CARAN D’ACHE PABLO COLORED PENCILS | MY THOUGHTS |Adult colouring 

I love my Pablos, I hope you enjoy them too. I think the colors are a great compliment to the Polychromos, especially for the lighter colors.

I am about to turn 52 this weekend and finally get to pursue my childhood dream of coloring, using very very good quality pencil colors (didn’t have easy access to beautiful quality colored pencils nor are they easily available or affordable then). I watched so many reviews and finally decided on a set of Prismacolors and a couple of Hanna Karlzon and Maria Trolle coloring books. Absolutely love love the Prismacolors! I am a young child again 😂. I do wish I could afford the set of 120 Polychromos (priced at USD$350!!) and the Pablos (priced at USD$396!!!)

What an excellent review. Just the fact that you look at how they react with different media and on different kind of colouringbook papers, makes your review so helpful and interesting!! Thank you for sharing 😁

I love my 120 set of Pablos and use them in conjunction with my Polychromos a lot. The Pablos have some pretty unique and beautiful colors in the 120 set and I'm glad they're available to purchase open stock.

I love my Pablos. The lay down is great and they work so well with my Polychromos.

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on these pencils. I've been thinking about purchasing these for a while but I really like watching several reviews before I buy. I love hearing the different perspectives.

I use pablos with my polychromos, in fact I have them in the same case together. It means I have lots more colours to use. I love the browns, blues, pinks and greens especially. There are only a couple that nearly duplicate the fabers.

I would love to see color alongs with these. I have them as well and am still not fully comfortable with them but would love to use them more.

Les Pablo sont pour moi mes préférés , je les adore ! les couleurs sont incroyables et aucune teinte ne se ressemble 💞💞💞

Hi Shelly, really good review. I believe your feedback is very valuable as a colorist that does not have tons of different sets (that’s a different talent) Beautiful pages 😊. I love my Prismacolors, however, one day I may actually get the Albrecht Durer instead of the Polychromos just to see I love them as much as my Prismacolors.

Hi Shelly, I am so happy for you, I really like my Pablo’s and I think you will too. I believe the reason others don’t like the Pablo’s is because they don’t take the time to learn how they work, there is definitely a learning curve. I had to giggle, because you arrange your pencil swatches exactly like I do, I haven’t seen anyone else do it this way. Shelly, your pencil work is magnificent and so inspirational! Thank you so much for sharing your Pablo’s.🤗💗

I think the dress for Alice is absolutely stunning! That blue, which always is stunning on blonde, fair coloring, makes her really pop off the page! You have no choice but to notice her before anything else...and even when you try to look at other things on the page your eyes are still drawn to her!! Not sure why unhappy...it’s so amazing!!

I have been wondering about these pencils for a long time so I very much appreciate your video showing your thoughts on them and all the different ways you have used them very very helpful and interesting thank you very much ☺️💗

Your coloring is just getting better and better! You are so talented!

Beautiful colorings! Glad the Pablo’s work so well for you.

Looks like they work really well for you ! You have done beautifully with them . ❤

Great video Shelly. Thanks for sharing. Your videos are always so enjoyable and relaxing. Keep them coming.😊

Shelly, thank you once again for sharing your thoughts about the Pablos. I absolutely adore the way you color. I find all of your videos to be so inspirational and they could never be too long. I bought my first Mythographic book Aviary” , which doesn’t seem as complicated as some of the others, thanks to watching your channel. I own the 120 set of Pablo’s as well as the 76 Set Museum Aquarelle. I’m so glad that you’ve explained that the 120 set of Supracolor is the watercolor version of the Pablo’s. I’ve always wondered what was the difference between the Museum Aquarelle and the Supracolor’s and now I know. Keep up the wonderful video content and have a lovely weekend!🎨💕

Thank you for this fantastic review. I love that you took the time to really test these pencils out. A lot of others just swatch them and test their blending ability and that's the end of it. Your pages all turned out lovely. I'm sure you could produce wonderful pictures using any pencils 😊

Great choice! They compliment the PC colors very well!

I would love to join in some colour alongs with Pablo alone or with Albrecht Durer

So lovely to see your colouring in different colours , I love all your colouring but seeing it with different tones and colours , they look beautiful ❤, thanks for such a thoughtful review . I used pablos probably for a good 15 yrs and I do have a few that I still re buy ( exactly as you said bluish pale , aubergine ) but there is soooooo much more choice now 🤸‍♀️and I prefer other pencils but I would love to see some colour with me with these ☀️.

My Pablo’s sat on the shelf for a while after my first try. I pulled them out recently and discovered I really adore them. They are my new go to for magical leaf colors. They also work very well in conjunction with Polys.

