THESE PENCILS ARE NOT WHAT I EXPECTED.. Faber Castell Polychromos Review & Test
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2017
- Today I'll be reviewing the famous Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils. These are one of the top preforming pencils for their semi pricey price point....and they were NOT what I expected.
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in the Philippines, Faber Castel is actually the #1 Color Pencils! There are different kind of Faber Castels to!
Yeah heres a list of some i saw in national bookstore(ph.artstore)
1.classic
2.polycromos
3.goldenfaber
4.watercolour pencils classic
5.classic triangle version
6.pitt pastel
i can't see polychromos here ugh :( so i'll just stick to prismacoloe 72ct
Prismas are more controlled
Same in Argentina
I know.
Is Faber Castell highly famous in the US?
Here in Brazil it is the most famous pencil brand (sorry about bad english)
Cheao yes and it isnt that expensive here
Rare Pearlz In Indonesia here, when we have drawing class all my friends had brought faber-castels color pencil buuut i am the only one that brought other color pencils brand ;-;
In India too faber castell is pretty common
+cheao I think it's because Farber-Castell was founded in Germany...
Sayuri Mariae Ya I agree
I remember when one of my classmates would keep on buying hella fancy color pencils and would complain that they were no good because she couldn’t draw or color well
Same, I have some one is my class that has a bunch of copics but she colors with them so hard she BROKE them 😖
My mom got prismacolors and I brought them to school. My friends tried them out and told me they sucked.
They were the best thing that happened to me.
@@Sofia-ng1dc how the hell does someone break copics? What is she, the hulk?
And yet, Peta Hewitt creates master pieces out of cheap pencils. It's possible with actual talent.
Rebecca Martinez she broke the nib, not the barrel. Sorry for not making it clear ;-;
what I know about these pencils that is necessary to use light pressure to make a lot of layers (5, 6 layers) to blend a lot of colors and reach a good degrade. you are using too much pressure for them, try to use again with light pressure.
Pencils are indeed a perfect medium to layer and blend. You could actually layer up to 12 colord to blend 🙈 I think colored pencils are a very interesting medium to work with, I'm excited to experiment a little bit more 😇
u right
+Gisele Martins Galdin You are right, this is also my experience. Soft pressure will bring you a long way and you can create all kinds of color shades with a small number of pencils
Shes heavy handed
Rae has said in other videos that she is heavy handed
I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO DRAW
Holly Molefhe-Mangadi I believe in you.
Mandy Gordon thank you
I recommend drawing from pictures and things around you at first. When I was first starting I would look up something on google and draw it many times. Also, draw everyday, a lot of days you're not gonna have good ideas, or they may turn out bad, but just keep going. Lol those are my tips, I wish you luck
Whoop Whoop I just took inspiration from anime and stuff like that and I tell you that can change a lot already XD
(Weeeellll, I have been drawing a lot since I was young until now. And the only thing I can say is Practice makes Perfect its what they always tell me and theyre right. It just takes time. We all have our own art style. )
Holly Molefhe-Mangadi google it then
The formula is consistent with these pencils.The texture difference you see happens when you start building layers, it doesn't matter whether it's one colour or many, it starts of highly textured, and the more you add on, the smoother it gets. I've used Faber Castell ever since I was a child, and refuse to use any other brand, as they have the best quality and most use for my style.
Lovino D'Souza how do u know it's the best quality if u only used them but still they are probably the best I have used
The paper cool be the issue also. That recycled toned paper always has little fuzzy bits that tend to become a problem if you use harder colored pencils like these. Prismacolor is so soft that this isn't an issue. Use these on hotpress or smooth Bristol & you won't have any issues. Tbh I've had WAY more issues with prismas being inconsistent, with little flecks of darker pigment that I have to scratch off because they ruin the color. 😖😭💔 Faber's have never betrayed me in such a way, although I do wish that they were a bit more buttery in consistency. . . But at least they don't break every few times you sharpen them. It evens out. 😅😜
Lovino D'Souza I just started using colored pencils a few months ago, and I just got some faber castell not too long ago. I have only made one drawing with them, and I love them, but I'm still a beginner. Any tips on using them you wouldn't mind sharing? I could really use the help.
