Inktense Water-soluble Ink Pencils for Arts & Crafts, Tin of 72

What an awesome find when these were on sale in April 2026 . I usually never find a bargain . These were at the time of purchase £15.85 . Tbh I thought they must have been fakes . So I was apprehensive waiting for their arrival No need to be. They turned all boxed carefully well packaged to find an inner box carton upon removal of this I found a wonder wooden box to store them in .All in tact no a single one broken . I had to just bought the bargain of the century . I have been wanting to invest in these for ages but the price was over £90 at the time a week before . So when I saw them I thought surely they have the price wrong , I smapped it up straight away . Which I had bought the remaining sets for the price amazing quality and even at £90 there still worth it but I’m a tight person lol and would always want stuff for has cheap has I can get it . It has a great colour selection for 48 , They so pigmented and water down nicely . I’d love to buy a bigger set if they ever come down in price . I would recommend these to anybody . 5*

Excellent price for a very good brand of watercolour pencils. Vivid colours that mix well.

Incredibly easy to use, the colours are very vibrant and intense. My wife assures me that these are the best ones she has ever used. Worth every penny.

This is my first set of Inktense pencils and I'm absolutely blown away - they are so much better than I expected. Now that I've got them I kind of wish I'd bought a larger set but I'd been looking at them for a while but they were so expensive that I didn't think I could justify the price. These then appeared on sale at a very good offer price without which I probably wouldn't have got them in the first place so, hey ho - hindsight eh! Anyway, I might well buy from open stock now to give me a set of colours which will suit my needs and I can buy them a few at a time to reduce the outlay. Definitely recommended - especially if you can get them at this sort of price.

Derwent Inktense Water-Soluble Pencils are undoubtedly a high-quality product, although they come with a slightly higher price tag. One disappointment was the misleading presentation—advertising a set of 24 pencils, yet only receiving 12. Initially, I felt cheated by the discrepancy and considered returning them. However, upon trying them, I was truly impressed. These pencils are exceptionally pigmented and make layering a breeze. Once dry, the colours become permanent, which is a unique and remarkable feature. Their vibrant quality and ease of use are unparalleled, and I'm not aware of any comparable alternatives. Despite the initial frustration, this product won me over and earned my appreciation.

These Intense I feel are best for finishing off a project with your choice in Set but The Derwent Intense are amazingly for making sure they are sharpened as oh boy that's when if doing anything by using these I'm honestly sharpening plus making them finish off some of my projects and using them on their own. They are a fabulous pencil. IL defo need more soon.

...half a year later (older, wiser (hah!), and with far more experience), these have turned to fierce addiction, a real goody to take on your travels! I simply cannot wait to wet the paper, just to see the inks transform something stale and dare I say, pasty and pencil-coloured looking, into something coherently marvellous, essentially: painted! With the basic shades, a mix of cool and warm, you can mix most colours (note the stupid names - Sea Blue, Bright Blue, Tangerine, Chili Red, etc). This 24 pencil tin goes far, and I've no intention of adding to the collection. Colours have never been so bright, fierce and bold - note they are inks which they are rather hush hush over, not pigments (albeit a fuzzy line but the former stain, hence will fade with time, so keep work away from sun - and any good colourist will know how to dull them accordingly for a catalogue of shades and hues. They claim to be permanent, but I'm not so convinced, but they do work on fabric amazingly! I was initially phased by the difficulty of working dry media into wet, expecting WC. Don't get water-soluble pencils thinking they're a dry form of WC, they're not: don't expect gorgeous washes. This is mostly for anal, detail work. They say they are easy to layer, i.e. using the dry pencil over a wash once dry, but it's not easy, unless your paper is heavy enough to withstand such working - I've found normal cartridge paper tends to break up. BUT, saying that, you can splatter (moisten the tip, use a brush to send a spray) and use a wet tip and 'paint' (but I've found the tip too softened to 'paint'). Go light, these are intense, hence the namesake. Now that I've a decent set of traditional WC, I would not chose these over them (whatever they say, doing the dry pencilling bit and moistening them after is tedium, something easily and more pleasurable done with WC and a good sable), but they're different mediums with individual qualities. But these will definitely go in my bag for holidays (with a water brush or not, since one charm is the ability to do the 'painting' at a more suitable time). So handy and great for mixing effects with normal WC. Relatively easy to sharpen, some are very soft and shatter easily. And they trumpet 'aquarelle pencils' (yes, I've a set of these to compare, and I rarely use them in favour of these beauties) in their density of colour, lay down and saturation which are funnily enough very similar in appearance to WC. If you're seeking for a look similar to WC (pale, washy tones), you're better off with aquarelle pencils, for these intense are so bold, you'd need a feather touch and patience (these saturated colours are more like felt-tipped pens). One last thing, a small annoyance, is their chunky, round shape, bouncing all over the place and hence making them more susceptible to shattering at the core. No biggie. Really they're not WC pencils, 'aquarelle', or the same as other sold water-soluble pencils. These are water-soluble INK pencils

