The Derwent Drawing Pencil has an extra-wide, creamy textured core which produces a beautifully soft, velvety finish. The colour palette of the Derwent Drawing range is inspired by nature. The rich and earthy colours are perfect for wildlife and nature studies, and are seen by many artists as the ideal pencil to draw ‘fur and feather'. They are also ideal for rich, subtle landscapes and deep, thoughtful portraits.
The Derwent Drawing Pencil has a texture similar to Derwent Lightfast Pencils and, like the Lightfast range, is rated 100% resistant to colour change for up to 100 years. The key difference is the core: Derwent Drawing uses a wax-based formulation rather than oil. Colours blend cleanly and mix with ease on the page, and the rich, opaque laydown shows up beautifully on mid-tone and dark papers.
Each pencil features a 5mm core, the widest in the Derwent range and among the thickest artists’ quality pencils available. This extra-wide colour strip supports stronger mark-making, rapid coverage, and confident layering when building dense fur or feathers.
The Derwent Drawing Pencil Set of 36 contains the following colours:
- Mustard 0300
- Apricot 0500
- Strawberry 0800
- Autumn Red 0900
- Light Sienna 1610
- Dusky Pink 1700
- Violet Dusk 2400
- Polar Ice 2900
- Deep Atlantic 3000
- Solway Blue 3615
- Ink Blue 3720
- Smoke Blue 3810
- Pale Cedar 4125
- Green Shadow 4135
- Crag Green 5090
- Rainforest 5130
- Sage Leaf 5140
- Olive Earth 5160
- Warm Earth 5550
- Woodland 5600
- Brown Ochre 5700
- Wheat 5715
- Yellow Ochre 5720
- Sepia (Red) 6110
- Mars Orange 6210
- Sanguine 6220
- Venetian Red 6300
- Terracotta 6400
- Mars Violet 6470
- Ruby Earth 6510
- Chocolate 6600
- Ivory Black 6700
- Warm Grey 7010
- Cool Grey 7120
- Granite 7125
- Chinese White 7200
