Watercolour Pencil Comparison - Goldfaber & Albrecht Durer
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- Опубликовано: 2 май 2018
- A side-by-side look at the Student and Artist-grade watercolour pencils from Faber Castell.
Goldfaber product range:
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Albrecht Durer product range:
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Thank you for this great review! The video quality is so good, and the comparison was very helpful. I didn't expect goldfaber to perform so well, I had the old version as a child and they were VERY hard. the new version seems so much smoother.
Great review and comparison. Thanks so much! :D
All of your reviews are so comprehensive. Excellent.
thanks for the video I just order a set of 12 to try. Your awesome
This was so interesting as I’ve been looking to purchase high end watercolor pencils and have been curious to know if/how they compare to other levels of water color pencils. I enjoyed hearing your perspectives on these as it was quite helpful!
Glad to be of service, Kim!
FYI Light Blue was in the original Albrecht Durer and Polychromos sets, but removed when they retooled the set several years ago.
Really helpful thankyou
I do the same "hand test" with my waterbrushes. It's just the best way to tell how wet they are at the moment. I'm looking for a new waterbrush if you could recommend? I started with the Caradache, and they are lovely but the tips are bigger than I would like. I got the Pentel aquash on another recommendation.. and the small is a great size but they put out too much water for my taste, doing coloring in coloring books. I'd love a small tip with a limited water flow. For comparison my go to for flow at the moment is the Tombow blender pen.. but it's a chunky monkey and often hard to get into tiny spaces such as plant stems without blowing color out of the lines.
I have always used the Zig H2o brushes, and the Pentel would be my second choice. The Zig brush comes in a very delicate size (the yellow barrel) - amzn.eu/d/4nnhnHZ
Hi! Great review. How do you sharpen the Albrecht Dürer pencil? I can't find a sharpener that fit right. I'm loosing time and my mind :(Sorry my english grammar)
Hello! I just use my normal sharpeners - I like the KUM 2-hole metal sharpener and the M & R brass bullet. Hope this helps!
I recently got back into watercolor pencils for my double sided coloring books (having given away my Albrecht Durers a few years ago which I kick myself on the regular for), I grabbed the Goldfabers on a whim because they were available at my local craft store ... I was SHOCKED at how good they are. Really, the only difference is the size of the core which means you have to put down a bit more pencil just due to the fact there is less pencil touching the paper... and the fact there are only 48 colors in the range which means you have to do a decent amount of color mixing. They are particularly lacking in natural cool toned greens and browns. I also miss the greys quite a bit.. they do have a warm and cool grey but only one (level 4) of each. I may still pick up another set of AD.. just because I want all those lovely colors... but I will totally keep my GF for travel or to take to work with me.
Thanks for sharing! I tried watercolor pencils (I'm a begginer in this) but I didn't like them much. I'm buying some watercolors to see if the problems were the pencils or me :D
I like both, but watercolour paints are a whole different set of skills in themselves. I think because I'm at home with pencils, I feel like it's a good compromise. I have tried watercolour painting, and I'm not very good at all. Fun, though.
Gem's Colour Cave Same for me. I love pencils, complete shit at paints! So I figured watercolor pencils are a good choice for me. I have the Inktense and Durer sets and absolutely love them.
Very helpful thankyou you just saved me some money
Great to hear!
what us botidy?
Do you mean what is 'buttery'? As in the feeling of the pencil going down on the paper feels like spreading butter.