I just sent out another inquiry Arteza’s way. My last two tries in March and July last year unfortunately didn’t lead to anything.
Thank you Vanessa, for writing me and reminding me. I hope there will be good news soon on this site.
Here is my information sheet I send out to companies.
Speedball has gotten back to me. The Super Black India Ink is unfortunately not vegan, it contains shellac.
They checked my list, and the information about all the other products is still valid.
Here is the up-to-date list of vegan-friendly Speedball products:
Source: Mail contact
the Speedball Super Black India Ink might not be vegan any longer.
Thank you Emily, for pointing this out to me.
Back in September 2017, I received the information from Speedball that all drawing and lettering products didn’t contain animal ingredients/byproducts.
Unfortunately, Emily discovered shellac being listed on the label of the Super Black India Ink she purchased.
I have contacted Speedball and have taken the ink of my list until I have further information.
A Speedball product update will follow as soon as I hear back from the company.
Here is my information sheet I attached in my mail to them: Criteria cruelty-free and vegan April2018
Dear Emily, I am very sorry to hear this happened to you. I did write you a mail, but unfortunately my computer froze everything, when I hit send and crashed. I tried for 10 minutes to get back in, but it is useless. I write this on a borrowed device and hope you are able to find my reply to your mail here. I did not forget about you. This bugs me too, I was really happy to have found a non-acrylic drawing ink. I attached my information sheet to my inquiry, which also includes a list with animal ingredients. It is possible, the person replying did not know shellac is of animal origin. – Again, I am very sorry this happened to you.
Vegan-friendly products by C.Kreul newly added to my list are:
-Information about more products to come in the new year-
Here my C.Kreul product list:
PAPER:
CANVAS
And Following products are vegetarian friendly:
Source: Mail contact
The broadpen,Faber-Castell ink and their synthetic brush range are products newly added to my Faber-Castell list of vegan-friendly products.
Here is the list of vegan-friendly products by Faber-Castell:
All Faber-Castell coloured pencil ranges are vegan-friendly.
Find Faber-Castell in the compendium.
Source: Mail contact
Thank you to eagle-eyed reader Isabella, for pointing out that more colours in both the Academy Colouring and Watercolour range are no longer vegan-friendly. Derwent now provides information in their colour charts about products being vegan-friendly or not.
Derwent doesn’t carry out animal testing, but also can’t confirm whether all of the raw material is free of animal testing.
Derwent Products free of animal derivatives :
Derwent Ranges that are only partially free of animal derivatives:
Source: Mail contact; Derwent website
I wrote to following companies :
Great news,
Terry Ludwig Pastels is a cruelty-free company and all their pastels are vegan-friendly, with the exception of those containing bone black.
Source: Mail contact
Today I wrote to companies that offer pastels. A big thank you to Peter for providing me with a list of manufacturers and information about their products, he gathered. Of the six companies, I only knew one, Art Spectrum, who didn’t react to my first mail back in March. Let’s see whether they will reply this time.
Here are the six companies and the products I asked them about:
As to the other companies, nobody has replied so far. (only has been a couple of days so far)