Faber Castell Albrech Dürer Watercolor Pencils- Review & Swatched

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

I really love the Albrecht Durer. They're lovely.

[@Julie-vy3oz]

I have a few in both brands and found the Faber Castell brand to be so much more affordable than Caran D’Ache. Great video.

[@iritlandgraf]

Absolutely! It's almost half the price!

[@marimaf6561]

Here where I live, they are amost a quarter of the Caran dache's price. It's a great deal

[@ldolan1802]

I love the few pencils I have from Caran dAche, but my go-to watercolor pencils are my FC…(including my polychromos). I found the entire set, almost brand new at a yard sale years ago. It’s easier to buy open stock at my local art shop. And yes, the pinks and blues are great…I love the Caran dAche pencils when I want more earthy, neutral colors. Great video, as always 😉

[@iritlandgraf]

Thanks for sharing!!

[@susansacco7583]

I like the Caran D’ache best but you’re right about the color range. You found some nice pinks. The light green looks like Sennelier emerald green watercolor. I love the light magenta and light cobalt turquoise. Thanks for swatching these out for us. Ive been looking for that alizarin crimson pink. Love the brush Irit! Also glad you are restocking your stamps! Thank you!

[@iritlandgraf]

Thanks for watching!

[@agentxp0749]

I have both AD and MA, and If I had to pick a fave, it would be Albrecht Durer, because I prefer the feel of them when I am drawing with them, and I love the colour range. I do also like MA, particularly for some colours which are not present in the AD range, like light olive, and I find both work well together.

[@iritlandgraf]

Thanks for sharing!

[@LKBearfly]

I am going to throw in a wild card… While the color range of the Stabillo All pencils is limited, I actually think that they are superb. The black Stabillo All is in my top 5 for all time, all categories of art supplies ever! I also bought their white (which shows up really nicely on top of clear gesso in my mixed media work) and red, yellow, and orange. I don’t love that you can’t just buy all the colors in a set, but I have definitely gone through entire 12 packs of the Stabillo all black pencils! Love them so much!

[@iritlandgraf]

Lol wild card indeed! You are totally right and I went through some of them myself. The black is super intense, best of all I've tried. I think they don't really work well for me since I use now color and not black and graphite, but I haven't tried any of their colors, so maybe I'll pick a couple up next time I'm at the art store 😀

[@intuitiveinspiredart4366]

The Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer are MY favorite!

[@iritlandgraf]

Thanks for sharing!

[@shadowguard3578]

Hello, first time commenting here. I do enjoy your down to earth nature and practical advice regarding buying new supplies, which matches the way I buy art supplies. A few weeks ago I was debating between buying the FC AD watercolor pencils and the CD MA. In the end I knew if I purchased the FC AD I would still be pining after the CD MA, so I ended up buying the MA landscape set and 12-count assorted set, plus violet and anthraquinoid pink. I’m very happy with the colors I bought and the color payoff from the MA pencils. I am a hobbyist card maker and I stamp images and then color with either alcohol markers, coloring pencils, and watercolor pencils. Watercolor pencils are a great way to have a lot of watercolors at my fingertips, and to have a little bit of control, since I’m not used to watercoloring with paints from a pan or tube. The last time I painted with watercolor paints from pans was more than thirty years ago!

[@iritlandgraf]

Hi Shadow Guard! Welcome! No judgement here! One of my goals on this channel is to help people make good shopping decisions, based on many many unnecessary purchases I've made over the years. If you enjoy what you have that's all that matters! Glad to have you here!

[@pennypop408]

I have both and I find the Faber Castel just as intense and they seem to activate better with water as well. I don't like the pencil marks underneath showing in my work. 120 colors to choose from is also a plus for me. Depends on how you work I guess.

[@iritlandgraf]

Absolutely!

[@dgswatercolor]

I’ve only used the Derwin inktense pencils, and wasn’t looking to get any other watercolor pencils, but was just gifted a 36 set of these faber castell. I think the colors (at least in this set)are pretty pigmented and have a nice variety of blues.

