My understanding from watching other videos about the inktense, is that, if you do light layers and fully activate the color, they will not move after drying. If you use thicker layers and don't fully activate them, they will move if rewet. Hope this helps.

I've always been a bright coloured person, yet the more I do art and collect different mediums, the more I'm loving the darker, moodier colours. This set is high on my wish list. For me almost all things derwent make me happy. Your duck is beautiful!

Its a rainy cold afternoon here on Cape Cod and I just stumbled across your channel here on youtube and have found you to be wonderful company as I work on my own art. I love the vibe of your channel. I enjoy how soft and quiet it is...your voice is soothing and goes wonderfully with the scratch of pencil on paper...both yours and mine. I very much enjoy your content thus far as it seems we have very similar taste in choice of media. Thank you so much for doing what you do and sharing it with the world. I look forward to exploring more of your videos.

We got some inktense pencils in scrawlrbox this month and now I'm considering buying some. They are expensive, so I wanted to see a comprehensive review. Thank you so much for this video. It wad helpful.

Hi Helen, love your duck! Based on this I bought 9 open stock inktense pencils at the art store today. My tests were on Canson Montval 140 lb WC paper. It’s a little too textured for these pencils but the pigment was lovely. I did see color lifting after it dried. I will try it on a hot press Fluid 100 cotton paper 140 lb in hopes it lays down better and check again for color lifting. Thanks for sharing your product experiences. I’ve added the 72 set to my must purchase list!

So wonderful duck! 👌👍😊👏

Thank you Helen. I've had a set of 24 of these pencils for a while, and you inspired me to get them out for a little swatch and play. I love your duck! I just watched your sketchbook review and really enjoy your bird paintings. But I really really love the (what did you call them? splodge and scribble?? depictions of various buildings. 🙂 Cheers from Australia.

ii keep all the shavings from inktense and watercolor pencils, warms and cools...for watering down as background/washes for other drawings and projects. even the wood bits add texture for collage journal pages. Ty for sharing yr process. p.s. Derwent chinese white drawing pencil is opaque. Helps with Faber castell white pens/inks as well.

this was a really helpful review thanks allot

Beautiful work. My outliner from the 72 set is water soluble, dissolves to a pale blue-grey. I’m going to order an open stock one and see if it different.

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Love your mallard duck, just got my first Albrecht Durer pencils. I have some Inktense paints but not the pencils, I worry about the staining and lack of flow. Although you show here the pencils behave much the same as other w c pencils x

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Bought a set of 72 years ago just bought a set of 100 Inktense nice to use.

For me the biggest advantage of Inktense is the possibility to work on fabric. Once dry and ironed they are permanent.

For a more opaque white (apart from obvious choices such as gouache etc) try and get a single inktense white block or a single caran d’ache museum aquarelle pencil in white.

i have those and love them! next i want to repurchase the watercolor pencils, but not sure if i want to go with the derwent again or the albrech. so i have both in my cart and undecided.

Very nice demonstration and comparison Helen, I wanted to ask you because I didn’t quite understood what you said,what kind of paper did you use here? I know they came out with 28 new colors in the pencil line, unfortunately right now only in UK. I am in the US and they can’t tell me when they will be available here. Thank you for sharing 😊

I have the Albrecht Durer and the kind of paper used makes a huge difference for me. I have had more success on a mixed media 230 or higher gsm…not a heavy grain paper. I have heard another artist on youtube demo the Inktense and she also recommended mixed media paper.

Thank you for this. It would help me if you'd show the complete swatch page as a "still" for a moment, it keeps moving around and I"m trying to figure out what I need to fill in my set of 36!! The whole thing doesn't fit but you could hold a section for a moment so folks could pause, and then move to the lower half... food for thought

I was hoping for permanency too, but then I couldn’t understand how inktense blocks would work without forming permanent film on a surface after the first use. I tried both pencils and blocks, but had similar results - they are not more permanent than staining watercolors.

Why did you compare Inktense to Luminance instead of Albrecht Dürer when blending colors into each other? For me it would have made more sense to compare the two watercolor pencils 🙃

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Stop saying releases ‘pigment’ with inktense … they are totally different from Durer because they are ink.

You DON'T sharpen pencils. You wear a facet in the tip and eventually you cut away the wood. Men invented pencils and women haven't learned the basics to the design. The RADIUS measurement of the lead is what you're concerned with. You're completely WRONG about these pencils. Your lead facet width is approximately the radius measurement. You are a long way away from the correct width of the tip.

So, you went the wrong way by sharpening the pencils and that caused you to put down WAY TOO MUCH pigment and THAT caused you to put down WAY TOO MUCH water which resulted in an enormous smear of colour which DOESN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE famous water colours art. Your colour on paper looks about 20 times over the limit for an acceptable water colour artwork. You WORK pencils according to the RADIUS measurement. You MUST wear in the tip to a wide rounded RADIUS facet. That's because you HAVE ROUNDED SURFACE pencils. The lead facet will be worn into a SEMICIRCLE shape which is the OPPOSITE type of facet TO A POINT SHAPED FACET. Your pencils are ROUND and the tip facet MUST ALSO BE ROUND. You wear in the tip till it matches the radius measurement and then you will wear out the whole lead for the entire length of the pencil.