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I ordered these so that I would be able to draw more realistic skin tones. The colors that came in the box were as follows:

Four shades of brown, ranging from medium to very dark brown (Labelled mahogany, brown, dark brown, and light brown)

Black

Red

Maize (a yellowish green-brown)

Peach (which was sort of orange-y looking to me)

I think these would be better advertised as earth-tones, rather than "multi-cultural" shades. I was looking for a set of pencils that ran the spectrum of human skin tones, which these aren't very helpful with. The peach brown shades were those that could be found in any set of 50+ colored pencils, and the other ones weren't really skin tones.

So, while I'm sure they'd be great for nature sketches, and might work for some, they aren't what I was looking for.

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I bought these so that my kids could have a wider variety of realistic colors from which to choose when drawing people. The colors in this box are Black, Brown, Dark Brown, Mahogany, Maize, Peach and Red. Standard colored pencil sets ALL come with black, brown, and red. I don't know why they are included here. They are not special skin tone versions of these colors, just basic red, black, and brown. The other colors are not great representations of skin colors either. These are good pencils that lay down a smooth line of color, but they are not a set of eight skin-colored pencils as I thought. James' wife

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I ordered these not knowing what to expect since I've never ordered these before. The Color choice is nice and works good on all my sketches. The earth tones that came in this set have been used on projects other than facial or cultural for that matter. These are some nice choices of color and are a great addition to my art supplies locker.

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It can be frustrating to color people or nature scenes with most colored pencil sets, since the browns and tans are usually so limited. This set solves that problem! Black is included, but I wish they had white also, so any of these tones can be lightened with a cover of white.

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As a person who is old enough to remember when a light peach colour was labelled "flesh" in the pencil box, I couldn't resist adding these "Colors of my Friends" to my pencil crayon collection. Besides giving a variety of tones for sketching at Life Drawing, I think they might be handy for subtle landscape colors. The pencils are not as waxy as Prismacolor or Dick Blick's Studio Colors but they are a nice addition. I haven't tried a blender stick on them, but I would imagine that they would blend toojust hasn't come in to my use for fairly short poses. Also, these "Multicultural" pencils are a bit of a conversation piece in an art group!