How to layer coloured pencil to create realistic looking fur - the ugly stages! 

Thank you! I'm learning a lot! Can't wait for part 2.

Thank you so much for chairing and explaining the process of layers

Really excellent tutorial! Thank you for doing this in real time.

Espectacular tus vídeos te agradezco por enseñarnos tan bien!! Sigue montando videos. Mil gracias por compartir tu conocimiento!!😘😘

Thank you so much. I only took up drawing/painting in September 2020 and your videos are so instructive.

I've been doing portraits with acrylics but just starting out with colored pencil. Thank you so much for this!!

Thank you for these videos! You explain everything so well and I love the tip about imagining feeling the texture of the surface/hair/fur to reflect it in each pencil stroke!

Fantastic Bonny. Great explanation of the process of layers. Another great video. Thank you very much! I LOVE your artwork.

Bonny, thank you for this det ailed video. I find it vert helpful to j able to watch and listen to your thought process.

I always struggle with the ugly stages. Im so glad we have encouragement to push through it! Phenomenal talent!

Thank you! This is super helpful. I'm used to drawing human portraits and want to try out animals and i immediately see new techniques, pretty satisfying😂😍

What a fantastic tutorial, thank you very much..!!

Loved it Bonny! Really learned a lot!

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. Very helpful and informative. Subscribed and greetings from Nashville TN USA.

Look at the eyes on that dog!! Amazing!!!

It’s an honor to subscribe. Great work!

This helped me improve in my drawings so mach, so thank you so much

Thank you for the video, Bonny! I love to see how someone else does this, and I laugh at your idea of an ugly stage. I always call them the ugly stage when I first forge ahead and it doesn't feel polished. It is the perfectionist in us. :)

This is the first video of yours that I have watched and it was wonderful. Like you I tend to imagine I am touching the animal that I am working on and I really think it helps. You can always tell when someone is familiar with a certain species or just using ref photos. I love your layering technique. I have worked in Oil paints for many years and am only just starting with pencils, I love the fact that they will layer like oils. Thank you for sharing :-)

I've got a spaniel comission to do so this is really helpful, thank you!

Lovely piece thank you. I highly recommend Colourfix smooth sanded paper ,similar in feel to Pastelmat & very quick to put down layers but you cover alot more I think. I love it & it comes in plenty of colours.

amazing!! I add-icted!!

Great tutorials Bonnie!

Very helpful tutorial for bigners, you are great artist, beautiful art, ❤❤❤👍👍👍

To be honest, I'm working on this perseverance and patience thing. :-D Building up layers is so much easier and not so frustrated since I use polychromos pencils. Holy moly, this wax build up thing with the prismacolor pencils has cost me a lot of nerves. I love your work, a very helpful video. Thank you. And by the way, I'm a new subscriber.

Io ti adoro!grazie per i tuoi preziosi insegnamenti! Spero di vedere presto come disegni dei gatti bianchi ❤

Very very helpful. Thank you so much!!

This is a fantastic tutorial and I have returned to I maybe 5-6 times already. Thank you so much for sharing. I had never done curls or longer fur before. Now that I am sitting with a spaniel on my drawing board this video has not only taught me a lot of techniques but also really helped me feel less daunted by the task. So thank you! ^_^

Thank you for showing us this video. It’s so beneficial to see how it should be done! I am learning how patience is so important in coloured pencils and I have a lot to learn. Your tutorial is teaching me I need to slow down a bit when I’m layering. Is there a rule of layering light to dark/dark to light or does it matter? Thank you!

cool work

This is a great video! Pastelmat is so expensive and I only do art for fun - not money - can you use this technique with less expensive paper? If so, what less expensive paper do you recommend?

Beautiful demonstration and drawing Bonnie! I'm new to your channel and new to drawing infact. My favourite coloured pencils are Polychromos and are the finest professional quality pencils you can buy in my opinion. I primarily use mine for adult colouring as a way of managing my bipolar and anxiety. Both the medium and outlet have assisted me no end...... However, I've always dreamed of becoming masterly at drawing, and although I am reasonably proficient in oils and have dabbled in watercolour paints and the occasional acrylics before now, I have always had a love of coloured pencils. To me where has say, the harmonica is the much underappreciated musical instrument, I feel the same applies to coloured pencils - they don't get the recognition they deserve. This is evident on RU-vid as there aren't many channels with artists such as yourself who demonstrate on great detail, how wonderful coloured pencils are. I'm writing a novel at the moment, but would like to learn to draw in coloured pencils inbetween writing. It's the basic skill of drawing that I struggle with and usually cheat by tracing before applying paint. This has helped and INSPIRED me Bonnie and thank you! Many thanks for showing us and sharing with us your fantastic talents. 🖒❤ I've subscribed. Chris (Cymru).

Very nice picture

Hi, lovely piece and a great help being in real-time with your instruction explaining the why as well as the how. Just out of interest, what was the app called for colour identifying and changeable to brand used?

Such a big help for me a beginner. Thank you! Love your descriptions and explanations. You mentioned an app hat helps with choosing colour. Please could you tell me what to look for. Like the idea of being helped with which colour to use. I'm currently using Photoscape which has a tool for you to highlight an area called colour picker.

This is amazing,! How could anyone hit dislike on this I dunno!

Thank you for showing your work. Would you be able to show the photo that your working from. It would help so much to visualize your technique. Thank you!

LOVE the video as always. You mention a colour picker app; can you say w hi hi one is best please as there are a few 🥰

Very nice Bonny! I am very, very new to all of this. I did not see you do any blending between layers. Do you blend much with dog portraits, or just keep adding detail as it appears you did here? I guess I am referring to alcohol or other liquid blender as opposed to using a lighter colored pencil?

