I really like these colored pencils. The main pencils that I use are the expensive Prismacolor, but these hold up well next to those, but are much less expensive, and buying them on Amazon saves me even more money on all of them. I have bought three different Faber-Castell sets and love them all. They offer colors that even my 132 color set of Prismacolor don't. I highly recommend having more than 1 or 2 sets of colored pencils if you are a serious colorist. They may all have light blue or pink, but every sets colors are different and make you collection even more versatile!!!