Hello Again. Today I'm back with a lightfast comparison between Prismacolor
Premier and Faber Ccastell Polychromos colored pencils. Now this is a six-months
result of the Prismacolor Premier 48 set I started it on March of 2017 and it has
seen one summer of light exposure. What I've done is placed down one set of
color charts, then made an extra set which I've covered up. So after a
specific amount of time, I compared the light exposed one to the one that is
protected from the light. The charts are placed in my brightest room and they do
see direct sunlight. As these are premium artist grade pencils I would expect them
to have excellent light fastness. As you can probably see these do fairly well. Aat
a minimum they don't jump out as being completely faded.
Looking down maybe the yellow orange is slightly faded the blush pink is a bit
faded and maybe just a bit on the pink.
Down here we have lime peel green which looks to have changed colors a bit and
also the Apple green looks to have changed a bit.
And now on to the other side. Please note I'm not trying to push
Breton crackers on anyone. The ginger root looks ok, it actually looks better
than the covered one.
Lilac seems a bit weak
And maybe even light cerulean blue
So for six months exposure in my brightest room,
these are holding up pretty well. We're in the Pacific Northwest on Vancouver
Island so we don't see a huge amount of sunshine even during the summer months,
but I think they would fare much better if one made some effort to protect them
Again a few colors feeding, light cerulean blue, lilac, lime peel and apple green
and just slightly on the pink and blush pink.
Now onto the Faber Castell Polychromos 60 set. These were placed in the same
room right beside the Prismacolor Premiers. Now this is a 60 set and there
tends to be a pattern that as the sets get larger they add in more colors that
perform poorly in lightfast tests. So a smaller set like a 24 pack I'd expect to
be strongly lightfast for all the colors. A larger set, 60 to 120 pencils,
I'd expect to see some poor performers.
so... looking over these they look pretty good, maybe
the pink madder lake
All the Blues look really good
Maybe the light green.
the medium flesh looks a little faded. Light flesh on the bottom which she
can't really see looks not bad. The greys look like I didn't draw them on too well
which is not surprising as I tend to get tired towards the end of these charts.
so a medium flesh possibly light green and pink Madder lake. Other than that
these performed quite well. I'd say better than the Prismacolor Premiers.
I've done colorfast tests on Prismacolor Scholar student grade
pencils as well as Derwent inktense pencils. The scholars performed quite
poorly, the inktense weren't too bad. So if we look at more of a student grade
pencil we have the Faber Castell Classic color pencils.
It is a 48 set and they are labeled with numbers not the colors so the 309 and
the 319 are faded 329 and definitely 330 all the Pink's are just a little bit
faded. Over here we have 339 and 337 347 is really faded. 343 quite a bit of
fading through the blues.
the Browns are not too bad made me slight fading on 383
And the olive green looks a bit faded. Again what I want to point out is that
with a 60 set of Polychromos artist grade pencils you see a few that are
faded and they are barely noticeable, but for the student grade Faber Castells,
nearly all of the pinks and blues show some amount of fading.
Last I have a set of Crayolas. This is a 24 set that was put together on the same
time.
And what we can see is that these are not that bad, mahogany and red are a bit
faded. Most of them have a little bit of fading except the pink. Pink is almost
completely gone. That is really the only one that jumps
out, So fairly impressive for the Crayolas. I'd say they perform better
than Prismacolor scholars I've tested last year and the Faber Castell
Classics I just showed you.
In summary for the Faber Castell Polychromos, pink madder lake seemed
slightly faded and the medium flesh may be slightly faded. Overall they're pretty
solid.
For the Prismacolor Premier the 48 set the light peach and blush pink slightly
faded. Pink a little bit faded.
Lime peel and apple green either faded or altered in color. Lilac is definitely
faded and light cerulean blue maybe faded slightly. That's all for now, thank
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deciding which pencils to use for one of your projects