Are Prismacolor colored pencils the best you can get for this amount of money?
I've been practicing with cheap colored pencils, and now I'm ready for a better quality tool.
Prismas are good quality, blend well and are pretty opaque. just be careful not to break them. Faber-castel polychromos are an alternative, but the whites are a bit translucent.
There are also caran d'ache luminance colored pencils (pic related), but they're terribly expensive and apparently not that much different from prismas.
i have the 72 set, and they break alot, constantly sharpening them