"Do not compare your work to anyone else's. The style you develop is uniquely yours and therefore incredible". THANKS FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT & INSPIRATION!!!
I'm new to adult coloring and am loving the videos here on youtube that are teaching me that 'adult coloring' can in fact be a great skill to have. I just started and am so excited about it, I find it very relaxing and enjoyable and it helps with my depression and anxiety. Joined your facebook group, nervous to show my work but I'll enjoy getting tips!!!
This was so useful. I love art and have been doing it for a years (I am 14) however I have been getting in to polychrome pencils and i needed to learn how to make my work better and how to use them properly.This video helped so much ! Thank You !
I've just discovered your tutorials and I love them. I was shading and blending my own way lol now I know the right way. You will be my go to instructor. Thanks again
Deserved like! The other videos I watched didn't explain the basics this detailed or at all. Really Gives me a solid foundation to work with. Thankyou!
Rachel, I've been coloring right at a year now and find myself still learning. Your videos have been a great learning tool and seeing other great works of art has helped as well. Can't believe one of my pictures was chosen to be in this one of yours.......guess my learning is starting to show. (FYI: yes you did pronounce my name correct). Thanks for the time you spend in helping/teaching and/or advising others in expanding our coloring ability.
I have chosen to share this video on Facebook, because that's where most would see it and where I have friends also enjoying colouring books 🖍💖 The reason why it was this I shared, is because I have had so much benefit of seeing it myself 😍
Oh wow! My 7 prismas and 12 crayolas are like the best ones I have out of any set I got.. And I didnt know you could make more colors with layering. Gonna have fun with that. And now I realized why it was so hard to layer even with my crayola pencils when I applied max pressure!
Hi there. I just wanted to say thank you for this AMAZING video. I took up adult colouring just over a year ago as a hobby to help deal with some depression issues I had and had never thought about looking online at instruction videos as I was really initially just looking for something to pass the time. Over the past year my passion for this kind of work has grown into my first real "hobby" since childhood and have invested so much time and effort into it and I now take so much pride in the work that I do. The one thing I have always lacked was (apart from talent.... lol) was good technique and until this very day all I had been dong was googling the artist I use for colouring and copying other peoples work. I am fascinated by the work of Kerby Rosanes and his "Morphia" series of colouring books and in the beginning was using pens to colour but I was never getting the detail I could see in other peoples work and this was becoming frustrating so I switched to pencils and have had limited success with that but today I decided to look up tutorials and thankfully this was the 4th video I watched and I am now spending the rest of today on your channel. Everything made sense for the first time and your nature is so beautiful and warm. I hope to improve over time and I wanted to thank you so much for taking the time to make this and your other videos. Take care and stay healthy in this crazy world we have found ourselves in just now. I have found that my love of colouring is more important to me now more than ever and you will have helped me become better at it. One last time... "Thank you" Best Wishes Terry
Aww thank you so much for such a lovely, thoughtful comment! I'm so glad you've found adult coloring and that it helping you along on your journey. It's such a creative and productive outlet. Hope you stick around the channel and find it useful. Good luck and thanks again!
What a great beginner's class for coloring with colored pencils. It was very good, and at a good pace. My one question is about the actual stroke. I think you held the oencil toward the back so the lines would be lighter, right? And then you are just moving back and forth, and downward, correct? And, to fill in the sides, out to the edges of the shape of the image, you fill in the white space, not including the highlights, in the same color, but in little circles? Where did you hold your pencil on this step, please? Is it equally as light as the initial strokes? I greatly appreciate your help in clarifying this to me. Thank you for the wonderful, close-up video! ❤
I do wish you had gone into the different types of color pencils there are. I love to use a wax base color pencil. I'm having trouble finding them now.
