Inktense pencils

Finally got around to creating a color chart of my Inktense pencils (no affiliate marketing involved), on the paper I currently use. I had the pencils for about 5 years now (or even more) and almost never used them. The main reason being that some time ago I did a test run on Arches watercolor rough paper, which has a heavily granulated surface. After adding water, the result was a very textured color patch and the pencil marks didn't fully break down under the brush. This would normally work great with natural elements or textured surfaces, but not so great with my style that strives for even colors, especially when people's faces are involved (they looked like having chicken pox). So I put the pencils aside and forgot about them.

Anyway, yesterday I decided to do the color chart on the paper I am currently working with (The Langton 300gsm rough). I had an old chart as well, but that was done on a cheap sketchbook paper which toned down and muddied the colors. This made it impossible to get a realistic idea of how they looked like on a good watercolor paper.

When the chart was ready, I was in for a double surprise. Not only the colors were bright and clean, but as a bonus the granulation didn't look as obvious as I remembered from my previous trial. So now I am thinking to give the Inktense another try (maybe not with people's faces though).

And here is the color chart - quite basic, but it's all I need for now: