Koh-I-Noor Polycolor Colored Pencil Review

Today we are going to look at the Polycolor pencils from Koh-I-Noor. I bought this set of 24 colors at a local store for $24.99 buy you can find them for less at Blick online: https://shrsl.com/2a4xi (affiliate links used)

Product description from Blick: Polycolor premium oil-based drawing pencils cased in California cedar wood offer the ultimate control on paper, laying down smoothly with no wax buildup. Use them for drawing, illustrating, and coloring. They're easily blended and overlaid for limitless hues and formulated with the highest standards of lightfastness. These pencils are pre-sharpened.

These pencils are harder and drier than Polychromos. They feel similar to Derwent Studio. These are available in open stock as well as sets ranging from 12 to 144 including some specialty sets.

Here is the coloring book I showed: https://amzn.to/3cMyjos

Pros:
Smooth, effortless laydown of color
No bloom or wax build-up
Easy to change tone with pressure making a smaller set versatile
Layers well
Dissolves easily with solvents.
Works well on a variety of paper
Sharpens to a fine point
No breakage (in my experience) with hand held or electric sharpeners
No smudging
Good lightfastness rating overall with the exception of some pinks and purples and at least one blue.
Although they are hard they lay down well with little pressure, kind of like a pastel pencil would but with enough oil/wax to keep them from smudging.

Cons:
Less vibrant than Prismacolor or Polychromos
White and black are weak
Not good for burnishing as the hard lead fills the tooth quickly.

Bottom line:
These are a hard, dry feeling pencils. I found them well suited to smooth coloring books where I had trouble getting enough color with other oilier feeling pencils. They also performed well on watercolor and drawing paper. I recommend these pencils to anyone who likes a well-pigmented dryer feeling pencil. If you don't like how slick Prismacolors are you will probably like these. These would also work well as a bottom layer under oilier pencils increasing the layering ability of your colored pencil work.

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