I'm sorry, but I'm not really the best person to ask, since explaining things that I've been doing for quite a while hard to do. I'm sure you can find many great tips and tutorials on RUclips though. Good luck :)
Didn't say "never used" but "refuse to use any other brand" which means she may have tested other brands but doesn't want to use them on a consistent basis.
I've got the 120 Faber Castell polychrome set and it was one of the best art investments I ever made, I love them so much, blending and the texture is a dream when your use to the pencils. I highly recommend !! I honestly love them!
LUCKY
Ya your lucky cause l only have crayola but it is still good lucky you youve got the 120 its prob smooth and your drawing is look so nice compare too mine oof
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itz moonnight lydia don’t say that!! Come on, everyone has to start somewhere.. you will become the best one day,, believe in yourself.
@@lol-yh6dx lol what
Teacher:today class we will be coloring flowers
Kids:*pull out crayola*
Me:*pulls out polychromos*
Has the best flower in the class
Ivan Thai Me:pulls out copics
@@Rikulolx pulls out oil pastels
puggybell 08 maybe a bit too far... nah jk u gon have best flower in class
Valkyrie *pulls out watercolors*
pulls out wacom cintiq 27 hd
Hard to blend?? I have polychromos myself and they are SOO easy to blend!! I mean it! Amazing vid Rae❤
Yeah its beacuse she just started using them she needed to ware them in
laurel ...So how do u blend FABER-CASTELL POLYCHROMOS ? Im considering buying a set on sale ....so would b very interested in ur answer ....thanks :)
thinking of getting a set of 20 but I'm not exactly rich and I see it as a big enough investment. I want to get different shades and colours out of those 20 that I'll have so I was wondering if it really is easy to blend them without chemicals..?
I did a video from wish faber castell pencils, I was just scrolling and they showed up so I just needed to have them 😂 I actually don't know if there's a difference..
SAME
Rae: these are so pigmented
Manny: yeah, like literally so pigmented
it's lit yessss
😂😂
Lol
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Lmao, I imagine Manny in the
Background intensifying.
They’re meant more for layering than blending. You build up light layers, much like with oil paints. You can get a lot of detail that way.
i actually learnt how to use coloured pencils with these and they blend incredibly, layer perfectly, literally anything i have used them for they have been incredible. highly highly recommend
awesome drawing, but *listens to faaber castel pronounced in english* *ultimate cringe for my german ears*
Alaska Ride Gleichfalls XD
Alaska Ride how do yall pronounce it tho
I'm curious now. How it is pronounced? In Spanish (or at least in Mexico) we call them FAH-ber Kaz-tell
"fäybawr keställ"
Jb Gra you pronounce it the same way in german💕
One reason I prefer Faber Castell to some of the cheaper brands is that it is possible to replace and/or supplement the colors by buying them one at a time, which the very cheap brands will not let you do. Also, I have heard that they work really well with Color Pencil Blender on sanded paper and once I save up, I want to try this - it looks like it is almost like working with colored pastels, but you can layer much more easily.
I use both the polychromos coloured pencils and carbothello pastel pencils. I use stonehenge or fabiano paper (with zest spirits for blending) for the pc and sennelier la carte pastel card for the carb's. The pastel pencils can layer many times more than the poly's and blending is much better plus you can still get fine detail and results much faster (like 4 times as fast) but for small drawings I would go with the poly's and anything above a5/a4 size would have to be the carb's.
I find using Bristol board pretty good to blend on since it's super smooth and you can later a lot and there's not a lot of texture. I do use prismacolors so my experience might be different
@@sarakg4210 It won't work for higher end pencils, they need tooth on the paper to fill up. Polyochromos works best on sanded paper, it's like a completely different pencil.
Thanks for the review! I'm not a color pencil artist, but I'm interested in getting started with the medium.
Actually, if a may point out an important technical matter, the difference in blending that you experienced with different colors is the result of variations in binder/filler/pigment formulation due to the different physical properties of various pigments used in the formulation of a particular color core. High quality pigments, many of them natural, vary greatly in hardness, solubility, and working properties. The result of this is that the formulation for each of the different color pencil cores must vary in an attempt to achieve consistency; this consistency is never really achieved due to the essential differences in these pigment properties.
