Hey Kim, you may want to try using rubbing alcohol instead of water with your Inktense pencils. You will still get all of the blending effects, but it will not buckle, warp, weaken, pill or tear Amazon paper. You will be amazed! You can slosh a lot alcohol onto that paper and it does not care a bit. 👍 ❤️❤️ I got Lettie started with this so she could use all her watercolor stuff happily in our books. If you live in a hot area like she does, it’s good to keep the alcohol in one of those brush pens like you were using so it doesn’t evaporate so fast.❤
AHHHH! This is such a great tip, Angie! Thank you so very much! I will definitely be trying this in your book (I'm thinking of the sweet little star house.... that would be a great page for Inktense). Always appreciate you so much and your expertise. Thanks for stopping by my little channel, sweet friend! 💖💖💖
@@snickerdoodlingllc just make sure that if you’re doing this in the hardback book you put a couple sheets of paper underneath the page. With most water activated pencils, the pigment will not bleed and show on the reverse side of the page when you activate with alcohol. But that clear alcohol will flow into the paper readily, so if the next page has unactivated inktense or watercolor pencils you could create some unintentional art if you didn’t put that barrier in place! 🤣🤣🤣
@@angiegrace7143 LOL at "untintentional art" !!! That is totally something that I would do.... whoops! Thank you for all these helpful hints!! You're the best, Angie! 💖💖💖
You can use an alcohol blender with inktense and they are less likely to bleed and buckle .... Also, you can put a layer of workable fixative down to prevent your black ink from sneering on lighter colors
Hi, Dena!! This is such great in formation, thank you SO much for sharing with me and everyone else here. What is an example of a fixative? I'm so grateful for you. Thanks for stopping by and watching my little channel! 💖💖💖
Thank you so very much, LeAllyson! That is so nice of you to say this, and I truly appreciate your feedback. If there are any specific tutorials you'd like for me to do, please let me know. And I'm always here to help if you have any questions. Thanks for stopping by and watching! 💖💖💖
Thank you so much, Valerie! Maybe get that baby dragon book. It would be an easy book for grayscale and a great place to start. You know where to find me if you need any help with this! 💖💖💖
Wow! Kim! This is all great advice and your methods are conveyed perfectly. I fully agree that the Grayscale takes the guess work out of the equation. Gret video! Look out for the kleenex clouds!!! LOL
Yes! I feel like the shadows and highlights are the ultimate road map to pulling off a page successfully with depth an dimension. Thanks for your feedback - I always appreciate it so much. And LOL @ the kleenex clouds. They kind of took me aback! LOL! 💖💖💖
Yay, Penny! I'm so glad you found this video to be helpful. It's really a lost easier than it looks for sure. TYSM for stopping by my little channel to watch. I truly appreciate you! 💖💖💖
Thanks so much for the love, Marcie!!! Yes - alcohol colorless markers are the best for blending and so super forgiving on our Amazon paper for sure. I appreciate you stopping by to watch!! 💖💖💖
@@sherrydennewitz5011 that’s terrible, Sherry! Why do people tear other people down…I just don’t get it. I’m sorry that happened to you. We can practice Inktense together if you want to. Just LMK! Big hugs my sweet friend 💖💖💖
Thank You very much, Kim. That almost made me quit, I have never been so Hurt! Anyway, I'm Stronger than that 💪. I would love to Practice with You! That sounds Great! 💜💜👍🏻😊
I'm so glad you found this video helpful! It's really not so scary once you break it down. Give it a try, and let me know how it goes for you. Thank you so much for watching. I'm grateful for you and your kind feedback! 💖💖💖
Good advices. I'm stuck with really dark GS books I've bought two years ago by Selina Fenech. Don't know if you know her books, they are beautiful but very dark and very challenging. Tried a few pages, but it didn't turn out well, so I hardly ever touch those now.
Hi, Loonit! Thank you so much for reaching out. I've seen some of her books but haven't actually colored in them. Is it the background that's really dark? I'm wondering if you could use distress inks over the background? Something very pigmented maybe? Also wondering if putting down a light layer of gesso over the dark areas would allow you the grace to color with lighter colors? Again, I've never seen these books in person, so I'm not sure which medium they can handle. I hope this is a little helpful? Thank you so much for stopping by my little channel to watch. I truly appreciate you! 💖💖💖
@snickerdoodlingllc It's not just the background. Many objects in the pages are very dark, it's hard to distinguish between the dark and midtones in the page, haven't tried inks or gesso, I'm trying to focus on the characters and other items in the page, I didn't get to the background at all. I've colored a few pages in the past, and it turned out awful, honestly. Thank you for your answers!
@@Loonit23 Oh gosh...I don't have any more ideas off of the top of my head, BUT now I need to get one of these books to play with the grey scale. I'm super curious & love a good challenge! I'll let you know if I can think of anything else for sure. 💖
@snickerdoodlingllc Oh, that would be so cool to tackle those pages, I'm sure you'll get great results! Thank you for your effort in advance if you actually go for it! Oh and btw, I have a different name, which I finally managed to change on YT preferences. It's Narind. So I commented here before, just FYI so you wouldn't think I'm one of those people who write from different aliases, I had a problem staying with one user name because of YT bug a something..
@@Loonit23 LOL you're fine - I don't worry about that. I mean, I have four different IG accts, so I get it LOL!!! If I get this book, I'll be sure to let you know what I learn from it. Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with, ok? Enjoy your day!! 💖💖💖
Can someone link the baby dragon coloring book or give author name? I tried looking up baby dragon grayscale coloring book and there are so many but I can't find it 😢
Hi, Robin! I just checked Amazon, and it looks like the author has pulled the book. It's no longer available for sale. SAD!! 😰 It was such a cute book, too. The author's name (I had to dig for it since it's not printed on the book) is LM Clerge. They only have one coloring book on Amazon now, though. Thanks so much for posting this b/c I wasn't aware. I'll stop using it in my videos now. And thank you so very much for stopping by and watching, Robin!! I really appreciate you 💖💖💖
Jen suggested hard pencils work better than soft ones, and I think that is true. I still have trouble, so if you have hints, I will be happy to hear them.
@@jaimiec2404 can you pretty please send me an example of the kind of page you’re referring to? You can DM me on IG. That way I’ll be able to help you more. 💖
