Thanks for such fun and interesting examples of colors in Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. I love these pencils and search for tutorials using only these pencils. I will follow your youtube channel in hopes of learning more about my favorite and only pencils
Thank you for sharing your thoughts of Polychromos. I like the ivory, dark indigo, dark sepia, payne's gray, cobalt turquoise light, cobalt green, fushica, rose carmine, pale geranium lake, may green, chromium green opaque and cinnamon.
Your drawings are FANTASTIC!!! Faber Castell makes the best pencils for drawing,by far!! Whoever says Staedtler,Mitsubishi etc are better,he's delllusional.
Thank you for this Alena! I am just getting familiar with my Polychromos pencils, and I found your color combos very helpful. I agree with you that Polychromos has the best pinks and greens. The more I use my Polychromos, the more I love them.
Thank you dear Claudia! I'm very grateful to people who gave me some advice when I purchased Polychromos open stock about their favorite colors. it was helpful ,so now I decided to share my own experience and I also hope that I can help someone
Thanks Annette! In the beginning I also wasn't quite confident in using Polychromos especially after being used to Prismacolors. But for some pictures Polychromos are great solution so I hope that you will give them a chance and will color more with them
Thanks for the great information. I'm so exciting waiting on the mailman today! I finally was able to order some Polychromos and I can't wait to try them for the first time!! 😀❤
Dear Alena, I have been following you for quite a while and just stumbled on this video. My daughter gave me a full set of Polychromos for my birthday and I still struggle a bit with them, Your video is helping me a lot, I use my Prisma on top of Poly.. sometimes, and I feels weird to do so. I am glad to see that you do it. I hope you are safe I am thinking of you all the time especially when I hear some bad actions from the orcs! I do not know if you will see this reply but still, I wish you peaceful times. Safe Hugs M.
Thank you so much for your kind words! And yes, I absolutely love to combine Prismacolors and Polychromoses! First, Polychromos lack some light pastel shades in my opinion, second, to use softer and harder pencils together is great for textures like wood or fur or hair, and it's also helpful on cheap thin paper...
Thank you Alena for another very informative video! I always learn so much from you. The tips on using black and Payne’s grey are so appreciated! I tend to struggle with creating depth and dimension, so can’t wait to try your recommendations. You’re a jewel 💎
Thank you so much! When I got my Polychromoses I struggled with depth also, but then I discovered this great tip of doing basic layer of shading with greys and I started to get much better contrasts.
Thank you Alena for another very informative video! I always learn so much from you. The tips on using black and Payne’s grey are so appreciated! I tend to struggle with creating depth and dimension, so can’t wait to try your recommendations. You’re a jewel 💎
What a great video!!! A bit ago, I asked you for suggestions on supplementing my Prismas with Polychromos. Well, my sister totally surprised me with a birthday gift of Polychromos 120 set. So now I can follow all your video. Very excited. Thank you for this awesome video, which is so helpful
It's a wonderful gift, I'm so happy for you! I'm sure you will enjoy them. For me they required some time to get used, but in several books and for some pictures like portraits now they are my absolute choice #1 even if I still love my Prismacolors
@@ColoringwithAlena I have only tried them for a little bit, but I do love them. Blending will be way more challenging I think, but I do like that they don't need to be sharpened constantly (but I do still love my Prismas). I can already tell that I will love the greens, especially Chrome Oxide Green. Dark Indigo is another color that you suggested, that I can see will be used a lot. May green is my top 5 so far I think. Looking forward to all your amazing videos. I think, now that I'm not getting open stock, I will gift myself Neocolors or an assortment of Albrecht Durer.
@@ColoringwithAlena You are welcome! 😊. My favourite pencil from the Polychromos has to be ivory. I use it instead of leaving the highlights white for the skin and also to blend.
Thank you for sharing, Alena. I don't have the full 120 set, because I prefer building my own favourite collection. Early on (when I started my "adult colouring" journey over 4 years ago) I found the Polychromos very accommodating--they complement well with other brands, wax or oil alike. I am pleased that most of my favourites are yours too: cream, light flesh, green gold, and Payne's grey, not to mention the whole green collection! Also, Prismacolor's opaqueness is what makes them so blendable while Polychromos' translucency allows colourists to layer as much as the paper can take. Finally, I noticed that you have left the barcode stickers on the pencils. May I suggest you peel them off because they might ruin the blades in your sharpeners, unless you use a helix which I think should be fine after sharpening a graphite pencil.
First, thank you so much for your advice! I always forget to remove those stickers... I think that I still prefer my Prismas a little bit more than Polys, but only because their softness suit my preferred method of quick coloring in max 2 layers, and because their remind me about oil pastel. But both brands are great and using them both indeed gives immense possibilities in coloring
By accident, I discovered that Polychromos pencil are the exact color of watercolor paints. If I am wondering what name is of an unknown paint color I just use my Polychromos and find the match. Also, the names of the Polychromos pencils are the same as the watercolor name.
