Luminance Colour Pencils

[Zindy]

I recently came across these colours pencils from one of my favourite brands; Caran d’Ache. Luminance Permanent colour. I have to say I love the creamy consistency of the pencil. My preferred colour pencils are Caran d‘Ache’s Supracolor watercolour pencils. The Luminance pencils are even softer than these and work great when blending with other colour pencils. I mainly work with watercolour pencils as they tend to be softer and easier to blend when used together. (I don’t use water with them though it’s possible).
The Luminance comes in a great colour range, so far I only have a couple of them due to the high price. I have pale purple tones along with the raw umber 10%, which I haven’t tried yet but imagine being perfect for lighter hair.
I strongly recommend these pencils.

I just wanted to share these with you. Have a great weekend!♥

[Cold Shiva]

Yeah, I know them... You also have those type II daVincis I believe resisting water, but are rather soft and clayish just the way you like. Personally I'm not fond of these types. I want dry and controllable. If I want the flowing, I just buy the spectra and build up over each other. A bit long way, but it allows more detailling I need aswell. BTW, I use Caran 'd Ache Pablo's.

[Zindy]

I guess I am damaged by using soft charcoal for so many years. I love soft - in any kind of pencils.

I find it hard to blend very hard type of colourpencils, they tend to build an oily surface and making it impossible to blend with other colour afterwards. I have a few Derwent-Artists pencils, as they had a colour perfect for lips and it's very hard and not easy to blend.

[Zindy]

I forgot to mention, I sharpen mine as lot, otherwise it's not good to work with soft pencils, for me anyway.