Lyra Color-Giants Colored Pencils, Unlacquered, 6.3 Millimeter Cores, Assorted Skin Tone Colors, 12-Pack (3931124), Multicolor

Love the thickness of these pencils, so easy to hold with arthritic hands. The hexagonal shape helps to hold them, too and they don't roll around. Make sure to buy a large-hole sharpener. They come already sharpened. The wood on these smells amazing as you draw....my kittens are attracted to them. It's hard to color a light person's skin color with this set, it's more towards med-dark skin tones. The two light colors make the skin flat looking so look to add another of your other pencils to help, a light pink, light blue may help. These are amazing for hair color, you get a large selection to choose from. They also are amazing for landscape colors - I found myself grabbing these for trees and low-lights. The pencils are soft and don't take a lot of pressure to lay down color. These have been my new gp-to pencils for general coloring of landscape/people/animals...perfect earthen colors.

These pencils are thicker than average color pencils, but I have yet to pop a "lead" in one while coloring. They are a lovely selection of skin tones, which allows me to illustrate more ethnicities than "pale flesh" and "mahogany" lol. I'm a homeschooler, so accuracy is important to me. The colors that can be used for the peoples of ancient Greece are not the same as the colors needed for ancient China. This set gives us plenty of variety, and as I mentioned, is very durable. I can easily recommend this set both for the quality of the physical construction and for the quality of the color mix included.

If there's one thing even many experienced artists agree on- it's the idea that getting the flesh tone to look just right for any given drawing is no easy task sometimes, and can make or break your work. That is where this set of thick pencils comes in. Instead of having to pick a base of your own and blend countless layers for a realistic look-these pencils already include many different skin colors. They can be used in any number of ways, as is and just filled in, mixed with one another and blended in....or used as a base with other colors and lightened darkened or highlighted to get just the look you need. They can also be used for landscape work- different shades for outdoor settings- even though they are termed a 'skin tone' set. So since they have multiple uses and ease the stress of doing portraits too, at the price they are well worth adding to your palate of colored pencils. They mix smoothly and easily and also layer quite well. You wont be disappointed.

These Lyra colored pencils are probably some of the best quality pencils around! The "lead" cores are just perfect--silky smooth feeling as they slide across the paper. My kids don't have to press super hard to get a nice rich color on their papers. That's something that always bugged me about the "cheaper" brands. My hands grow tired when I am doing even an average amount of writing or drawing with colored pencils because I have to press so hard to get any color. If they make my hands tire, imagine my young kiddos!! Not so with these! I love them and now my kids are more interested in coloring than they used to be. I bought these based on reviews and I'm not sorry I spent the extra money for the better brand. I bought the Skin Tone ones because usually a basic set of colors is lacking in the choices for this "area" of colors. Since kids draw people a lot, it makes sense to have good choices for that. I remember as a kid I was stuck using brown or yellow or tan for drawing faces and hands, and NONE of them really fit for ANYONE regardless of their skin color. Although I can't really give an educated review of the actual colors provided I will say that now we have more choices for coloring people now! Yay! I can also attest to the wonderful quality of all the LYRA colored pencils!! I'm a fan!

If you're a colorist and want to do simple complexions, layering 3 colors (midtone, highlight, shadow) these will expand your range of browns for darker (African, Melanesian, South Asian) people. As several others have stated, the set is less useful if you want to concentrate on northern European Caucasian types. It has the same peach tone that you'll find in every coloring pencil set and a beige, but there's nothing like a cream for highlights on very fair people and none of the colors have much pink in them. If you want to do portraits, you'll need a whole lot of other colors, this set could merely be a supplement. Not only are there no colors suitable for eyes, hair, lips and makeup, but there's nothing for undertones (purples and greens for very dark-skinned people, light greens and violets for fair-skinned, etc.). It's also very lacking in yellows and ochres for the olive-skinned (and just generally warm toned people). I compared it with my 150 set prismacolor. Besides the peach and beige mentioned above, I found colors comparable to Sienna Brown, Sandbar Brown, French Gray 90% and Chocolate. There was something similar to Nectar and something similar to Burnt Ochre (but less exact). The rest of the colors (6 of them) are browns that Prismacolor doesn't have (but Prismacolor has a lot of browns this set doesn't have). So it could be a kind of supplement. If you want a Portrait set, Koh-i-Noor has a very good one; Caran d'Ache Luminance has come out with one (but this is very expensive and more of a supplement to the existing Luminance which are definitely professional artists' pencils); and Derwent has a surprisingly versatile set of 6, which really is able to do a huge range of skin colors (though you have to mix). That one, again, won't handle blue and green eyes or red or black hair though. Checking out the tutorial is worthwhile even if you don't buy the set. The pencils are enormous--they can be sharpened with the two hole KUM sharpener manually. Whether you like such big pencils is of course a matter of taste. They need to be applied with a very light touch if you a like a lot of layers--I haven't been able to get many layers on Strathmore Bristol Vellum, and burnishing seems like its a terrible idea with these. They get more layers when you keep them sharp. They have a great deal of pigment. I looked up the lightfastness information and they are lightfast (though even in Prismacolor, these kind of earthtones are the more lightfast pencils). These pencils seem targeted towards elementary school children from the way they are packaged (flimsy cardboard box similar to Crayola pencils) and from the illustrations on the box itself. I'm actually not sure how they would work out for kids--they'd have a somewhat larger selection of different brown pencils than is available in most kids' colored pencil sets, but is that what really makes people look like they are from a particular ethnic group? Finding the 'right' shade of brown? That seems like a problematic idea even if you are teaching social studies, one that short-cuts observation--and it's really disastrous for an art class, even in kindergarten (how many people never outgrow the idea that the sky is blue, trees are green, etc. etc.)

