Royal & LangnickelRSET-ART2503 Small Tin Charcoal Drawing Art Set

Great product

I have not been able to find anything that compares to the woodless fusion pencil in this kit. I would happily buy a whole set of them if they were made available. The charcoal pencils are also great quality, with the hardest pencil not winding up being completely useless as I’ve found to be the case with other brands. Great tools for an even better price.

I am so pleased with this purchase! Royal is far superior in quality than Generals brand (or even Prismacolor when it comes to charcoal pencils-prisma lead falls out on their charcoal pencils but not their colored ones!) This was one sale for cheaper than 4 sticks of Generals compressed charcoal, but would be worth every penny at full price.I am a disabled veteran and a fulltime student (video game art student but traditional artist as well) at local community college using my GI Bill. I am on a budget and good quality art supplies are not cheap. Brand makes ALL the difference. I didn't realize when I purchased this that it was the full kit with compressed sticks and pencils. I was happily surprised especially at the price. The pencil wood is far superior. It shaves down with exacto (scalpel kind is my fave) perfectly to get the long lead so you can use the side as well as point of pencil WITHOUT the lead breaking or the wood splintering.The seller was amazingly fast at shipping this to my house. I was worried I would have to pay triple at Michaels to finish my midterm project in time but it arrived within 2 days.I will be purchasing here instead from now on.

I am using more and more art supplies and am rally enjoying trying different brands and medias. This set By Royal and Langnickel was purchased as an add on item to keep the price low. Currently being offered at $4.61 with free prime shipping as an add on. Now, what you get for your money.The set Includes, 3 charcoal pencils, 1 woodless graphite pencil, 4 charcoal sticks, 4 vine charcoal and 1 storage tin. The charcoal pencils do not come pre-sharpened so you will need a sharpener. Tin measures 7-1/2-inch by 4-1/2-inch by 1/2-inch so you can keep everything together and it is compact enough to throw in a backpack to carry along.This is most certainly something I will want to take with me on trips to sketch with. I Can't find anything about this product that I am not happy with. This is something that would be good for all ages. a beginner would not be intimidated and a more advanced user should be pleased as well. either way it is a great deal and good quality and should help you produce the results you want to achieve.The contents all work well and give you great results. I tried out all contents before reviewing so I could be sure. I am personally impressed. I will order again when needed.

Good quality for the price you pay. The vine charcoal was nice and easy to use. The pencils were nice quality.

This is fine quality and well packaged.

While this set is amazingly affordable, you kind of get what you paid for. The soft charcoal is impossible to sharpen, with anything. The lead crumbles into pieces. Having said that, the medium and hard are fine, as well as the rest of the set. The charcoal sticks are not as good as other brands, but again, you get what you pay for. What I do like about this set is that it has more of a brown tone when used next to other charcoal, like General’s for example, so it gives you a variance in tones.

Great variety of charcoal in this kit. I did a test of each piece at different angles, smudging effects, erasing, etc. You will need something to sharpen the pencils. Everything else will work the way you hold and use the charcoal (straight up, tilted a bit, using just a corner, sideways, flat, or how you rub it on the sandpaper. The tin these come in is nice. It's small enough to fit in a place the size of a cell phone or any portable art case and keep everything together. I just keep my sketching items in a small cloth bag. Do whatever works for you.