Dürer watercolor pencils that I got about 2 years ago. It was around £200 and in US dollars it would be $ 267.09. Right now on Amazon Nov 2021 they cost $304.99. Polychromos 120 set is $299. Where did you see them for 600?
I like arteza colored pencils because they’re cheap and high quality. The packaging is air tight and very professional. Will last a long time
My favourite pencils are the Faber Castel because I am on a budget and they work the best in my opinion on the cheaper side of pencils but I would love to give derwent a go once I am able to afford them. Also you only used basic Faber Castell’s it would have been cool to see the higher tier versions like the polychromos (not sure how to spell it 😂)
You spelled it right no worries! xD
The comparison was not that fair: Why you didn't use the Faber-Castell polychromos?
Mille Fiori that’s what I was thinking
yeah, my thought also 🤔
I think he was more so comparing the the professionalism of both products. Because the F-C colour pencils are still considered professional level, even though the are significantly cheaper than both the derwent pencils and the polychromos. So I think it was just a comparison of what is considered pencils for “beginners” and such.
@@chellie3118 The Faber-Castell ones Jazza used are the good (not crappy), but "normal" school pencils nearly every school kid uses (at least here in Germany, where they are from). I never considered them as "professional."
Mille Fiori Well, god, things must be a lot better in Germany, because, at least here in England, our schools can’t even afford basic stationary, let alone actual art equipment. So most of us who did/do art, at least from the artists I’ve met, we buy stuff like the basic F-C colour pencils because the were affordable but still of a more professional quality then, say, crayola.
I love to sketch with the Faber Castell, but I've never really tried any of the more expensive ones - the Faber Castell always did a good enough job for me :D
My favourite are absolutely Fabre-castell polychromos.
Yesss I fully agree. I need to get my hands on more of them tho.
I personally love Faber Castell😍 Their more "professional" pencils are so good! I got them as a gift from my dad a couple of years ago and the color saturation is so good, you almost need no pressure. With other color pencils I often find myself pressing too hard because the coloring is so weak.
Best colouring pencils I’ve used in my life:
1- Holbien (but freaking expensive) oil based.
2- Prismacolour (wax based)
3- Faber castell polychromos (oil based)
4- Derwent (artist).
I would literally die to try the Holbein pencils but they are illegal in the US so it is super expensive and sketchy to get them off eBay.
Sarah Rambhatla wow I didn’t know about the illegality 😦 so I should not bring them when visiting the US. But why? Do you have an idea?
Moon Queen it’s not illegal to have the pencils, just illegal to sell. The US determined unsafe levels of pigments, I believe? There is such a long history of using dangerous substances in pigments I wouldn’t be surprised- cadmium and lead being standout examples. But, that’s just what I’ve heard, I don’t have any proof or anything.
Moon Queen it’s just illegal to sell them. I don’t know much about the whole thing but you can bring them to the US.
Prisma colored pencils are my favorite hands down. They blend well and the pigment is rich and vibrant.
When i was growing up on my birthdays my parents would always try and get me some colored pencils because pencils were my favorite thing to draw with. I noticed that as i got older the pencil brands got better. My favorite brand was the prisma color pencils because the lead isn't too hard and goes well down on the paper.
Jazza: Derwent or Faber Castell?
Me: *crying in corner with Crayolas*
I'll be honest, when it comes to "non-professional" colored pencils, Crayola is FANTASTIC. I grew up using those all the time. Don't feel too bad, they are actually pretty capable!
You can still create amazing artwork with crayola products
At least u dont have crazy art colored pencils
Me too
I have all three, and I think the Faber Castell Classics do a better job overall, but Crayolas aren't far behind and have a better colour range.
A lot depends on the paper you're using. With good paper it doesn't make much difference what brand you're using. Plus Crayolas work better on plain paper too.
"A monkey dressed as a ninja, raised in the forest, with a dark aura." - Anyone else think of Sips from Dingo Doodles?
