Review:
The Faber-Castell Albrechet Dürer pins are my new favorite medium by far.
For me as an old hand in the topic drawing I felt immediately at home with the Albrecht Dürer pins. Almost as if I had always worked with the pins. To have collected a little watercolor experience helped me a lot, but was not a prerequisite for success.
The Albrecht Dürer pins draw as good as a pencil, located Vermalen as watercolors and cover very well. For me, the panacea of art. As promised, the colors combine in Vermalen with water well with the paper and can be painted over after that and resist even the eraser. But even non-painted blur the colors and hardly can be perfectly stacked until the desired shade is sitting. Gradients as in the eyes of an animal can be easily and continuously represent.
My attention to detail come to the Albrecht Dürer also, even the smallest details and subtleties can be displayed. I feel finally unleashed with these pins in my creativity and now know no limits in what I can represent. Even with the first use of the already Albrecht Dürer felt magically, almost as if the pencil know what I plan and paint by yourself. It is even possible remove with a damp brush color directly from the pen and opaque then Vermalen. The consumption of color / material is in my opinion very moderate, perhaps this is just in my nature and method to work, but I had previously rarely sharpen.
The 120ger wooden case is an absolute dream, it has every imaginable color of Europe. It is processed very noble and certainly worth the extra cost sheet version. Each pin is ideally place in the inserted plastic switch. Beautiful way was behind the pens extra space left in the lower compartment and even a thought another for pens. So pencils, erasers, brushes and everything else can be accommodated properly and securely. It is also possible there to keep without bringing the sorting confusion or need to seek later laboriously the pins used for the current project. The case itself is pleasantly light. Kudos earned also painted the pins, this fits perfectly with the color of the pen so that you can optimally orientate always what is needed difficult at the splendor of 120 pins also. The pins are also all individually labeled and wearing your color names and the order number.
Whether it equal to the 120ger version must be I do not know. I think the 60's version is enough well. Especially because the colors of the pins can be mixed as well. To me it is a lack of real need arguments. For me it was a simple case of want. An ambitious prospective customers I would recommend to start with the smaller version and the missing colors in addition to purchase as needed. This not only saves money but also instructive equal to the better handling of the colors and how to properly mixed to produce the desired result to come this.
In addition to Albrecht Dürern you should not let the Polychromos aside also. These are still a whole corner better suited to pure drawing as the watercolor pencils. The Polychromos feel even slightly more than the pencils to Albrecht Dürer, they behave in a direct comparison a little chalk-like but are clearly universal. In the combination of the two great works are created as both pins have very special nature. Hence my recommendation: Not all the money sink in the watercolor pencils but buy both varieties.
To buy this I still recommend a few things:
- An additional Albrecht Dürer Black + an additional Albrecht Dürer Weiss. I aufhelle much to suffer my white pin especially. The additional black pen I like to use to put a pointed pin details and process with the blunt pin surfaces. Likewise, I wear a lot of color to darken from.
- A heavy paper possible which forgives the multiple use of water and brushes. The paper should not be underestimated under any circumstances, it is an extremely important factor and not just the surface of the pins. My absolute favorite is the Boesner Hausmarken LineArt 250th
- Synthetic in sizes 0 or 1 and 5. These serve to Vermalen hair brush to details or subsequently apply. An additional 20ger Brushes for Vermalen of large areas like backgrounds have since also never hurts.
- A good and sharp sharpener. Not just from the Schulanfängerset
- A good base for the paper. Fearing damage to the following pages I disconnect my paper always from the block. As underground I use the smooth side of the transparent 7 Euro Ikea table mats.