[@iritlandgraf]

Thanks for sharing!

[@Fluorite-Fox]

I think you'd like the Stabilo Woody 3 in 1 pencils too! They are soft like wax crayons but you can make watercolour effects with them when you add water to them ^^

[@iritlandgraf]

Thanks for the tip!

[@violettahaven3706]

I have the landscape set of the museum aquarelle and the full set of Albrecht Durer. Personally I like the A/D better but I can't tell you why. LOL I have the museum aquarelle in a travel set because I rarely reach for them. Again, I don't know why. Maybe it's because I love Faber Castell polychromos and the two sets are coordinated together? I really liked your video.

[@iritlandgraf]

No need for reasoning! Sometimes we just love a product !

[@TsukabuNosoratori2]

There are some colors that Faber Castell does REALLY well (heh, that rhymes!) and I admit I have some open stock of the Albrecht Durer in my watercolor pencil range. Always fun to watch a swatching video from you.

[@iritlandgraf]

Thanks for sharing and glad you enjoyed!

[@impish22]

Love these pencils.. thanks for the review

[@iritlandgraf]

My pleasure 😊

[@LowKey_izildura]

I had to check my stash and yes, Cobalt Green 156 (Durer) is a true teal in their range, imo. I don`t have Cob. Turq. Lt, though... yet)) I love A.Durer))

[@iritlandgraf]

Thanks for sharing!

[@LowKey_izildura]

@@iritlandgraf you`re welcome & thank you for the great content! ))

[@readerwoman]

I came to my current CD Albrecht Durer pencils after first purchasing a Lyra set. The Lyra watercolor pencils did not activate well and drove me crazy with the pencil marks showing up. Been happy with the FC AD pencils, but agree that color is more important than brand. But you must have access to a good day supply store to be able to pick and choose! Hopefully the store in my town carries the Caran dAche so that I can try them out. Thanks for the video!

[@iritlandgraf]

Thanks for sharing!

[@alylyu3659]

I think Caran d'Ache won't add too many pinks to their Museum Aquarelle range because they want to stay consistent with the lightfastness. Their student range (Supracolor) has more pinks indeed. I've never tried Museum Aquarelle, but I have some Durers and Supracolors and I love both. I also love really pale flesh tones because they are so hard to come by except for light cool roses, ochres, siennas and salmon/peach tones. So it's nice to have something inbetween. Unlike with actual watercolours it's not that easy to get light skin tones with pencils, water-resistant and water-soluble alike. So I appreciate all the manufacturers' efforts for that given how many people I draw :)

[@iritlandgraf]

Thanks for sharing!

[@marimaf6561]

Yeah, there are only a few pinks and reds in the caran dache set with maximum lightfastness. These colors seems to be fugitive in general...

[@alylyu3659]

@@marimaf6561 Yes, lightfast pinks, reds, roses, purples, violets are still harder to come by. However, it got better. If we take most quinacridones and pyrroles, they are lightfast enough.

[@ciannacoleman5125]

I would note that Supracolor is _not_ the student line of pencils, it is the "not 100% lightfast" professional pencils equivalent to Pablo's vs Luminance. They have 3 lower lines the "student" one being Swisscolor. I have never tried any of them but did a bunch of research when choosing to invest in ADs and Polychromos during a black Friday sale (splurged & got the full set of both even though I only just branched out from watercolors lol).

[@alylyu3659]

@@ciannacoleman5125 Ah! Thanks for correcting me. I have 8 Supracolors and they are nice, but, yes, only two of them have three star lightfast rating, and one of them has no lightfast rating marked on the barrel at all :) Regardless of that, they are beautiful pencils and very smooth. The colour selection is good, too. Lots of subtle shades.

[@jbc23]

I love the Caran Dache brand but my FBAB perform much better than the CD water colir pencils. I dont like to see the lines after activating.