I love that this brand has been around so long. Just seeing the case brings back so many childhood memories. Have lots of fun!

Thank you for the review most interesting the pages are fantastic as always would love to see you do a video using the Pablo’s

Beautiful pictures. So glad you did a review on Pablo pencils. My go to's are Polychromos but I also have Albrecht Durers. One of your reviews inspired me to purchase a few Pablo pencils. I wasn't crazy about them but then realized that it could be the paper and I need to get use to them because they are a little different than my other pencils. I've tried them in a few other books. I'm still on the fence. Once you feel comfortable, I would love to see you use these in a video. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!

I love my Pablo's!! Happy you got these!😊

The Pablo’s look as though they have a great color selection loved the video and your thoughts on them - I will have to save up for them ! Thank you 🇦🇺❤️. Chris

Thank you so much for reviewing the Pablos, I use them, I love them and together with the Polychromos, they are my favourites! The are creamy but harder than the Prismacolors, they hold their points really well so they have the best of both worlds. Also, the colour range is brilliant. I love everything about them.

Pablos are my #1 favorite.

Thanks for a wonderful video. 🎉😊

I love the Pablos. 💚 I do hope you will do some color alongs with them. There are not many available. Especially not color combos. Thank you for this video 💜🌻

I just recently got the pablo's and I absolutely love them..! Not too soft, not too hard, just right for me : I've been using polychromos, but they make my hand hurt because of all the layering and the round barrel, so I've been looking for a replacement for a very long time. But I steered clear of the pablo pencils because I had heard really bad reviews here on youtube - scratchy, hard etc. Years later someone on youtube really loved them and then I bought a few open stock and was pleasantly surprised! Bought a 30 set and I'm slowly buying the rest open stock. Thank you for your review and the swatch chart! I'm going to copy the order you put them in, because Caran D'ache have a weird color chart, and like you, I'm used to faber castells way of setting up the colors.

Brilliant review love that you give your thoughts .. I would love to try these as ppl say they are amazing .. I like you love my albrecht durer pencils with my polychromos they are amazing .. I also love my inktense .. tysmfs shel 🥰

Interesting to hear your thoughts on these, I must admit, I don't use my Pablos very much, I do prefer something a bit softer, but I do like the colours in these, and they are undoubtably great pencils, just sadly not ones I reach for. Stunning pages created with them Shelly, they are clearly working well for you, x 👍

Really helpful review!

I would love to see you use the Pablo’s in future videos! I have a smaller set of 80 in CD Pablo’s. I haven’t used them much but would love to color along with you,

Those pages are gorgeous.

So pleased you have chosen Pablos. I have them and love them but not used them a great deal a as I try to use all my sets evenly but would be so happy to see you colour with these as I know it will inspire me to use mine more ❤❤

Thank you for the review. Unlike you I am a pencil set collector 😮 I have these pencils and really enjoy your color alongs. So yes to color alongs with these. Just yes to color alongs period. Color alongs are my favorite videos Question my challenge is always choosing a color palette. Is there a video on how to choose colors?

Very helpful….thank you!

Thank you for sharing Shel. I come from the other direction in that my first pencils were the Supracolor soft, set of 40, 44 years ago!! I recently acquired the Albrecht Durer 120 and built up to the 120 Supracolor over the years. I think they complement each other well, but I think the AD win on a consistency of texture, a couple of my Supracolor are a little bit harder than the rest. I love the thicker lead of the AD which speeds up larger areas. I did not have the Pablos, but I have a lot of other non- watercolour pencil brands. I think I might pick a few unique colours in Pablos to try though, the ones I use most in the Supracolor. Recently got the Distress woodless watercolour pencils to use for background and they work well with the ADs but match the ink pads too.

I love my Pablos…. They are wonderfully versatile. Very blendible….

i have the Pablos. They are my go-to pencils. My second is the Albert Duers watercolors

I enjoy my Pablo’s and Luminance pencils very much and I hope you do also. I am very glad to see you using pencils that I have.

I use the few Pablo's that I have in my professional artwork. And occasionally in a coloring book. I would kill to have the full set and I am so happy for you that you were able to get them and enjoy them. They albrecht Durer are on my wishlist as well as the museum aquarelle.

Thanks for the thorough review! I was looking to find a pencil set that compliments my FC Albrecht durer and Polychromos and are a bit firmer than my Prismacolor. Going to purchase the pablos!

I love my Pablo's they are great

Thank you Shelly! I now have a better idea of which Pablos would compliment my Polychromos pencils.

