For any artist looking to sell your work, I would not recommend blending with baby oil because of the fact that it’s not meant for artist quality. This could become a quality issue later on in the future where the work will alter. If your just doing it for fun, than that’s fine. Just an FYI.
+Make and Play TV Definitively, I recently posted mentioning this. This tutorial in particular is meant for beginners mainly people who are into adult coloring books, for serious work, Mineral Spirits is the way to go. Thank you!!
The truth is they'll both alter art. After all you're trying to cause the same effect to happen but only with two different things which is breakdown the color pencil. I never use any oil or chemical and get the same look although I prefer color pencil to look like color pencil and watercolor to look like watercolor ect.
Not true - 1. Faber Castell specifically recommends using baby oil, 2. To maintain the quality of the image, spray with good fixative (workable or permanent), 3. I’ve sold works with this method & the quality hasn’t dissipated or shifted ;)
As long as mineral spirits or something of that line the oil just works with the oil in the pencil the mineral spirits breaks down some of that binder releasing the color or pigment
Thanks for the nice tutorial! Will the baby oil alter the colour in the long term? Like, if you look at that drawing in a couple of years, will the colours look the same?
+araleh06 Good question! If that is a concern I would advice to use a professional solvent. I only use baby oil for practicing and coloring books but for work that I'm looking to sell or preserve l'd definitively go for something like Gamsol. Haven't been using baby oil long enough to be able to tell. Thanks for stopping by ♡
Baby oil can cause an oily spot in your coloring book, and it can grow over time. I used it in a coloring book when I first started, and I actually had a round oil spot on three pages where it had soaked through. Using a colored pencil over an area treated with baby oil transfers the baby oil to the pencil. This can actually eat away at the tip of your colored pencil, so if you choose to use this method, please be sure to wipe the tip of your pencil clean when you're finished. I'd recommend an odorless mineral spirits or low-odor paint thinner. You can get small bottles that will last ages for about $3, and it completely evaporates without leaving anything behind. It will tint your image a bit, but only at first. As it dries, your colors will be the same as when you laid them down. Definitely worth the investment as it saves your coloring books!
Yes, it does. It yellows over time. Along with the other concerns of spotting etc. Using it for practicing blending is fine though, as M&PTV says, though I would use it with cheaper oil pencils, like the Guanghui line that comes under a dozen different names and is very reasonable quality for the price ($30 for 160 colours), and save my expensive Polychromos for serious work.
Dry they blend a bit With water they blend a little bit more With oil they blend shocking strongly I blend them with some coconut oil which i had in the kitchen since years, the oil looks the same as when i boght it F.castell suggest to use parafin oil Baby oil seems to work too, but often contains different oils and parfume and even more, so the long term result can be any thing You only use the smalest possible amount of oil, if you smear them with your finger, i guess the natural oil of your skinn can be already enough to get good variations, just sweat a bit then rub the finger over your face and then over your picture ;) I use the crayons but i am sure i will go to get the pencils soon I use the 60 box.. its very nice.. contains all pasteĺ colors and gold silver bronze The colours are some how addictive If you blend with the finger.. do not get the color into your mouth, some colors are toxic, always clean your fingers.. f.castell gives the advice to not eat drink or smoke There is just one thing i would whish... they should blend with water or oil the same Who on eart carries a bottle of oil with when quickly going outdoors to draw some nature If you use a rubbergum you can soften the color.. but blended or not, you never get all the color off the paper, but the white color is very strong and can help out a bit F.castell is realy amazing.. i took a long time to decide between f.castell and caran d ache and the only thing i use from carandache is the metal handle to use pencil stumbs and theyr b9 graphite pencil.. f.castell ends with a b8 graphite Sadly the f.castell sortiments are very expensive.. caran d ache even more but i think on caran d ache its more the brand than the quality what makes them expensive F.castell has a lot of other stuff like the aquarel pencils and the inks markers and fat or slim pencils and graphite pens or blocks .. i think they all fit some how together and this is a strong point when i decided to use this brand So now i said a lot of nice things about f.castell, i hope they will contact me and spend me theyr whole sortiment in a big box... may i will be able to tell more good news about them ;) One thing more.. the color names are a bit intuitive.. the f.castell looks a bit dark.. fuchsia is looks more like the magents in a printer.. and the cyan also comes a bit dark or bright and they do not call it cyan at all.. i think its phthalo blue but light cobalt turquoise looks more like in the printer.. for yellow i think cadium yellow is the equalement to the printer yellow.... just the black color is named black and looks like the black in the printer... so this is a bit intuitive and depends on if you like it dark or bright.. i found this when drawing a colorwheel.. i tend to use fuchsia instead of magents and cobalt turquoise instrad of phthalo blue but in both cases the cadium yellow I whish f.castel would label the printer colors as they are labeled in a printer To make a color brighter the white is realy amazing strong.. to make a color darker it also needs just a slight breah of black The colors you get by blending cyan magenta yellow black and white are amazing.. if you like to try this brand its a nice test set and you can buy them all seperate without a box The box with the crayons is also very nice .. its metallic .. all cryons are in a plastik holder.. may they could make it a bit simpler to get new crayons out of the box.. under the crayon holder and over the crayons they have a damping mat to protect the crayons .. may they could add two empty places to add a blending stump and a rubbergum .. so every thing would be in the same box... how ever this .. i admit.. are first world problems... The colors are amazing!
Have you tried the Albercht Dürer line from Faber Castell? Look beautiful in dry form and can be blended with water ;) I got a video on those, absolutely love them. Thank you so much for stoping by and taking the time to write. All the best ♡
Not the Polycromos because they are oil based. On the other hand the Faber Castell Albercht Dürer pencils are water soluble and work similar to the Polychromos in dry form. Hope that helps ♡
The size of the paper doesn't affect the results. If its for practicing any paper would do, the thicker (higher gsm) the better. For serious work, professional solvents are definitively the way to go.