I am a calligrapher and a VERY proud woman of color. For years I have been searching for colored pencils that would give me a selection of skin tones to match mine. I have done many, many projects with orginial art and some have included people of color and needless to say I was disappointed with the out come - up until now(especialy with the skin tone). You have no idea - for years this has been a triple MAJOR, MAJOR, MAJOR problem for artists and creative people when darker skinned tones were desired. I orderd my first set and when they arrived I felt like a child on Christmas morning - they were perfect!!!! The range of the colors are really nice and true to color.I was quite pleased!!! Today, I have orderd yet another set to keep in my calligraphy "go with me bag" so I will always be prepared. Thank you so much Amazon for providing any artist expecialy people of color the Dixion Ticonderoga Dix-3931124 Dixon Lyra Color Giants Skin Tone Colored Pencils. And last but not least - the opportunity of capturing the true likness of our models. I love it. I love it. I love it!!!!!!!!!!!! P.S. This product would also be nice in water color. ;

I ordered both Lyra and Giotto versions and being a pigment specialist I Found them to be identical colors. It’s just that the Lyra is a very thick lead and the Giotto Stilnovos are a standard lead. How can this be that they are identical? Well usually there’s some variance if it’s two different companies but both companies are owned by the parent company FILA. So I figured that the pigments source For both types of pencils are the same. They may even be made out of the same factory. It’s OK because one is a thin lead what you can sharpen to a fairly firm point and the other is a thick lead that you can cover larger areas. See attached photo. So if the big kid size pencils are too much for you to handle then by all means buy the Giotto Stilnovo. As an artist and illustrator I plan to use them both In the manner I mentioned above. Great pencils!

The quality of the pencils and the colors are very good, but I wasn't expecting them to be so thick and bulky. Make sure you have a sharpener that's big enough to handle these pencils, especially if you need a sharper point when you are adding color. The cores are a nice texture and seem to blend easily, but they feel too bulky and unwieldy in my hand. I likely wouldn't purchase them again if only because of their size.

Son lápices de colores gruesos, perfectos para las manos de los peques. Pinturas de buena calidad.

Man hat eine gute Auswahl an Hautfarben. Ebenso malen sie sehr gut und kräftig, weshalb starkes Aufdrücken gut verhindert werden kann und auch nicht zu oft drüber gemalt werden muss, wenn man sie intensiver haben möchte. Werden wir immer wieder kaufen.

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商品説明にもあるように、人間の肌(スキン)の色を表現するための色を集めた色鉛筆セット。 肌色という言葉は日本では言葉狩りに遭って商品名からは姿を消しているが、 この色鉛筆では様々な色が肌色として集められている。 日本ではマスコミやメーカーが無抵抗なのを良いことに、 オツムのあまりよろしくない「にわか」の女性議員が中心となって「弱い者いじめ」を執拗に繰り返し、 多くの言葉を封印してしまった。 そうして個の違いを認めない、違いがあるから使わせない、自分と異なる価値観を認めない、 という安易で狭量な排他的思想が後の「ゆとり教育」の誕生を招いた。 だが、「それぞれの違いを尊重し認め合う」ことこそが、 真の相互理解への第一歩ではないだろうか。 この色鉛筆は12種類の色が用意されている。 スキントーンとして、12種類を認めているのだ。 「はだいろ」という存在そのものを無いことにしてしまった日本のメーカーと、 どれもこれも認めて尊重するリラと、果たしてどちらが正しいのだろうか？ どちらが真摯に考えているのだろうか？ 今まで上手く塗るのが難しかった小麦色や褐色の肌も、これさえあれば簡単！ なんてことはない。 だが、一般的な12色、24色、36色といったセット物の色鉛筆とはまったく違う配色は、 見ているだけでワクワクするような不思議な魅力を持っている。 色鉛筆の芯は非常に良質で、しかも極太。 うっすらと塗ってもガシガシ塗っても余裕で応えてくれる、とても 子供向けの製品とは思えないほど優れた品質を持っている。 また、鉛筆そのものの美しさも素晴らしい。 太い軸は木目の美しさを十分に堪能できる。 焼きごて加工の雰囲気を再現した文字入れ。 単なる芯の保持部材にとどまらず、軸そのものに木工品としての美しさを追い求めた 職人たちの思い入れと誇りを感じる、などと言ったら言いすぎだろうか？ 芯も１本１本わざわざ手で削っているのか、とても見事な削りあがりで惚れ惚れする。 三菱鉛筆などの円錐形の先端を平面で残したような削り方とは、 見た目の美しさ、使いやすさ、そして何よりも風情が全く違う。 まあ、この太い軸と極太の芯だから見栄えがするというのもありそうだが。 880あたりが１本１本手作業でこんなふうに削られていたら、かえって嫌かもしれない＞＜ 絵が好きな人はもちろんだが、色鉛筆が好きな人も買って損のない逸品だと思う。 色鉛筆の軸のグラデーションが美しい、などという声もよく聞くが、 無塗装の軸であってもこれだけ美しい製品があることを知らないのは 非常にもったいないことだと思うので。 使いこなしの方は、うすだいだいと朱色で肌色の塗りを済ませてきた私にとっては、 新鮮で楽しい面もあるが、非常に手強い相手でもある。 濃淡や明暗の調子、影色の出し方など、工夫する必要を痛感している。

Excelente, me encanta la variedad que trae. Muchos tonos, muy versátil.