New Budget Colored Pencil Review: Cezanne 120 Set

Hi friends, today we are going to take a look at the new set of Cezanne colored pencils available from Creative Mark. These pencils are sold at Jerry's Artarama and they provided me this set to review. Jerry's also sells these sets on Amazon. *Links to Amazon are affiliate links. This review is not sponsored.
120 set at Jerry's: https://www.jerrysartarama.com/cezanne-colored-pencil-tin-set-of-120
72 set at Jerry's: https://www.jerrysartarama.com/cezanne-colored-pencil-tin-set
120 set on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3fcrD4R
72 set on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2KZPkzu

Overview: These are touted as a lightfast brand of artist quality blendable wax-based set if pencils that can hold up to other more expensive brands. The intro price at Jerry's Artarama is $59.99 for the 120 set and $24.99 for the 72 set. Today we will put these pencils to the test on a variety of surfaces from watercolor paper, to sanded paper to a coloring book page and standard drawing paper.

Pros:
*Price (around 50 cents a pencil)
*Blendable
*Performs well on all surfaces tested but better on more textured surfaces as it allows for more pigment saturation.
*Sharpens well to a strong point. (I only had one issue with breakage with a handheld sharpener and it is in the video, that pencil sharpened well in an electric tho) It also sharpens well with a blade.
*Nice selection of colors although many pencils in the 120 set are "samey"
*Colors layer well
*The tin is nice and the trays are sturdier than most.
*Very little glare or wax bloom even when burnishing.

Cons:
*Not available open stock
*Several leads not centered making it wasteful when sharpening with a pencils sharpener so a knife was needed to sharpen those.
*The white is weak, better as a blender than a white

Other notes:
These pencils claim to have a "good lightfastness" but I do not know how they arrived at that statement or if there are any specific ratings. I probably would not count on these not to fade. Use your judgement.

Paper I tested these pencils on:
Strawberry: 140# CP watercolor paper https://amzn.to/2SBiPvs
Goldfinch: Toned watercolor paper https://www.hahnemuehle.com/en/artist-papers/watercolour/watercolour/p/Product/show/17/1048.html
Coloring book: https://amzn.to/2zXpR7v
Sanded pastel paper: https://amzn.to/2xBxShE
*on the sanded paper I used Colored pencil powder blender https://shrsl.com/29fnp , Texture fixative https://shrsl.com/29fno , touch up texture https://shrsl.com/29fns and titanium white https://shrsl.com/29fny from Brush & Pencil.

Bottom line, the more I used these the more I like them. I think they are a good value for your money but not as pigmented as Polychromos or Prismacolor. I recommend adding a prismacolor white to this set for maximum versatility. These pencils felt more like an oil-based pencil (more like polychromos than prismacolor) than wax and they worked very well on sanded paper with the powder blender technique. I plan to use that a lot with these pencils as they are much cheaper than polychromos for practice. I got much nicer results with rougher paper and had a bit of difficulty getting the color saturation I wanted on the smooth coloring book page but the smooth drawing paper with just a bit more tooth worked well. I recommend these for non-permanent work.


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