In reality, variance in artistic handling properties across a color range is often the very mark of superb pigments used in the various formulations. Pastel artists, in particular, are intimately aware of this, and very often hold discussions as to the best way to work with a certain pigment from a certain brand. As high-quality pastels are nearly all pigment, it is quite easy to feel, and even see, the differences in pigment properties. Some pigments used in professional pastels are so soft as to nearly crumble under the slightest pressure and blend like pure fine powder, while others are soft but gritty, some are a medium hardness but are great for impasto effects, and others are harder still but seem to blend well, and so on.
Idk what is the best
So
Like for: POLYCHROMOS
coment for : PRISMACOLOR
Thanks guys i have made my choice
To be honest, which brand is better suited depends on your technique entirely. I'm very, very lighthanded and i love to layer so Polychromos are for me (blending is easy with Polychromos this way). If you want results faster and want to be done in three layers Prismacolor is probably your best bet. I cringed a bit when i saw how heavyhanded she was in the video. That's why the green didn't blend that well. You could see her Prismacolor-Approach to the Polychromos. She would've had better results, if she would've taken her time to learn them. As they are totally different than the Prismacolor (like day and night different).
The last point that they have the exact same color range as all Faber Castell Lines is true. I use the Polychromos and the Albrecht Dürer and they have the same colors.
Prismacolor all the way
Prismas all the way.♥♥♥
STAEDTLER XD
tbh, prismacolors were my first "professional" coloured pencils so if you are a beginner, I would suggest Prismacolor
"Imagine crayola colored pencils , but on STEROIDS "- Rae 2017
Lol thanks for all the likes peoples ❤️
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Kawaii Neko San thanks
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i think the difference between the top & bottom of the skull is that you started pressing harder on the blue which made it blend better than a light layer of the green on the top
The Stoned Videogame Nerd Yes she should have pressed down harder in some places. To shade, for example, or to get a dark blue. I use Faber-Castell all the time and I know how they work.
She doesn’t even know that she’s texturing with her hand pressure... lol I’m not so positive I trust her review
@@unfedkitten Honestly I was shocked. She's supposed to be an "artist" who studied art in college. Makes you wonder what the hell you get for paying a fortune for a degree in America.
The thing with Faber Castell is that they require a completely different technique for blending than Prismacolors. Being oil based the blending is done through layering thin layers of color on top of one another. It's.... tedious and not for the heavy handed, but the blending is sooooo smooth once you're finished it's amazing.
I love using these when adding finishing details to my water color paintings. The work better for me because they don’t have the waxy sheen
Ok if it says they're smudge proof, wouldn't it be kinda obvious that they wouldn't blend that easily..? Idk just asking, i have no idea how this works lol
they blend best with a stump and a bit of baby oil, but heavy pressure and dry blending techniques do work.
I’m a high school student and I started out with this brand of color pencils. My teacher bought one of the larger packs for us to use to create competition pieces. I personally have never had any problems with blending. You are right about the range of colors you can get with just one pencil! It amazing how light or how dark a color you can get just using one pencil!
I was frustrated the first day I used my polychromos pencil because I was used to using Prismacolors. You can't use them the same, I love them now
I got 60 of them for my birthday and they are so amazing 🤯
Woow lucky you soooo are you are an artist?
@@Asterflower123 I do draw a lot. I don't know if I can consider myself an artist but I love drawing, painting and being creative.
I personally think they are the best. I love drawing 2 🌸😊
I have the 120 set.
WoW! Somebody loves you. And yeah, I’d say they respect that you would use them. Keep on drawing, Monk 😉👍🏾
WHERES MY DIY WATERCOLOR PAPER? XD lol I'm joking but only a little bit 😂👍🏻♥️
Abbie Schrage lel omg ikr
Abbie Schrage still perfecting the recipe
SuperRaeDizzle yay omg I really wanted to watch that vid 😂😂😂
We need it fasttt I have been drawing for 4 years now
But I never got any profesional or actually good pencils
I use only one pencil ..and when it breaks i get a new one.. and normal paper
Omg I didn't know she favorited it 😂 lol love u Rae!
