Holbein pastel set colored pencils - Test and comparison to Brutfuner and Arrtx colored pencils 

Nice review, Holbein pencils are more expensive outside Japan because the retailers add shipping costs from Japan, the customs cost and if you got them from a store, the cost of their rent and profits. Better to get them directly from Japan, where they will be much cheaper. I’ll say they are up there with Luminance, Derwent Lightfast and Polychromous. Keep creating 💛💜💙

I love my holbeins but I also love my brutfuner macaroons.

Great and non biased review, thank you so much. I appreciate your opinion. Much love & *Virtual hugs* xxx

Holbein have a 50 pcs set of pastel colours, too . and if you look @ a picture of it you'll see that the Brutfuners 50 looks identical to that, right down to the strange olivy greens ... also, i've heard people buy directly from Amazon Japan, maybe look if that may be an option ?

Holy grail color pencils

Yes they are very much like oil pastels in a pencil and it is probably why I love them so much. No they are not the most expensive pencil in the world. I paid 215 US dollars for mine imported from Amazon Japan, and shipping was 30 dollars. I paid more for my Luminance, Lightfast, and Poly Chromos. But Holbein has 150 pencils (30 more than Poly Chromos and 50 more than Lightfast and Luminance). I understand that they are not lightfast tested in the big art association lightfast tests but they do inhouse testing by chemists and others artist in Japan have tested them privately and they consistently beat out Poly Chromos. Nothing beats Luminance and Lightfast (and I spent about a hundred dollars more each for them and got less pencils). Holbein are excellent pencils IF you know how to use the properly AND you use their recommended blending solution Meltz which works better than Gamsol and makes them almost like watercolors. A lot of people dis on these pencils and they just do not know enough about them. No they are not Luminance, but they are excellent pencils and no one beats their color range in professional sets. I use a lot of pencils, but after Luminance, Holbein are my favs

Thank you

Theyre not even expensive IN japan its just outside of japan. Also yes, theres a huge collection of pastels.

Have you tried the Astra Pastellowe ? Thanks for your reviews, they are very thorough and very useful.

In terms of softness, which of these do you recomend, Brutfuner or Kalour?

It seems you have fallen in love with Holbein coloured pencils. That is one of my worst fears, falling in love with expensive stuff... 😂😂😂

i really want to try them, but so much money...and now im broke after buying a SSD for my computer lol