I was thinking that aswell
exactly
I liked the character design session. It's been a minute since jazza has done a character design session. Refreshing to go back to that. I miss the prompt requests on twitch when he used to stream
When I was 8, my grandmother gave me her artist Derwent pencils that she bought individually while she was studying to become an architect. It was a right of passage in a way. I was so proud that I was trusted with these pencils. I think there are about 20 also in a home-made fabric pencil case. I loved those pencils and in the same year my auntie gave me a couple of lessons on how to use them. I’m pretty sure I completely spent at least four of those pencils right down to about 2 cm tall by the end of that school year. So my mum bought me a 12 pack of Derwent studios. This would be back in 1995. Nine-year-old me could tell that they just weren’t as good as my grandmother’s pencils. And I learnt that I don’t like scratchy pencils. But I used them to within an inch of their lives and can I just say Jazza those tins are shit in kids schoolbags. My tin was crushed and the plastic casing was completely shattered to smithereens even though I was doing my best to care for them because I had valuable pencils and I was proud to be looking after them “like an adult”. I have since had Derwent’s artist grade pencils and I actually think that they’ve change the recipe on me the closest thing I’ve come to finding that replicate that feeling I got when I was eight years old is the Fabre Castel Polychromos. Thanks to you Jazza I got to try those pencils in your box.
Prismacolor premier pencils remind me of old school Crayolas. Both are like butter on the paper.
I really wish that nine-year-old Me had been given a lesson in what the difference is between the pencils. 20 years later I was still searching for the right feeling Without understanding why I couldn’t find what I was looking for. I was so brand loyal to Derwent because my grandmother gave them to me and yet they never satisfied me.
I completely agree. My hubby bought me a 72 timber boxed set ofDerwent Artists over thirty years ago (YES I married him!) Their formula is SOOOOO much better then the modern Derwent Artists. Compared pencil to pencil the colours are the same or near enough but the lay down and feel is much much better.
This is a bit of a niche product but I always use the marco wooden colored pencils. Mostly because I was looking for the most eco-friendly pencils I could find. They are made with sustainable wood and not rainforest wood which most higher up pencils can't say. And that's a cause I stand behind so that's what I always use.
Margery Hood your that one blue haired girl in ninth grade
@Nugget xTaymour Not really, I'm a practicing pagan my whole religion stands on respecting nature so I want to do that with my art supplies as well.
I respect that
@@taymour961 yeah buddy, you failed at being mean, dont be a shit person to someone trying to respect nature :)
@@taymour961 im happy i found this comment i think ill be checking those out, ive been looking for eco friendly options for a while
Jazza: Derwent or Faber Castell
Me: cries in crayola
Me: cries in homemade pencil
*laughs in Prismacolor*
We have a step bellow Crayola, in the USA, it's called Rose art.
Laughs in alcohol marker because i dont like colored pencils
Me: Cries in burnt twig
I have a pack of my Dad's Derwents from when he was in high-school in the 70s.... the quality has remained. Nice pencils! Smooth.
On a separate note... I just realized when you colour, you do so in lots of different directions. That would've drove my dad nuts, man. He always made sure I coloured in one consistent direction throughout my whole piece when I did art around him. Mostly now I colour like you tho. It's more fun when I'm not thinking about what direction my lines need to go...
Nobody:
My auto-generated captions: “gouda ever won I’m jazz I “
Lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mine says"Get everyone I'm jazza. 😆
RUclips needs help, I was early and it said 438 likes and 0 views 😂😂😂
Ava T. One time I watched a video and it had 300 something views and 1k comments
I looked at the comments and everyone really wants that gift card.
🤭🤭
Bruh it only works in America cos its dollars so I'm not
I feel like jazza's imagination and creative perspective is at level infinite
I’m in love with the Polychromos❤️🖍 Blending is amazing, super comfortable, and also wide variety
In Peru, usually the professionals use Faber-Castell and I love their polychromos line.
Perú!!!!!
Same in Turkey
Nice to know!
Same is Australia, prisma colour is popular too
Favorite coloring pencil: a Crayola that has been used hundreds of times whilst living in an art room for years and somehow still has life.
I am no artist but it's so mesmerising to watch Jazza draw and colour!
Moral of the story: If you're a good artist, your artworks turn out amazing (like in this case) irrespective of your supplies!
Also my go-to has always been Faber-Castell!
