Painting with Pencils!! Faber-Castell Aquarelle - Lachri 

I could just get this audio and fall asleep listening tips and let them subconsciously sunk in. :D You're a amazing teacher, I've learned so much from your videos. :)

I'm glad I saw this. I've been using these pencils wrong. Thank you for the tutorial!

Hey everyone I'm in art school and she is an amazing teacher!!! She sounds like my college art professors, and some of them graduated with an art degree from Harvard. She always made us turn our work upside down and told us to look at the shapes in it rather than as one whole shape.

this is a beautiful piece! clearly they are flowers, but this reminds me of ladies with messy morning hair looking beautiful with messy morning hair. just lovely.

I really like you. You are great at giving instruction. It makes my heart happy to see young artists freely giving knowledge.

My absolute favourite. I've been using then for a few years now. I also love ArtGraf watersoluble graphite tin.

I have more experience with photography than other media so I thought I'd add two more quick photo tips: a tripod and a remote shutter release. Both allow for longer exposure time in natural lighting situations and prevent any camera shake for longer exposure. Just in case this is helpful to anyone. :)

The bee on the flower looks so real. I love this one and enjoyed your real enthusiasm whilst drawing it

Thank you ! I will give this a try !

I love it

This one just looks relaxing and fun.

I've purchased these for outlining images for acrylic painting, but today I'm going to use them for a 8x10" drawing of a calla lily I photograph from my garden. I've never used them but this video got me interested to having some fun with them. I love your work :)

I LOVE what you are doing with your videos. You changed your style and it’s awesome! Very attractive and it’s easy to keep watching after seeing your intro and I love your new camera angle!!!

Thank you for the awesome review, I will be picking these next time I’m out

For art like this its always best to not be afraid to go dark where needed I'd start between dark and light and go darker as needed plus by the end step away and see how much more dark you need to go

OMG I love that size of the paper! I didn't know they made that size. Arches paper is the best, at least for watercolor, in my opinion.

Another great video Lisa!

I just picked up these pencils at hobby lobby for 40% off. I'm already in love!

Looks great and glad to see the completed piece! Going to try my hand at this medium. Thank you for the inspiration. :)

I just bought this pencil set yesterday, I can't wait to try them! Thanks for the tutorial!

I love it !!! 😍

Arches is serious quality

Great video Lisa! 😁 I saw the banana with the face as soon as you said it. The flower center above that looks like a praying mantis face holding its hands in front of its mouth... LMBO 😆 The piece came out great. 🤗 OMG, I just realized that is a bee!! I'm so sorry... damn tablet screen. 😂 I started seeing things in other shapes after you mentioned the banana. 🤣

I just bought the pencils and it's amazing!

This looks incredible. I love the lighting in this piece. I completed my first project with this medium last night and I had an amazing time working with water soluble graphite. Also, great tips about taking photos. Thanks.

I've never tried the Faber Castell water-soluble pencils myself, but years ago, I found a small blister pack of General's Sketch and Wash and I've used them for sketching ever since - one of the darkest pencils I have ever used (comparable to Derwent Onyx) and definitely the softest, smoothest, most velvety graphite I have ever had. And it blends perfectly too, I highly recommend you give them a go, even just once. :) I completely understand what you mean when you say this medium is fun, certainly a favourite!

You are awesome and fun to watch. I keep recommending you to people with interest in pursuing art and sharing some of the advice I heard from you, for instance how graphite is the most economical way to start out in art, to learn the values. A lady responded with a curious sentiment: that women use a lot of make up and know how to do values and shading on their own faces, so (Do you have a recommendation for those wanting to start and get into colors right away? ^^...) I myself got some sets of faber-castell's 9000 pencils and mitsubishi hi-uni for the fuller range (two of each, hoping they will last me a while), and I was looking at these water-soluble pencils... Chances are, I'll get them, and a Pentel's pocket brush pen for good fun.... I am a bit of a perfectionist, so it will probably take me a while to get to doing things (I hate my drawings and get nit picky...am much more comfortable in the digital realm with more control and precision, and one of the few things I ever made that I still think came out pretty well, was way back in my high school days, during a summer school graphic design class~ I drew my then digital camera. It came out pretty photo-realistic and I let myself experiment and play around with the tools. I am not confident enough to allow myself that luxury with "traditional media"... and am a legendary procrastinator ^^.) Last addition to my stockpile of art supplies were Montana paint markers, because they are refillable and the nibs can be switched out~ It will take me ages to get to actually trying out and doing things with them, so I didn't want to go with alcohol-based markers or disposable ones of any sort. I'm also looking at yupo heavy weight paper (love purple) for said markers and practicing on it, for the same reasons~ Drawing something on it, photographing the result for posterity and reusing the "paper" over and over again. I learned that copics, which everyone seems to be raving about, are not lightfast, so I don't see myself buying any of them any time soon, even if they do have the much nicer and more versatile brush tips. I'll have to further research what can be erased from the yupo paper and how, but I only got the markers in silver, gold, black, white, "iron curtain" (whoever had the bright idea, and what that idea was, I do not know), lilac and dark blue. I love rich saturated colors and see myself personalizing some things with those, perhaps, like a guitar I have my eyes on >.>... I also got a pack of micron markers, but I've been told they dry out in a week, so.. I got myself some fancy Japanese watercolors (Kuretake MC2036V Gansai Tambi 36 Color Set), a set of cheap brushes with some variety, a couple of much nicer (more expensive~ I haven't tried them yet, but do my research before buying most anything) brushes, a travel brush... Unfortunately I ordered a set of 132 prismacolors before I learned about lightfastness and their nonexistent quality control... but oh well. You said they are still nice to use (when they do their job, that is). I got a roll of tracing paper, a roll of glassine, a big 32-ounce jug of Mona Lisa "paint thinner" for blending, an air tight little plastic container for it, two fancy mechanical pencils with una-dia 4b lead, castell's perfection erasers, a workable fixatif, a super spirograph set and a shape set ( xD my childhood), faber castell's perfect pencil, a tun of strathmore sketchbooks... not a good choice there, but I'll have something to learn and improve on, a bunch of other erasers, chamois, stumps, a couple sponges, that paper towel you recommended for the texture.. I get carried away sometimes >.>... When I get into things... And then I procrastinate ^^. Anyway. Just wanted to say that you're very fun to watch and seem to be a very genuine and kind person, and an inspiration to many. Rock on!

