I'm not an artist, I have always said that I cannot draw, but I have written a children's book series and I want to illustrate it myself. I am looking for instructional videos and yours was the first one I watched. It was a great and informative video. That apple looked real! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
EXCELLENT video! I had never drawn with colour, only with grey leads.. I followed your guidance with a reference picture of an apple, and it’s turned out brilliant! Friends are saying they thought it was a real apple.. great explanations and teaching! Thankyou!
SAME! OMG! I wanna switch the game and start creating colorful drawings. It will make the drawings look more alive. But i'm a little nervous the color pencil will ruin it. It's ok tho, practice is PERFECT
Enjoyed the video. A lot of great colored pencil tips. Although I have the full 150 set of Prismacolor, I appreciate that you did the lesson with the 48 set. I wish more RU-vid art channels would use smaller sets so that viewers don’t have to make a huge financial commitment upfront before they have discovered if they like a certain medium or various options within that medium (i.e - Prismacolor versus Polychromos). Lindsay the Frugal Crafter did some videos using the Derwent Inktense 12 set. I found that so helpful. Enjoyed the projects she did, but not enough to purchase the larger set at this time. You’re terrific!
I agree more than the brand of colored pencil you are using is the ground/paper you are using. Personally for learning and experimentation Bristol board is way too expensive. My personal favorite is 80 lb Blick sulphite drawing paper. 500 sheets used to cost around $13.00. At 3 cents a sheet it doesn't matter if something doesn't turn out.
To observe the reference carefully it’s where I struggle a lot! At the same time I understand how important this process is and I see the improvement when I take time to observe… but it happens not every time 😅
Maybe this not much help, but remember to break everything down. Give it a shape reference. A head can start as a pineapple. Think of a hose first as a shoe lace, tree leaves first as a cloud. For color, just guess... Hopefully this helps
Gemma, I apologize if I haven't already done so. People keep telling me I was rude making the remark I did.. I thought I was constructive. Also, I think you are a skillful pencil artist.
Fantastic video…Thank you! FYI- You have to be aware that the jelly pens are not archival so if you’re planning on selling your work you need to stay away from gel pens and pencils that have a very low Lightfastness.
It's both 🙂 All of the videos are sorted into chapters. So I start off by including an in-depth tutorial for chapter 1, then there's a real time section after this with just the footage from chapter 1 without any sound. It then moves on to the chapter 2 tutorial and then the real time footage from there, and so on. So you can either follow the step-by-step instructions or you can draw along with me. All drawings do come with the outline sketch as well as all of the colours used and the reference photo
I'm in love with their white pencil from the Chromaflow line. Other than that, I've heard they're good pencils for the mid- range they're in. The Chromaflow line is definitely soft, but not as soft as Prismacolor. You may be disappointed and immediately want to revert to your tried-and -tested.
I haven't used many Derwent pencils but I rate my Polychromos very highly. I do like my Prismacolor pencils but if I could only pick one... I really like the harder lead of oil based pencils.
The Derwent Chromaflow are wonderful especially since they came out with the 72 set unless lightfastness is required in your work. If you want lightfastness, the Derwent Lightfast Pencils are a dream to work with.
As I am sketching and coloring in it occurred to me that I have never seen if anyone takes a page out of the book and uses it flat on their desk or keeps it in their book. Preferences?
I never use blending pencils, and I'll occasionally use blending solvents but for the most part I just use lighter colours to blend everything together
Just a quick note added to the point of layering. It builds better depth than when you use only 1-3 layers AND in doing so, you actually use less pigment, than when going in with 1-3 heavier layers. Which means that your pencils will last longer, which also means less sharpening. Which also adds to how long much longer they will last.
