Okay, so I thought we'd for today's video we're going to do a side-by-side comparison when it comes to colored pencils. A lot of you are always asking me whether it's on my Instagram or if it's on other videos. What color pencils do I use? I only use one type of colored pencils and they're called Prisma Color Pencils. So that is what I'm currently using on this He He. You see I have two He He's. So I have this He He that I'm coloring with my Prisma Color Pencils. Now I have more Prisma Color Pencils just because I started off with a small package and then I eventually just kept adding on and on. So I started with a 24 pack of Prisma Color Pencils. Now what's the difference between Prisma Color Pencils and Creola colored pencils? You're probably wondering. Well I started with Creola colored pencils but then when I got more serious into my art I asked if I could get a package of Prisma Color Pencils and my parents went and bought me some for that year of art. Now the thing about Prisma Color Pencils is they are soft core Prisma colors. So that means they almost have the effect that oil pastels would have. They blend in very well together. They're a very creamy kind of finish and you can see that on this He He on his feathers, how well they're all blending together and the colors are so vibrant. So they're just wonderful pencils to work with. Now like I said I started off with a 24 pack and then I grew on by going and buying. I think it was like a year later I went and just purchased another 48 pack of Prisma Color pencils, combined those together and then I just kept growing, growing my collection with more packages because within time the more pencils that you use Prisma Color, I mean it just they do go pretty fast just because they are a softer lead compared to Creola pencils. So you use it up more especially on the type of paper you're using. The paper I'm drawing Hei Hees, the Hei Hees on right now they are on Bristol board. So I strongly encourage you if you are going to do like a colored pencil portrait to make sure you buy like Bristol board. This is smooth Bristol board by Strathmore. I buy everything for Michaels or Hobby Lobby but I was at one more yesterday and I saw that for the back to school special that a package of 24 Prisma colored pencils soft core were on sale for $15 at Walmart. So if you live in the United States of America and you have a Walmart near you, oh my gosh go right now because it's like a back to school deal and I remember when these 24 packages of Prisma colored pencils they used to cost about $30. Now it's just amazing for me to see them for so cheap it just makes me want to buy a package even though I have so many already but what you can do is that Michaels and Hobby Lobby if you have those by you they have individual pencils that you can go up and buy so you don't have to buy a whole new package of Prisma colored pencils they sell individual pencils by themselves. So even if you just need another color to replenish then all you have to do is go to Michaels and there they are they are all sold separately you don't have to buy a package so you're not spending so much money you're spending about I think they're like $1.79 a piece at Michaels. So let's talk about Creola colored pencils. Now when I was younger I used Creola colored pencils and I'm not I'm not bashing them I'm not saying they're cheap but they're definitely a cheaper alternative to Prisma colored pencils. Not as much anymore because when I bought my 24 package of Creola colored pencils that you see me I just showed them it was like a $5 difference so they were like $10 compared to the Prisma color 24 pack. So that's a really awesome deal I mean it's a $5 difference now and that's not what it used to be anymore but when I was in high school and then I started taking art seriously I started off with Creola colored pencils I love them. I mean you're looking at hey hey that I'm using right now they blend well the only downfall to Creola colored pencils I mean they're bright they're beautiful they're awesome to work with they just have a harder type of lead so that means it's kind of hard to put like layers on top of layers with them I'm a huge I'm a huge fan of layers so you all have known I feel like that should be a t-shirt or on a side of a mug or something for me this is layers on top of layers so I was able to put many layers on the hey hey to the left but for the hey hey on the right I wasn't able to put as many layers because it was letting me shade on top of it but at the same time it just was like capping me off and saying well no this is the harder to lead it's a bit more laxie so it wasn't really letting me layer and shade like if I put a shade of green down it wasn't letting me come back with a darker shade of green and put more on that so it was really hard to layer with Creola colored pencils but you can see them side by side they're both beautiful both beautiful results on the feathers I mean the hey hey with the Creola colored pencils he's not as bright and dark as the Prisma colored pencils but you can see they're both awesome both like not my drawings but the quality of the colored pencils they are awesome so it's just like art supplies a lot of people like make a huge thing about art supplies they can't make good art unless they have the top notch art supplies well I'm just here to say it's just it the really expensive art supplies is not what makes good art what makes good art is you practicing every single day and you actually trying to progress in your artistic ability and in your style practice that once a day all the time that's what makes good art is you as an artist you make the good art and the way you practice and the more you pursue your art career that's what's going to make good art not the art supplies so here comes the big question can Creola colored pencils work on toned tan paper I use tone tan paper for a lot of my colored pencil drawings and I only use Prisma colored pencils on them a lot of people are probably wondering why aren't my Creola colored pencils working on the tone tan paper it's they just it's probably just because the type of the lead that Creola colored pencils have with the Prisma colored pencils they're very much like oil pastels they're a soft core so they have a softer creamier type of lead so they look amazing so I'm using the pink and purple star is Prisma color and here comes the Creola colored pencils it's not as vibrant it doesn't show up as well even when I was putting more and more layers on top of my colored pencils on my Creola colored pencils on the tone tan paper it just doesn't work and I think it's slowly on the fact that it's a different type of lead so that's why I highly suggest if you want to give tone tan paper a try and to do doodles on top of it I would really highly suggest that you go and get some Prisma colored pencils and the fifteen dollar package of 24 pencils at Walmart you can't beat that I know it might be expensive but still it's a great investment and then growing your collection from there Prisma color pencils is there are a dream to work with and I highly highly suggest you get them or there's fabric pastel pencils I'm a huge fan of Prisma color just because they were my favorites and I grew up with them all these years so it's been eight years since I've been using Prisma color pencils but I just wanted to give you guys a little bit of the insight that you have both of these hey you have Creola on the right and then Prisma color on the left they're both beautiful it doesn't matter about the art supplies but if you ever want to see a side-by-side comparison here you go I hope this was helpful and I really hope you have a good day and I really hope you'll go and buy some Prisma color pencils I'll see you all later bye bye you