and these would best be used for watercoloring
596554
a lot of brush for the money.  I'm an oil painter, and these would best be used for watercoloring.  However, I have become a more frequent user especially in the small sizes for detail.  They clean up well, and they hold their point!
2608238
You might as well be painting with colored water!
1411789
I did not like these that much for a major project. Maybe if you are learning pastels or need something cheaper...but they didn't work for what I was intending to draw that was meant for oil pastels...They didn't last me long. But its a good cheap starter set.
3784308
These brushes are made for Watercolor and work great for detail or smaller work. I believe they work beautifully for this purpose and would recommend them. I use a conditioning brush cleaner and hang them upside down to dry. Lately I have been painting birds in gouache and watercolor. There is a lot of detail in my paintings and I used these brushes for them. I love da Vinci watercolor brushes and they are my go to brushes. I own many different brands of brushes, but for price and quality I like da Vinci brushes best.
251623
For a cheap watercolor pan, these work fantastically. Almost all of the colors are vibrant, and if not, you just need to find the right water to color ratio to have more pigment. I sampled them on dry water color paper using a wet tip on my brush. Some of the most beautiful colors turned out to be the dark brown, dark purple, sky blue, and orange. The red is not very dark but a better, deeper shade can be achieved by mixing some brown in it. Yes, the colors are a little chalky but that doesn't really matter. As long as your not going to be rubbing things directly on the paper or crinkling, (which you shouldn't be doing anyway), the colors stay perfectly fine. Overall, they're great, cheap, and a 4/5!
3454345
I bought these to use for stamping and painting on vinyl and the colors are too thin for this purpose. Not so great for painting on fabric either. The range of colors is more expansive than you typically find for metallics. The paints dry gummy and you can peel them off. They seem to coat wood well. The big bottle of silver is pretty watery but altogether still a good deal for the price and probably fun for kids.
118625
These are great quality for the price, and I definitely recommend them. Now that that's out of the way, time to move on to the details.

The pigment is extraordinary, though some pencils suffer from the inability to "pick up" the pigment when water is added, therefore causing lines. Others are opaque, so there's no real consistency between the colors.

They truly can be used dry, and I find myself doing so often after I've applied a base layer with water.

Unbeatable for the price, though. 80 bucks on Hobby Lobby. Definitely a must-get if you like colored pencil and watercolor.
2781946
Not too impressed with these. Some of the color pens are pretty dry, and the blacks are not really comparable with Sakura Micron pens. The printing on the sides of the pens are pretty quick to wear off.

I do notice that these are not waterproof: when I draw with them and let them fully dry, the lines can still bleed with with a watercolor glaze. I just tested the same with my Micron pens and don't have that problem.
4227607
Not the greatest. I'm sure they have their purpose but for oil and acrylic they weren't great.  The water color brushes work very well on the other hand.
4269516
These pencils were just okay for me. It is much harder to lay down color with them than any other brand I've used, including Crayolas. Some of the leads broke multiple times, which is always frustrating. I also wish they had some sort of color name or number in English on the pencils. I sorted them rainbow style, made color swatches of each pencil, then put a little label on each one indicating the color. The process took three or four hours longer than doing my swatches from other brands.

Colors look great and apply really well when you use the pencils wet. I'm personally not in love with how they work with a brush, but that's purely my own preference.

Overall, it's a decent set and a great deal if you want to experiment with watercolor pencils without/before buying a premium brand.
4847833
I have these pencils and I use them frequently to create watercolor images that I turn into handmade greeting cards. They draw smoothly and the colors are beautifully vibrant.
987297
I'm not a professional artist,but I use these on coloring books/pages. I feel like watercolor pencils are more vibrant than the cheap colored pencils you use in grade school. I like the option of using them with water, but you don't have too. I feel like the quality, the variety of colors, and the price all made for a good deal. I'd buy them again for myself or as a gift.
1509119
I really was expecting a better product. Realistically, if you want watercolors, buy paints. If you want colored pencils, these are not for you.
1807183
These are often recommended a good starter student set of watercolors. Hense why I bought it. I've learned a little since then and now know that I could get better products for nearly the same price. If I was starting again I'd buy a Mission Gold 24 set of tube colors. They're affordable, very saturated pigments, and artist quality.

Regarding the Koi set, they have half pans (the cups holding the paint) which are annoying to get color into brushes because the pan is so small its hard to pickup with a brush thats longer than the pan. The pallet is not reusable, you cannot remove the pans so they're difficult to clean. Some of the colors have heaved and cracked from wetting and drying repeatedly (as watercolors do). The colors seem to not be vibrant although thats just what you get with student grade colors. I found the water brush cumbersome to use. Prefer real brushes.
3965397
These are excellent for coloring in adult coloring books, especially for abstract designs. They will bleed slightly, so I would advise that you only use on single sided pages. These are the same color codes as the Zigs Clean Color Brush Tip markers and are water soluble. You can water color with them on water color paper, but not coloring books. I actually prefer these to the brush markers.
3707865
These are beautiful if you want to work with water colors and don't want the mess, or don't have space. Also great to add to my acrylic flower paintings, or to sketch. I love them!
2148735
These are juicy, bright, and *very* neon.

My only issue with these is that they claim to be a dye ink that is water based, yet they perform more like a solvent ink. They do not react with water at all (once the ink is on the paper, it stays there, and cannot be lifted or "activated" with water, like the Distress inks) and layering two different colors isn't very successful at all- it results in a weird, splotchy finish instead of a nice blended color.

And cleaning this off stamps is very difficult.

That being said, these inks are BEAUTIFUL for what they are- they dry to an even, smooth, BRIGHT color. Even the most finicky and hard-to-ink clear stamps take this ink wonderfully. And if you do watercolor, you can use this ink to stamp your outlines without worrying that the water and paint will "lift" the color and blur your images.

So while you can't use these inks like Distress or blend them, they leave a solid stamped image, dry beautifully and smoothly, and have amazing colors that are not available in true water-based inks.