What is a good brand of colored pencils?

I have never liked Prismacolor. They have always seemed to be hard, and the colours pale. I can't imagine the quality getting worse... Design Spectracolor pencils are top quality, in my experience. Vivid colours with a silky wax binder. The biggest downside to them is that they are only sold in sets, not individually. ----------- Edit: I was thinking about this, and you should be warned that all coloured pencils contain wax. This wax is a binder that helps to make the pigment stick to the paper, that's just how it works. It makes coloured pencils really difficult to erase. It also does terrible things with the graphite of a regular pencil drawing. Whatever colour you add will probably come out much darker than you had thought, because the graphite particles mix in with the pencil's pigment. And... if you don't like it, you won't be able to erase it. Whatever brand you chose, be sure to experiment on something other than these drawings you are working on! See how the pencils interact with existing graphite marks.

Definitely Crayola

Try Prismasticks. They last longer because its just the lead, no wood covering. And you dont have to sharpen them, so you dont waste any of the lead.

I haven't tried Prismacolor recently, but Staedtler is a good brand. They also make water colour pencils, so you can use them like regular coloured pencils or create a wash by going over part of the drawing with a wet brush.

I'd go with prisamacolor. You can find individual ones so you can pick your own palette, and not be stuck with colors you don't use.

Take it from me Derwent are still the best.t

As you can see, there are many great brands of colored pencils. How light or dark they are on the paper depends on how lightly or heavily you press on the pencil. Have fun!

Kimberly Watercolor pencils

stradler...there r many catagories...you could take the ones that mix in water or the water proof ones too