Hi Shelly, thank you for the review! Would you consider doing a tutorial on shading and shadows with pencils? I find myself really struggling with that on the page. Thank you!

I have those pencils too and I like them. I hope you enjoy them 😊

The colors from Pablos seem a good complement for Faber Castell. Thanks for the video 😊

These are on my wish list. I do want these badly. However, I feel compelled to dispute a comment you made about Prismacolors, which you said you don't have. You commented they are not layering pencils. But they are! 6-7 layers on the right paper. (soft, light layering). They are very soft and you can't color these with a heavy hand. Just letting you know. Enjoy your Pablos!

Shelly, Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the Pablos. Would it be possible for you to do a tutorial using these pencils. It would be great if you could also incorporate different medias or different blenders (just the way you did in the mythograhpic mermaid page). I absolutely love your tuturials. I had Albert D. for the longest time and only started using it following your tutorials and have fallen in love with them. Would love to learn how to use Pablos in a follow along if possible please. Thank you for taking the time to share all your wonderful tutorials with us.

Hello, (from sunny North Wales) I have just found your channel and your thoughts on these pencils have been very helpful. (I have been thinking I need to try the Pablo pencils) I do enjoy listening to your voice (it is very soothing) I think I detect a South Walian twang?

I have Albert pencils too and I do use them a lot and I love them The pencils that you're talking about Caran DAche are they soft or are they hard? I pretty much like the way that the Prisma pencils work because of this softness but I got used too Faber Castelle I also have poly chromos do you like the caran you just bought.

Very beautiful colors in pablo carendache, you never find these colors anywhere else, so each pencils have other quality..but carendache are my favorite

Hi shelly I don’t have these pencils but would love to get some to try.. ❤x

I was kind of surprised you didn't go for the Supracolors, as they are watersoluble and the same color palette. I've purchased a few of both (along with a bunch of other more expensive brands) to try but haven't had a chance to yet because I'm trying to finish an acrylic painting that is taking a lot longer than I planned, and I'm one of those people who just has to finish what I'm working on before I start something else or I will never come back to it. Several greens, a light and dark of a bright color (different color for each brand), a brown.. enough to try a flower or such and get a good feel for them. I find that works much better for me than a 12 set which often is missing needed colors or has one each of bright unnatural primaries. I CAN mix from a primary palette but I really don't want to lol, it's too much work for me. I've seen swatch comparisons side by side of the Supras (same as the Pablos) and the Albrechts.. karenhullart has a comparison chart for watercolor pencils on her website if you are curious that covers six or seven of the artist quality brands... and really the difference is the pastels and the beige/browns. Otherwise while they are all so lovely in their tins there really isn't a lot of difference between lines in actual colors.. a few here or there.

I have some pablos and I find them a bit hard to work with, I have the whole set including a special edition 30 set of the supracolours and I prefer to use those wet and dry as they are softer.

thank you so much for the amazing review!! Anyone reading this, if you have pablo and poly, which do you prefer and do you think it is worth having both?

Just a thought, since color order is very personal, but for me I find the "skin tones" fit with the earth reds.. like cinnamon, indian red, caput mortem, etc. Give them a swatch and see what you think.

I got black widows. They have some beautiful colors and the pencils work great in books. BUT getting open stock is not so easy. And I don't want to buy a new tin when I need one pencil. So I am trying to use my Polychromos more.

I've always wondered if all of the pencil brands get together and decide which brands are going to carry certain colors, that way they all can sell more pencils because it requires us to buy different sets in order to get certain colors?! 🤔

Did you try mixing the pencils? Could you use your indigo blue Polychromos with the Pablo's?

Caran d’Ache considers Pablo’s to be wax-based. They say they do not have any oil-based pencils. I really like them but tend to forget about them. I hope you will love using them.

I have Pablo’s my question is what colours do you use for skin tones?

What do you use the Albert Dürer for? Do you only do watercolour drawings?

Is this pastel? Ot watercolor?

What sharpener did you use to get those points!

I absolutely value your opinion on any pencil, I went for the full set of AD's based on your colouring style which is very similar to mine, I love the AD's. If a creator had come along who was clearly a huge Prisma (insert random pencil brand) fan and I didn't share their opinions on that pencil, then I would likely not share their opinion on another brand. We all have our preferences, personally I don't like the soft squishy pencils but I wanted to give the Prismas a try to see what all the fuss was about... I loved the colour range but the pencils are not for me, especially at our UK prices. I'm currently doing what you did and trying 3 open stock pencils from the well known brands, purely for the colour choice and as nope, I just want to pick up the pencil and colour and not have to mix up 86587287 pencils to get the colour that I want lol. Sorry for the ramble lol x