Derwent Drawing Pencils

Derwent Drawing Pencils are a unique range of artist quality coloured pencils celebrated for their rich, natural colour palette and beautifully soft, creamy texture. Designed with wildlife, landscape and observational artists in mind, these pencils are especially loved for capturing the subtle colours and textures found in the natural world.

Each pencil features a soft, wax-based core that glides smoothly across the paper, producing a dense, opaque colour that blends and layers effortlessly. The generous 5mm colour strip is one of the widest cores in the Derwent pencil range, allowing artists to create expressive marks, build depth and cover larger areas quickly while still maintaining excellent control.

Nature-Inspired Colours Perfect for Observational Drawing

The range is built around a distinctive palette of earthy, muted colours inspired by nature. Subtle greens, warm browns, soft greys and classic sepia tones make Derwent Drawing pencils particularly well suited to wildlife art, landscapes, botanical studies and portrait work where natural tonal transitions are essential.

The creamy formulation allows colours to blend smoothly on the page, making it easy to build layers and create depth. Because of their naturally opaque character, lighter colours can even be applied over darker areas to add highlights and refine details — a technique many artists rely on when working with fur, feathers and textured surfaces.

Available as Individual Colours and Curated Sets

At Pullingers we stock the full range of 72 individual Derwent Drawing colours, allowing artists to build their own palette pencil by pencil. For those starting out or looking for a ready-selected colour range, the pencils are also available in beautifully presented tins containing 6, 12, 24, 36 and 72 pencils.

The smaller sets offer a carefully balanced selection of essential nature tones, while the larger tins provide a broader palette ideal for more complex wildlife, landscape and portrait work.

Whether you’re sketching outdoors, developing detailed wildlife studies or building rich layered drawings in the studio, Derwent Drawing Pencils offer a wonderfully tactile drawing experience with colours inspired directly by the natural world.