Faber-Castell are like one of the best brands sell on Spain, not surprised of their quality
Same in Greece, Faber castell and staedtler are the best ones quality wise
Sara García Same in the Philippines...I have the unbreakable one....Like when you PUT IT HARD ENOUGH it wont break....
Same in Greece
Same in germany!
McKings in HD not all. My friend got some pretty high quality color pens
I have the set with 36 colors, and I really think they're good. The first drawing I used them for, is the best artwork I've ever made
indeed, cheap art tools is a waste of sweat
I have the skin tones range and they work really well- my grandma bought them years ago for my mum but they didn't really get used so now they're mine 😊
I have those pencils (24 pack tho) but I don't even use them cuz I don't draw lmao
0littlebirdblue ILL HAVE THEM
I'll take good care of them.
LITERALLY MY LIFE
0littlebirdblue Donate them! *u*
I had the 100 pack for school when I didn't draw and I had no clue.Now I draw and I can't buy them again😭😭
I really love Faber Castell as a brand. Basically all their art supplies are high quality and I really enjoy using them. Here in Germany I guess it's the most popular brand. I've been using Faber Castell pencils all my life.
I remember when I first got a set of Faber Castell from my brother. I was so excited it was like Christmas lol. He and I both sketched alot and he could blend colours so beautifully even with low priced pencils. That's why he gave me his Faber Castell set ,because he preferred the low priced ones as they blended easily and had good pigment. I now only own budget low priced pencils because I prefer them.
i got the 120 and i dont regret it
It definitely takes patience to be able to use them
also using light layers and then i would recommend burnishing said layers with the lightest shade used in that area
im considering getting the luminance as they are a blend of oil and wax based so id be able to get its blendabilty and still be able to add the finer details and textures with the polychromos
I don't even know how I got here... but oh well...
I bought the 36-pencils-set a while ago, and at first I, too, struggled with blending. The thing with this pencils is, that they don't really smudge - as advertised - which makes it hard for everyone used to smudge the colours, as I for example am. But it does have great benefits and it just needs different handling to actually blend the colours. As I experienced it, you make the most out of the pencils if you have a high enough amount of colour on the paper - with the pencils being so hard, you also need some colour on the paper to get rid of the visible paper structure. That's also the point where one actually benefits from having a broader range of colours, blendig here seems to be more about layering the colours than about trying to mix/smudge two of them. So I'd say it's not quite true that the different shades blend differently, but the parts of your drawing, where you pressed harder on the paper, because you liked the darker look, are just the parts of your drawing that had a bigger amount of colour and therefore blended more nicely.
I hope that helps, those pencils are great once you get used to them. If you got any questions, or would like me to better explain what I mean just ask.
Have a nice day! :)
Martina Betting you know that you don't have to write a novel right
The correct way to achieve darker or saturated colors with these pencils is to paint layer by layer, without pressing. This way you will get excellent finishes. To remove the strokes and make it more homogeneous, the ideal is to use a blender of your brand of trust.
I added a link as an example: www.amazon.es/KOH-I-NOOR-Artistas-L%C3%A1piz-colores-Blender/dp/B010HEORS4/ref=sr_1_4?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1518463544&sr=1-4&keywords=l%C3%A1piz+blender
Kailey Thorsen you know your comment was kinda unnecessary right
Martina Betting ñnfg, nhh
I got the 120 pack✍🏻
Different types of pencils need different types of blending and layering.
The formula is 100% consistent in every Polychromo pencil. Some Pigments are harder than others, but you will notice that in all pencils, that depends on the pigment itself.
The difference you experienced, is that you have more layers on the jaw than on the green spot. If you use Polychromos its all about layering and building it up. As more layers, as smoother the surface gets. Thats the main difference between oil and wax, very soft wax in Prismacolors. You can do so much more layers with the Polychromos (without waxbloom) that you wouldn't be able to with Prismacolors. Often you don't need blending tools because you blend it in while layering up and blending afterwards is harder compared to e.g. Prismacolors, simply because you don't have wax that you can push around. Hope you understand or can imagine what I mean. Prismacolors take the amount of wax on a so high level that you can't even compare them with Polychromos from how they work because that are two opposite extrems.
