Hi Sarah, I’m so happy I stumbled on your video this evening. I have recently broke my leg and coloring is keeping me happy and inspired. I decided to use this time to improve my coloring skills and oh my goodness this video and YOU are heaven sent. The wag you lay out information makes me feel so supported. Thank you so much! You have a new subscriber here and I also joined your FB group, I’m excited to watch more of your videos
I was just about to toss a page because I was not happy about it, then I watched your video and started to add some tidbits here and there and it gave the page a new life. Thank you! I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos!
Coloring has been a favorite pastime since childhood. I’m happy that my grandkids love it as well. I am always looking for new ways to make my coloring better.
My sister is an art teacher with a very low budget. Each student only received 6 markers. So she taught them how to use colored pencils over markers to create gradients and even new colors. She said they were all amazed and loved the technique!!!
Thanks for the coloring tips. I’ve been using some cheap colored pencils from when my now-grown kids were little and they don’t blend or cover well. I’m looking forward to seeing what I can do with better pencils soon.
Sara James thank you! I’m glad you are finding them helpful! Even as someone who knows how to pick colors, I find myself referencing them constantly for ideas!
New here, this is my first video. Great tips and I love your voice. I could listen to you all day. I’m going to pull out my books and pencils now. I’m really in the mood to color. Thank you, great tips.
I'm so grateful for your videos! Today, I've watched 3 shadow videos and I started working in the shading and shadowing and my flower petals are coming to life! I'm using Arteza pencils while I wait for the Caran D Ache pencils to arrive. Thank you so much. I enjoy how you teach. Have a wonderful day!
I love tip 1, I've been doing that for a long time now when I'm colouring with the kids and they just love the effect, my daughter is even trying to do this to now, after I explained it to her this summer. Of course she is still struggeling with pressure, but she loves the improvement. She first did shading with black or grey pencil, but with a darker colour she loves it so much more. What I like to try next is blending colours that are next to each other in the colour wheel, cause I really loved your example page.
Hey Sarah This is so good! I am new to coloring, and I am finding all your tips so interesting and very helpful. I will keep practicing and I am really enjoying it. Thank you Sara G
Thank you for your inspiring and so needed content! Irreplaceable for the beginner as I am :) May I ask, what is the progarmm/book with color palette you are using?
Hi, just happened to click your video on the 5 easy tricks to improve your coloring. You're a wonderful teacher. I found the trick w/the gel pens the best. You mentioned a color pallet that you were using on your tablet, is this an app, web site etc. I too, tend to use the same colors all the time and I'd like to expand my color range. Thank you.
Hi Sarah, I just wanted to say thank you for inspiring and encouraging videos..I used to love how I colored but with all the Facebook groups and complicated ways people say you have to color, sadly I've become discouraged in coloring 😔 i don't know how to get the desire and inspiration back..any advice would be greatly appreciated 🙏
I have a very supportive Facebook group if you want to join us! Otherwise I recommend just starting small, don’t worry about what others think, and just start somewhere.
@@SarahRenaeClark Oh that would be great hon, thanks so much 😊 okay ill try that.. yeah cause it shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks, we color for ourselves! 😊
Hi Sarah! I recently retired, and will be 69 in a month. I bought an adult coloring book, sort of hippy stuff, and did my first one yesterday, a group of magic mushrooms. Just color, no shades, no gradients, but having watched this video, I will be getting my act together, and maybe revisiting the first one I did. Thanks!
Reminds me on vacation i was helping 5 year old girl with a coloring :) (spa owner's daughter) . She had a coloring book with princesses and "magic" patterns revealed by coloring with a marker ... but not everywhere which she found boring. I showed her she can add her own patterns as well, add additional jewelry to the princesses etc ... What a fun :D . Coloring with a kid is even better than adult coloring :) .
I like using sepia for shadows, too. It will blend with almost every colour if you use it properly - light, very light layers and blening with slightly darker shades than your main colour.
I found your channel through your collab with Jazza and I'm so happy that I did. You are a wonderful teacher and I appreciate the effort you put into helping us improve our art or just get started. I'm 51 and have always let fear of not being "good enough" hold me back from even getting started. You, and many other art channels have inspired me, and many others, to just pick up the tools and start!
