Colouring pencils are vastly underrated as a professional medium, but the options are extensive. I find using colouring pencils hugely therapeutic, and also easy! Easy to set up, easy to work with and easy to put away. It's very much a kitchen-table material that lends itself to a spare half hour of peaceful creativity, whilst also being an incredible tool used to create the most wonderful artworks by professional artists. The colours and luminance that can be achieved is incredible; the control and detail is almost unparalleled.
There's a huge number of brands to try including Derwent, Faber-Castell, Holbein, Caran d'Ache, Arteza, Bruynzeel, Cretacolor, Tombow, Koh-I-Noor, Lyra, Staedtler to name a few – and many of them have different ranges within them covering both Artists’ and Student quality.
I use both colouring pencils and watercolour pencils in my work but for this article I'm concentrating on colouring pencils – the brands, the types, and the techniques,