In germany Prismacolors aren't very common, most don't like the waxy look, so you buy them for a price of the lowest end of an artistgrade, more better studentgrade based from the pricerange. Maybe also 'cause it's not common to use OMS, what much people use with prismacolors. OMS is very hard to get here, usually you have to import them. I heard (often times) that artist or students that color with Prismacolors get bullied here and called fake-artist because they don't know how to blend and use the cheaty way.
I think it's personal preference what you like to use, yes you may need different techniques but it depends on all together what you choose and prefer for yourself. Even if you can build up and layer perfectly, that doesn't mean you like it. I use waxbased pencils too but Prismas are way to greasy for my preference. Maybe I'll try them out again, if the quality control gets better
I know you probably know this by now and the pencils have improved so much, cuz it's been like 3 years-but ima say it anyways, that the more layers you put down the easier they're to blend.
I just got a set of these for Christmas and I'm currently testing them out. So far, I love them! Absolutely fabulous.
like literally SO pigmented
Grace Quintal 😂😂😂😂😂😂
*S O P I G M E N T E D*
A lot of artists stopped using Prismacolor because the quality started going down. Many artists favor Polychromos. If you want to blend, I heard you can use Gamsol. (Which I would only recommend using if you're an adult.)
Baby oil works ALSO alcohol marker blenders work very well with Polychromos.
Why only if your a adult
@@jersychase6624 Because it's not non toxic.
I’ve used olive oil with polychromos and I found it had a much better result than gamsol and no toxic smell.
PUMPKIN Rae!! ❤️❤️🔥🔥 Your videos are so motivating, inspiring and soothing!
i've just subscribed recently but i've watched basically all your videos 🤩 i love them so much!
Kid: I got color pencils
Me:probably crayola
Kid: no fabric castle
Me:OMG FABER CASTELL OMG OMG OMG *INHALES* OMG GIMMIE GIMME
kid:geez there color pencil not I phone x
Me:faints
Kid:* breaks pencils while using*
Me: *kills kid*
RAINFROST Lps Fabric Castle XD
I’m surprised you didn’t kill him THEN
fabric castle
Drawing With Alex Lol fricking iPhone X
If I were given a choice between the X and a cheap drawing tablet, I would take the tablet. (I'm a digital artist, so this is how I relate.)
So uhh, I hate to break it to you, but Faber Castell has different lines. Polychromos is the professional artist line. They also have student grade pencils, more akin to a Crayola.
Favor castell vs prisma
Genji.
A STEADY BLADE, BALANCES THE SOUL< O,o
Faber castell
Sabre Wolf dont prismas have lead like all the other colored pencils?
CharlesXP11 the Marshmallow ya
They aren't meant to blend like prismacolor. They're meant to be hard, great for fur, hair, ect. Whoever told you they're next level prismacolor lied to you, caran d'Ache is next level prisma
Can we talk about just a second at how dope that skull drawing was??
I have the Faber Castell sketchbook from a art kit for my birthday. It came with everything!
Pencil: 2B, HB, 6B, and 2H
Also came with a 0.4 pen, grip color marker and a pen brush. And a small booklet that tells you about shading,how to hold a pencil to get different affects on the paper. The sketchbook came with a grid pane to trace, tracing paper and 5-8 pages of yellow and blue paper the rest was white also came with a sharpener and an eraser. Its. Such a good sketch book for on the go and has a small pouch to put your items in. I really do suggest doing a review. Cause this kit is awesome!
Yui Moonshine sEND ME THE LINK
How much does it costs?
OMG I HAVE THIS TOO
@@elizabethstone9732 Wait I also got mine at a target for 12.99
@@elizabethstone9732 DUN DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN
I'm so happy you like them! I got a box of 220 faber castell polychromos from my grandfather and I love them so very much
abel van oirschot omg really? uow much do they were?
Rabidpeanut he could've gotten multiples it doesn't have to be a pack
"you can sharpen this to a very very fine point and oh it doesn't break." LOL I love you! Very accurate description for the polychromos cps haha
Ah! I want these! So pretty! I'm normally not all about super smooth blending so it really doesn't matter to me if they do blend nice or not. Those colors are amazing though!!!
