Reddit mentions of Sanford 25085R Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils, Portrait Set, Soft Core, 24-Count

I know different companies will have pencil sets in "flesh-colour" or more commonly, "portrait sets".

Here is a portrait set of 24
http://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-studio-artists-colored-pencil-sets/

Here's the Prismacolour one
http://www.amazon.com/Sanford-Premier-Portrait-Colored-Assorted/dp/B000JI6HOG

If you can't find the set at the store, and don't wish to buy it online, here's the colour codes for the Prismas:
PC914 PC1012 PC942 PC1034 PC940 PC929 PC928 PC1018 PC927 PC1001 PC997 PC939 PC1019 PC1017 PC901 PC941 943 PC945 PC944 PC1031 PC937 PC947 PC946 PC938

From what I notice of in the sets, you'll usually be looking for ranges of white-yellow, pink-red-brown, blues, purples, and greens

There is this set of Prismacolors for portraits.

As for other color suggestions, go on dickblick.com and see what is available that you don't already have.

i use these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000JI6HOG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Get some prismacolor pencils, I'm sure there's a skin tone set

Edit: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sanford-Prismacolor-Premier-Colored-Portrait/dp/B000JI6HOG

> I do hope I'll get something I can use on skin though!

I think it will really depend on how much depth/complexity you want in your skin tones. The Polychromos set does have colors that work for skin tones, but Prismacolor just has a much greater range of colors in that area.

The Polychromos set just doesn't really have as many choices when it comes to neutral tints/tones/shades (like browns/beige). But this can be easily supplemented with the Prismacolor 24-color Portrait set, which pretty much comes with all of the colors you would want or need for creating more complex skin tones. (And, depending on which Prismacolor set you already have, you might already have all of those colors.) It looks like the Koh-I-Noor only goes up to 72 colors, but it looks like it has some good skin tones colors in there (from what I can tell from the image on the product page).

All in all, though, I think you'll enjoy using oil-based colored pencils. I found the oil-based ones seem to handle layering a lot better and can be built up a lot more without just starting to smear (like with the Prismacolor and other wax-based). The oil-based pencils also have a harder core, which can be good and bad: it's good when you are doing finer details and layering, and also because you're less likely to have to sharpen the pencil nearly as often. The downside is it can make filling in larger sections with a single color (like in backgrounds) more tedious... in which case I will often revert to my Prismacolors to lay in the base layers of color.

So there will be a little bit of a learning curve as you start to familiarize yourself with the oil-based pencils and learn the different strengths/weaknesses of them, but it shouldn't really take very long. I'm guessing you'll probably prefer using the oil-based for most things but will still occasionally pull out the Prismacolor for certain things, as I have.

So once you've gotten them and have had a chance to use them for a bit, you'll have to let me know what you think!

This is probably the set she would want if she primarily sketches people. Otherwise, she would need the set of 96 to get these colors which is about $80-95.