Tombow Irojiten Colored Pencils Set - Woodland Colors 30-Pack (3-Pack) | Premium Artist & Student Drawing Supplies for Sketching, Coloring & Art Projects

If you like to blend your pencil drawings - these are the pencils for you. They are available in many different colorways and there is also a set for drawing faces. The colors go from brights to grey shades - and the best part is that you can create limitless combinations. They are different from other pencils and they age well. My first set is more than 10 years old so I'm very excited about my most recent purchase! The packaging is also unique - You will enjoy these pencils!Perfectly fine pencils. They sharpen nicely. With normal pressure, they aren't super pigmented, but more pressure does give a deeper color. Big bonus is that these colors are fairly unique. The packaging is cute (but unnecessary IMO)- my set does have the color names and numbers on the pencils.I have wanted these for a long time but I put off ordering then because of mixed reviews. I wish I ordered them sooner. They are great pencils. One of the things I like most if that they have very unique colors. They are a harder pencil, but they are not too waxy. They layer beautifully. If you are looking for a soft waxy pencil like Prismacolors, these are not the ones you want. I have both and I find they both work well in different ways. I find the Tombows to work well on the kinds of paper prismacolors don't do as well on. Tombows are nice for sketching or coloring detail like hair were you want to see the texture. Some people complained that some of the colors are too light, that is the way they are supposed to be. It is not that they don't have enough pigment. It's just the pigment is light. I used the light grayish tones to color some botanical pictures and I love how they came out. The box is cute but I both love and hate it at the same time. I like how they are divided into groups. It is fun to color with just one book at a time but sometimes I want to use all the pencils. It can be a pain to look through the boxes to find what I need. I plan on buying the other sets soon. I will probably end up putting them in a slotted pencil case, still keeping them in book order.I love these pencils. There is a learning curve involved in how to use these pencils in your colorings. Testing on specific paper will be a good thing to do. They are also great for soft affects on images and with blending other colors in this set. I liked them so much I have ordered the Seascape set for future coloring projects.The packaging for me was perfect. Being a bibliophile, the whole volume concept was very pleasing and looks classy on my book shelf. I am planning on completing the the set with the Rainforest pencils.As a picky artist and advanced colorist, these pencils are the perfect staple for a lover of artistic variety. First of all, the packaging is absolutely gorgeous, looking like a set of books. Eat set of colors comes in a “book”, totaling 3 that go into a box set. Tombow definitely has a mark in my art collection and these pencils are certainly getting good use. Perfect for shading and and woods, greenery coloring, offering variety and a colorful depth to my recent art pieces.I'm an artist and am always looking for great pencils; these pencils are lovely. Tombow offers quality products. I'm very happy with my purchase.I bought the Tombow Irojiten Colored Pencils for decoration and looks alone, but they work as colored pencils too. First, as decoration, the packaging is wonderful for the understated office. They are a soft nude pink, grey, and light grey blue, with each of the 3 packages having their own rubber banding. Second, as pencils, the pencils themselves are just average, and have a subtle hue. Many colors in the same family seem similar or indistinguishable (i.e. brown red will be light tan, and so will brown grey). The "lead" is a medium firm, better for outlining crisp lines, than blurring or smudging. *This review is independently submitted. I used my own money to buy this product, and it is for my own use.These are beautiful pencils...highly blendable...one of the best packaging presentations ever! I have every set in series and will always have these in my pencil collection! They are highly blendable and so easy to use. If you don't want to have to decide on color palettes, these are perfect for you! Each collection is a perfect little curated palette but, all work perfectly together. This series was one of my first complete sets... I began my journey as a colorist with these and found them quite forgiving! ???I am not an artist but do enjoy adult colouring books, and have a variety of coloured pencils, including cheaper ones like The excellent starter Crayola pencils, and more expensive ones like the soft and vivid Derwent coloursoft pencils, and my lovely Faber Castell ( FC) Polychromos Pencils. However much though I love the FC, there have been some colours I've struggled to get from them. I bought these because they looked so beautiful in their boxes, and the colour range looked gorgeous. The pencils themselves certainly feel 'silky' in the hand and are lovely to hold. The writing on the barrel is silver, and this sometimes makes It hard to read the name of the pencil colour on the barrel if the light isn't very good. In the end I bought all 3 sets of these - 90 pencils in all. It's taken time to process my thoughts about them. The first thing was that though the boxes looked lovely, they were impractical kept like that, so added the pencils into my Derwent Hold-All pencil case alongside the Faber Castel Polychromos ( the FC have solid coloured barrels, unlike the Tombow Irojiten which have the pencil colour at the end of the barrel). The Irojiten expanded the range well, and complimented it. I was especially keen on the cherry red, as whilst FC do a ton of reds, personally they invariably seem either more orange, or purple tinged, whilst the Irojiten cherry red is a very definite 'red'. The pencils themselves are slightly longer in length than the FC, but also have a slightly thinner core. Some lay down beautifully smoothly, like the mustard and the olive yellow, whilst others feel quite 'scratchy', like the tangerine orange. Most seem to lie in the middle though. It was the feel of them laying down that gave some hesitation about them at first. First attempt was a page from Joanne Basford's book 'Secret Garden', using a mix of Irojiten and FC pencils, and after a hesitant start really started to settle to using them. It's taken a bit of perseverance but I really love them now because they give that desired extra colour range. The quality isn't quite up there with FC, but it's absolutely fine overall. They layer very well, and also with the FC. They sharpen to a great point ( I use a KUM metal sharpener) and though there have been a couple of breakages, these have been minimal. The pigment seems good too, though am aware there are questions over how lightfast they are. Overall in fact I tend to reach for them first. However if was buying again, I wouldn't bother with the last box set, in internal box colours of fawn, grey and mustard, containing volumes 7 ( fluorescent colours - just no point, personally don't use them), volume 8, very pale tones ( too pale, just paler versions of those in the other sets like in volume 1) and volume 9, the dull tones - with the one exception of oil yellow which I've used a lot ( think it can be bought on line as a single pencil from open stock) , haven't really used the rest as much. If only able to afford one set would go for the first set (vol 1 - pale tone, cream outer wrapper; vol 2 - vivid tone, green outer wrapper; vol 3 deep tone 1 - pale blue outer wrapper). Incidentally there are no blacks or whites in any set.Having bought several sets now will post this review for each but add different photos. The final comment is that they are a lot of fun, and I'm really enjoying them. Will certainly buy them again and have bought sets now for friends.PS have added a brief colour swatch showing some of these Tombow Irojiten colours (TB)alongsidewith Faber Castell (FC) colours, plus a selection in my pencil case, also with the FC, (in a Derwent Hold-All case) , and the first page done where both were used together.The high price is mostly on the looking and packaging. They don’t blend well. If you need hard core colored pencil, prismacolor scholar pencils are more pigmented. I do like the dark tone vol5. They are more pigmented and beautiful colors. But the light grayish tone vol6 and pale tone vol4 are so over priced. They are waxy and hard to use. And they have the same results as the $3 / 24 pencils pack staedtler brand I purchased from Walmart. The light colored pencils are not even performed better on black paper than the set for kids. If you really like the special colors, then maybe they are good for you. But the pale tone vol4 can be found in scholar 60 pack too. I bought book2. Maybe book1 is the better choice for me, as it has more darker colors.Love it!Very happy with these colored pencils. They are soft, smooth and I use them in my coloring books, to have a pastel look.High quality - worth the investmentLove this pencils,love the tiny boxes they come in,??