On my Bristol paper, I made a row for each brand, organizing the pencils in rainbow order starting with the warm red tones ... you can get really bright, intense color out of them.” ...

The details, sharp lines and bright colors seem possible only through ... Eileen Nistler drew all of them with colored pencil. It’s taken years for Nistler to reach this point.

A set of 120 Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils costs $350, 14 times as much as a similar box of Crayola colored pencils. And some brands price their sets at over $550.