Crayola Signature Blend & Shade Soft Core Colored Pencils in Tin, Gift - 24 Count, Blend & Shade Colored Pencils

I wanted to give these a try after being recommended when looking for more affordable art supplies. I'm just a hobbyist nowadays, but have 20+ years of classical art training. I've used super expensive high quality pencils from various companies over the years. But these little Crayolas are actually quite nice despite being from a 'childrens' brand. Cores are soft enough to not need too much pressing, but not so soft that they break or you're always sharpening. The wood they're made from shaves SO cleanly, and they have a nice size for all hands. The colors are vibrant, blend well, and work great on a variety of paper styles. These are really good for professionals who want a cheap and travel friendly set of pencils for sketching, or for a child artist wanting to upgrade their medium library. The tin these come in is also very nice!

Second time order of these pencils. Very nice quality. Smooth, lays color down very well. Soft, yet not too soft. The colors are great. With both sets there has been 2 to 3 pencils which chew up the wood while sharpening. That's my only complaint. I will continue to purchase these. I have several other brand pencils, including prisma, and i find myself reaching for the crayola brand.

These are very good pencils for their price I do a lot of coloring in Johanna bassford books and other ones similar to that and they blend decently. I am a 50+ year-old and have been coloring for years.

Good quality for a good price. Colors offered are a wide variety that do blend well. Would buy again.

I thought about these for quite awhile before purchasing. I read the reviews about wood breaking and such, but I decided to give them a try. I used my Jarlink sharpener, which still works fine, and there were three pencils I could tell might have shattered had I hand sharpened, so I made a note on those, and will either sharpen the with a knife or only use the Jarlink on them. I found the pencils to be gorgeous. They are highly pigmented, not too hard or soft, not at all like all my other Crayola pencils, which I love, too. These are different. But I expected them to be different. As for particulars, they blend well, layer well, are very water resistant, and hardly smudge at all. They work well with blender pencils, which is the only kind of blender I use if the colors don't seem to want to blend by themselves. And I had no problems with the case staying closed. What I really love is how they color. I don't use them on watercolor paper, the bumpy kind, but everything else is fair game. I alter my technique to fit the paper. I prefer smooth with a little tooth, but anything from tissue paper to toothy cardstock works fine with these. Just work with the paper. I am very happy with these, and will reconsider if I start having breakage issues. If that happens, I will knock a star off.

These are very good pencils. Similar to prisms Can’t find them easily anymore. Wish Crayola would bring them back

The only downfall, there are not enough colors. Although you have the basics to blend colors if they're already ready made it's a lot faster. Please pencils sharpened in 2 or 3 different sharpeners to a perfect hard point that lasted while coloring, I had no problems at all. I just wish there were more colors. I have very expensive high end pencils and these rank up there with the best of them. Please make a set with 72 colors at least! These really are not good if you are heavy handed, you need to color lightly and layer.

These blend so nicely

Nice soft (whatever they now call the colour bit). We said leds/leads. I let my granddaughter use these while we coloured in together. Even a five year old said they were more fun

Was a gift for my granddaughter.

These pencils are great! The tin they're in is not so good. It doesn't stay closed. But the pencils are beautiful and buttery. Unfortunately after using these pencils for a bit I have to say they are frustrating! The colours and feel are great but they keep breaking!

The pencil are good

Pencils work good, only complaint is, it's quite hard to layer the colours together as it comes off as waxy.