Hope you guys find this coloring exercise as useful as I did. It really helps with getting those colors just right in your pencil drawings. Check out the free worksheet template here: www.kirstypartridge.com/colour-theory-worksheet
Thank you so, so much for this help, Kristy! Could you share with me which purple Polychromos pencil color name that pencil is at the 5:30 minute mark?
These are nice exercises. I would also recommend trying the same thing using yellow, cyan, and magenta as your primaries. I find that those three colors make more vibrant secondary colors, and makes for color wheels with more even increments.
Well yeah, since those are the actual primaries of subtractive color. The red-yellow-blue model taught to children is, frankly, an outright lie. There’s a reason printers (both the machines and the people) use CMYK color.
Thanks for this. I’m not an artist, but I do like sewing. Choosing fabrics is my biggest challenge because of lack of confidence about matching colors. I have color wheels and other tools, and I’ve learned about muted shades, tints, etc. But I’ve never understood exactly what it means and why it matters. Your demonstration is what I’ve needed to make sense of it all.😊 Thank you again!
in college, I got tired of hauling around a big bag of colored pencils. Even now, I just carry around a true blue (cyan), process red (magenta), and yellow prismacolor, and just blend them, like how an inkjet printer would.. I'll only bring in additional colors if I need special effects (deeper blacks, intense red, sodium vapor light, etc). Hugely improved the quality of my art.
@@donnahughes9575 I've never used Caran D'ache. From the color layout they have, I might start with Purplish Red 350, Yellow 10 or Canary Yellow 250, and Light Blue 161 or Gentian Blue 370.
I am a complete beginner and I know you have saved me so much pain and suffering by just sharing these tips and the worksheet. I am thankful to you Kristy
something you should know about color theory that this video gets very wrong, no hate, is that red blue and yellow are not primary colors. do this exercise with cyan magenta yellow and black. the true primary colors! they lied to you in kindergarten. red blue yellow make a very muddy yucky color wheel.
I have to admit, I have never understood why so many people keep banging on about the colour wheel/colour theory so much. It’s always seemed obvious to me what goes with what. But I also understood something significant has been missing from my drawing - the thing that elevates a drawing from flat to real. You have just completely blown my mind - I am so glad I stumbled across this video today! Thank you.
Me too on seeing colors fairly easy. Story: My mom said someone was in a news article for seeing ”more” color shades than other people, and she actually said “what do they see?!” Lol. I was didn’t say this to embarrass her, but… well. I see tons of shades because I LOOK and I soak them in for several minutes if needed. The world is beautiful. But Most people never look even half a second at things or analyze the colors then act surprised at color theory…? 😅 So it doesn’t matter how many cones you have in your eyes to perceive “”more”” color shades like the news article lady. IMO colors will only be seen to the degree you’re literally lookin at em 😂
Oh my goodness, I have painted with acrylic for years but still have problems with my color mixes and how to make my paintings improve. I do believe watching this video has helped me to understand color theory in a way I never could grasp before! Thank you so much, Kirsty! You are an amazing instructor!
I’m absolutely blown away! You’ve rejuvenated my colored pencil fascination. This is the easiest to understand color theory/colored pencil tutorial I’ve ever seen. (I’ve been around for a hot minute.) Thank you for this, I’m truly grateful!✨🙏✨
I am not an artist… well not a schooled or educated artist. I never went to school. I’ve never been to a class of any kind. But over the last couple years I started painting and drawing. I just felt the need to do so. I love it. I’m not bad but there are times I don’t know how to achieve on canvas or paper what I see in my minds eye. This has been so incredibly helpful. I’ve watched other videos but they were so confusing. This was simplistic and easy to understand. Thank you soooo much. Sincerely. Thank you. Stay well. Stay safe.
This video is so timely for me. Thanks for posting on how to blend with a 12-color set. The last two days I've been hunting around for videos like that and they are few and far between! Most other channels will say they're using 12 pencils, but then they use 12 obscure pencils from their set of 150. See, I'm on a two-week small-set challenge. So yesterday I gave up on tutorials and just decided to DIY. I've got to say I'm really proud of myself! I coaxed all kinds of muted, realistic colors out of my $3 "kids" set of 12 from Walmart. Give small set art a try, folks! (If anyone is curious, the pencils I found are Staedtler Design Journey. They remind me of Goldfabers/Polychromos. They're fantastic for the price!)
The fact I also only ever do my coloring with a 12 Color set (the fibercastle "kids" set) and while I have learned a little bit on mixing colors with just the 12 (some examples are on my channel over here if I wanna see how I did but please don't scroll down for God sake it awful down there😅😭) but this video definitely helped a lot (also if y'all have any suggestions for good drawing paper please let me know my art book can NOT take it anymore 😭😂
@@KitKat_kittykatidk what paper to suggest but jw if you have tried placing a thin cardboard between your pages when you create. This is what I am doing whether using pencils, markers or watercolors. I am using what I have before buying more paper. The cardboard (from a construction paper or kids scribble tablet?) helps protect my pages.
I actually paid more attention for this tutorial than any classes. Plus, your videos make beginners or hobbyist much easier to understand the colour theories and fast learning. With simple english, less art jargons or being too technical, it's really make us pick up easily. It's really enjoyable to watch your videos and much encouraging people, especially adults to learn colouring arts. Kudos.
I agree with the comments below: this has to be the best Practical colored pencil/color theory video I've watched. I feel smarter after watching it! Thanks for sharing.
Of the videos I have watched explaining this, yours is the best. You broke it down and explained every part in a way a person can understand. Thank you. I hope you have a video combining all those colors to create the picture.
Great exercise. I’ve been doing these type of exercises for years. I would recommend trying the same thing with a mid yellow, cyan and magenta, brighter mixes. Also, try doing a split primary colour wheel, that is a warm and cool version of each primary. So much fun learning how colours mix. I do heaps of different colour wheels with different sets of three starting colours..
Oh, so animal colors, do various types of browns, reds, oranges, yellows and creams...and blues, greens, and purples as complements. For landscapes, various greens, yellow, and browns, with blues and purples to mute them...
Learning to do this.. Bought A Field Guide to Color earlier this yr. The watercolor workbook suggests exercises for mixing colors/doing colorwheels.. I will be sure to follow thru with All the exercises & practice them from time to time.
@@catsthinkoutsidetheboxExcept, don’t use black in watercolor. It makes color look too flat, dull or off. It’s better to mix a brown and blue to get a dark color, or use a neutral tint, Daniel Smith makes one.
I second this. I have tried to wrap my adhd brain around all of this for almost a year. Also, it didn’t make me feel stupid even for a moment. Thank you so much.
As someone who uses watercolors, it’s always interesting to see what people have to do with other mediums. I also find that even with watercolors, people still struggle with mixing colors and understanding color theory because of having premade colors in their palette. I learned some basic theory on my own from just using the Daniel smith essentials set of colors! It was a palette of 6 colors, 2 kinds of primaries, cool and warm tone
It is amazing what you can do with just a few watercolors! Holbein has a 5 color set that gives you color mixing recipes to make many colors. It really helps you figure out how to create the color you want.
