These water colour pencils were bought for my wife, who does a lot of artwork with most mediums. I had the 72 set. Might as well had a pack of twelve, most of the colours had very little difference in shades. On sharpening some of them, leads kept breaking and one pencil is almost half the length. Some colours are good, but pigment is very weak. On the whole she said “ very disappointing, what a load of rubbish”