- Excellent for sketches, shading, and bold strokes - 3.3 mm soft, break-resistant pigment cores - Smooth laydown, even on textured paper - Smudge-proof, water-resistant, and lightfast marks - Works well in mixed media applications Specially created for students and hobby artists, Faber-Castell Goldfaber Color Pencils are also a great choice for more advanced artists. Perfect for both colored pencil drawings and mixed media work, they have 3.3 mm cores that lay down smudgeproof, water-resistant, lightfast marks. The highly pigmented cores are soft yet highly break-resistant for smooth laydown, even on rough surfaces. They're ideal for everything from quick sketches to shading, hatching, or making bold and expressive strokes. Faber-Castell Goldfaber Color Pencils are available in individual colors and sets, which are packaged in sturdy metal tins. Made in Germany.