el sueño de todos los caran d´ache... y para muchos los mejores son los prismacolor... casi nadie habla de los polycromos que en mi opinión son los que más valen la pena.
It's fascinating to see a left-handed artist skillfully using her tools.:O) You don't happen to be ambidextrous by chance Angie? I love the first Ed Sheeran- Pachelbel Canon piano composition in the background. The "True colors/Cyndi Lauper" (minute 16 ca.) piece is wonderful, too and the "Despacito" (minute 20 ca.) version took me a while to recognise.:O)) Thanks for this review that shows so much non-verbally, but communicates fantastically and equally to telling with words.
It’s been my experience that dark over light doesn’t work as well with Prismacolor. It gets a little gummy and streaky. Light over dark works better. This is mitigated by blending with a solvent or blender pen-but light over dark is the best way to go for smooth blending.
I would say the Faber-Castell Polychromos perform better in terms of pigment layout on smooth Bristol. I love the Pablos (I actually prefer them to the Polychromos) but I find they perform better on more toothy paper. I have no idea how Prismacolor would perform as I have never used them.
Comentar a quien tenga pensado hacer la compra y no sepa muy bien cuál elegir, que para un buen resultado tan importante es la elección de unos buenos lápices como de un buen papel para que se puedan mezclar bien. Por otro lado, yo no aprecio matices muy significantes en la comparación salvo que seas muy maniático y unos prismacolor cuestan aproximadamente la mitad que unos faber-castell y la tercera parte de unos caran d'Ache. Hay a quien esos matices le justifican el desembolso.. pero bueno, yo no soy tan pro y tan sólo mi opinión. Tb añadir q tengo los prismacolor y a pesar de ser buenos lápices fallan algo en calidad, pues se me han roto minas sacándoles punta e incluso se me ha despegado la madera d la mina de algún lápiz. No sé si ésto tb se da en las demás marcas. Aún así, la diferencia de precio es muy elevada. La gente muy pro que se lo puede permitir combina las marcas, ya que los acabados que dejan son ligeramente distintos y además compementan bien los colores, xq una marca tienen más gamas de rojos y colores cálidos y otros de azules y colores fríos.
@@godnickmations1269 Todos los que dicen prismacolor nunca han probado unos Polychromos, esa es mi conclusión, osea no le gana en nada, primero los faber tienen mejores pigmentos, mejor madera, mejor calidad de mina, ni hablar de resistencia a la luz porque los prismacolor a los 6 meses ya comienzan a perder su color en un dibujo al contrario de los faber que te aseguran durar mas de 100 años.
My hybrid set combines Polychromos Luminance Pablos and Prismacolor for an incredibly versatile and complimentary medium. I can do anything I need and then some.
I love this! Thank you for comparing! And I’m so sorry to be off-topic, but where did you get all the background music? The music credit attributed to the video sends us to a page that doesn’t actually have any of the songs? 🤔
Blending with the Polychromos is seamless 👍👍, the Pablos are good also. No wonder, since both are oil-based and don't have the wax bloom problem even when the paper is "saturated". But Prismacolors really have superior vibrancy, so not much layereing is needed with these pencils. I guess, depending on the effect one is looking for, all are good pencils.
I might be wrong, but Pablos are wax based and even Polys include wax. The bloom is present only when the pencil used is mostly wax based and the layers are thickly applied.
According to Caran d'Ache, they make no oil based pencils. I did email them wondering the difference between Luminance and Pablos. Both are wax, the difference involves how the cores are made (or processed for lack of a better word)
Thank you Angie for this video. I really like your accurate and skilful drawing style. I've only tried the FC Polychromos and the Prismacolor Premier. The Pablo pencils, being oil based (I checked) look similar to the Polychromos (oil based) in my opinion. Another review said they are softer than the Polychromos, but harder than the Prismacolor, that are soft and very luminous wax-based pencils as we know. What do you think Angie? Is it worth trying/buying the expensive Pablos having the other two?:O) Thanks in advance.
Hey, thank you for the comment :) I think it's not worth buying Pablo with polychromos and prismacolor, Pablo are a bit softer but in my opinion weaker than the other two sets. Honestly, the longer I worked with them, the more they upset me. I sold them.
Oliver Vallejos relación precio/calidad los polychromos, que sirven para todo y son de gran calidad los pablo, prismacolor es muy motivante y facil de trabajar pero es dificil hacerse texturas con ellos y no se trabaja de la misma forma
Yo prefiero usar el color más claro primero y construir las sombras más suaves antes de añadir los colores oscuros :v siento que es da un mejor resultado. Los prismacolor son difíciles de utilizar porque son muy muy suaves y la punta se les acaba (o se quiebra) muy rápido; su pigmentación es buena pero sigo prefiriendo los luminance y los holbein. Los poly no me gustan porque son muy duros, son buenos para pintar detalles muy pequeños pero hay que poner varias capas del mismo color para llegar a lo que se quiere; las demás marcas no lo requieren.