I am red-weak, I like to open a pic in digital software and use the color picker tool. The RGB value is the most helpful thing I've found (just be aware of additive vs subtractive mixing)
Omg, me too. I love colored pencils but they have to be with a name on them. I got twistables for fun, but they don't have the color on them. So either it's random colors or I need to ask someone which can be annoying.
May I ask you colorblind artists, why you incorporate those colors, which you struggle to see? Wouldn't it be easier to exclude those for your work? I'm curious. 😊
@@dolsd2386 if I didn't use red, my paintings would be cyan... I luckily can perceive red a little, so it's not like I see in cyan; just like it's impossible to describe color or light to a blind person, it's hard to describe color blindness to a sighted person. It's hard without allegory at least. Take the few blind artists that can draw, I personally don't understand why anyone would ask them why they do it... But I'm sure they still get asked lol. It's a strange question when you think about it. Likewise, I am also hearing impaired, and a musician. What I once thought to be a detriment (and it rather was without hearing aid) turns out to have great benefits for mixing, and alas there are many people in the field of audio with hearing issues... That field is just a bit different because the art itself can inflict the damage haha. I guess the takeaway is, don't let your limitations limit you, because those barriers you give yourself are usually self imposed excuses... At least that's my experience. I do want to try a painting using just cyan now, it honestly never occurred to me... Sorry for the ramble haha always keep creating
Thank you for a very nice discussion of color mixing. I'm familiar with color mixing in other mediums but haven't yet worked much with colored pencils. The idea of choosing which color to put in a sandwich layer (beyond just layering colors) was something I hadn't considered - it makes a lot of sense when considering how the color shows up through underlying layers and reflects off upper layers. 🙂
So happy you liked the video. Yeah I thought it was important to touch on the way I layer the colours, as well as which colours to layer as I know figuring out which order to layer colours in can be tricky 💕
Wow, I have been doing these exercises since I started color pencil 13 years ago! These are really helpful! The only suggestion I make is for the color wheel, try to use only five pencils: white, black, magenta, cyan, yellow. The primary colors on this color wheel weren't the best for mixing, especially that warm red. Anyway, thanks for sharing!
37 yr old artist here. Been drawing since I could pick up a pencil. Pencil crayons always seemed daunting. THIS tutorial opened my eyes and saved my life. THANK you!
I really appreciate this video. I was a dedicated artist for about 15 years before I switched majors in college (student loans don't pay for art supplies!) and I've been so reluctant to really dive back into art for fear that my knowledge and abilities have atrophied. These tips have been a great refresher, and it helps that you've made it interactive!
Thank you for this Kirsty. I've been learning to use coloured pencils for realistic colouring, and have just started posting a few videos of my efforts. It's an old adage that less is more, but I think you clearly show that in many cases, using less, but using them well gets results. I will be using your worksheet to help me on my next set of images.
I did have trouble with colour mixing because every tutorial I saw would use many different colours so it was really confusing , but now I get it , playing with colours does give you knowledge and fun 😊 I really missed you Kirsty tbh
Just downloaded your coloured pencil worksheet. It's a game changer! Really made me think how to use different combinations of colours to achieve the look I want. I've recently started a botanical drawing course and the ultimate goal of this course is to use watercolour. I've never mastered watercolour so, for the time being, I'm sticking to my pencils! Thanks again for all your advice - really appreciated. Ann Australia
The best video I found for starting with pencil colour art journey, removed away a lot of anxieties and stress. Definitely going to print the sheets and try making colours from base colour for any image. I really loved the fact the actually showed us how to do it, how to create colours. Thank you so much for this video. Really helped me a lot.❤
I see you are using FC Polychromos. I just bought a dozen Polys of my favourite earthy colours to try out these "hard" pencils after seeing someone use them in layers. Coming from a Prismacolour background I favoured the "buttery" type but was intrigued at how well the Polys laid down pigment with the lightest touch. Once I got them, I was blown away by them and am a new convert. So I was contemplating what other colours to get and considered basic colours for mixing, and here you pop up with this great tutorial and template. Thanks! I will still get a few more "ready"colours for the ones I would use a lot, but it's good to have options for mixing the in-betweens without wasting money on sets with dozens of bright colours I would never use.
A couple of critiques that I hope you don't mind. The tertiary colors. You keep flip flopping them. Yellow Green then Green Yellow. Red Purple (Volet) the Purple Red. Secondly, you touched on it at least twice but you never clarified. The closer you hold a pencil to the tip (Front) the heavier the hand, thus the darker the value. The farther back you hold on the pencil the less pressure you apply (a lighter hand) and the lighter the value. There's also overhand grip vs underhand grip for value control. One last addition is the "Pinch" method for creating gradient values. Pinch (Apply pressure) and you will have a darker value and then as you shade (up/down/left/right....whatever direction you are shading) gradually ease up on pinching and your values will also get gradually lighter. This will help with the shading process and in creating gradients.
@keith- your well worded reply is very appreciated information for me. I’m starting to try some mixed media stuff but don’t know much about colored pencils. But I just learned so much from you. Thanks! ☮️💟
@cukoococcopuffs there are two formulations of coloured pencil; wax and oil. Maybe try some predominately oil-based ones? I love the handling of Faber Castell Polychromos
Girlfriend, I have been thinking and looking for this video for over a week. I first started watching this video 2 weeks ago. I was watching from a device that was not log in to my UA-cam account. It was the middle of the night, and I fell asleep while watching. I just found this video again. I love your colouring views and can't wait to start colouring. Thanks for the video.
This tutorial was GREATLY HELPFUL!!!!! Thank you for taking this valuable time to show the importance of creating varied colors, shades, or shadows. I plan to print out the guide you put together. Once again, thank you💜
Such an amazing lesson! Thank You SO much!! Really giving me skills to create, layer & blend!! YOU ROCK!! You are an extraordinary teacher! Your wonderful free gift is on it's way to help me grow in being a colorist!!
@@KirstyPartridgeArt Yes I did & I have a new friend who wants to advance her colorist skills & she loved it too. We tried to do the 1st exercise but seemed unable with wax based pencils to achieve purple... What were we doing wrong? The orange & green did alright but not purple; we even switched up the blue a couple times... No go on purple. Do oil base pencils work better across the board? Surely wax pencils will work the same? I was using prisma colors. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am a complete amateur but I’ll give you my thoughts. It depends on which blue and which red you use. For purple you need to use a warm blue and a warm red. In particular, if you are trying to make purple with an orange red you will never achieve the colour you want. However, if you use your orange red with yellow you will get a good orange but if you used the blue red your orange wouldn’t be what you wanted. I find mixing easier to use 6 pencils - a warm and a cool version of each blue, red and yellow. Plus as Kirstie said a white and a black. Hope I haven’t confused you further but hopefully Kirstie will see this and put it right if I’ve explained it badly!
