Castle Art Supplies 48 Pasteltint Coloured Pencils Set | Quality Colours in Softer, Sumptuous Tones | for Professional and Adult Artists | Protected and Organised in Presentation Tin Box

Brilliant set of pastel colours, really nice selection and in a lovely tin with 2 layers. Extremely pleased with Castle Arts products and have bought more for myself and as gifts for grandchildren. Can highly recommend and worth spending a little more.

I found these coloured pencils to be of excellent quality. They feel very sturdy when using. The colour goes down well, the pigment is very strong even on the palest colours, and they blend well. I have other coloured pencils from larger sets but I found that there is very little overlap with this pastel set so they make a great supplementary set to existing supplies. The colour names are good too, simple and memorable.

This is the second purchase of Castle Art Pencils, I have the 120 set and I am very pleased I purchased these.I have a faber castell trio tub box pencil sharpener which has a slot for coloured pencils. This sharpener is very good for sharpening softer cored pencils.I loved the colour selection of the pastel shades. I have put them all in a very large pencil case together.The 48 tin set still comes with the leaflets on colouring and a swatch sheet, so I think the only difference between this tin and the other set that costs £42.99 is the case the pencils come in. So I would suggest that if you already have a large pencil case like I did then this is the better value for money.I found the 120 pencil case had a strange smell, so that also help me to decide that the purchase of the tin made more sense.Although some might like the tin and lift out trays I am not a fan as if the trays get stuck and you pull them out too vigourously then the pencils could end up falling out, hitting the floor and the leads will then break. So I placed them in a 200 slot, one pencil per slot pencil case. The plastic trays went in the bin, the tags on the trays were saved to put round papers, ie holed punched papers and the tin now holds all my bobbins in my sewing machine bag with an elastic band round them to stop them falling out. So literally every item apart from the plastic tray has found a new use. If you are not a professional artist and want a medium priced set of pencils these will really do the job. If you are very careful how you look after them, how you sharpen them they should be okay. Those people who have had all the leads break have been unlucky the item was probably dropped somewhere in the supply chain.I treat my stationery like a precious cargo, find storage solutions that work, store pens upside down, out of the cold, and sun and sometimes horizontally in order to improve shelf life. I only get one pencil out at a time, or use a pen tray my dad made for me to put a few pens in so I can blend, otherwise our cat tries to knock the pencils off the table.I would buy these again. This is not a bot produced review it is the real mcCoy from a human being hence all the waffle!

Excellent pencils love them. Blend really well.

Although they're stunning colours, I do feel a set half this size would be more appealing, as there's only so much pastel colouring you can do, they are not quite as smooth as the other colouring pencils set that I have, but still nice and smooth and blendable.

Beautiful choice of colours, so useful to have them all in one set as the usual sets only have one or two pale colours. I need them particularly to colour in the background when I need to give perspective

bought these for myself as I wanted something to do in my spare time and these look awesome and some beautiful colours, can't wait to try them out, good value for the money

Beautiful quality pencils ..