Thank you. I feel very inspired by all your tips. 8 colouring books & Art Therapy monthly magazine issues all art supplies & still too scared. You said I must plunge in, now I can cancel my fear & proceed with baby steps. Hugs & bigger blessings from a sunny South Africa 🇿🇦
I just came here looking for tips, and am I ever thankful that I found your page! You have shown me some basic, yet very intricate forms of shading. This makes your pages look so beautiful. I can't wait to try these tips out on my own pages. Thank you so much!
Another help is if you are using a color palette and you are not comfortable enough to eyeball it. And use a color pencil picker app or marker picker app to match colors from palette. I did at first til I got more comfortable
Wow! Watching this video shows how much you have grown in just one year! Not in a bad way just the growth. The wall is so blank 😂 love everything you have done ❤
I also use Crayola crayons for the base. After using them, I scratch the surface, leaving just the color and then shade with a colored pencil. The shading requires a bit more pressure but the effect is quite good 🙂
I like the color catalog, but do you have an additional resource that pairs the palettes with how to make it with popular media like Prisma colors, Poly Chromos, Ink Tense Gelly Rolly's, and various others. I am not a beginner either but I find the most difficult issue outside of maintaining the proper light source, is mixing the or blending properly so you get that correct palette and then choosing your shading tools and technique right (cool, warm or french grays, white and black) to ensure you don't end with mud or picture too dark.
If you would ever like to visit New Orleans I can put you up for nearly free but I will have you teach me how to improve my tech skills!!!! I have an amazing 1965 converted bus you and yours are welcome to stay in and I have a decent car finally so I can fetch you at the airport!
Can you add Ohuhu marker numbers to that as well? I just invested in the ENTIRE collection of the Alcohol set of Ohuhu brand Markers, they are WAY cheeper than Copics, but work near the same! I just bought the 320 color chisel/fine dual tip set, and the 216 color brush/fine dual dip set. I wanted all the colors, but they only came as chidel/fine, but then i also wanted the largest set in brush tip.... I already owned the brush/fine dual tip skin & hair color 30 marker set, it was the first thing in the brand i bought & fell in love with. It's why i decided to invested in the larger marker sets. Copics were just way out of my budget.
Can't wait to try this! In all my coloring books, I either use marker or colored pencil. I'm not sure why, but I've NEVER thought of using both as an option 😂
I truly love your videos! So glad I found your channel! I instantly subscribed. Can't wait to get better at colouring and now I know how to introduce my Copics to my colouring thanks to you!💖👏
Hi. I love that you're creating a guide for which Copic codes match the colours in the catalogue! That will be extremely helpful to me and means I will use the catalogue more often! Maybe even get version 2! I would also love a list for Holbein pencils, but I'm hoping I can find a conversion chart from Prismacolors, which you said you'll be listing, too, to Holbeins.
@@SarahRenaeClark No worries. I just meant to say that it's also very helpful to have the Prismacolor codes, because they might be helpful in finding a conversion. Thanks for doing all this! :)
Hi Sarah, thanks for this videos, i love doing graphite, charcoal and ink, now i feel like it's time for adding color to my ink drawings, this helps a lot for that
I love you and this is the why I subscribe to you because I want to know more ways easy ways to do art I'm a very lovable person to art because I love art so much and I've always wanted to be an artist on paper and on nails I've always wanted to be up artists on paper longer than I wanted to be an artist on nails but I can get my tips from you thank you for being alive and doing videos and thank you whoever your mother is thank her for bringing you into this world and for you having the thought to make a RU-vid channel for art because I it's always been my dream to be an artist and I love art
I would not have thought of combining markers and pencils, and was just thinking that you can't do the shading with markers when you showed us how. Thank you!
I actually don’t do this enough! I love the brightness and quick coloring with markers but much prefer shading with pencils... so mixing gives the best of both
@@SarahRenaeClark I am beginning to dabble in art and have joined with some friends to create art and share it each week. Some of them are talented whereas I am someone who spent my life thinking I wasn’t artistic. You are giving me ideas and confidence. The tip about coloring with marker and shading with colored pencils was an “aha!” moment. It was liberating. Thanks!
Thank you for the useful video! I use Winsor and Newton markers with I have slowly been expanding my collection. As a secondary medium I would like to get some pencils, which would you recommend?
I actually have a lot of videos reviewing different pencils that talk through my recommendations! It depends on a lot of factors, so I recommend watching some of those!
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