One thing that helped me a lot is playing the "I love hue" and "I love hue 2". I've learned just as much or more than I did from my college color theory class and enjoyed it too. 😂. Thank you for this video and the worksheet! ❤
You cropped up in my recommendations again after years, and I'm SO glad you did! I forgot how incredibly jaw-dropping your art is. It's better than anything I could have imagined. Also, you're the person who taught me to draw, and I've sold three pieces now. Thank you!
After watching this video so many times and following along with the work sheet, my coloring has gotten so much more versatile and dynamic. I’m glad Ive started learning about color theory or as I call it color therapy 👌🤓
This has been the best color theory instruction I’ve ever seen or read. I have adhd. It’s hard for me to keep focused when people over explain things. You did perfect! Kept my attention entirely and I’ve retained the information. Thank you!
So grateful I happened to find this video. The color wheel has always been a tool that I knew would give my crafting that extra something. However, no one has managed to to breakdown the hands on aspect as you did here. Thank you!!!
Very good video on color. Blending colored pencils is hard compared to mixing paint, but a rule of thumb in pencils is to sharpen pencil as fine as possible in first layers and put down lightest colors first
My mum is a wonderful artist and I remember her doing these types of exercises. Every time I asked her to show me, she would explain it in a way that confused me to no end. So, thank you! I get it now.
Haha thank you! My oldest daughter is a wonderful artist and can actually see all the variations of the colors. I see 7 colors. Sometimes they’re lighter or darker but they’re always just those 7. Not including black and white obviously. 🤷 this video made me smile
Years ago I read a book called The Paradox of Choice. It’s about how having an abundance of options ironically limits us. They referenced a study where a vendor at a food market had 24 different types of gourmet jam for customers to sample, and they offered a coupon to everyone who tried the jam. The catch was, they could only choose one flavour to buy. On another day, they repeated the experiment with just 6 varieties of jam. They found that even though the larger display attracted more customers, those who tried samples on the second day were more likely to purchase a jar of jam. This was thought to be because on the first day, there were too many options and customers got overwhelmed. They found themselves deliberating over which flavour tasted the best, which one had the highest quality ingredients etc, then many gave up and walked away without purchasing anything. When the sample size was limited, customers were more certain about what they wanted as they had fewer options to choose from. I think the same theory applies to your coloured pencils. When we have too many choices, we can limit ourselves. It’s best to stick to the necessities when possible. Your artwork is beautiful by the way!
Lol, I once saw an old lady in a shop that had a wide choice of sandwiches on the shelves. She looked around for a few mins at the huge array of choice, and then got fed up and walked out. Too much choice is overwhelming.
I have the same large pencil set and I really love creating beautiful pictures. It is very relaxing and I can draw for three hours and escape whatever worries I have. Thank you for the ideas using them.
So tempting when wanting to use the internet while doing my homework. Sp tempting when wondering where that one book I bought about colored pencil art went while moving too. I hope whoever got that book gets plenty of use out of it. Some of us may while touring in a museum may percieve a color as being only with less brightness because of its background color. Using your own good taste when being an artist is key too. Everybody has it.
This is one of the greatest tips you have given me. Thank you so much. Ive been out of drawing for three years due to illness ect but now im looking forward to starting up again using this tip. TY so much again
this is the most useful couler theory explination ive ever seen and ive seen quite a few videos and attended a few art classes so thankyou for finally making it make sence
Watching this video I learned so much. Completing the exercise myself, I learned 10x as much. ❤ I used Prang pencils. Blending wasnt easy but i still did it. Having a light hand with lots of layers is crucial!
I’ve never understood the color wheel…Until now! Your explanation of the coloR, shades and tones makes colors less intimidating. Thank you for this sheet and your simple explanation.
Thank you. I started 8 weeks ago with color pencils, and the drawing always looked different than I imagined and wanted, and also changed the look/color over time. After watching this video and understanding the color wheel, me next drawing came out exactly as I wanted / expected. All in all, this was full of great advice.
Thank you so so much, i just today purchased I THINK all the sketching tools I need.. all but the wisdom and knowledge which often CANT be bought. I appreciate your free assistance, the color wheel sheet will truly start me out on a great creation
Taking me back to my Color Theory and Design college courses on this one! Excellent work and a nice refresher for any artist that might be stuck in their colorwork!
This video is crazy, it covers just A LOT of color theory applied to colored pencils… 🙀 Since you were using the amazing Polychromos here, one advanced technique that I enjoy using with them to lighten my color is applying my eraser to it! Depending on the paper etc this can lighten the color while still retaining the coverage obtained with lots of layers - super cool. I find it most useful for adding small highlights though, especially with a tiny Tombow Mono Zero eraser! 😺
Kirsty, Thank you for producing this tutorial! It is an excellent companion to the "Picking Perfect Colours" guide that I had previously downloaded from your website. That guide was informative for me last summer, when I was creating a personalized colored pencil drawing for my brother's graduation gift. 😊 But it is an even further blessing to have this video, in which you walk us through some of those same concepts in a thorough, conversational manner. I think these resources complement each other so nicely - since I love having things written down for reference (like the downloadable guide), yet I also benefit from having someone there to walk me through the process (like you do in this video). I appreciate that you have made both of these available! (Side note: When I clicked on this video, I wasn't expecting it to be such a thorough tutorial. To me, it seems like this video should be subtitled something like, "Color Theory Basics in Practice." 🤷🏼♀️) Thanks again! ~ Chelsea P.S. I hope this verse encourages you today: 😊 "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
I love new art supplies! Messing them up and making them grubby is always a concern in the beginning as u want them to stay pristine! Thanks for a great video and loads of valuable info!😊
Wow. Just wow. I have always understood the color wheel (I thought) but the way you explained everything makes me realize I didn’t really get it. This is so incredibly helpful. Hopefully this will help me with picking colors which is my biggest struggle. Thank you!
Finally i found a tutorial that's suits my needs to understand how color works a transition from graphite to color pencil is somewhat challenging and now i found this video i learned a lot from all of your tutorial thanks. And Also i tried to take the artist quiz on the link and I'm surprised that all results are correct😊
I’ve purchased and made variations of this color wheel. Your explanations and demonstration are very clear and helpful. It’s definitely better to make it yourself so you can apply the technique and experiment. Love your content!
You are amazing! I have no clue about art but I have a strong desire to learn how to draw and then paint. Your videos and the way you explain things are so understandable and clear. Thank you!
Well, what to say.... I digitize designs to make machine-embroidery and there is a great need for a good understanding of colour-theory, something I'm increasingly appreciating the more I learn about embroidery with threads. The same concepts are useful - namely blending layers of thread and shading with layers of thread. It certainly seems to be a fact that the colour-pencil methods are the best I've seen that may be compared to the world of thread-colour use. This is an EXCELLENT video and you've done yourself a LOT of credit making such a clearly-demonstrated, perfectly-paced and USEFUL video. Many thanks for this video, it is a real spark of light in the difficult area of embroidery-thread colour choice and use!
The Best in the Business.!! Why is the “Super Thanks” not Available on this Channel.? Thanks for all that you do and for this Amazing Instructional Video.! 👊😎
I must say that your presentation brings even more clarity with color theory 4 me. Thank you ever so. It is your presentation. Very giving. Very gently. And a whole lot of patience. Best day now.