PLEASE make a video on how you take such perfect pictures of your art! I always have light glares or it's too dark etc. help. 😩
Ashley Hastings a good camera helps. don't use flash and put your picture up a wall, so you stand parallel to it. make pics in a room with neutral light, so no sunlight or artificial light. hope that helps a bit!
Hm, it's called _editing_ .. just make it you know, brighter:3
wtf how can there be light without sunlight or artificial light?
They meant daylight. Like 11am-4pm light you get through windows.
thats literally the same thing as sunlight which he/she said. i figure thats what he/she meant but i just thought id point it out because i think its a funny mistake
My non-artistic friend at school was colouring in and i saw her using these pencils. I freaked out, and asked where she got it. She sid it was in the schOOL PENCIL TUB FOR OUR CLASS. I investigated and my teacher got this same twelve set. I have so far managed to steal five without anyone noticing, i hope to get all twelve by christmas
Also rainbow skulls are your brand now i think
Bork Bork I'm A Spork good luck in your thievery
Bork Bork I'm A Spork I know stealing is wrong but keep on going man
LMAO I SAW MY TEACHER USING THESE FANCY INKING PENS TO WRITE WITH SO I PRETENDED I NEEDED TO BORROW A PEN AND I NEVER GAVE IT BACK
XD you guys but I understand lol
Rae Senpai, what did you use to blend the polychromos?
I saw a tortillon but is the other one a stick of chalk?
1:54
Look in the back for a preview of how it turned out!!!!❤️
And here I am, with my crayons...
:D
Pumpkin
taco
Potato
SpyTurtle curry
Crystal Quartz jellof rice 😎😎
Butt
You got me at the : "thats what she said" part xD
never presses the subscribe button that fast haha
Thanks for this video. Very informative. Also the way you coloured that skull was AWESOME!
Awesome Rae love you
Baylee Laiacono I love you tooo
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+．Ｔｅｌｅｓｔｒａ lol rekt m8 fucking no ScopEd
oof stop.
hi
I have a huge set of them and use them for all my coloured artwork. They are smooth and actually blend pretty well for me. They feel like butter and i would 10/10 highly recommend these pencils.
1:57 She just spoilers us how the drawing turned out in the end
Xirou 4 how I didn’t notice that.
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@@timesspclarts8093 Whoa! that’s awesome! I’m terrible at oil pastels. Keep at it!
@@sisyyyyyyy Are you going through something you want to talk about rn? As human beings we should be supporting each other. I’m here if you wanna talk
Faber-Castell has always been my favorite brand. They also make pencils for smaller children
Absolutely adore faber castell polychromos, been drawing with the 60 pencil set for a while, received the 120 set today and oh man. I'm in heaven. As someone that mixes a lot of colours while drawing they are wonderful, though I do recommend paper with a fairly smooth texture; grey or brown toned paper too if you want to best results. I actually do recommend to start out with these, since they forced me to learn more about colours and what works and not. Took me about a year to fully understand, but the results are definitely worth it!
my friend got me the 36 pack of faber castell polychromos and it was about like $50...still not sure why she would get them for me😂. i actually really like them and the selection of colors are amazing. i also have an issue with the blending but ive worked my way aroujd them and also got a colorless blending pencil that works great! i wouldnt recommend it for beginners but you can definitelt ease your way into these pencils after a little while
I need to find me a friend like yours.. mine wouldn't even buy me a shirt for 10$ 😂
soybeans it takes a little practice but you can blend these really well.
I sort of disagree, I haven't tried these but the unpigmented kids' colours are what make kids hate using coloured pencils. I once got Lyra coloured pencils that were more pigmented as a kid and I got so exited using them. Using other pencils felt like a painful task.
i had fabre castells for an entire year without knowing. they were the watercolour ones and when i found out i was shook and freaking amazed how good theybwere.
These are really great pencils, i bought them 3 years back and its still going pretty well. Nice one Faber castell 👍👍
My boyfriend bought me the 120 set. They are worth every single penny.
Those pencils are amazing! The colors are gorgeous!!!!!!
when Blending with colored pencils, you need to stroke in different direction with ur first layer of color, just like what you did at 2:41, the color red was in vertical strokes, the blue should be in horizontal stokes. with that you'll avoid "streaky" results and it will blend well. that goes for any brand of colored pencils cheap or not. :)
I love Faber Castell so much. I've used them since I was in middle school. I use the Colored Pencils and Pens the most. :) They're so easy to blend too!
