Caran d'Ache Luminance Colored Pencils - Set of 20, Portrait Colors

The Caran D’Ache Luminance are the best artist grade pencils on the market. The difference between these pencils and other pencils that are cheaper and budget friendly is that all the colors in the set are museum grade and fade resistant with the proper and real standardized testing to back it up. Their performance is almost like working with paint. You can either layer the colors on top of each other or blend them together which is something you wouldn’t find that a normal pencil does. The high quality cedar wood smells wonderful as soon as the box is opened or once sharpened. They don’t break easy. This is a set of pencils aimed towards professional artists who want to sell their work and not for beginners. For the price, they are very expensive! Try to get these on sale whenever you can as the sales are the only way to afford these. $65 is actually very reasonable for a set of 20 colors that can produce more colors than you’d think. If you’re looking for a more budget friendly option for a fade resistant set, try the Faber-Castel Polychromos or their student Goldfaber line. The Derwent Lightfast would be the direct competitor to these pencils.