I'm confessing here that I have stuck to doing black and white sketches because i'm afraid of using color pencils simply due to not knowing how to mix colors. I've been watching a few short and longform videos on color mixing in the past few weeks for different media and this is the first i've come across for color pencils. I know color mixing is color mixing regardless of what type of coloring media you're using but someone as lacking in confidence as I am this video is a blessing. Thank you Kirsty!!! For the video as well as the worksheet. I promise i'll use it well
Wish I'd had this exercise years ago. This explanation/demonstration really resonated. Your videos are always terrific, this one especially so. I teach college courses in both Botany and Environmental Biology. I require colored pencil drawings in both. Going to share this and others of your videos. Thank you!
Excellent explanations and showing how to use the color wheel. I’ve watched this multiple times and understood better each time viewing. This is my “go-to” video for refreshing and reviewing. Thank you.
Yeah colour wheels had me confused for a while too aha! They can be daunting but once it clicked it made such a difference, it’s like everything about colour just fell into place! Anyway, I’m happy you enjoyed the video 💕
I’m working on a drawing for art class and I was doing this already. It might be the best thing I’ve made so far. I really want to buy Bristol board for personal projects now. I love just layering a bunch of different colors and seeing what happens. I’m drawing a peacock so I’ve been using a lot of blues and greens, and I’ve thrown in purple too for hue variations.
This was very informative- thank you! I'm staring to like using colored pencils but I don't know how to use them properly. The worksheet is a good starting point for me to learn how to use colored pencils. I also find the worksheet useful for other mediums I use, like watercolor and oil.
Wow! I've seen a lot of these color things before, but seeing this all together just felt so revolutionary! Thank you! Going to try this tomorrow with my watercolors. This really works for any medium!
I can relate. I went out and bought the huge pack with every colour. It definitely stopped me in my tracks from using my coloured pencils. The choices became overwhelming!!!
You did a great video! In combination with my experience at digital drawing and using the color tools, I can finally apply this to analog drawing. Thank you
I am so thankful to have stumbled across your video. I’ve had a small set of coloring pencils for years but never got into using them because I didn’t know they are supposed to be used as you’ve shown in this video. This is excellent! Thank you so much for sharing and for the worksheet!
I am learning and have watched so many videos trying to learn color. This video finally made sense to me, I get it now!!!!! Thank you!!!!! This has helped soooooo much!
YES! i think as a beginner, i definitely underestimated the value of these exercises. i thought, i must be able to learn it WHILE making art, i don’t need to practice! but i did, we all do, i STILL need to do exercises to get myself out of narrow comfort zones that leave me struggling and making incomplete artwork. I’m primarily a digital artist, and one thing that beautifully helped me was that my art teacher in 9th grade gave us an assignment for digital art: use at LEAST 25 different brushes to make one artwork. I scoffed, thinking how would I make a piece with that much variety in texture and sizing, etc. but i did it and it was probably my best quality piece for the next YEAR. i had never tried half the brushes i used, and i started using half of them after that assignment. just, if there’s any advice i could give beginner artists, it’s to push yourself to do something that isn’t going to be grand. waste your own time. waste supplies, throw paint on the canvas for fun if it means you’ll learn what it would look like if you did it. you’re not going to make your best artwork right now. what you’re doing is setting yourself up for your best: and that comes from having more fun and doodles than you should have grand, 20+ hour artworks. seriously, no matter how stupid the exercise seems to you, as slow and maybe “robotic,” if you are ready to move on to more detailed techniques, definitely get started with the supposed “time wasters”. regardless, keep having fun!
This is so interesting and informative! I'm working on a colored pencil work right now, and recently we did a color wheel just like this with acrylic paints in my art group, so it's wonderful to have an equal demo in colored pencil. Thanks so much!
It is good to know I have been using my color pencils correctly starting light and layering. I had a couple of people tell me coloring with pressure was better. The problem is, if you like to practice showing light sources, too much pressure make it all come out dark shades. 🤗❤️👍🏽💯
Thank you so much for this video and walkthrough. I am a self-taught hack and your video helped me out a lot with understanding color principles. I can’t wait to dive into the exercises! Thank you for your channel and your time!!
Wow, great tutorial, you have explained the mysteries of colours in a way I can understand, the worksheet really gave me the ‘eureka’ moment I’d been looking for. Thank you so much
This was incredibly helpful. I have such a hard time with colored pencils due to blending methods and finding the right color with what I have. It seems like something I should have known all these years but it just never would click in my head for color pencils. I also thing the quality of paper makes a huge difference for color this many layers, along with a really good white color pencil. It is possible with cheaper pencils but a little ,ore patience and technique is involved. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.
Hope you guys find this coloring exercise as useful as I did. It really helps with getting those colors just right in your pencil drawings. Check out the free worksheet template here: www.kirstypartridge.com/colour-theory-worksheet
You're more useful than my school art teacher
Hi kirsty, the video was really useful, but I wanted to know which app do you use so that you can pick exact colour as you showed it on your ipad
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Thank you so, so much for this help, Kristy!
Could you share with me which purple Polychromos pencil color name that pencil is at the 5:30 minute mark?
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These are nice exercises. I would also recommend trying the same thing using yellow, cyan, and magenta as your primaries. I find that those three colors make more vibrant secondary colors, and makes for color wheels with more even increments.
Well yeah, since those are the actual primaries of subtractive color. The red-yellow-blue model taught to children is, frankly, an outright lie. There’s a reason printers (both the machines and the people) use CMYK color.
Yep this is why printer's use these 3 colours to create the rest
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This comment is helpful. I had a hard time picking colors, and the red gave me the most trouble.
I'm using the magenta for round 2. Starting now.
Thanks for this. I’m not an artist, but I do like sewing. Choosing fabrics is my biggest challenge because of lack of confidence about matching colors. I have color wheels and other tools, and I’ve learned about muted shades, tints, etc. But I’ve never understood exactly what it means and why it matters. Your demonstration is what I’ve needed to make sense of it all.😊 Thank you again!
in college, I got tired of hauling around a big bag of colored pencils. Even now, I just carry around a true blue (cyan), process red (magenta), and yellow prismacolor, and just blend them, like how an inkjet printer would.. I'll only bring in additional colors if I need special effects (deeper blacks, intense red, sodium vapor light, etc). Hugely improved the quality of my art.
What is a sodium vapor light
@@marandamarotz2611 It's a light that generates light by exciting sodium vapor. Those older yellow-orange streetlights use sodium vapor lamps
This is amazing.
Thank you.
Do you know the CMY color names for Caran D'ache Luminance? I would love to purchase just those via open stock.
@@donnahughes9575 I've never used Caran D'ache. From the color layout they have, I might start with Purplish Red 350, Yellow 10 or Canary Yellow 250, and Light Blue 161 or Gentian Blue 370.
I am a complete beginner and I know you have saved me so much pain and suffering by just sharing these tips and the worksheet. I am thankful to you Kristy
This is one of the best and most informative video on color theory for colored pencils I've ever seen. Thank you Kirsty for sharing.
