KALOUR Professional Colored Pencils,Set of 300 Colors,Artists Soft Core with Vibrant Color,Ideal for Drawing Sketching Shading,Coloring Pencils for Adults Artists Beginners

This is a lot of pencils but although there are many similar colors I don't see any duplicates. Now - the real reason for this glowing review. The colors are creamy and go on thoroughly and easily. The pigments are strong and consistant.The metallic colors are interesting. All the pencils are wax based. The only difference with the metallics are that they have mica flakes mixed in with the pigment. You'd think that this makes them sparkle. It doesn't. But it does have an indefinable effect on the pigment. The metallic colors are a bit more complex. Time will tell if that translates to the finished art project. Truth be told, there isn't much difference between the metallics and the colored pencils with most of the brands I have tried.The flourescent colors, however are much brighter.I'm truly pleased with Kalour colored pencils. It is a surprise that they are this inexpensive. Oh - I should add that all pencils have a color number, a color name, and a color-fastness rating on each pencil. You should buy a large pencil case to house them.I also bought a Stedtler 501 pencil sharpener. It is a professional product which is outstanding at getting the pencil sharp with a minimum of waste.

Great set. So many colors, in a great tin and well thought out. My teen daughter who loves to color, loves this set. Great selection of colors, great quality.

These colored pencils feel so smooth when coloring. I’ve never had the lead snap when sharpening. These blend wonderfully. I love the wide variety of colors. The neon colors are phenomenal the metallic colors could be better.

I am an adult who loves to color by numbers for relaxation purposes. Some folks have a beer when they get home, I color. I had a smaller set of pencils from the same brand that I loved but I sometimes had to compromise on matching up with the color keys of the adult aged coloring books I use. This was a little self love present to myself to make my relaxation method even more satisfying. There is a huge array of colors. More than I will ever need. And I love love love that they are laid out flat in a tray, making it super easy to find what you’re looking for. The colors have a pretty saturation and the pencils rarely break. I have a son that will often ask to use my pencils for actual drawing and he loves to use them as well.

Very good and functional pencils. I don't regret buying them.