I agree! If you are a good artist any medium will get good results!
I'm sure he could make great art with a stick sharpened to a point and dipped in ink.
Faber castell polychromous is my favorite, I have the 120 pack
I love your art and I love your app, I wish I was that good at art.
My favorite drawing is the monkey 🐒
Jazza: makes video about Dervent Vs. Faber Castell.
Prismacolor: Am I a joke to you?
Jazza: Yes!
I actually have never used either dervent or Faber Castell. I've tried several brands, but those 2 aren't available in my local stores. I actually helped put together a care package for a coworker fighting cancer with a couple coloring books, pencil sharpener, pencil case, 24 pack of prisamacolors, 50 pack crayola colored pencils, lotions, snacks and sodas.
Why are all the pencil sets brand new if he's used them before? I like seeing well-used sets, you can tell which color people run out of.
It’s derwent not dervent
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Students be like: Well, we can make do with crayola.
Back in 1988 I got my 1st Derwent set. I have always gone back to them from quilt design to drawing landscapes and creature portraits. My favorite is my armadillo man. I did one that's called a portrait of a personality. Anyway, I have like 7 with extenders.
I would say Prisma color colored pencils because they a pretty good pencils for the price and a good entry/ intermediate artists
With almost 8k comments, I'm sure that someone else has asked "what about prismacolor?"
He said at the start he was going back to basics and to the ones that you see everywhere (meaning in shops). At least in Australia you don't see prismacolour products often unless you go to an actual art shop.
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Not gonna lie had the same thought and also artist set of Faber Castell
Crap. The Champions League are Faber-Castell's polychromos (three stars), Caran D'Ache's Luminance and Derwent's lightfast. I particularly I HATE Derwent's color selection, but the pencils are good. I love the Caran's and the Fabers.
In my opinion (and I own the 120 Faber Castell set), the best option would be to make a collection of:
Faber Castell 72 set. This set should include all the 3-stars lightfast pencils, so the best and most lasting colors. It's also more manageable than the 120 set, which is way too much.
Caran D'Ache's 20 pencils luminance set. It adorably complements those previous 72 Faber Castells and they are creamy and wonderful to use.
I particularly have a beef with Derwent's Lightfast set. I bought the 32 one and not only did it have colors that were so similar they were almost the same, the color swatches on the box didn't match the colors inside, so you get a VERY dark, dull, lustserless set. If you draw only skin, nature or military settings, it might be interesting. I wrote to them infuriated and they were so kind as to send me 6 lighter pencils. I re-did the set taking the too similar colors and adding the six new ones and now it's a nice set, but it's still very dull and I can't recommend buying it unless you really like your browns and not-pure greens (brownish green, army green...) If like me, you love your blues, skip it completely.
So... In my opinion, the best option is the 72 Faber Castell (Polychromos, of course) and compliment with the 20 Caran D'ache (Luminance, of course). If after that you want something more brownish, more realistic, more skin tone, the 36 Derwent (Lightfast, of course) set, could be a nice addition for collecting purposes, but I wouldn't recommend the Derwents on their own.
Prismacolor? Not even in the same league. Tips break like bitches.
Prismacolors are sub-par....
Funny Story : I once received the some Faber Castell colored pencils as a gift and on the tin it came with it advertised it as being watercolor that meant the pencils looked like water colors but my incompetent mind perceived it as meaning the pencils were basically paint brushes! So I dipped the colored pencils in water and was sorely disappointed when they didn’t paint a masterpiece so long story short don’t dip your colored pencils in water as if that wasn’t a given.
Chicken Butt watercolor pencils usually work by laying down (eventually mixing) the color and *then* you can go over with a brush loaded with water for blending/watercolor effects and texture. Though I have to say you can get better results using actual watercolor that is cheaper than watercolor pencils.
I did that too once. Although it didn’t exactly “work” I liked the pigment that was laid down and I actually made one of my favorite artworks so far.
There’s a technique for those types of pencils that actually involves the pencil sitting in warm water...i did it for a project a few years ago...mainly for anywhere i wanted sharper lines instead of the classic watercolor look.
I really liked the sorcerer--I thought it was a unique design and the green light effect was nice, too.