Derwent Vs. Faber Castell - Which pencils win?! 

I went to a pencil museum in derwent in the Lake District and got a free derwent pencil

This felt like an unfair comparison. If you’re going to use those specific sets of Derwent pencils, I probably would have used the Faber Castell Polychromos. They’re more similar in price and are my personal favorite. They layer and blend well, feel really sturdy, their led has never broken before, and are nicely pigmented.

"Faber castles are the cheap ones" *Me who just bought faber castles and feels like I just bought the most luxurious pencils ever*

This comparison is a little unfair. Those are the essentially the 'school' range of Faber castell vs Derwent's artist range. Derwent are also wax based like Prismacolor so perhaps that would have been a fairer comparison, where as Faber Castell is oil based which is why they are firmer and can hold an amazingly sharp tip. Also Faber Castells artist lines come in tins, the same as Derwents.

*Video idea:* Start off with a set amount of colours like 10 and once you use a colour, you can't go back to it and use it again. I think the results would be really cool!

Basically you used the Faber Castel 'Kids Version' :D Faber also has more artists versions in tin storage.

I remember the Christmas that my uncle got me a set of 48 faber castell pencils when I was about 10. I had mostly had cheap, dollar store pencils up till then, and colouring with the new pencils made me feel like a "real artist". I spent that summer filling up an entire sketch book with art, and treasured those pencils like they were gold. 20 years later I still have the sketchbook, though the pencils got used up long ago.

Jazza: “Faber Castels are the cheap ones” Me: “I- I thought those were luxury..”

Faber is one of the best brands out there when it comes to colored pencils. I'm pretty sure that if you got an "artists" set and not a "kids version" one you'd be surprised with the quality. They're not the cheapest but they're really really good

I've probably tried every single colour pencil out there and my faves out of those two are the Faber Castell's

I've actually gone into an art store and bought every shade of red pencil of every brand. I wanted to make a comparison and I found the more expensive brands tend to blend better and have better saturation. But one must remember buying fancy supplies does not make you a fancy artist. lol

0:46 Prisma Color Pencils: Am I a joke to you?

I feel like Polychromos, which are my faves, would have been better for the comparison than the basic Fabers.

I really enjoy using my Prismacolors, I really like how they feel.

I love how Jazza does his challenge videos and also makes time for videos like this! It's super helpful for someone like me- an almost college student- so that I don't have to waste my money trying out new products!

Polychromos, all the way. Nothing else compares.

Whenever I use coloured pencils, I never really resort to one brand in particular. I find each colour is different depending on the brand (for example, one brand's light blue could be slightly different than another brand), and it totally depends on what you're drawing. I have a big cup full of coloured pencils and I don't even look at the brands anymore, just the colour.

Something about that firefighter’s pose and expression makes him look like the kind of “firefighter” who shows up at bachelorette parties and not fires... 😂

I love the comparison videos - interesting/enjoyable to see pencils on Jazza’s channel

I’m confused Faber Castell has a 120 pack that costs 650 US dollars It’s called polychromo artist pencils

I do ask myself, just because I never heard of Derwent before: Don´t you have Polychromos by Faber Castell in Australia? They are really really good but by far the most expensive pencils you can by in Germany.

Faber Castell or Derwent? I only have enough monz for crayola crayons my good sir.

i love how you can make the worst art materials look like good ones and make the great art materials seem otherworldly!!

I liked the character design session. It's been a minute since jazza has done a character design session. Refreshing to go back to that. I miss the prompt requests on twitch when he used to stream

The Derwent Artist and Studio pencils actually have the exact same core. The only difference is the thickness of the core and shape of the barrel. Also, it wasn't really a fair test because the Derwent pencils you used were Artist grade, while the Faber Castell were either for kids. Faber Castell have their own equivalent Artist grade pencils (Polychromos), which would have been a fairer comparison.

i love how the music at the end matches all the different personas if the drawings. nice touch jazzer

Jazza: kid castel pencils or professional pencils chooses the kids one

One colored pencil art tip I have never heard from Jazza is that you should color your strokes in directions that follow the volume of the object. For example, a cylindrical shape like an arm should have arcs going “around” the shape.

"I can achieve perfectly professional results with these 10 dollars pencils" says the guy that can paint with skittles XD

PENCIL TOURNAMENT!!! We need it!

I actually like the last drawing best... it feels more creative, and the contrast and everything feels just a little more natural.

I love love love prisma color. I was blessed to get prisma color color pencils way back in elementary school, I’m in 10th grade now. So they were super cheap and no one new the brand and you could buy them from 5 below, a store where items cost $5 and below. But even with years using them they still amaze me with how smooth they are and the variety of colors that comes in the 24 pack. I might try out Derwent color pencils but prisma colors really take the cake for me.

