Conté à Paris Pastel Pencils with 24 Assorted Colors | Highly Pigmented Lead, Unique Velvety Finish, Ideal for Portraits, Life Drawing & General Silhouette Work, Blendable

Professional art materials! Well made and packaged. Pure pigments make for fantastic artwork!

The product is of excellent quality but a few pencils were broken due to Amazon not adding any packing materials to the shipping box. The 48 Conte A' Paris Pastel Pencils bounced around freely in the larger shipping box during transit. It was sad to open and find tips broken off beautiful brand new pastel pencils. Hopefully Amazon Shipping will be advised of this less than adequate packing of a fragile item and change the way they pack pastels and pastel pencils in the future.

Conté crayons are my favorite, especially the various sanguine variations. These, however, are true pastels, so if you know pastels, then you will know what you are getting. If you do not know how pastels act, then you may be puzzled at first by the granulation and the sharpening. Be patient. Conté is the best.

These are beautiful, quality products. Thick, luscious core deposits bright pigment. Simply beautiful.My only complaint is around the confusing color naming. I bought the set of 48 but really got only 47 (one color was repeated).Not a real biggie per se maybe since I can buy the individual pencils too. The trick comes in trying to determine what was missing.#39 Red Garnet was repeated, and after an HOUR searching online I determined that missing was probably #19 Purple.They do say “assorted colors” so maybe not every set is identical. Pencils are identified only by number on the pencil, though the painted wood seems to reflect the inner pigment accurately.Some numbers are clearly permanently retired (no sign anywhere of #23, 25, 35, 36, 45) but this is probably normal as we have 48 colors in theory but some are labeled #49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55). So that explains the absence of some numbers and the appearance of others.The names DO exist online but they can be vague, and some I completely disagree with. But they’re just names after all.I do recommend these pencils. A quality product from a reputable brand. I’m not a big hard pastel guy but wanted to buy the best I could afford.

Best charcoal pencils...most are too soft and feel like crayons

I am an artist. I absolutely love these pastels . I have professional grade soft pastels. But, I bought these because of the harder core and hoped the conte could be used for shading with my other other softer pastels. I also bought the conte pencil sharpener . Works well. The only complaint I have is with the Amazon packing. These pastels should be bubble wrapped. Once the core is broken the pencil is useless. Conte pencils work well with mixed medium.

These work like a pastel stick, with the neatness of using a pencil. They blend beautifully.

Yuck! Too scratchy and horrible! It’s like writing with chalk on the sidewalk!!

Son lápices de tiza seca Comté, sinónimo de buena calidad. Afilado difícil, si precisas puntas muy finas para detalles muy finos.

Excelente producto

Great pastel pencils. Love them. However, the ones I received are not the ones shown in the product picture of the web page. What I received are:029 Light Blue041 Cyclamen040 Red Lead049 Light Orange048 Flesh047 Naples Yellow

線画にソフトパステルで彩色したくて買い求めました。フランス的な色展開が美しく、バランスもいいように思います。製品の繊細な特性上、梱包形態が心配でしたが、商品の外はシュリンクパックで封がされ、上下とその回りを緩衝材の紙でつつまれ、段ボールで届きました。芯の割れや欠けなどもなく、とても美しい状態です。配送や梱包が不安だと言う声もあるようですが、少なくとも私のところに届いた商品は、ワレモノシールなどなくても、これ以上は望む必要がないほど問題のない状態でした。ちなみにヤマト運輸での配送です。アマゾンの倉庫は横浜・鶴見のようです。

O Lápis é maravilhoso, porém, notei que existe um erro no momento de mostrar as cores. Esta imagem está incorreta. Se você comprar o kit "retratos" receberá cores completamente diferentes.