It depends on your style and what you are willing to pay. Prismacolors: round barrel, 150 colours, very buttery and easy to spread, good for larger areas because the tips gets blunt easily. Their quality is not great, some leads break or aren't well centered. The pencils look a bit cheap, and many of them aren't very lightfast. Polychromos: round barrel, (they have the largest barrel) 120 colours, very good tip and therefore excellent for detail. More transparent than Prismas and very good for layering. They take more work because they are a bit harder than Prismas. Most of them have excellent to very good lightfastness, so they're better if you want to hang or sell your drawings. Pablos: hexagonal barrel, they feel significantly thinner than the Polys, 120 colours, a bit softer than Polychromos. They offer a different colour range to the Polys and they are even more expensive. They sharpen as well as the Polys and are very comparable to them otherwise. My personal favourites are the Polychromos, but they're not for everybody, especially not for people with sensitive wrists.
The Pablo pencils didn't really get a fair comparison on the red to yellow blend because the red was completely covered by the dark espresso brown color. If they were blended better that would have given a more accurate and fair comparison.
Tengo algunos Albrecht Dürer y quiero comprarme los Caran D'Ache o los Polychromos, ayer me compré los Prismacolor Premier Botanical Garden y se desgastan rápido, genial el tema de Ed Sheeran en piano, lastima el despacito nosé xq les gusta ese tema.
Los caran y prisma son similares, obviamente Caran es mejor. Los poly lo que tienen de buenos es su durabilidad en todo sentido y que permite pasar varias capas aunque tambien se traduce en mas trabajo.
The prismacolor is more responsive, works quicker, is more intense and blends better than the others. Also no waxy build-up I can see. People complain about that on Amazon, but definitely not a problem for me. Thanks a lot for this most informative video.
I hv dont know about prismacolors and caran d ache but i know polychromos are the best.. i hv a set of 60 of polychromos n tjey r just amazing..but i would like to use prisma i hv heard drom people they blens very well
I AM SSJ They do blend well, but they’re waxy and get a white haze called wax bloom. Solvent to blend and fixative can help. Make sure you have ENOUGH PIGMENT on the paper BEFORE you do this and TEST it BEFORE working with a piece you plan to spend a lot of time on. The oil-based pencils don’t get ANY wax bloom, and the Caran D’Ache Luminance have very little. My experience with the Luminance are limited since I recently got them. They’re expensive but highly rated for BUILD QUALITY and LIGHTFASTNESS. Those qualities alone may justify the expense since they don’t break as easily and need resharpening.
Thanks for the video! I've got the 120 prismas, and I want to add a full set of either the pablos or polys. I like my prismas ok, but I cannot achieve the level of fine detail I'd like and (most importantly) I cannot get more that 3-4 layers onto the paper before the wax is just too thick and the paper cannot hold any more. This makes complex 3-d art end up with a flat effect. Which would you recommend for photo realism?
kellimichelle007 Your substrate matters. Which pencil is best is going to depend on what you are putting the color onto, the effect you are trying to achieve, and your personal opinion. All of the pencils you mentioned are available open stock, so it’s relatively easy ( and not too expensive) to buy a few of each and try them. Prismas have a mushy soft wax so that maybe why you are getting a flattened effect. That softness is good on toothsome paper (greater depth between the hills and valleys) if you don’t want to color forever. Prismacolor also makes Verithins, a harder pencil that makes much crisper lines. FC Polychromos are more like Caran d’Arche’s Luminance rather than the Pablos. Both are wax based, but the Pablos are a harder pencil. Polys are oil based so more akin to the softer wax. Both Faber-Castell and Caran d’Ache claim that their pencils will not bloom, so you should be able to layer more with both. By photo realism are you referencing the crispness of your lines or true to life color? It makes a difference in your selection. Faber-Castell claims their colors are true across their product line which means that whether you use their pencils, crayons, or markers the colors should match perfectly. Caran d’Ache formulates a different recipe for each pigment in order to create a consistent feel within a product type. You’ve probably noticed that Prismacolors feel a little different depending on the color. I really notice a difference between yellows and reds. Reds feel softer. I think in the end, there’s no substitute for experiential knowledge. I bought a bunch of different pencils from Dick Blick and tried them on the types of paper I like to color on. I like the creamy feel of Prismacolors. But I’m tired of the inconsistent quality, even though the price has dropped lately I don’t think they are worth the hassle. I like the Luminance pencil best for it’s creamy feel, but since I’m not making fine art I couldn’t justify the price. I went with the Pablos even though they are slightly more than the Polychromos. I just prefer the feel of wax based pencils especially on watercolor paper. I use colored pencils with watercolor and alcohol markers. I’ve yet to test different pencils over acrylic paint and pastes. I was using Prismacolors for that, so I’ll probably end up liking a wax based pencil for that too. I also just love how Caran d’Arche pairs their waxes so that you can get both water soluble and insoluble pencils. I really like their Neocolor crayons.
rtd1791 I just got a full set of polychromos last week...and so far, I love them. So much that I probably won't bother with my prismacolors anymore. Pablo's or luminance may be next, and derwent is coming out with anew line of lightfast colored pencils in July
kellimichelle007 Blending with solvent via paint thinner(use one made for artists), or a blender pen. The latter is better on the go, but solve t is more effective. Also, keep you pencils SHARP and use a light touch at first to avoid clogging the paper’s tooth(texture) in the early stages. I can’t speak for the Pablo, but I CAN recommend the Polychromos and I enjoy using them. They work fine with the wax-based pencils and do allow for greater detail and more layers.