Not looking for the prize, just thought I would point out that people generally feel beginners should always start with cheaper materials, and gradually work there way up to more well known and expensive brands. I just want to say that you should not feel obligated to stop using cheep brands just because of your level of skill. I know I sort of went through that phase where I wanted every expensive art supply I could think of, because of the conception that your medium should improve with your skill. You don’t have to think that way.

I love crayola, cause its cheap thats my only reason.

My favourites were always the Derwent studio back in GCSE art class. The colours were always so vibrant and accurate to the indicators on each pencil.

Thank you for doing this. It’s helped me decided what pencil I need.

We want a Pencil Tournument to find the WORLDS BEST COLOURED PENCIL 🙏✏️

"The packet is not really reusable for any extended period of time..." Me, who patches the paper packet up with tape and uses it to the bitter end: _pathetic_

Great to see a back to basics video - would like to see more of these once in a while. My favourites are the Faber Castell Polychromos pencils although I have heard lots of good things about the Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901 so will be trying them in the near future. Still lots of experimenting to do with the pencils and so many different papers to try them with.

My favourite was the fireman, but I just love red, yellow and orange hues in general. I have a set of Derwent drawing pencils that I really like, but haven't done much with coloured pencils yet.

Faber Castell has always been my preferred, Derwent gave me uneven colour every time

Jazza: "Derwent are 50 bucks per tin" Me: Shifty eyes at the tin of Derwent on top of my wardrobe I got for my birthday years ago, that I haven't been using. I feel bad now :(

JAZZA whatever you draw with your art is still unbeatable. YOU ARE THE BEST

I love your videos ^- ^ this one is really helpful cause i wanted to get into colored pencils

That's the children's range for the faber castell. The other brand had it's artist/studio grade matched against children's grade. It's nowhere near a fair match up.

I think you can't compare the derwind pencils with the "standard" Farber Castell's, my opinion

This is actually really intresting. I've always used only either two of these, but never considered comparing them to eachother.

I really liked the sorcerer--I thought it was a unique design and the green light effect was nice, too.

Jazza: uses “getting started” pencils Me for a year: coloring all my drawings with crayola pencils and outlining the drawings with sharpies

I use Faber Castell Polychromos. I love them! They’re so smooth and can be blend very great.

I feel like jazza's imagination and creative perspective is at level infinite

I've been using these Faber Castell for a long time and they're fabulous.

Jazza: were gonna compare two pencil brands Also Jazza: buys the cheapest Faber castell pack he can find

Everyone else: Gives a very detailed explanation to why they like one of the drawings Me: I like the monkey

Great review as per usual. I love the comparison between the 3 types.

I finally decided to get your app! I can't wait to start playing with it :D

When I was an art student, everyone was allllllll about the prisma colors! I still have a tin of them somewhere I think. But to be honest, I never actually made a point of comparing different brands and finding the one I liked. I just went with prisma because everyone else did. :0 Now I'm thinking it's time to try something new.

I recommend the pencils at the child’s table in restaurants. Cheap and sometimes usable

I love to sketch with the Faber Castell, but I've never really tried any of the more expensive ones - the Faber Castell always did a good enough job for me :D

I am no artist but it's so mesmerising to watch Jazza draw and colour!

Color pencils, or as I said as a kid 'pencil crayons' (weird Canadianism,) are so fun.. I like the Prismacolor Premier set.

I feel like this was an unfair comparison because Faber Castell has their Polychromos line that should be just as good and rich as the artist quality of the Derwent

Ooof I love the sorceress with tattoos. The glow from the stone is everything

I love the Arteza expert pencils, great colour strength and a pleasure to use.

I don’t ever remember buying Faber Castell pencils. They sort of just showed up in my pencil case at school one day.

My favorite colored pencils are the Faber castell polychromos👌💯🔥

Prisma colored pencils are my favorite hands down. They blend well and the pigment is rich and vibrant.

This video unlocked a childhood memory! I used to have the artist derwent pencils to colour as a kid, I loved them.

“What us your favorite brand of color pencils?” Me: *everything I find works*

I like the Prismacolor pencils most. Just had to sell my soul first to afford them XD

Thanks for the color pencil tips

This video help me a lot, thanks Jazza

RU-vidrs make something like $100 seem like nothing while I'm here sweating over what to spend my $5 on

Who else was here when the arty games app was first developed? Time has floooown

Thanks for the giving us an objective comparison between these color pencils. It really helped a lot especially that i am about to choose which will i use in my next project. God bless. From the Philippines.

