The Best Beginner Colored Pencils Are Japanese

The spring weather has made me a little nostalgic for a year ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic was just arriving in the United States and it seemed like it would only be a matter of weeks or months until it was over. That was not the case; however, what got me through the initial months was sketching, taking back up a teenage hobby and occupying my anxious mind for an hour or two.
I had a set of colored pencils laying around, from the Japanese brand Tombow, that I bought by chance at the Scandinav