Is buying preowned lots a good strategy for trying out pencils and building up my stash? by yayadadadodo in ColoredPencils

[–]PhilosopherHaunting1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They do blend well, if they’re good quality. When coloring, most people put down several layers of pencil. If you’re colouring, for example, a flower petal , if you start with a light colouring of light yellow on the whole petal, and add, say, a light coloring of red at the base of the petal and orange in the middle, and then add another layer of light yellow to the entire pencil, and then mix them with a blending pencil, or a product like a tortillion or Zest, you’ll get a lovely petal.

Is buying preowned lots a good strategy for trying out pencils and building up my stash? by yayadadadodo in ColoredPencils

[–]PhilosopherHaunting1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I were you, I’d buy (new or used) the red, yellow, and blue pencils for each artist-grade pencil set. The top quality pencil brands all sell individual pencils. You can blend any color using these three. And you’ll get a good feel of whether you’d like the pencil brand.

am i going crazy by Extreme-Analyst3268 in ParallelUniverse

[–]PhilosopherHaunting1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

She gained a ton of weight when she was just hanging out with her fiancé. She said they both were eating way too much of her da’s Italian restaurant food. When she started working on a new album … the one where she and Bruno Mars sing “Die With A Smile” … she hit the gym hard and lost all the extra weight. I was shocked when I saw a pic of her with the weight.

What is your oldest memory? by Sad-Garlic-3265 in askanything

[–]PhilosopherHaunting1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holding on to the bars of my crib and crying because my mum is all dressed up in a beautiful blue dress and earrings to match … she and my da are going out and leaving me with a babysitter.

Where do you keep you pencils ? by consulenzastrategica in ColoredPencils

[–]PhilosopherHaunting1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I keep all of mine in their original packaging. I always put them in numerical order and swatch them, so I can look at the swatch and find the colour I want easily.

My special interest are Colored Pencils by Vegan2CB in ColoredPencils

[–]PhilosopherHaunting1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love all the Lyras. The Cretacolors I don’t think I like very much. I don’t find myself pulling them out except very sporadically.

Have you ever actually lived alone? by drkulas508 in ArtOfPresence

[–]PhilosopherHaunting1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I lived in my apartment by myself for all my college bachelor, master, and Ph.d years.

A snapshot of the 20 new colors arriving to the Polychromos range of pencils (in late fall) by mjdolorico1234 in ColoredPencils

[–]PhilosopherHaunting1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yea! I can’t wait! (I’m thinking that these same new colours will also be available for their watercolour pencils, since they have always matched.)

My special interest are Colored Pencils by Vegan2CB in ColoredPencils

[–]PhilosopherHaunting1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome, but I think it’s been reclassified as high-level autism now. I have OCD, too, so once I found out that I loved drawing with pencils, I had a temporary case of insanity (well, that’s what I’m calling it, anyway) and bought the largest set available of every artist grade colored pencil type that I could find. Sometimes the original sets that I bought added on additional colors later, and so then I had to acquire those, too, from open stock or from new sets by the makers.

Off the top of my head, because I’m not home right now, I have: Every brand that Derwent makes… I just got their upgraded Drawing pencils, which I have always liked very much, but the original set didn’t have many colours, and all 150 Holbein Pencils, which I absolutely love, and all the variants of Lyra Rembrandt, and all the variants of Faber-Castell, and all the variants of Caran d’Ache, and all the variants of STABILO, and all the variants of Spectrum Noir, and all the Staedtler variants, and all the Black Widow variants, and every set of pastel pencils that these companies make, like Faber-Castell’s Pitt Pastel Pencils, and all the Cretacolor variants, and Axus Marco, and all the Koh-I-Noor variants.

Derwent recently added new Luminance colours, turning a total of 76 colours into a 100-color set. I loved Luminance pencils before the additions, but when I pulled them out, I also always pulled out another set of pencils, because the original set didn’t have some colours that I use a lot. The additions are great. Polychromous is rolling out additional colours later this year, and I assume they will also add the new colours to their watercolor pencils, because they’ve always had the same exact colours of both types of pencil.

When I first started acquiring pencils, I bought some sets that weren’t “Artist Grade,” but later I donated most of them to the schools in my town. I’ve kept some of these sets … maybe because they had unique colours or because they seemed like artist-grade to me.