Black Widow Colouring Pencils, 48 pc Coloured Pencil Set. Best For Sketching And Artist Colours, Wax Colouring Pencils for Adults (Monarch Pencil Set)

The set of 48 pencils comes in a attractive tin package with plastic trays. The trays keep the pencils in place while not in use or if your on the move needing to carry them.Pencils them selfs come in the tin but the trays do have a funny chemical smell when you first time open them and disappears after a day or two.Pencils are very nice to use and feel comfortable in the hand. They look great being black barrel and having the the colour of the pencil as the end tip to identify each pencil with a brief description along the barrel colour name and number.They are soft and buttery when using them on the paper. Very easy to blend together and can take a few layers to build colour up.So far I have had no duplicates or Brocken leads yet while using them.The colour palette of the pencils are good for this set and each pencil has a unique name for the colours I found useful and easy to remember.These are good pencils practice with if you are on a budget and need some premium pencils. Can be used for adults for actual art or children and adults colouring books.

Quality:high quality Breakability:never broke with harder use. Value for money:great value for money, hard to buy a more professional pencil for a tighter budget Colour quality:great colour quality, works well for light and harder colour strokes

Excellent quality pencils. Pigment is rich and core is soft. Pencils rarely break.

I bought the Monarch set myself and received the Scorpion, Black Widow, Cobra, and Dark skin/light skin tone sets for my birthday.The Monarch's are mostly pastels anr are definitely my favourite. The Black Widow, Cobra and Scorpion have a different assortment of colours. The light and dark skin tone sets make colouring skin a lot easier! But buying all sets definitely create a comprehensive and unique set of colours (144 pencils in total) and are definitely worth the investment. They are my favourite budget pencils, they blend and layer fabulously and I also love the octagonal barrel which makes gripping the pencil easier. They are not as soft as Prismacolor Premier's but are nearly on par in terms of vibrancy and layering.One downside I have found is some of my pencils crumbled, 1 in particular is the shade 'Mud' that I lost 1/3 of the pencil. The Dahle 133 sharpener fixed the problem for me and have found they are more delicate on my pencils than my other sharpeners. Anyhow, I promptly contacted their Facebook page and they immediately sent out a replacement pencil for me all the way from Australia (took 8 weeks roughly to arrive). Their customer service is awesome and I really hope they do open stock one day!

I love these pencils . They blend really well. They feel effortless to colour with. So far they don’t break very easy when sharpening. They aren’t great on black paper . The strangest of all, there’s no red or orange in the tin. Considering red is a primary colour I found this a little odd.I would buy another set however I would check the colour descriptions first. The colours can look very different on paper to what the led looks .

I've recently got into adult colouring and have seen other people mention these. I dont have masses of money to spend, but these were much cheaper than most good pencils so I got them to try. I am in love! I bought the Dragon and Monarch sets, and now I want all of the others. They glide on smoothly, are lovely to use and easy to blend and shade. They dont break or crumble when sharpened; they take a point easily.You can make new colours by layering one on top of another. I literally cannot fault them. If like me, you are looking for good quality pencils on a budget you wont be disappointed. I doubt I will bother with other brands.

I brought these pencils as I already owned all the previous black widow sets.These came in a metal tin with cardboard sleeve. The pencils are in plastic formed trays.The nice thing about the set is that includes pale colours that the other sets did not include. This an entirely new set with no repeats from previous black widow.The colours lay down well and it's easy to get vibrant, bold colours. They blend well and it's easy to get gradients. They sharpen well and hold their point without crumbling. They aren't as soft as a prismacolor pencil but patent as hard as polychromos. They are somewhere in the middle.I really like these pencils. My only sore point is that, as yet, black widow do not sell their pencils open stock which is annoying when you run out of your most used colours. Hopefully this is something they will offer in the future.

Item arrived with a dent in tin, it was going to be a gift so I was annoyed & disappointed. It was well packaged in Amazon packaging so the dent must have been there prior to sending.In order to see what the full range of colours are, I had to remove the wrapping which means I probably now can't return the product.VERY disappointed to see the limited range of colours despite it being a pack of 48.No red colours at all.As red is a primary colour I'd expected there to be at least one or two shades of red.Although there is a good range of other colours, without any red colours, their use is limited without buying a different set & possibly doubling up on other colours.Although these were a reasonable price, I will now have to pay for an alternative set of coloured pencils which will include some red colours & not sure what to do with this set now as I probably can't return them.I can't comment on the quality of the pencils as they have not been used.Whilst writing this review I have just noticed a colour swatch guide on the outside of the bottom of the tin which I didn't see before removing the plastic wrapper.So I guess it's my fault for not checking more carefully what the colours in the tin are before opening but I kind of assumed it would contain at least one red pencil, being a primary colour.