Royal & Langnickel Essentials color pencils are excellent quality drawing tools for any level artist, regardless of age or experience. These hexagonal, natural wood cased pencils have thick, soft, leads allow precise control for detail line work, shading, cross-hatching, glazing, and other techniques. The brilliant colors selected for this set are chosen to provide the basic palette for exploration of color theory and experimentation in color pencil drawing techniques. This set contains 24 color pencils.