All three paintings came out great! I think I love the middle one best. I have a set of 12 Inktense pencils and love them. I also have Inktense Paint pans (set 1), and the Graphitint paint pan set. I love them all, but am currently obsessed with the graphitint. I wish I could afford everything Derwent makes, lol; love the brand so much.

This video should be shown to everyone who's unsure what (watercolor-y) medium to get. (answer: any. it's the skill that makes a painting good.) They all turned out amazing!!! Oddly i like the blocks one the most, because of that spontanous yet in-focus feel.

All these are awesome. Seeing you lay them down is priceless. I didn't even know there were blocks. I have the pencils which I am obsessed with. I am now going to try the pans... Im so glad I found your video...

I LOVE the third one, wow. That's exactly the look I was trying to achieve adding some oil pastels on top of a piece that went sideways super fast. I am gonna order a set and give this a shot. Thank you!

I love this! I’ve just now started to get the Inktense line in all the different mediums and love seeing how everyone is using them. Thank you for showing these side by side. They’re all great!

Thank you! Amazing work!❣

I love Inktense pencils so this was a real treat to watch, I’ve learned so much, thank you!

Thank you for a great video! I’d love to see more Inktense videos!

I have the blocks and love them . But you’ve got me interested in trying the pencils next . Thank you

I have used Inktense blocks and pencils on fabric, flowers on a canvas tote bag and loved the result… painted with the blocks (using a brush to transfer color) and added detail with the pencils (I don’t have the pan set).

I definitely want to try Inktense now!! Thanks

Thank you for this. I enjoyed it

Those blocks are really interesting, I’ve never seen them used before 🤔

I only own Derwent watercolour pencils but, like them very much & would like at some time to buy the Inktense set. Your comparisons are very good! Thanks

Beautiful! Yes, I love all Derwent products. They make great stuff. Thanks for the info about what paper to use. Very helpful.

Очень здорово. 👍👍Мне понравились чернильный блок. Особенно вариант возможностей . И на сухую и на мокрую. Думаю в сочетании с масляной пастелью тоже будет отлично. Отличный вариант для хорошей основы первых слоев в рисунке.

Thank you, this helped me decide to go for the pencils instead of the pans or blocks for my first Inktense purchase.

My experiment... I took my sticks over to a friend's house. She had purchased a lovely box of pencils . I did some colour swatching with colours that matched my sticks set. The pencils where more transparent and vibrant appearing to be more transparent. My sticks on the other hand where not vibrant and appeared chalky and streaky. I really like the pencils compared to the sticks.

I like the way the third one turned out. Thank you for this comparison of the three mediums. It really helps me understand the blocks better. I only have 12 blocks, 2 each of 6 colors. I hope to get more colors someday. 😊

I'm mostly a color-pencil artist but I also use dusty pastels and pastel pencils, and trying to expand a bit more. I bought the 24ct set on Inktense blocks the other day, and at the beginning of the video I got nervous that I should've bought a different line, but now I'll do great with it and I'm ready to start painting!

I just bought my first Inktense products - the blocks - so this has been very useful. I'm going to get the pencils too eventually, but seeing how you used them, and also the info on paper was really, really helpful. I'm so impressed by how you painted the image three times and it was very similar, despite the slightly different medium.

Really well done and comprehensive comparison of the intense lines. I have a 12 pencil set and 24 block set. I always assumed that the hues and properties of the pencils and blocks were the same until I swatched them a few days ago on inexpensive cellulose paper. Whoa! Completely different. As you mention, paper needs to be right for the medium and the intended result. Thanks for this great video.

Thank you for your thorough, unbiased study of all 3 Inktense mediums. I own 20 Inktense pencils so far. My goal is to get the 72 set. I bought them for Adult Coloring books. I saw another You Tuber using them on a Kerby Rosanes book and I fell in love with their intensity.

This was an amazing comparison! I started with the 24 pencil set about 5(?) Years ago, and fell in love with them as a travel set. I was taking the bus at the time, so i cut them down to about 1½" stubs and stuck them in an altoids tin with an old plastic card to use for mixing (much like you did with the pencils in the palette). I ended up investing in the blocks but I went big and got the 72 pack with the thinking that I could fit all of them in an altoids tin (which I did) in the same way, by shearing off about ¾" and standing those nubs upright side by side. It works well if you're using a fine tip water brush, but anything bigger and you'll have a bunch of mud on your hands, and in your tin. However after all that, I found that the blocks just seemed to have a really gritty texture and I couldn't seem to shake it, so I stopped painting almost altogether because I was so disheartened after spending all that money for an undesired (for me at least) result. I hadn't realized at the time how big of a difference the paper made as well as the actual product themselves! I had been under the impression that the blocks and pencils would behave exactly the same if I used them with just a brush, like I had been before. All that to say, this has definitely made me want to revisit my blocks, although I just got a 72 pack of pencils, so we'll see how that goes 😅. Thank you so much for this side by side!

I have used the pencils and the pans. The colours are very vibrant and i love them. I do find it hard to mix colours without getting mud, but that maybe my fault.

Thank you so much for this comparison. I've owned the pencils for a while and I have a set of the pans, but I only purchased two of the blocks in dark, inky colors to use for line work and shadows. After seeing you paint with them, they are definitely not for me and I'm glad that I didn't get more colors. The pans are definitely my favorites and the pencils compliment them well.

I have the blocks, but have put them aside because they didn't work for me then. Will try again now that I have seen what can be accomplished.

My preference for the blocks is to scrape them with the back of a knife into a small dish - it makes it much easier to add water to get the opacity or transparency I prefer. Also the blocks don't soften to you can still add details with an edge. I found it really interesting to see the three beside each other.

This is so helpful! I have the pan set and a few pencils I layer over watercolour. I haven’t really been sure how to use them so your tips about layering and choosing the paper you prefer is super useful info. I also didn’t think about light-fastness either so will only use them in sketchbooks from now on. Thank you for doing such a comprehensive review.

I was so happy to see you doing this comparison as I have been really struggling with which type of inktense to purchase I see a lot of resemblance to gouache and it's opacity I think you have show me that I need to buy the pencils and the small set of the blocks as I already have a large set of the mijello gouache you saved me a lot of time and money and I really appreciate your instruction and I also loved your review of the papers which I am not as versed in thank you thank you

Really helpful! Thank you for taking the time to do this.

Thanks

I have and use my inktense pencils in my sketching and have a full set of inktense blocks which I haven't used that much honestly but am very inspired to experiment more now that I have watched your video. I have a variety of different paper now and will look more closely at the cotton content too. Thanks for the great and very helpful video.

Excellent review. Thank you.

Thank you for this great and helpful video!

I didn’t know about the pencils shattering. That was good information. I only have the pencils and I love them. I am coloring a two-page picture using mostly inktense right now. Thanks for making the drawings using all three. Also, I’ve used the same background music in videos! It’s my favorite.

Love inktense...the blocks are terrific used sideways for wide washes/ patterns base layers. They all work together light to dark and vice versa depending on the project. The pastel travel palette is pretty darn close to gouache and t's colors make interesting complements to the inks. Yr right about not assuming they will 'behave like watercolor, and they work well with every watercolor brand again as base layers and details. Another superb video missy. Ty.

I love my Inktense pencils and have wondered about the other Inktense products. Thanks for this wonderful review and comparison!

Your artwork is beautiful!! Interesting comparison. I enjoyed hearing your thoughts about their differences and how to use them. The side by side comparison was very helpful. I've been undecided which ones to try. I usually watercolor. The pencils might be fun and different to try.

Really appreciate your same pic approach. I'm trying to decide which one to try first, but now I want to just get all of them (24 +/- each). Also, I understand some like to use the blocks like watercolor pans. I'm thinking of trying that first, maybe, {although pencils are so much less messy, arrrrggghhh} if only I can make up my mind ...

Love all the three pictures. I have a set of 36 pencils and for some reason i'm afraid of using them and watercolor pencils with water (i draw with colored pencils). Your videos always inspire me for new tries. I have the same paper and i agree with you, it´s not just affordable, but also quite good. At least, for me as a person who feels not very comfortable with watercolor it was like a salvation - it seems like this paper adds 10 points to my skill))) Certainly, there are better papers, but while i'm learning it's a great solution that will serve long. Thanks for the video!🌻

👋🤗👋 hey! I was just watching your ArtGraf & 2022 Fav’s video again this am & looked if I had missed the Inktense video ….and here you are! Off to watch

Thank you. This is such a helpful video. Is there is no competition for Derwent Inktense line? They seem very much like novelty to me.

Over the past couple of weeks, I have watched this one and the one in which you sketched the bears 3 times with different blocks -- twice each! 😄 I have been having a lot of fun with Graphitint XL Blocks and am planning to get some Inktense XL Blocks, too. I have been using watercolor pencils for years, but I've lately been wanting to get away from too much precision and accuracy. I find that the blocks encourage me to be looser and more abstract (while pencils encourage fussy details). And I'm afraid you are now an "influencer." 🤣

If you spray the work of art with UV varnish, you can use them in a permanent, professional way.

I really appreciate your video! Would you please do some Xmas cards? Perhaps watercolor? Thanks❤

I bought the set of 72 pencils as a gift for myself and loved them but I wanted to cover larger areas and I was impatient lol. So I bought a set of 12 in the pans and loved the creaminess. Then came set 2. And then I figured, well, I may as well get the set of 72 in the blocks. 😁 I broke off small chunks of the blocks and made my own palette sets. The biggest difference is that the paint in the blocks is not as nice as the paint in the pans?? It's the same color but they've binded them differently I guess. Anyone else notice this?

use the blocks to refill th pans.

thank you, this was very enlightening😊🙏 As a fan of the inktense pencils, when I used the inktense blocks I was so disappointed by their chalky appearance, leaving ugly stripes and so much less vibrancy, no matter what I tried. Now I swatched them again on 100 % cotton paper by Hahnemühle and noticed the difference. Also it seems they work much better with enough water. Then layering gives quite pleasing effects to my eye. 🙂

Someday, it would be great if you followed up on your ArtGraf video, where you said you wanted to compare them to Inktense.

Is that a red panda? Why does he look dead?

Thank you so much for this video - it's so helpful!!