I love Faber Castel’s upper end lines, if I HAVE to choose.Though, if I’m being honest, if the pencil has low bloom, blends well, and has a decent array of colors, I don’t care what brand it is. I tend to use a mix of individual pencils with colors I love. I have Rheumatoid Arthritis in my hands, so I’m not able to create much, anymore, but I still love playing with color! I really like all three illustrations, but the ninja monkey is my favorite.

When it comes to colored pencils, I've always preferred Prisma Pencils, the control and blending ability was always an enjoyable experience.

I use Faber Castell Polychromos. They're quality, and since they're oil based they blend and layer really well.

Hey jazza ! Great vid as always !

I got my first set of polychromos recently and I’m loving the vibrancy and blending I can achieve with them

I have been drawing with Faber Castel pretty much my whole artist career, There's really good artist versions which are more expensive than 10 $, but also give way better results. I especially love the deep green tones that Faber Castel provides since I specialised myself on environmental drawings. :) The Faber Castel sharpies can also be used and even combined with the coloured pencils. I tend to use the dark sharpie tones like black or brown as outline while I use the coloured pencils for the flat colouring and shading.

When I started actually trying to use colored pencils in my art I only had crayola pencils and while they are amazing quality pencils for being less then a dollar for a set they weren’t what I needed. When I finally upgraded to prismacolor premier it was night and day. While I am still learning the nuances of using colored pencils my art has improved 10 fold since acquiring my prismacolors.

Just love the music you play ☺️

great vid Jazza!

Personally I like using the "Staedtler Noris Colour" Pencils, they have a soft led, easy to blend and are reasonably priced-

I have recently been gifted the caran d'ache luminance coloured pencils by my grandma as I couldn't afford them myself. And I have to say that they're my absolute favourite now when it comes to making realistic art.

What!!! Ive followed you forever and this is the first ive heard of the app!!🤯

You do fantastic work, as always. But I have to say my favourite drawing is the monkey. I love what you did with his aura. As for the pencils, I find myself more drawn towards the Derwent brand. I have quite a few, and it's time for me to dig them out of my closet and get back to drawing! Thanks again for the inspiration!

When I was in Primary school (in the *cough* early 90's), Derwents were THE pencil to have. If you came back to school with a set of them (that you likely got for Christmas) you were the drawing King/Queen of the class. I still have some of mine that I got around 1993 and still use what's left of them.

Here's some extra information on colored pencils: There are two types. There's wax-based and there's oil-based. They differ in consistency, oil pencils tend to have a firmer lead and hold their point better whereas wax-based pencils have a creamier consistency and can be blended better. You can also use these differently. For example, you could do some extra blending with the solvent method, but it will generally work best with wax-based pencils. Kirsty Partridge Art did an amazingly comprehensive video on how to use colored pencils (aimed at beginners but can be used for anyone to up their game). Hope this helped!

I always used to just use crayola or something else cheap. But my art teacher had prisma colours for us to try and I fell in love with them lol

Sad that I missed your first art box by just over a year, I've only recently started taking up coloured pencils during quarantine. On a budget, I currently have acquired the Crayola 100 pc set and want to get my feet wet first before saving up to invest in higher price point items. Thank you for great infotaining vids!

My favourite pencils are the Faber Castel because I am on a budget and they work the best in my opinion on the cheaper side of pencils but I would love to give derwent a go once I am able to afford them. Also you only used basic Faber Castell’s it would have been cool to see the higher tier versions like the polychromos (not sure how to spell it 😂)

Nobody: My auto-generated captions: “gouda ever won I’m jazz I “

I used to religiously use Faber Castell until my mum bought me some Prismacolors a few months ago, the difference in quality was quite shocking and I use them a lot now but I still find myself dipping back into the good old Castells from time to time 😊

A pencil review... Honestly this was a really nice video, what can I say. Solid video :D

Jazza: Derwent or Faber Castell? Me: *crying in corner with Crayolas*

When it comes to colored pencils, for cheaper brands I would definitely choose crayola. They come in much larger packs for a vary of colors and are easy to blend and layer. They are also most of the time on sale which also lowers the already lower price. But when it comes to more expensive pencils, I would pick prisma color. The colors are vibrant and rich. They blend and layer perfectly and are still cheaper when it comes to higher end pencils. I love using them on mid toned paper. This really helps the highlights pop more than if used on normal white paper.

I'm more of a strong color kind of person, so I found that the best ones for me are the Derwent Intense. If you are looking to do a lot of layering, you gotta use them lightly. To me, they feel almost like oil pastel, in color result.

I love my Derwent Studios as well! But I have a massive 120 kit of Faber Castell Polychromos that I always would reach to just because I have so much variety. Thank you for sharing your Arty Games app too! I've been trying to get back into drawing as part of my therapy, but have lacked so much inspiration. I think this might be what I need to get out of my head and over thinking on how to make things "perfect", and just have fun with creativity again. Massive love