Yay, so happy to hear that! 🥰
@@KirstyPartridgeArtI concur. Was going to say the same thing. Thank you for making the video. Its good revision for me.
Thanks again Kirsty.
Yes I absolutely agree.
Thank you so much for this video. Very informative and extremely useful!
something you should know about color theory that this video gets very wrong, no hate, is that red blue and yellow are not primary colors. do this exercise with cyan magenta yellow and black. the true primary colors! they lied to you in kindergarten. red blue yellow make a very muddy yucky color wheel.
I have to admit, I have never understood why so many people keep banging on about the colour wheel/colour theory so much. It’s always seemed obvious to me what goes with what. But I also understood something significant has been missing from my drawing - the thing that elevates a drawing from flat to real. You have just completely blown my mind - I am so glad I stumbled across this video today! Thank you.
Me too on seeing colors fairly easy. Story: My mom said someone was in a news article for seeing ”more” color shades than other people, and she actually said “what do they see?!” Lol.
I was didn’t say this to embarrass her, but… well. I see tons of shades because I LOOK and I soak them in for several minutes if needed. The world is beautiful. But Most people never look even half a second at things or analyze the colors then act surprised at color theory…? 😅
So it doesn’t matter how many cones you have in your eyes to perceive “”more”” color shades like the news article lady. IMO colors will only be seen to the degree you’re literally lookin at em 😂
Actually, the most important thing is the values. If you get the values right it doesn’t matter so much what the colors are.
Oh my goodness, I have painted with acrylic for years but still have problems with my color mixes and how to make my paintings improve. I do believe watching this video has helped me to understand color theory in a way I never could grasp before! Thank you so much, Kirsty! You are an amazing instructor!
There are some absolutely fabulous color mixing videos on yt
I’m absolutely blown away! You’ve rejuvenated my colored pencil fascination. This is the easiest to understand color theory/colored pencil tutorial I’ve ever seen. (I’ve been around for a hot minute.)
Thank you for this, I’m truly grateful!✨🙏✨
I am not an artist… well not a schooled or educated artist. I never went to school. I’ve never been to a class of any kind. But over the last couple years I started painting and drawing. I just felt the need to do so. I love it. I’m not bad but there are times I don’t know how to achieve on canvas or paper what I see in my minds eye. This has been so incredibly helpful. I’ve watched other videos but they were so confusing. This was simplistic and easy to understand. Thank you soooo much. Sincerely. Thank you. Stay well. Stay safe.
You're a self-taught artist 😊
This video is so timely for me. Thanks for posting on how to blend with a 12-color set. The last two days I've been hunting around for videos like that and they are few and far between! Most other channels will say they're using 12 pencils, but then they use 12 obscure pencils from their set of 150. See, I'm on a two-week small-set challenge. So yesterday I gave up on tutorials and just decided to DIY. I've got to say I'm really proud of myself! I coaxed all kinds of muted, realistic colors out of my $3 "kids" set of 12 from Walmart. Give small set art a try, folks! (If anyone is curious, the pencils I found are Staedtler Design Journey. They remind me of Goldfabers/Polychromos. They're fantastic for the price!)
This is so inspiring~ I hope the journey goes well!
It's coming along pretty well. Learning all sorts of things about colored pencils, layering, and different kinds of paper. I suggest you try it!
The fact I also only ever do my coloring with a 12 Color set (the fibercastle "kids" set) and while I have learned a little bit on mixing colors with just the 12 (some examples are on my channel over here if I wanna see how I did but please don't scroll down for God sake it awful down there😅😭) but this video definitely helped a lot (also if y'all have any suggestions for good drawing paper please let me know my art book can NOT take it anymore 😭😂
@@KitKat_kittykatidk what paper to suggest but jw if you have tried placing a thin cardboard between your pages when you create. This is what I am doing whether using pencils, markers or watercolors. I am using what I have before buying more paper. The cardboard (from a construction paper or kids scribble tablet?) helps protect my pages.
@@catsthinkoutsidethebox thx 😊 I'll definitely give it a shot
The best tutorial on color creation for art in any video I have seen. These principles can be applied across the board for many medium! Great work!
I actually paid more attention for this tutorial than any classes. Plus, your videos make beginners or hobbyist much easier to understand the colour theories and fast learning. With simple english, less art jargons or being too technical, it's really make us pick up easily. It's really enjoyable to watch your videos and much encouraging people, especially adults to learn colouring arts. Kudos.
I agree with the comments below: this has to be the best Practical colored pencil/color theory video I've watched. I feel smarter after watching it! Thanks for sharing.
Of the videos I have watched explaining this, yours is the best. You broke it down and explained every part in a way a person can understand. Thank you. I hope you have a video combining all those colors to create the picture.
Great exercise. I’ve been doing these type of exercises for years. I would recommend trying the same thing with a mid yellow, cyan and magenta, brighter mixes. Also, try doing a split primary colour wheel, that is a warm and cool version of each primary. So much fun learning how colours mix. I do heaps of different colour wheels with different sets of three starting colours..
Oh, so animal colors, do various types of browns, reds, oranges, yellows and creams...and blues, greens, and purples as complements. For landscapes, various greens, yellow, and browns, with blues and purples to mute them...
Learning to do this.. Bought A Field Guide to Color earlier this yr. The watercolor workbook suggests exercises for mixing colors/doing colorwheels.. I will be sure to follow thru with All the exercises & practice them from time to time.
@@catsthinkoutsidetheboxExcept, don’t use black in watercolor. It makes color look too flat, dull or off. It’s better to mix a brown and blue to get a dark color, or use a neutral tint, Daniel Smith makes one.
Great clear explanation, recommend to anyone with adhd. Thank you 🙏🏼
I second this. I have tried to wrap my adhd brain around all of this for almost a year. Also, it didn’t make me feel stupid even for a moment. Thank you so much.
As someone who uses watercolors, it’s always interesting to see what people have to do with other mediums. I also find that even with watercolors, people still struggle with mixing colors and understanding color theory because of having premade colors in their palette. I learned some basic theory on my own from just using the Daniel smith essentials set of colors! It was a palette of 6 colors, 2 kinds of primaries, cool and warm tone
It is amazing what you can do with just a few watercolors! Holbein has a 5 color set that gives you color mixing recipes to make many colors. It really helps you figure out how to create the color you want.
Being colour blind i struggle no end with colours nicely named pencils and pens are a big safety net for me.
I am red-weak, I like to open a pic in digital software and use the color picker tool. The RGB value is the most helpful thing I've found (just be aware of additive vs subtractive mixing)
Omg, me too. I love colored pencils but they have to be with a name on them. I got twistables for fun, but they don't have the color on them. So either it's random colors or I need to ask someone which can be annoying.
May I ask you colorblind artists, why you incorporate those colors, which you struggle to see? Wouldn't it be easier to exclude those for your work? I'm curious. 😊
@@dolsd2386 if I didn't use red, my paintings would be cyan... I luckily can perceive red a little, so it's not like I see in cyan; just like it's impossible to describe color or light to a blind person, it's hard to describe color blindness to a sighted person.
