The Derwent Drawing Pencils 12 Tin offers a beautifully balanced introduction to one of the most distinctive coloured pencil ranges available to artists today. Known for their rich, earthy palette and wonderfully soft application, Derwent Drawing pencils are particularly loved by wildlife, landscape and nature artists who want colours that reflect the subtle tones found in the natural world.
Each pencil features a soft wax-based core that glides smoothly across the page, delivering dense, opaque colour that blends and layers effortlessly. The generous 5mm core allows for broader strokes and expressive mark-making, while still holding a point well enough for detail and texture.
This set of 12 carefully selected colours provides a versatile range of natural tones ideal for building depth, shading organic forms and capturing the textures of fur, feathers, foliage and skin. Whether you're sketching outdoors or working on a more developed studio drawing, the creamy texture makes layering colour and creating smooth tonal transitions a pleasure.
Highly lightfast pigments help ensure your finished artwork retains its colour over time, while the naturally opaque formulation allows lighter tones such as Chinese White to be layered over darker colours to create highlights and subtle details.
The Derwent Drawing range includes 72 colours in total, available as individual pencils as well as sets of 6, 12, 24, 36 and 72. This 12 tin makes an excellent starting point for building a larger palette or for artists who prefer a carefully selected set of essential drawing colours.
Key Features
- 12 Derwent Drawing coloured pencils in a metal storage tin
- Nature-inspired palette of muted, earthy colours
- Soft wax-based core for smooth, creamy colour application
- Wide 5mm colour strip for expressive strokes and fast coverage
- Excellent blending and layering properties
- Highly pigmented colours with excellent lightfastness
- Ideal for wildlife drawing, landscapes, portraiture and natural subjects
- Perfect for sketchbooks, studio work and mixed media techniques
Colours Included
- Solway Blue
- Ink Blue
- Green Shadow
- Olive Earth
- Brown Ochre
- Yellow Ochre
- Sanguine
- Sepia Red
- Ruby Earth
- Chocolate
- Ivory Black
- Chinese White