I got Fabre castell water soluble graphite pencils and I love them

Lisa, this was so helpful! Thank you so much. I am also testing the Art Graf water soluble graphite pans. I found it in several colors and it works great with the Faber Castell Aquarelle pencils.

Great review and wonderful result! The lighting really can be everything, especially when it comes to less interesting subjects, like you demonstrated with your snowdrops (edit: wrong flower name XD), which are not exactly in the top 10 most beautiful/popular flowers, but the artwork is amazing because you used the right ref. I never really considered using water soluble graphite, but who knows, maybe in the future. Lol, the captions at the end, great you kept that. Btw, it's not just you, I noticed a lot of English speakers are struggling to pronounce "aquarelle" which was very surprising to me (I'm neither English nor French native speaker). Don't know what would be helpful to people, maybe "aqua - rel" and roll that r.

amazing tutorial as always. you should try the faber castell polychromos watercolor :) pleasee

Such a cute chicken xD

FYI, Lisa, the Arches Watercolor blocks are 50% off through tonight (4-29-18) at Jerry’s.

I hope you have time to answer. You are such a talented font of information. Could these water solubles be used as an under painting to block in the shadows for alcohol based markers or for non water soluble colored pencils? That being said would the line work disappear under the markers? Thanx for your time and all that you do! 💜

Hiya. New to your channel and loving it. I wonder if you ever use resin to finish any of your paintings? Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Cheers

Once again like all the time, very informative and great video! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Just to mention, "aquarelle" is pronounced as "ah-kwa-rel". Also, what weight paper do you use for colored pencil projects?

Hi Lisa, have you tried pastel pencils? They are great

omg i bought the bigger paper of nearly a3 and wanted to recommend it to you but then you tried the same paper :D

I love water-soluble graphite. Never tried it until it came in a Smartart box.

Just found you and been binge watching you. Wow what a great teacher you are with lots of good tips. Are these pencils similar to Derwents graphitint pencils?

Excuse me, can you review the Bruynzeel graphite pencils? I wanna buy them, but I don't know if those are good. Sorry the english mistakes, i'm brazilian kk

OMG that's sooooo weird, I was just looking at these the other day!!!!!!!

Just figured out how to do the image add on the thumbnail. I kept wondering why put all the time in, but definitely looks more professional in the end and leads to more views. Now if I could just paint more... LOL Where are the zombies?

Where do you get your reference photos from and do you trace or grid ?😊

I use the Derwent water soluble graphite and they are working out OK. Have you compared the Derwent to the Faber-Castel? I'm wondering if there is much of a difference.

Lisa great work. I purchased this set a few years ago and did do one drawing. Surprise, yes I actually did a drawing. Question ?? Did you use the complete set - light to dark. You mentione HB 2B 4B 6B and 8B. Did you use them in that order.? You are so correct on using the morning and evening lighting to get a more exciting 'lighting effect' in your photos. I have pulled my old 35mm camera out of retirement and try to use those times to get more exciting lighting effects. Great video, Lisa.

does anyone know what flower is that so I can look for references?

Is it possible to glaze over it with colorpencils??

i think i'm checking my local store for the pencils

When can we call our selves an artist? I draw realistic pictures for fun using different mediums. I don't have a channel or sell my art but when people see my pictures they ask if I'm an artist and that I'm very talented. Are you only classed as an artist if you sell your pictures?

Think of the name Elle when you read aquarelle haha

You can't even pronounce words that you do know how it's supposed to be pronounced, lol! Anyone that's seen the beginning of your recent livestreams should be able to figure that out, lol! Missed seeing you in a livestream this week; how was the kayaking?