First things first: I'm not an artist. I'm an adult colorer, and my coloring is not art. In all honesty, I purchased this set because I decided to put my best colored pencils--and some of my favorite budget-friendly sets--away for the most part. I'm stuck in a situation where I little control over who is around my stuff--and how they treat my possessions. I'm tired of vanishing pencils and broken pencil cores. Yes, Prismacolor Premier and Polychromos can be replaced one at a time, but it gets really expensive, really fast. Especially since I can't buy open stock locally (no art supply stores in my area), and have to order online. I have some Brutfurner square pencils--and really like--but they've been hard to get from Amazon, at times. And, I have them reserved for a few books that they work the best in. I also really like MarkArt, but I have a few plans for them. All I really wanted, when I purchased these, was a larger set with lots of colors. Something to replace my go-to every day coloring set (I'd trade off between square Brutfurner and MarkArt), for times I wanted to preserve the other sets (especially my beloved, favorite set, Polychromos). Particularly, I wanted a big enough set that if a pencil or two vanished, it wouldn't be a big deal. I chose this three hundred set, e thought $50 to $60 isn't budget-friendly for me, until you look at the per pencil cost. I'm not going to lie, however, $50 is a real stretch on my limited income. I didn't have to--or really want to--really like these.The problem is, the more I've used these, the more impressive they've actually become. First of all, they feel really pretty good going down on the only paper that my expensive Brother laser printer (late 2018 purchase) can print on: regular copy paper. The toner still wore off the page as I swatched, but the pencil work itself went well. And, I hate swatching with a passion. The first thing I noticed was that the number on each pencil is pretty low, instead of up by the Kalour logo, where it'd be more convenient, for the long run. I was using the A Tailored Image chart (by Stacy Bledsoe). As a result, I put the pencils in the chart order, and put numbers stickers on each (also securing each sticker with a bit of transparent tape over it), back by the logo. The pencil names and numbers will disappear over time, due to sharpening, but I'll still be able to identify each pencil. As much as I loathe swatching, I think it's a really good idea, for this set. Some of the colors aren't what you'd expect, from going by barrel color, core color, or name. I really wish pencil manufacturers wouldn't use metallic lettering on pencils, because it makes it difficult for some of us to read. There are a few pencils here and there that sharpen really unevenly, because the cores are really poorly centered. However, quite a lot--maybe even most by now--of my full Prismacolor Premier 150 set are dramatically off-center. Since I can't hand pick open stock in person, and have to order online, I get what is sent my way. As a result, I cannot fault this Kalour set too much, for the same issue. Especially since it's not even close to be every pencil that's affected. There is a nice color range, including a wonderful amount of pastel colors, and even some muted, earthy colors. Sometimes earthy colors are missing altogether from inexpensive sets. Many times in cheaper Chinese sets, most of the brown lean very heavily to reddish browns, but there are quite a few rich browns here that don't. That's really, really nice, because some of the more expensive sets lack light colors and nice browns. I haven't found very many pencils that are scratchy no matter what kind of paper is in play. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I don't remember any pencil always being scratchy. Even Prismacolor Premier aren't totally immune to scratchy pencils. Often Eggshell and a few of the darker greens can feel scratchy. Some people say that Prismacolor's Electric Blue is always scratchy, but that hasn't been my experience. So far, these pencils sharpen very easily, and well--even with a hand sharpener. I do feel like a lot of the individual pencils may be softer than people credit them for, because I'm not very heavy-handed, but have to sharpen regularly. That said: no, they're not Prismacolor Premier soft. These are not the Prismacolor Premier killer that a lot of people seem to be looking for, but at a fraction of the price.I've worked with these on a variety of coloring book paper. I've colored multiple images on both "Amazon paper" (Jade Summer's Fairy Homes, RJ Hampson's A Frog's Tale, and The Colors of Fall by Stephany Elsworth) and Creative Haven paper (Teresa Goodridge's Gnomes books). They worked great for me on both. They also worked well, in smaller spots tests, in a variety of books. In a Kerby Rosanes' book and the American edition of Johanna Bradford's Rooms of Wonder (which is supposed to be the same paper), I thought they went down exceptionally well, even though the paper is one of the smoothest I've experienced. They also worked well for me in Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest (American edition). Previously, the only other pencils that had worked really well for me on that yellowish paper were Brutfurner square pencils and Prismacolor Premier, so that's exciting. These also did a really nice job for me in the American edition of Johanna Basford's Worlds of Wonder. In Johanna's newest book, Small Victories, I felt like a few colors resisted transferring to the page a bit, but I have dexterity issues (so it could have been me). Others felt fine in that book. Small Victories uses the same paper for the American and UK edition, so maybe it's not something I'm used to yet. What I found really impressive was that these really worked well for me on the paper in Lulu Mayo's _A Million_ series (In this instance, A Million Little Monsters). I hate that paper most of all, because only Prismacolor Premier pencils, Bambino clay crayons, and Albrecht Durer feel natural to me in those. I also felt like these did really well for me on Colouring Heaven magazine's newish paper, but I haven't had too many issues with Polychromos or Prismacolor Premier pencils on it either (but again, I'm not an artist). I also thought these played nicely with the paper in my Japanese edition of Symphony of Cute Animals (Kanoko Egusa). Finally, they also felt nice to work with in Rita Berman's Asian book. The blended and layered pretty well, depending on user skills and paper limitations.Overall, I think this is a very nice set of pencils. I'm glad I purchased them. I've become more emotionally attached to them than I wanted. Now I actually care if a few vanish. :-p I still feel like, at their price point--the 300 is set isn't a budget-friendly set--for those with a fixed income... Until you look at the per pencil cost But, it is a really, really good value. However, "budget-friendly" is subjective. Those that can comfortably afford really high-end artists' pencils (and set maintenance, through open stock)--like Lightfast and Luminance--probably see Prismacolor Premier and Polychromos as budget-friendly. For most coloring adults on tight budgets, however, those sets aren't realistically priced options, they're luxury sets. I'm very pleased with this product.

The media could not be loaded. - there is fluorescent, metallic, pastel, and bright and dark color. Provides pretty much everything you need in colors- they are soft but not as soft as prisma, they blend together better than prisma even though the texture isn’t as buttery. The texture is still very smooth and pigmented- there’s numbers and names provided with a template sheet. The names are funny, I personally love it!- they are affordable and high quality with a huge variety of colors to use for art or coloring in coloring books!Don’t regret buying!! 😇

Perfect very good material is incredible the colors that they have is a very elegant material and widely used by many children who dream of this colorful pen