[@ilustralilian_]

I don’t much like the Supracolor. I prefer the Albrecht Dürer. I also love Museum Aquarell but they are so expensive it’s absurd. At least in my country. And I love Polychromos. I love Prismacolor as well. It depends of my mood of the day I think 😂 the one I love more . I love Holbeins as well, but are absurdly expensive. But Prismacolor and Polychromos are always my go to. Oh, Lightfast is a great line of pencils as well. Very similar to the Luminance. Love both equally. I think they complete each other. But I don’t use them, as you do.

[@jpan7071]

You could upload a video of painting a wall with just plain white paint and I would watch it. Not that your content is plain; on the contrary, it’s like nothing on you tube. Your boundless enthusiasm and love for watercolor is truly inspiring. I have this very set of watercolor pencils, but have not created swatches. Where can I find a pdf of these cute pages so I can swatch my own? Probably in the description. Thank you, you wonderful, wonderful artist that you are. Greetings from Texas.😁😎❤️✌️

[@iritlandgraf]

Thank you so much for the kind words, I truly appreciate it ❤️❤️ I have stamps in my shop meant for swatching, I just did a restock today 😀 you can find all the info there, here's the link- www.iritlandgrafshop.com

[@iritlandgraf]

They are under the studio essentials tab/section

[@davejohnson5365]

I find the w/c pencils are a drag to get pay off on cold pressed paper, unless used w/w. And you mention wanting your water soluble pencils to ‘pack a punch’ - have you compared inktense pencils to the museum aquarelle?

[@iritlandgraf]

Yes for sure hot press is a better choice for the pencils, but they are not important enough for me to give up my cold pressed 😉 inktense definitely pack a punch but I don't love their colors... I'm a tough crowd 🙄

[@davejohnson5365]

@@iritlandgraf understood. And thanks for showing the comparisons. I prefer picking colours to make a set regardless of brand…. And being a tough crowd is the way to go - more rewarding when a pencil ticks all the boxes )))

[@iritlandgraf]

Haha absolutely!

[@parthsavyasachi9348]

I pretty much use nothing of faber Castell brand and i live in city of duerer (Nuremberg). I believe faber castell is from Nuremberg too.

[@austenspapertree8429]

Your videos always make me (want to try out and) paint. Have you tried Lyra Rembrandt's watercolor pencils? You like Rembrandt watercolors too, so I would like to know what you think of their watercolors pencils.

[@iritlandgraf]

I haven't, will pick out a couple next time I'm at the art store 😀

[@austenspapertree8429]

@@iritlandgraf Thank you!! I look forward to hearing about them. 🎄

[@fuzzydragons]

i have a few of these, but havent tried them yet. prob should do something with them since its been prob 2 or more years since i got them lol

[@iritlandgraf]

lol probably ;) I am also guilty of neglect, but hopefully now I will use some of them more!

[@reneelanier3475]

What is name of your art journal? Where did you buy it?

[@iritlandgraf]

It's Fabriano Vergatone and I got it at cult pens

[@reneelanier3475]

@@iritlandgraf thank you!!!!

[@fruitqueen1]

when will the stamps be back in stock ? love your videos 🥰🥺

[@iritlandgraf]

Thank you so much! I hope in January!

[@joannaowen6653]

I love my albrecht durer pencils, sorry! Great video though!

[@iritlandgraf]

lol no need to be sorry, they are very good pencils! I think my conclusion is it's just not my kind of medium...

[@Megzamani]

What brush are you using to swatch the water on them. I am wanting to get some brushes as I am a new painter looking at everything I can right now. Thanks for the video. I was wondering how about the derwent inktense pencils. Would these be a consideration possibly.

[@iritlandgraf]

Sure inktense are nice, I just don't really like their color range. I'm using Tintoretto quill travel brush, I think the model number is 1337

[@zuheyr1]

Are you paid by carandache? They are absurdliy ridiculously expensive.

[@iritlandgraf]

Nope, I am not

[@annettefournier9655]

I hardly ever use the ones I have.