I use faber castell at school, but they don't have polychromos...
Obi same..(T_T)
"Zest-it" blender 🍋 works AMAZINGLY well with these pencils ✏️ and makes them blend together beautifully. Plus - it lasts for ages and the cost is really good for how much you get and how long it lasts.
Can you make more videos on Fabre-Castell? Showing how can you blend these? It would be great! Your videos are great!
I am an 11 yo "artist".I just want to say that you inspire me with all of your art and give amazing quality that encourages me and I would just like to congratulate you for your 1m🎉
Girl ... same . I am 12 tho . I guess you are too. Because this comment was posted a year ago.
@@feb388 I am turning 11 in 2 days and I am umm a type of artist I draw sketches and Water color paintings And just because of rae sis my mom let me paint my bedroom wall
same but I'm 13
@@kronosrogers1182 same
Leaving a like on the video because "That's what she said" XD
( also I know she didn't say that so don't rant in the comments please )
Just because you said not to rant, *IM GONNA RANT*
Jk lmao
Omg. She's Michael Scott.
I've never understood that term
@@indigo9574 its a sexual term hun.
Well she typed it on the screen so same thing
Who else absolutely hated the live action of Death Note?
Dezy I haven't watched it and I dont want to
Dezy . WHY .
how about the one on netflix????
Internet Potatoe everything was just off, you know?
Kesha Keshie that's the one I'm talking about.
Did you ever make the video about blending faber castell? I have them and after using prisma for years I just can not get them to blend well.
I saved up for the 120 pack of the faber castell pencils and they are my most expensive art supply, I personally find they are great for creating texture for example recently I created a piece with a brick wall which turned out well so you could do some great things with them! Keep up the great work x
I got this 12 pencil pack a few years ago and i love them! :) i'm no professional but it really doesn't bother me because my style isn't that much based on blending. I love the colors and Faber-Castell is actually my favorite brand of art supplies
I love my polychromos, a tattoo artist recommended them to me because they act the same as laying colours when tattooing and I personally think they blend really well, it is most likely the type of paper you used :)
I’ve had the 24 pack for a while! They are so easy to use, and have amazing colour range From just 24 pencils!
Hi Rae, I am really enjoying your videos, thank you so much❤
Just in case some of you are looking for someone's experience who owns the big sets of both pencil brands:
After falling in love with Polychromos I bought the 120 set, and I own the 150 prismacolor set. I prefer the prismas over the polychromos tbh, though the polychromos are amazing. I just like the smoothness of the prismas a bit better than the hard leads of the FC pencils when I'm drawing for hours.
Also I think the prismacolor color range is the greatest, it's so satisfying to see those colors arranged perfectly whenever I open the box, just a perfect color spectrum. especially the variety of both brighter and darker colors in the set is incredible imo, whereas the Polychromos mostly have bright/vibrant colors, just as you can see in this video.
Instead of some useful shades of skin tones (unlike the 'light flesh' in the Polychromos set, or pig nose pink as I call it) or other more natural colors they have like 5 yellows, 5 oranges, 5 reds and some blues and greens that are all so vibrant and bright they look almost identical. There are too many colors I don't necessarily need as you can get exactly the same shade of that color with lighter pressure of a darker color, and even with the same pressure some of them look almost identical. On the other hand I miss some more natural colors such as a salmon pink or the peach tones you get with the prismacolor set. Regarding the high price of the polychromos, I am kinda unsatisfied with their color range.
(Yes I know, you can blend nearly every color with that number of pencils. But as you can see it takes more time and effort to blend the Polychromos smoothly than it would take with the prismas.)
Also, you simply cannot layer polychromos white over other layers of color, the polychromos white is almost transparent, sadly. That's disappointing when you bought such an expensive pencil. The prismacolor white is 1000 times better!
Anyway, the polychromos are better for fine details.
Yet I wouldn't buy this set again, I'd rather buy a few colors I actually need.
This is just my personal experience. the Polychromos are really good pencils, just not for my taste.