@@rtd1791 Wax-based and Oil-based, since all colors pencils contain both only refer to the predominant ingredients. Normally walnut (nut) oils and bees wax are used but that can change with each manufacturer.
Thanks for a great video. I have Prisma and was wondering about the other two brands. This was very helpful. Could you please share what music was used? It is the best I have ever heard for this type of video. Thanks!
Pablos are a harder pencil, they are good at layering rather than blending. They are great for detail because they hold a point well. I find they perform exceptionally well on toothy paper. They are not the easiest pencil to use, they take time to get used to but they are superb once you do. I find them highly pigmented and so smooth, they glide across paper. I love their colour pallette, some of the nicest greens of any pencil set. They're not a set I would necessarily recommend for beginners but I do recommend them; they are one of the more superior pencils on the market.
thank you! I don't know what that is! I just got the set of 120 Pablo on Sunday! Loving them...so far I've just used smooth Bristol. TY for the video, it helped me decide!
It depends on your style and what you are willing to pay. Prismacolors: round barrel, 150 colours, very buttery and easy to spread, good for larger areas because the tips gets blunt easily. Their quality is not great, some leads break or aren't well centered. The pencils look a bit cheap, and many of them aren't very lightfast. Polychromos: round barrel, (they have the largest barrel) 120 colours, very good tip and therefore excellent for detail. More transparent than Prismas and very good for layering. They take more work because they are a bit harder than Prismas. Most of them have excellent to very good lightfastness, so they're better if you want to hang or sell your drawings. Pablos: hexagonal barrel, they feel significantly thinner than the Polys, 120 colours, a bit softer than Polychromos. They offer a different colour range to the Polys and they are even more expensive. They sharpen as well as the Polys and are very comparable to them otherwise. My personal favourites are the Polychromos, but they're not for everybody, especially not for people with sensitive wrists.
ETA: Hi Dawn, I don't blame you for not understanding.. it should be 'list'.. not 'watch'.. no idea how the word 'watch' got in there. (you can sort of watch though when listening in your mind, but that was not what I was asking about .. :) )
I have all 3, and Pablos are by far my least favorite. I also have Luminance and Holbeins and Pablos still rank at the bottom. For the price, I was incredibly disappointed. Poor blending ability, bland color selection and vibrancy. Just so inferior to the Luminance range. Not to mention RIDICULOUSLY expensive. You are paying for the Caran d'Ache name. If you like the oil based pencils, go with Polychromos.
Dicedealer64 poor blending capabilities? Serious? There are *a lot* of people saying the exact opposite... Someone even prefers them to any other pencil on the market. And Pablos aren't oil based, but wax based, there is only a different baking process that makes them appear like an oil based pencil.
Angelo Pastorini I keep seeing people mention that a lot of "oil pencils" are actually wax. Are there any true oil pencils besides Polychromos? First I was told Blicks were but they just have a different wax formula that makes them function like Polychromos. Then I looked into Koh I Noor polycolors and found out later those weren't actually oil either just a different wax formula. Same thing with Marco Renoir apparently. And I thought Pablo pencils were oil too and they seem to also just be a "different wax formula". I really would like to try out oil pencils that are actually oil unless FC Polychromos are literally the only true oil pencil set?
Lyra are considered an "oil" pencil. However, even a true oil pencil has to have some wax as a binder. Sometimes, I think people assume a pencil is oil based, because they don't see what they consider an oil bloom.
carmen l I guess that makes sense. I never really had too much of an issue with wax bloom since it's easy to fix or prevent. I was just really curious about trying oil pencils since I've always used wax and wasn't sure what to try besides Polychromos. (Or if Polychromos was the better option price wise).
kiblaze Frankly I'm not an expert and all I know is what I can find here on the Internet and in hundreds and hundreds of comments... Substantially, what I learnt is that almost every pencil is a mixture of wax and oil, and it's not simple to distinguish a wax based pencil from an oil based one... There are also other factors influencing the consistence, like other chemical components in the formula (I guess) and the baking process... Pablo and Luminance are an example, Pablos seem an oil based pencil for their hardness, but their leads are mostly wax, Luminance seems a wax based pencil for their consistence that is almost creamy and soft, but their leads are made mostly out of oil... The different baking process is the key
What does this mean? I wish people could say this stuff like they would to a person in front of them. This sounds bitchy which takes away from your message..
I would gladly say it in front of you or anyone else. Who thinks it's a good idea to play Despacito in a video? And a shitty piano version that's even more annoying than the original, at that.
