Product Description

Unleash your creativity with the Faber-Castell Goldfaber Color Pencils Tin of 12, a premium-quality coloured pencil set designed for artists, hobbyists, students, designers, and colouring enthusiasts. Crafted with Faber-Castell’s renowned expertise, these pencils offer rich pigmentation, exceptional colour brilliance, and smooth application for stunning artistic results.

The Goldfaber range features a specially formulated 3.3 mm colour core that delivers soft, vibrant colour laydown while maintaining excellent control and precision. Whether you're creating detailed illustrations, realistic portraits, landscapes, fashion sketches, hand lettering, or colouring books, these pencils provide consistent and reliable performance.

Their water-resistant and smudge-proof lead ensures cleaner artwork, while the SV bonding process significantly improves break resistance, making them durable even during frequent sharpening. Packaged in a sturdy metal tin, the set is perfect for artists on the go and keeps your pencils organized and protected. 

Description Table

Key Highlights

•  Premium artist-quality colour pencils
•  Set includes 12 vibrant colours
•  Rich and highly pigmented colour application
•  Smooth and soft colour laydown
•  3.3 mm break-resistant lead core
•  Excellent lightfastness for long-lasting artwork
•  Water-resistant and smudge-proof colours
•  Ideal for layering and shading techniques
•  Durable SV bonded core technology
•  Easy sharpening with regular sharpeners
•  Metal storage tin for protection and portability
•  Suitable for sketching, colouring, illustration, and journaling
•  Trusted Faber-Castell quality
•  Comfortable grip for extended creative sessions
•  Perfect balance between student and artist-grade performance

Product Details

The Goldfaber Color Pencils are designed to provide exceptional colour brilliance and smooth application across a variety of artistic techniques. Their highly pigmented leads produce intense and vibrant colours that blend effortlessly while maintaining excellent coverage.

The 3.3 mm core offers the perfect balance between precision and colour output, making these pencils suitable for both detailed work and broad shading. Thanks to Faber-Castell's patented SV bonding technology, the lead is securely bonded to the wood casing, minimizing breakage during use and sharpening.

Artists can easily achieve techniques such as:

• Smooth colour gradients

• Layering and blending

• Fine detailing

• Hatching and cross-hatching

• Creative sketching

• Mixed-media artwork

The pencils are housed in a premium tin box that keeps them organized, protected, and ready for travel or studio use. 

Why Choose This Product?

Exceptional Colour Brilliance

The highly pigmented core delivers rich, vivid colours that stand out on paper and bring artwork to life. 

Excellent Lightfastness

Colours remain vibrant for longer, helping preserve artwork and creative projects. 

Superior Break Resistance

SV bonded technology strengthens the pencil core and reduces breakage during sharpening and use. 

Smooth Colour Application

Soft lead texture allows effortless colouring, blending, and shading.

Ideal for Multiple Techniques

Perfect for sketches, illustrations, colouring books, journaling, and mixed-media projects.

Portable Metal Tin

Keeps pencils organized and protected while travelling, studying, or working outdoors.

Trusted German Craftsmanship

Faber-Castell is one of the world's most respected art material manufacturers, known for quality and reliability.

Product Specifications

Ideal For

Artists

Create illustrations, concept art, portraits, landscapes, and detailed colour work.

Students

Excellent for art classes, assignments, creative projects, and design studies.

Hobby Colourists

Perfect for adult colouring books and creative relaxation.

Illustrators

Achieve vibrant artwork with smooth colour transitions and layering.

Fashion Designers

Ideal for garment sketches, textile concepts, and colour planning.

Journal Creators

Enhance planners, scrapbooks, and bullet journals with vivid colours.

Urban Sketchers

Capture scenery and travel moments with portable, professional-quality pencils.

Beginners Learning Colour Theory

The carefully selected 12 colours provide a strong foundation for colour mixing and blending.

Benefits of Goldfaber Colour Pencils

• Rich colour saturation

• Professional-looking results

• Excellent layering capabilities

• Smooth blending performance

• Minimal lead breakage

• Long-lasting artwork

• Easy sharpening

• Comfortable colouring experience

• Portable storage solution

• Reliable quality from Faber-Castell

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. Are Goldfaber Colour Pencils suitable for beginners?

Yes. They are beginner-friendly while offering quality suitable for more advanced artists as well.

2. Are these pencils watercolour pencils?

No. Standard Goldfaber Color Pencils are not water-soluble. They are traditional colour pencils. 

3. What is the lead thickness?

The pencils feature a durable 3.3 mm colour core. 

4. Are the colours fade resistant?

Yes. Goldfaber pencils offer excellent lightfastness for long-lasting artwork. 

5. Can these pencils be blended?

Yes. Their soft and highly pigmented leads are excellent for layering, blending, and shading. 

6. Are they good for professional artists?

They are considered a high-quality student/intermediate range and are suitable for hobbyists, students, and many professional applications. 

7. Do the leads break easily?

No. Faber-Castell's SV bonding process significantly improves break resistance. 

8. Can I use these pencils for colouring books?

Absolutely. Their smooth application and vibrant colours make them ideal for colouring books.

9. Is the storage case durable?

Yes. The pencils come in a sturdy metal tin that protects them during storage and travel.

10. What makes Goldfaber different from ordinary coloured pencils?

Goldfaber pencils offer superior pigmentation, improved lightfastness, smoother colour laydown, enhanced durability, and professional-quality results compared to standard school-grade coloured pencils.