It's hard without allegory at least. Take the few blind artists that can draw, I personally don't understand why anyone would ask them why they do it... But I'm sure they still get asked lol. It's a strange question when you think about it. Likewise, I am also hearing impaired, and a musician. What I once thought to be a detriment (and it rather was without hearing aid) turns out to have great benefits for mixing, and alas there are many people in the field of audio with hearing issues... That field is just a bit different because the art itself can inflict the damage haha.
I guess the takeaway is, don't let your limitations limit you, because those barriers you give yourself are usually self imposed excuses... At least that's my experience. I do want to try a painting using just cyan now, it honestly never occurred to me... Sorry for the ramble haha always keep creating
@@dolsd2386 and on the topic of colored pencil names, brutfuners are pretty helpful, a d good quality for the price.
It's amazing how you can create so many different versions of the same colour!
Thank you for a very nice discussion of color mixing. I'm familiar with color mixing in other mediums but haven't yet worked much with colored pencils. The idea of choosing which color to put in a sandwich layer (beyond just layering colors) was something I hadn't considered - it makes a lot of sense when considering how the color shows up through underlying layers and reflects off upper layers. 🙂
So happy you liked the video. Yeah I thought it was important to touch on the way I layer the colours, as well as which colours to layer as I know figuring out which order to layer colours in can be tricky 💕
Wow, I have been doing these exercises since I started color pencil 13 years ago! These are really helpful! The only suggestion I make is for the color wheel, try to use only five pencils: white, black, magenta, cyan, yellow. The primary colors on this color wheel weren't the best for mixing, especially that warm red. Anyway, thanks for sharing!
That's a strange combination. Interesting.
37 yr old artist here. Been drawing since I could pick up a pencil. Pencil crayons always seemed daunting. THIS tutorial opened my eyes and saved my life. THANK you!
This is like my entire semester of Color Theory uni class in one video.
😂😂
except that hopefully at uni you learned the actual real primary colours of cyan, yellow, and magenta?
One of the many reasons as to why college is a rip-off.
I don't have this issue you seem to have. But great exercise.
Thank you
I really appreciate this video. I was a dedicated artist for about 15 years before I switched majors in college (student loans don't pay for art supplies!) and I've been so reluctant to really dive back into art for fear that my knowledge and abilities have atrophied. These tips have been a great refresher, and it helps that you've made it interactive!
Thank you for this Kirsty. I've been learning to use coloured pencils for realistic colouring, and have just started posting a few videos of my efforts. It's an old adage that less is more, but I think you clearly show that in many cases, using less, but using them well gets results. I will be using your worksheet to help me on my next set of images.
I did have trouble with colour mixing because every tutorial I saw would use many different colours so it was really confusing , but now I get it , playing with colours does give you knowledge and fun 😊 I really missed you Kirsty tbh
You can actually make a warm and a cool color wheel. It’s very helpful.
Just downloaded your coloured pencil worksheet. It's a game changer! Really made me think how to use different combinations of colours to achieve the look I want.
I've recently started a botanical drawing course and the ultimate goal of this course is to use watercolour. I've never mastered watercolour so, for the time being, I'm sticking to my pencils! Thanks again for all your advice - really appreciated.
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Thank you, this is exactly what I needed! I really appreciate all the time and effort you’ve put into creating this template. Than you so much.
The best video I found for starting with pencil colour art journey, removed away a lot of anxieties and stress. Definitely going to print the sheets and try making colours from base colour for any image. I really loved the fact the actually showed us how to do it, how to create colours. Thank you so much for this video. Really helped me a lot.❤
I see you are using FC Polychromos. I just bought a dozen Polys of my favourite earthy colours to try out these "hard" pencils after seeing someone use them in layers. Coming from a Prismacolour background I favoured the "buttery" type but was intrigued at how well the Polys laid down pigment with the lightest touch. Once I got them, I was blown away by them and am a new convert. So I was contemplating what other colours to get and considered basic colours for mixing, and here you pop up with this great tutorial and template. Thanks! I will still get a few more "ready"colours for the ones I would use a lot, but it's good to have options for mixing the in-betweens without wasting money on sets with dozens of bright colours I would never use.
A couple of critiques that I hope you don't mind. The tertiary colors. You keep flip flopping them. Yellow Green then Green Yellow. Red Purple (Volet) the Purple Red. Secondly, you touched on it at least twice but you never clarified. The closer you hold a pencil to the tip (Front) the heavier the hand, thus the darker the value. The farther back you hold on the pencil the less pressure you apply (a lighter hand) and the lighter the value. There's also overhand grip vs underhand grip for value control. One last addition is the "Pinch" method for creating gradient values. Pinch (Apply pressure) and you will have a darker value and then as you shade (up/down/left/right....whatever direction you are shading) gradually ease up on pinching and your values will also get gradually lighter. This will help with the shading process and in creating gradients.
Thanks this was so useful!
She goes into greater detail in other videos. She probably didn't want to repeat herself too much.
@keith- your well worded reply is very appreciated information for me. I’m starting to try some mixed media stuff but don’t know much about colored pencils. But I just learned so much from you. Thanks! ☮️💟
Some pencils leave a wax and are terrible at blending is that just cheap pencils or would it be the pressure I’m using?
@cukoococcopuffs there are two formulations of coloured pencil; wax and oil. Maybe try some predominately oil-based ones?
I love the handling of Faber Castell Polychromos
Girlfriend, I have been thinking and looking for this video for over a week. I first started watching this video 2 weeks ago. I was watching from a device that was not log in to my UA-cam account. It was the middle of the night, and I fell asleep while watching. I just found this video again. I love your colouring views and can't wait to start colouring. Thanks for the video.
This tutorial was GREATLY HELPFUL!!!!!
Thank you for taking this valuable time to show the importance of creating varied colors, shades, or shadows.
I plan to print out the guide you put together.
Once again, thank you💜
Brilliant and easy to understand. One of the best videos of any topic I've seen on UA-cam. Thank you
Brilliant , simple but so easy to follow. I will be applying it to my paints as well. Thanks for sharing this great technique.
Such an amazing lesson! Thank You SO much!!
Really giving me skills to create, layer & blend!!
YOU ROCK!!
You are an extraordinary teacher!
Your wonderful free gift is on it's way to help me grow in being a colorist!!
So happy to hear you loved the lesson and worksheet 💕
@@KirstyPartridgeArt Yes I did & I have a new friend who wants to advance her colorist skills & she loved it too.
We tried to do the 1st exercise but seemed unable with wax based pencils to achieve purple...
What were we doing wrong?
The orange & green did alright but not purple; we even switched up the blue a couple times...
No go on purple.
Do oil base pencils work better across the board?
Surely wax pencils will work the same? I was using prisma colors.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am a complete amateur but I’ll give you my thoughts. It depends on which blue and which red you use. For purple you need to use a warm blue and a warm red. In particular, if you are trying to make purple with an orange red you will never achieve the colour you want. However, if you use your orange red with yellow you will get a good orange but if you used the blue red your orange wouldn’t be what you wanted.
