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And I hope it helps someone, or at the very least it'd explain a lot about why my pictures look the way they do..? 
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This is the newer style though that I'll probably be using from now on. The previous one was made in MSPaint only...
Wow you have that many colours!!! I have only 24 colours of my colourful pencils.
It might be my next gift to myself.
It's very inspiring having pretty-looking pencils, I'd definitely support that idea!
I have a lot of other colours I should start using too: Acrylic, oil and tempera.
I really have no idea how to use tempera.
But that kind of a pack in Israel might cost something like 350-400 nis or 100 USD or 80 Euro. So if I go abroad sometime I probably buy it there, on the way.
Those three kinds of paints are very expensive to get, not to mention all the accessories needed for blending the paint or cleaning the brushes. I've tried them, but they weren't really working for my ideas, my pieces tend to be very, very detailed and not particularly big, so thick paints like oil or acrylics aren't working so well for that
For oil, recently I heard you can use an olive oil for cleaning brushes, and you can use any wooden surface for blending colours, also old clothes and table clothes.
The key is the brushes, if you use the right brushes you can draw small detail.
When I graduated school, one of my finals was art, and my whole final project was made with oil (5 paintings). I managed to draw with small detail, all you need are soft classical brushes. Mine were not even expensive (I really did not have money for something expensive).
I loved drawing with oil.
For oil paints you traditionally use linseed oil (If that's the right name in English) to thin the paint and turpentine to clean the brushes. The paints themselves are expensive though, especially since you generally will end up buying a bunch of different colors.
I painted some oil stuff in my school but it took ages for it to dry and details like tiny, tiny eyes on the three people on one of the painting (Their faces were about 1"x2.5") turned out a little blurry, even if I tried being careful and using the smallest brush I had :C I do admit though that I haven't had much practice with oil except for those two paintings I did in art school.