Colored pencils
High-quality professional pencils have rich pigments, a wide color variety, and are easier to sharpen, but the price is very high. If you are a beginner, it’s better to buy professional pencils by the piece, and only the colors you need right now.

The pencils might be based on different materials, like the following examples:
🔶 Watercolor pencils are made from pressed watercolor, which means that you can first draw a picture on dry watercolor paper and then add water to blend it. This way, the drawing will look like it was made with watercolor.
🔶 Wax-based pencils are softer, so you can draw in layers and get a full-color drawing with color transition. But such pencils are easily broken and not very durable.
🔶 Oil-based pencils are based on vegetable oil. They are harder than wax pencils, so they are harder to break, but the color is less saturated.

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