I love these oh so much. Do not confuse these with watercolour pencils. They are different. They are more like paint or ink than pencils. Once they're dry, they are permanent and no amount of water will activate and move the colour around (speaking for paper artwork, not other things like fabrics that might go in the washing machine). This is great because it means you can go over and add finer details with a different shade or colour without those details blending in to the layers below, like it would with watercolour pencils. Furthermore, because they are so intense in colour, you don't need to add nearly so much colour before activating with water like you would with watercolour pencils to get a lovely intense and vibrant look. But they are versatile enough to allow you to get soft looks too - just use less colour to the page before adding water or just use your brush to pick up colour directly from the pencil and then applying the colour to the page that way. Another option is to apply colour to only part of where you want to the colour to go and use the water to move the colour around, thus creating some lovely gradients of dark/intense to light/pale. So many techniques can be used that I won't even go into them all. The only criticism I have is that the colours on the end of the pencil barrel don't really reflect the colour of the actual ink. That's easily remedied just by creating a colour swatch for yourself and using that to determine your colour scheme rather than relying on the pencil to tell you the colour. That's such a minor issue, though. I so wish I had just jumped in and purchased the full 72 set instead of just the 36 set. I did not anticipate loving these as much as I do. I would dearly love it if Derwent did a secondary 36 set with the rest of the colours so that I didn't have to double up on half of my colours or resort to buying them open stock. But open stock is an option and thus, the smaller sets are worth buying if you want to spend less just to try out a selection of the colours. The packaging for this was well thought out. Not only was the tin sealed with plastic and some easy to peel stickers on either end of the tin, but inside had a seperate plastic covering over the pencil tray and strips of cardboard over the pencils to hold the pencils in place on the tray, thus not allowing the pencils to move around during transit. Well thought out and such a nice touch. One other thing to note: If you're a serious artist and intend to hang or sell your paintings or other artistic creations, be aware that although they're permanent, not all the colours are lightfast. You may wish to look into which colours are and consider if you're going to need to use some sort of UV fixitive to help protect your work.

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色鉛筆画に目覚めた勢いで、古今東西の有名どころに一揃い手を出したうちの一つです。 ３万前後というお値段にかなり悩みましたが、どうせ買うならと100色。圧巻の色揃いに持っているだけで満足しそうです。様子見で最初は中途半端な色数を買ってもどうせ買い直すだろうな…と、自分の性格を理解した上で最初から一番色数が多いセットにしました。結果、正解でした。 このほかポリクロモスやパブロやルミナンスやと、10年に一度の大大浪費をしましたので、しばらくは大人しく節約に励みたいと思います（切実） そんなにまだ上手でもないんですが、せっかく買ったのでどんどん使っていこうと思います。というやる気は出ますね、さすがに。

Great color selection that makes this set A stand-alone art supply Beautiful color and amazing quality I wish they would add white or swipe it with the black but it's not that big of a deal

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Ich nutze mittlerweile seit über zwanzig Jahren die Derwent Stifte für Porträtmalerei und bin mehr wie zu Frieden damit. Habe mir nach gut einem Jahrzehnt mal wieder ganze Stiftekästen (72er Chromaflow sowie die 72 Inktense im Holzkoffer) gegönnt, da ich ansonsten die Stifte bisher einzeln nachgekauft habe. Beide Stiftearten haben richtig angewandt ihre Vorteile und lassen sich insbesondere kombiniert sehr gut verwenden. Das Portrait von Herrn Hetfield (Bild1) wurde auf strukturstarkem Acrylpapier zur Probe der Stifte gezeichnet. (Habe hierfür auch nur diese beiden Stiftsorten verwendet) Durch die Maserung bei dickem Papiers entstehen i.d.R. viele weiße Stellen, die durch anfeuchten des Auftrages mit den Inktense sehr eben und deckend wurden. Gerade an dem schwarzen T-Shirt lässt sich gut erkennen, wie sauber und eben die Flächen werden. Natürlich ist ein möglichst flächendeckendes "ausmalen" auch Voraussetzung. Da diese Stifte aber auch sehr, sehr cremig sind, sind filigrane Details ehr schwierig. Dafür eignen sich wiederum hier die ebenfalls pigmentstarken Chromaflow, da diese ein wenig härter sind und hervorragend über den Inktense sich auftragen lassen. Der Auftrag erfolgt ebenfalls sehr flächendeckend und es lassen sich selbst z.T. helle Details auf dunklem Grund nachzeichnen. Beide Stiftearten lassen sich auch super mischen und kombinieren. Mit glatterem Papier und ein paar anderen Arbeitsmaterialien ergänzen die Derwent Stifte super das Profisortiment und es lassen sich realistische Darstellungen zeichnen. (Siehe Bild 2 ). Ebenfalls ein dickes plus ist das unschlagbare Preis-Leistung Verhältnis. Im Gegensatz zu anderen "Marken" ist der Preis sehr fair und man bekommt sehr pigmentstarke und robuste Stifte dafür. :) Ein ebenfalls nettes Gimmick ist der Holzkoffer. Die Stifte liegen fest und sicher darin, während die Mienen durch weichem Schaumstoff am Rande vor Bruch geschützt werden. Die Beiden Holzstreben, die mittig die Stifte stützen sind mit Magneten sicher in einer kleinen Schienenführung angebracht, damit auch nichts woanders hinrutscht. Dennoch lassen diese sich gut entfernen und die Stifte einfach entnehmen. Bezüglich Brüche oder Transportschäden kann ich auch nicht klagen, da alles gut verpackt und heil ankam.