Ever dissolve shavings in solvent to make a transparent "pencil paint" to layer over top of saturated base for that "wet" reflective surface? Also useful to add more or cover saturated areas since pencil deposits poorly on top of saturated paper. Since pigments are in a wax carrier, once paper saturates with wax trying to rub more wax on top fails due to lack of friction in wax-wax contact. I also remove most of wax carrier from pigment-solvent "paint" for excellent look; but this step is fairly advanced for anyone without moderate chemistry background Blending and/or rubbing with solvent like acetone can help to smooth, but also the solvent will dissolve away some of wax making additional layers take better. -chemical engineer
Thanks Rachel. This video is going to be so helpful. Also, thanks for showcasing one of my pages. Just for future reference my name is short for Violet so Vi rhymes with Hi, Buy or Why. X
Sorry, I should've realized that! Violet us such a pretty name and Vi is a great shortening! I'll know for next time as I'm sure I'll be seeing more great work from you ;-) Thanks for watching!
I've only recently "discovered" you; love your work and everything you share with us. I SO enjoy work done by your viewers (not sure if that's the correct term, but I'm sure you know what I mean) that you feature. I have a question that you may have covered before and I just haven't found it yet... on some of your own work that you shared at the end of this tutorial, it appears the flowers are outlined in black marker or pen. Is that correct?
Hello Lynne! Thank you so much for your kind words! I personally don't RE-outline anything with marker or pen, but I do shadow with blacks and browns sometimes and that may give the impression they are heavily outlined.
Hi Rachel, I am enjoying your videos and art works. Thank you! I'm new to colored pencils, but my fingers become cramped within minutes of starting regardless how lightly I hold of the pencil. Any suggestions??
I bought a pack of prisma pencils for like $35 and some fancy paper for dry media and my colors STILL dont go down like yours! What kind of alchemy you got going here? Mine just looks like streaky crap. What might i have done wrong?
I have a question, Does it matter what brand you use to color? I notice pretty much all the videos for colored pencils, the person uses 'Prismacolor' pencils so I don't know if the brand matters or not to do these techniques and stuff :/
Okay so i think it's gonna take me atleast 6 days to get good enough in this....And I hope I come out with a pretty nice drawing....or u can say a drawing with floating island and Animals and river and mountains and mystic trees
My family and friends keep belittling me whenever I start colouring. They thought it's only for kids. But I understand that not everyone understand the joy of colouring and making arts. 😃 I came from a poor family. We can't afford coloured pencils back then when I was at school. I'm glad I can now channel my inner love for arts today. Thanks for producing this video to guide clueless newbies like me. 😃😃 Keep on doing this. 😀
I'll tell you something.... colouring using colour pencil greatly enhances your brain and improves your life quality.... yes you heard right ... neuroscience rocks....you are lucky to have found this hobby ...
OKAY couple things 1. You explain things SO well. usually when i watch tutorials the artist does not explain at all what they are doing and leave me more confused than when I started 2. your voice is so soothing this made it so much nicer to listen to
I don't want to be a bearer of bad news, but sadly, I anticipate that from your original set of 150, in a few months of just medium use, you'll be left with 2/3rds of your Prismacolour pencils that haven't broken, snapped or have failed to keep a point after sharpening. The quality of these once great pencils has now gone to the dogs! The care when producing them since moving the production to South America is abysmal and is frankly a disgrace. To sum it up, they're shite!!!!! If you buy shite, expect to get shite! Polychromos....aaahhhh, now THAT'S a fabulous pencil! Chris (UK).
This is the ideo that I should have watched before I picked up a pencil to color. How instructive it was and truly entertaining as well! What a great sense of humor you have!
Just bought a new sketch pad and a set of colored pencils. First time I'll use them in like . . . 50 years or so. Thank you for youor instruction, I plan on watching more of your videos to enhance my old / new hobby!
So how do you decide what colors to layer and blend? Like with the mandala? The peach and the greens? Thank you for this video, I know I will be coming back to it often.
I love your videos! I'm new to the world of adult coloring, and have become addicted. I find coloring sooo relaxing, and your videos have helped me tremendously in developing my own techniques. Thank you so much!
Teri Honor Hey Teri! A year later? Oh well! I am also in my rookie year of coloring! Addicting? Oh yeah! Relaxing, calming, and addictive! One of my children calls coloring my new Xanxax!
Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to teach us how to do this! I'm a new owner of a complete set of Derwent Coloursoft pencils and I have never drawn/coloured on a more "professional" level, so I'm having a blast looking at video's and trying things out. Please keep up the good work!
when my neighbor found out i was diagnosed with breast cancer, she got me a color book. durring chemo mom and i would color, listen to music and joke around. Last summer mom went to sing with the Angels. My sister has said more than once that adults don't color. Got any ideas on how I can affirm it is, without resulting to inappropriate comments? Thank you for any wisdom you can bestow.
just ask her to colouring with you. I do it with my younger sister and my office's friend. it is fun and quite relaxing. yeah, a little bit relaxing after a stressful and tired job ☺
if that was true, there'd be a lot fewer artists around. try showing her some finished masterpieces using coloured pencils. maybe invite her to join you and give it a go, it's very relaxing as i'm sure you know; many people use it to help de-stress.
Liked and shared! I think this is a good all-around video to share, it's got all the techniques for bringing up your coloring skills to the next level.
This is probably my favorite video because it covers the basics of how to color and add depth and character to your coloring. I have colored all my life, but this month just started to try to blend, layer, and advance my coloring. Your videos have helped me a lot! I am doing the giveaway and did share this on my pinterest page, where I have a few other good friends who love to color too!! Thanks so much for posting these tutorials! I really appreciate them!!
Your work is beautiful. Thank you for taking the time to share these techniques with us. I look forward to seeing more. I am also sharing this video and I liked it (of course) for your vacation give a way. Keep up the good work and enjoy your vacation.
You explain things so simply and easy to understand, it puts me at ease and doesn’t make me feel nervous or pressured about starting a new medium 😊 very helpful!
Hello! I use a combination of things... namely super light pressure, small circular strokes with my pencils instead of back and forth motions, AND layering color in opposite directions. Give it a try and good luck to you!
Great tutorial Rachel, i would love to see a tutorial of how to make wonderful Flowers because i really have hard time on shadowing, thank you for these very handy tutorials!
Hallo, I haven't a question. How do you know which colors to blend? Because I am trying to draw a brown rat in a dark background but it constantly turns out to be to light
I love the advice you give us. I've been only working with color pencils for a year, and I learned a lot of new things on this video. I am planning to buy new prismacolor pencils pretty soon. Thank you for making this video.
Now I figure out that it depends on the texture and depth of the paper when applying strokes. I experience only drawing only using scratch papers (used typewriting paper). I only do the recycling on what resources that I have There are many brands of it and the quality may satisfies you. Even a sketchbook has different qualities to depends on the brand. So for now research and practice is the only key. I don't compare my work to anyone else, because we have unique handwriting when we apply pencil pressure to the paper. I like to form new abstract concepts and ideas to what category and community I join and I experience from now. From the point of view to learn more we need a foundation to brainwash and adopt to certain changes and perspective. 😁 👍 ☕ 🍩 😉
me sat here knowing how much prisma costs and never being able to afford them plus having tried it with other pencils are affordable and still cant do this well. guess i just cant do it that well at all :( Id love to be able to do it to this standard thats so good! but i cant :(sigh...i watched for advice and wanting to improve but ive just depressed myself.
Thankyou sooo much i was looking for a tutorial like this for soo long but all of them were way advanced and hard for someone new like me i am so glad i watched this video.
I am an author/illustrator, and I had originally started my work with colored pencils. I switched to digital because I didn't like how my art looked when I scanned it. But recently, I've started to realize that there was nothing wrong with my work, just with my scanner! I'm definitely switching back to colored pencil! Your video made me remember that I love my own work, and never should have drifted away from my own style! Thank you so much!
Do most colorless color pencil blenders mix with most colored pencils? As long as they're made up of same wax core. I realize this is an old video. Just asking here in the comments, from one newcomer to this video to another. Thanks! 👩🎨🖤✌
What if I use very thin paper with oil pencils? Should I press very hard with a sharp tip? About how many layers will I get by pressing hard on that type of paper? I own eighteen brands of pencils that are wax and oil. Some are softer and more vibrant than others. Will the technique change from brand to brand?
Sometimes I have to look at my artwork to remind myself of how good I really am at coloring but for some reason I continue to look up techniques to make my work better trying to make it better.I layer my colors sometimes and instead of shading from light to dark. I shade from dark to light because it takes entirely to long to go over one spot 5 to 6 times. Everyone's work is different. My coloring is beautiful.
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