I find mixing easier to use 6 pencils - a warm and a cool version of each blue, red and yellow. Plus as Kirstie said a white and a black.
Hope I haven’t confused you further but hopefully Kirstie will see this and put it right if I’ve explained it badly!
One thing that helped me a lot is playing the "I love hue" and "I love hue 2". I've learned just as much or more than I did from my college color theory class and enjoyed it too. 😂. Thank you for this video and the worksheet! ❤
You cropped up in my recommendations again after years, and I'm SO glad you did! I forgot how incredibly jaw-dropping your art is. It's better than anything I could have imagined. Also, you're the person who taught me to draw, and I've sold three pieces now. Thank you!
After watching this video so many times and following along with the work sheet, my coloring has gotten so much more versatile and dynamic. I’m glad Ive started learning about color theory or as I call it color therapy 👌🤓
This has been the best color theory instruction I’ve ever seen or read. I have adhd. It’s hard for me to keep focused when people over explain things. You did perfect! Kept my attention entirely and I’ve retained the information. Thank you!
This is gorgeous and awesome! Color theory actually made sense to me 🤩 thank you
So grateful I happened to find this video. The color wheel has always been a tool that I knew would give my crafting that extra something. However, no one has managed to to breakdown the hands on aspect as you did here. Thank you!!!
Thank you! This is a great video to understand about colored pencils. I am just starting to learn and this video is amazing❤
Very good video on color. Blending colored pencils is hard compared to mixing paint, but a rule of thumb in pencils is to sharpen pencil as fine as possible in first layers and put down lightest colors first
My mum is a wonderful artist and I remember her doing these types of exercises. Every time I asked her to show me, she would explain it in a way that confused me to no end. So, thank you! I get it now.
I cut my Bristol smooth paper to 8.5 X 11" and fed it through the rear feeder on my Canon printer. Set the paper to Card Stock.
Thank you Kirsty you made it very easy to understand I have struggled with color and certainly mixing. Light bulb went off with this lesson. THANK YOU
Haha thank you! My oldest daughter is a wonderful artist and can actually see all the variations of the colors. I see 7 colors. Sometimes they’re lighter or darker but they’re always just those 7. Not including black and white obviously. 🤷 this video made me smile
Years ago I read a book called The Paradox of Choice. It’s about how having an abundance of options ironically limits us. They referenced a study where a vendor at a food market had 24 different types of gourmet jam for customers to sample, and they offered a coupon to everyone who tried the jam. The catch was, they could only choose one flavour to buy.
On another day, they repeated the experiment with just 6 varieties of jam. They found that even though the larger display attracted more customers, those who tried samples on the second day were more likely to purchase a jar of jam. This was thought to be because on the first day, there were too many options and customers got overwhelmed. They found themselves deliberating over which flavour tasted the best, which one had the highest quality ingredients etc, then many gave up and walked away without purchasing anything. When the sample size was limited, customers were more certain about what they wanted as they had fewer options to choose from.
I think the same theory applies to your coloured pencils. When we have too many choices, we can limit ourselves. It’s best to stick to the necessities when possible. Your artwork is beautiful by the way!
Lol, I once saw an old lady in a shop that had a wide choice of sandwiches on the shelves. She looked around for a few mins at the huge array of choice, and then got fed up and walked out. Too much choice is overwhelming.
I have the same large pencil set and I really love creating beautiful pictures. It is very relaxing and I can draw for three hours and escape whatever worries I have. Thank you for the ideas using them.
This is the most sensible explanation of color I have ever heard. Thank you!
So tempting when wanting to use the internet while doing my homework. Sp tempting when wondering where that one book I bought about colored pencil art went while moving too. I hope whoever got that book gets plenty of use out of it. Some of us may while touring in a museum may percieve a color as being only with less brightness because of its background color. Using your own good taste when being an artist is key too. Everybody has it.
This is one of the greatest tips you have given me. Thank you so much. Ive been out of drawing for three years due to illness ect but now im looking forward to starting up again using this tip. TY so much again
This is wonderful and applies to most mediums! I'm definitely using this with all of my students, thank you so much!
this is the most useful couler theory explination ive ever seen and ive seen quite a few videos and attended a few art classes so thankyou for finally making it make sence
Watching this video I learned so much.
Completing the exercise myself, I learned 10x as much. ❤
I used Prang pencils. Blending wasnt easy but i still did it.
Having a light hand with lots of layers is crucial!
I’ve never understood the color wheel…Until now! Your explanation of the coloR, shades and tones makes colors less intimidating. Thank you for this sheet and your simple explanation.
Thank you. I started 8 weeks ago with color pencils, and the drawing always looked different than I imagined and wanted, and also changed the look/color over time. After watching this video and understanding the color wheel, me next drawing came out exactly as I wanted / expected. All in all, this was full of great advice.
Thank you so so much, i just today purchased I THINK all the sketching tools I need.. all but the wisdom and knowledge which often CANT be bought. I appreciate your free assistance, the color wheel sheet will truly start me out on a great creation
Taking me back to my Color Theory and Design college courses on this one! Excellent work and a nice refresher for any artist that might be stuck in their colorwork!
This video is crazy, it covers just A LOT of color theory applied to colored pencils… 🙀
Since you were using the amazing Polychromos here, one advanced technique that I enjoy using with them to lighten my color is applying my eraser to it! Depending on the paper etc this can lighten the color while still retaining the coverage obtained with lots of layers - super cool. I find it most useful for adding small highlights though, especially with a tiny Tombow Mono Zero eraser! 😺
Kirsty,
Thank you for producing this tutorial! It is an excellent companion to the "Picking Perfect Colours" guide that I had previously downloaded from your website. That guide was informative for me last summer, when I was creating a personalized colored pencil drawing for my brother's graduation gift. 😊 But it is an even further blessing to have this video, in which you walk us through some of those same concepts in a thorough, conversational manner. I think these resources complement each other so nicely - since I love having things written down for reference (like the downloadable guide), yet I also benefit from having someone there to walk me through the process (like you do in this video). I appreciate that you have made both of these available!
(Side note: When I clicked on this video, I wasn't expecting it to be such a thorough tutorial. To me, it seems like this video should be subtitled something like, "Color Theory Basics in Practice." 🤷🏼♀️)
Thanks again!
~ Chelsea
P.S. I hope this verse encourages you today: 😊
"God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John 3:16)
Brilliant! I just came upon your video and learned things I don’t ever remember being taught in art class at school a hundred years ago … thank you!
I love new art supplies! Messing them up and making them grubby is always a concern in the beginning as u want them to stay pristine! Thanks for a great video and loads of valuable info!😊
Wow. Just wow. I have always understood the color wheel (I thought) but the way you explained everything makes me realize I didn’t really get it. This is so incredibly helpful. Hopefully this will help me with picking colors which is my biggest struggle. Thank you!
