With the Derwent Artist coloured pencils, you're spoilt for choice when it comes to colours. There are over 120 in the range, and their waxy texture makes layering and blending easy, so you can create your own colours as you wish. Each of the colours is heavily pigmented, making even the lightest shadings really pop with colour. Cylindrical barrel and 4mm break-resistant core. Derwent Artists Pencils - Assorted The Derwent Artists pencil is a broad, round pencil with a traditional wide core which means you can make broader strokes in free and expressive drawing. Derwent Artists pencils have a slightly waxy texture which allows you to layer and blend with ease creating a vast range of different tints and hues. The Derwent Artists range is the first coloured pencil Derwent developed in the 1930s and used to be known as the No. 19 Range. Highly pigmented colours Round 8mm barrel Wide 4mm core Break resistant core