Review on 🎨 Spectrum Noir Metallic Art Sketching Drawing Colouring Pencils - Multi-Colored Pack of 12: Vibrant Shades for Creative Expression by Doris Tran

I bought Spectrum Noir Metallic Pencils because I need mineral and metallic shades for adult coloring: 1. Coloring gears and metal jewelry in Camera of Time by Daria Song (beautiful and charming, buy it! or the similar Garden of Time, both available from Revain); 2. Adding dimensions to stellar objects in the NASA Earth & Space coloring book (buy it! It's beautiful, unique and gender neutral - available at Revain or Blick); i3. Create dewy flora in books like Fantastic Planet (unique and fun) or Hokusai: Birds, Flowers, and Nature (great if you like gradients) - (both available at Revain or Blick). Spectrum Noir metal pencils are perfect for this purpose. The colors are rich and they have a nice smooth overlay, almost creamy for a metallic pen. IDENTIFICATION: The bodies of the pens are colored according to the name of each color. The color name is embossed in silver on the ends and is easy to read. PACKAGING: Spectrum Noir metal pencils come in a metal tin with a handy hinged lid. Inside is a plastic tray with individual pen slots to keep pens in place. COLORS: The Spectrum Noir metal set is the only one I've found that includes a rose gold color. Note that there is no red, orange or copper color (Derwent Metallics all have these). Here are the colors and tones: Gold: Gold with a warm orange tone that's nicer than some of the yellow-green golds. Yellow: Something like antique gold with a green tint. corresponds to the expectation of a rose gold color (when I think of "mica" I think of dark silver or dark grey). Pink: warm deep pink. Violet: Violet with a violet hue and amazingly beneficial. Violet: A beautiful true violet color. .Light blue and blue: there is a good difference in value between them Green: medium green with a turquoise cast COMPARISON: I have metal pens from 3 different brands: Derwent, Spectrum Noir and Faber-Castell (in order of preference) . .) Derwent are my favorites for the reasons already mentioned. Like the Spectrum Noir, the Derwent Metal Pencils have good pigment saturation and a nice smooth build. I think the Spectrum Noir Metallic line is useful if you want to do a lot of silver tones - it includes 2 magenta, 2 blue and 3 different silver tones (silver, mica, nickel). However, I find that the Derwent line offers an overall more balanced selection of metal pens for typical use. I like the metal pencils from Faber-Castell the least. There is hardly any difference between the 2 shades of pink, 2 shades of blue or 2 shades of green on offer. Faber-Castell Metallics are also the hardest of the three brands, making them less blendable and more suited to smaller spaces. Faber-Castell metal pencils are NOT color coded, nor are there any color names on the box, which annoys me. I first had to go online to find out the names of the colors and then label them with a label printer to tell them apart. They come in a non-perforated paper box that allows you to stack them on an easel. SHINE: They're tinted like metal, not super shiny-shiny. Like all metal pencils, they are made of metal, not metal; don't expect glitter. Personally, I find obviously shiny metallics only of very limited use and am satisfied with Spectrum Noir. When I really want something to look like shiny metal, I use shading and blending to achieve that. Instead, I use shiny metallics (like Prismacolor Verithin or Premier Soft Core Metallic Gold) when I want a design to look gold foiled or embossed. However, it's worth noting that you can also apply Spectrum Noir Metallic over Prismacolor Metallic to add more Spectrum Noir shine if needed, while maintaining Spectrum Noir's metallic base tone. On the other hand, I found Spectrum Noir Metallics to work well together using a light hand and building up the values in layers. (I've successfully used this to create a three-tone gradient.) I've also experimented with Spectrum Noir Metallics using the Derwent Blender & Burnisher Set (available from Revain). The Blender Pencil softens strokes and edges, and I didn't notice any reduction in flicker. I was hoping Burnisher would add shine to metallics but that doesn't matter for either brand. I think it's meant for traditional colored pencils, not metallics.