Finally i found a tutorial that's suits my needs to understand how color works a transition from graphite to color pencil is somewhat challenging and now i found this video i learned a lot from all of your tutorial thanks. And Also i tried to take the artist quiz on the link and I'm surprised that all results are correct😊
I’ve purchased and made variations of this color wheel. Your explanations and demonstration are very clear and helpful. It’s definitely better to make it yourself so you can apply the technique and experiment. Love your content!
You are amazing! I have no clue about art but I have a strong desire to learn how to draw and then paint. Your videos and the way you explain things are so understandable and clear. Thank you!
Well, what to say.... I digitize designs to make machine-embroidery and there is a great need for a good understanding of colour-theory, something I'm increasingly appreciating the more I learn about embroidery with threads. The same concepts are useful - namely blending layers of thread and shading with layers of thread. It certainly seems to be a fact that the colour-pencil methods are the best I've seen that may be compared to the world of thread-colour use. This is an EXCELLENT video and you've done yourself a LOT of credit making such a clearly-demonstrated, perfectly-paced and USEFUL video. Many thanks for this video, it is a real spark of light in the difficult area of embroidery-thread colour choice and use!
That was a very good exercise and thanks for the worksheet - big help!
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Thanks for all that you do and for this Amazing Instructional Video.! 👊😎
That is why i like watercolor! These exercices are obvious but I didn’t think about doing that with pencils !
I must say that your presentation brings even more clarity with color theory 4 me.
Thank you ever so.
It is your presentation.
Very giving. Very gently.
And a whole lot of patience.
Best day now.
I'm confessing here that I have stuck to doing black and white sketches because i'm afraid of using color pencils simply due to not knowing how to mix colors. I've been watching a few short and longform videos on color mixing in the past few weeks for different media and this is the first i've come across for color pencils. I know color mixing is color mixing regardless of what type of coloring media you're using but someone as lacking in confidence as I am this video is a blessing. Thank you Kirsty!!! For the video as well as the worksheet. I promise i'll use it well
Wish I'd had this exercise years ago. This explanation/demonstration really resonated. Your videos are always terrific, this one especially so.
I teach college courses in both Botany and Environmental Biology. I require colored pencil drawings in both. Going to share this and others of your videos. Thank you!
Excellent explanations and showing how to use the color wheel. I’ve watched this multiple times and understood better each time viewing. This is my “go-to” video for refreshing and reviewing. Thank you.
This really helped to clarify the issue I've had the most problems with: how to choose the colors to layer.
Great video Kirsty 👌 I still get confused with colour wheels…..you explained this brilliantly…..thank for taking the time to do all this 🙏 x
Yeah colour wheels had me confused for a while too aha! They can be daunting but once it clicked it made such a difference, it’s like everything about colour just fell into place! Anyway, I’m happy you enjoyed the video 💕
I've always felt overwhelmed with what colour to mix with what. So coming across this video has really helped. Thank you very much!
I’m working on a drawing for art class and I was doing this already. It might be the best thing I’ve made so far. I really want to buy Bristol board for personal projects now. I love just layering a bunch of different colors and seeing what happens. I’m drawing a peacock so I’ve been using a lot of blues and greens, and I’ve thrown in purple too for hue variations.
This was very informative- thank you! I'm staring to like using colored pencils but I don't know how to use them properly. The worksheet is a good starting point for me to learn how to use colored pencils. I also find the worksheet useful for other mediums I use, like watercolor and oil.
This info is VERY helpful. I will be coloring the worksheet you gave us ALOT. Thank you!
Wow! I've seen a lot of these color things before, but seeing this all together just felt so revolutionary! Thank you! Going to try this tomorrow with my watercolors. This really works for any medium!
I can relate. I went out and bought the huge pack with every colour. It definitely stopped me in my tracks from using my coloured pencils. The choices became overwhelming!!!
what an extremely informative video. and, while i use other mediums, using the layering of the pencils makes it make more sense.
This is exactly what I have been looking for.
You did a great video! In combination with my experience at digital drawing and using the color tools, I can finally apply this to analog drawing. Thank you
A very comprehensive explanation of color pencil techniques, loved your use of white, black and grey layering.
I am so thankful to have stumbled across your video. I’ve had a small set of coloring pencils for years but never got into using them because I didn’t know they are supposed to be used as you’ve shown in this video. This is excellent! Thank you so much for sharing and for the worksheet!
I am learning and have watched so many videos trying to learn color. This video finally made sense to me, I get it now!!!!! Thank you!!!!! This has helped soooooo much!
Thank you ma'am, i am a beginner and this is very helpful 🙏😊
YES! i think as a beginner, i definitely underestimated the value of these exercises. i thought, i must be able to learn it WHILE making art, i don’t need to practice! but i did, we all do, i STILL need to do exercises to get myself out of narrow comfort zones that leave me struggling and making incomplete artwork.
I’m primarily a digital artist, and one thing that beautifully helped me was that my art teacher in 9th grade gave us an assignment for digital art: use at LEAST 25 different brushes to make one artwork. I scoffed, thinking how would I make a piece with that much variety in texture and sizing, etc. but i did it and it was probably my best quality piece for the next YEAR. i had never tried half the brushes i used, and i started using half of them after that assignment.
just, if there’s any advice i could give beginner artists, it’s to push yourself to do something that isn’t going to be grand. waste your own time. waste supplies, throw paint on the canvas for fun if it means you’ll learn what it would look like if you did it.
you’re not going to make your best artwork right now. what you’re doing is setting yourself up for your best: and that comes from having more fun and doodles than you should have grand, 20+ hour artworks. seriously, no matter how stupid the exercise seems to you, as slow and maybe “robotic,” if you are ready to move on to more detailed techniques, definitely get started with the supposed “time wasters”. regardless, keep having fun!
This is so interesting and informative! I'm working on a colored pencil work right now, and recently we did a color wheel just like this with acrylic paints in my art group, so it's wonderful to have an equal demo in colored pencil. Thanks so much!
I never had these problem.. the color I choose is my expression.. But it's always wonderful to learn something new. Thanks
Wow, simply wow! What an amazing tutorial. One needs to be a master in their subject to be able to teach so effortlessly.
This single video answers all the questions about colour I had and couldn't figure out for years. Thank you!
It is good to know I have been using my color pencils correctly starting light and layering. I had a couple of people tell me coloring with pressure was better. The problem is, if you like to practice showing light sources, too much pressure make it all come out dark shades. 🤗❤️👍🏽💯
Thank you so much for this video and walkthrough. I am a self-taught hack and your video helped me out a lot with understanding color principles. I can’t wait to dive into the exercises! Thank you for your channel and your time!!
Wow, great tutorial, you have explained the mysteries of colours in a way I can understand, the worksheet really gave me the ‘eureka’ moment I’d been looking for. Thank you so much
This was incredibly helpful. I have such a hard time with colored pencils due to blending methods and finding the right color with what I have. It seems like something I should have known all these years but it just never would click in my head for color pencils. I also thing the quality of paper makes a huge difference for color this many layers, along with a really good white color pencil. It is possible with cheaper pencils but a little ,ore patience and technique is involved. Thank you for sharing this knowledge.