Thank you so much for this tutorial! You are amazing! As a beginning artist, this was very helpful. Ever heard of this type of paper. Can I do this on canvas? Btw, any negative comments by people is because they are jealous of your talent!

Hello Bonny - amazing video! You mention something about some apps about finding the right colors - what apps? Do you have any names? 😊

Bonny, I noticed you used PanPastels for the background. Do you ever use them for your base layers?

Hi Bonny, saw this one just yet. In the text you are telling about coming part 2 and 3 to follow. But they are not on RU-vid?

Beautiful ! ❤ Do you only use polychromos ? I have pitt pastels ... are polychromos better ? What is the difference please ? What do you use for sharpening your pencils (find it very difficult to sharpen my pitt pencils ! Tried sharpener and cutter but tip of pencils often break or can't have my pencils sharp enough !)

Evening, I got back into colored pencil 3 yes ago after a long break. I would like a full tutorial to buy from you that is on pastelmat. I work well with pan pastel, but I'm a little nervous to use my wonderful polychromos. Thanks for any info.

I don't know about you but she is amazingly awesome at what she does 😃😃😃😃😆😀😁😆😊😆☺😅😇😇😇

thank you , great tutorial. Could you show the original picture

If you could, I would greatly appreciate if you could explain how you choose what paper to use for this drawing and is putting down the lightest color in the area the typical choice? Would white Pastelmat mat work for this drawing as well? Also I would like to thank you for posting this tutorial.

Hi Bonny, Being new to colored pencils, choosing the colors has been one of my challenges. I am often times not satisfied with the result of my choices. I’m looking at my pencils and realizing there are similar colors you could have chosen. I am wondering what process you (or others) use toward making your color selections? Do you use a software application like Colored Pencil Picker, your own color chart, trial and error on scratch paper, or is it just coming from prior experiences with those specific pencils that lead you to choose for example, Ivory and Caput Mortum Violet, instead of WarmGrey I and Red Violet?

What pencils do I need. I have pencils but I can't use white pencil over no color. I guess I don't have the right pencils

Thank you so much for this video. Bonnie! I have purchased the 60 set of Poly Chromos,/colored pencils,Is that sufficient for most dog and horse drawings?

Hi Bonny :) this vídeo is so helpful, I'm going to do my first pet drawing of a really cute Golden retriever

Great video, just subbed you. I have got a terrier cross with some kind of spaniel, anyway, the ears are very much like this and I just know them ears will be a disaster. I hope your video will work a miracle for me..lol

This is the First video i love I love when you do the pencil drawing and show us from the start Do you have a video from the first sketch to the first color to the end from start to finish I love when video Are this slow but I would love so if the war from the beginning from the sketch Do you have a video like that I love this video I wish I could Pain like you and now I'm gonna The Try it in Stay Everyday You are amazing never stop and show was More please 😍😍😍😍😍😍.

what would u reccomend for the first few layers on white paper and would u ever do a eye turtorial on white paper

Hi, was just wondering what paper you use to draw your coloured pencils on?

Superb explanation of why you use the colours you select. Many thanks for your time. (Perhaps try to use less ‘you know’ in your voiceover - it drove me to distraction). Have subscribed. Thanks again 🙏

Where do you But your paper? And How many sheets do you usually Buy at a time?

Does your book out September have tracings as I would find that usefil

Bonny that pencil extended is so pretty what brand is it ?

Yeah that paper is way out of my budget on Amazon. What’s a cheaper alternative?

Hi I am just starting to commission my portraits and I was wondering how much this portrait would go for? Thank you!

If you showed the subject picture once or twice that would also help in your tutorial so we could see what you're accomplishing. Thanks for the tutorial !

Graag uitleg over potloden kleurpotloden enz.

Someone of You can tell me wath kind of pencils we should use,? Maybe the brands please

Do you show the photo in real time in your Patreon classes?

What is the name of her paper and the color of the paper?

Does this tutorial come with a list of materials needed?

Which oil pencils do you use, or is it a mixture ?

Can someone please explain what happened to all the replies on this forum? When I try to read Bonnys reply to questions, the screen is blank.

Which paper are you using please

Hoe maakt u uw schets?

do you have a videio of this eye?

i am so sorry, I absolutely love your work, but i cannot hear which colors you are using. do you perhaps have a list of the colors that i can take out and have ready

Whats the colour app please?

This would have been more helpful for me if I could see the reference picture so I would have the comparison to be able to understand better why you’re doing what you’re doing or where you are doing it.

I use the app Arty to try and get an idea of what color to use, but I find it's not usually accurate...

The thing about pastelmat over paper is that you can put light over dark......not so easy on paper..........Fabriano hot press has quite a grain to it these days... I don't like it much at all

Is part 3 put yet?

Good deal, watch.

Treating myself to set of polychromos ssh dont tell hubby hiw much 120 cost!!

Wish you would fo a WHOLE video that cover the whole part of what you’re drawing. Even a slower time lapse.

I’m really new to this and you’ve already lost me

Would be nice, if the reference was in frame.

I absolutely hate colour pickers, artists can ponder if tracing is somehow cheating when painting a art work which i think is simple, if you are creating a drawing then dont trace, if you are painting then true representation onto the paper is needed because the skill you are showing is the painting of it ..colour picking is part of that skill so you need to develop that through artistic trails. Using an app to show you what colour to paint is not showing your artistic interpretation of the ref picture IMO.