I hope I could help if some of you maybe couldn't decide what pencil brand to spend their money on.
The voice of experience!
caran d'arche white or derwent chinese white are the best though can't say the same about their other colours
Philip Norris Yes, I use the luminance white all the time it's the best of all. But 2nd best is the prismacolor white imo, I haven't tried that derwent one though. just wanted to compare prismas to polychromos :)
Jason Morgan does a good comparison video of all the whites in each 'top' brand, worth checking out.
thank you- I have all of the prismacolors and love them but I keep feeling like I am missing out on something not buying FC
I like how she stopped everything just to go to the next episode of her show XD. That is so me
Rogue Dragon its called being a fucking spaz.
trahapace150 damn dude calm down. First of all she isn't being a spaz. Have you looked of the word recently? XD. And second of all if your gonna use insults use them right so you don't look like a fucking idiot.
Rogue Dragon
Everybody does that
king potato I know but just not editing out this simple thing made it feel extra relatable. Ya know what I mean? XD
My colors of Faber Castel Polycromos were great. They blend so great and the place I bought it from the formula was constantly smooth.
I'm not sure if i want the 12 or 24 set of polychromos rn. Which do you recommend? I am only using colored pencils to give extra detail to my copic artworks.
When she put the caption “that’s what she said” I died 😂 love ya Rae 😂💞
Her: “ They don’t break every five seconds... (coughs) like someone else we know
Me: PRISMACOLOR PENCILS.. I am buying Faber Castell
Prisma color doesn't break often actually, it's mainly cra-z-art
@@madi6198 nope prismacolours break really easy
There are waxy
Yeah but prisma is more easy to use than faber castell in my opinion and the blend is so soft, faber is good for detailing but not blending u will need a long time to easily using faber castell, i actually prefer prisma because it's easy to learn and blend but hey! faber is awesome and people has their own style and opinion
@@ohok459 I learned to blend with Polys and I don't find it difficult at all? It works just as well, just not the way you are used to. If you had used Polys first, maybe you'd find them easier than Prismas. Personally I'll take my sturdy, long lasting, made in Germany Polychromos (I never had one break) and let you have your made in Mexico, constant quality control issues Prismas.
Turpenoid (with a very light hand) is my blender of choice for these. I am fairly new to coloring, but I get what supplies I want...I don't worry about whether I am experienced enough to use them. 😍
Hey Rae could you make a tutorial on how to use these pencils?
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Hi Rae I have a question how do I blend and layer? When ever I try it never works...please help me out
I love looking back at older videos and I wonder if you go back too? I will check your library of videos and see if you have gone back and tried these pencils again? I believe that you did a wonderful job! I never had the money to buy this brand in the past, I just bought my first set of Faber Castell pencils and I enjoy using them! I am aware that many people have trouble with quality supplies, I believe that you have created a wonderful picture! I am off to find more of your videos!
Thank you! I found these to be very good pencils but I had to sharpen them more than I thought. I also used the 12 set to colour a skull!
lol that's what she said
😏
Who?
I got like 70 of these when I was younger.
A coworker of my dad just had them and never used them, so I got them somehow, because it was known that I draw a lot.
I love the pencils and they hold up great. They don’t break if you sharpen them. I always compared my other pencils to them but years later i found out how freaking expensive they are...
I've just got 3 polychromos colored pencils today and it was my first time trying them out, they're gorgeous.
5:04 Polychromos have a small coating when first used that makes them ruff and patchy with the first few strokes, after that the colours resume their smooth fine texture. There is more info on their website.
2:34 colours dont blend well, 4:00 noticing a deeper colour as you press harder, 5:02 insane smoothing. im guessing you didnt give enough white / green for the pencil to blend properly which causes the grainyness?
Like a dry paintbrush
i love how she actually gives an honest opinion instead of those lies that most people that test products say
Okay so I am someone who is getting back to color pencils and who has retained some knowledge of using color pencils before. My question is, if I'm getting back to colour pencils, would this be better than the prismacolors, the way I am? Or should I stick to prismacolors. I also want to use watercolours and a smooth gradation with a good set of darks and lights with the gradation.
LMFAO!! The intro was so funny, well done!