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5 Mistakes I Made as a Beginner Color Pencil Artist
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- Опубліковано 16 сер 2024
- I have been using colour pencils as my favoured medium for about 3 years now. While I am certainly no expert, I sure have learned some things I should try to avoid, while using them to create my art works.
Here is a quick list of 5 things I learned the hard way hard way NOT to do with colour pencils.... with embarrassing examples of those mistakes!!
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I like Arches HOT press. It’s got enough texture for layers, but smooth enough for getting good details. Also Canson DRAWING paper. It’s not for wet techniques but will take solvent. It’s a cream-colored paper. In SPITE of the name Colored-Pencil paper, Strathmore Color Pencil paper is a problem. It’s fairly thin, and buckles with even a small amount of solvent to mix pigments, and doesn’t have enough tooth. D-. I’m just starting out with Canson Mi-Tientes, which has TWO DIFFERENT TEXTURES, and is supposed to hold up to light washes and has a rougher side for pastel work. Luckily, it’s reasonably priced and is available in sheets as well as pads. Many professional artists have no problem recommending it, and some use it themselves. I hope this is useful information.
This is excellent information! So good I'm pinning this comment to the top for anyone who might be looking to explore some papers to use :)
@@CassandraHanley I'm a bit confused here... Fabrino Arches these are designed for watercolor drawings... how a watercolored paper be suitable for colored pencil works? please let me know...
Ah well, watercolour paper is a wonderful thing! It is very sturdy paper, it can take a proper beating and still perform well, and the texture of the hot press watercolour papers surface is toothy enough to accept multiple layers of pencil, while still being smooth enough to make laying down the colour nice and easy. There are many papers that will work well with colour pencils, but the hot press watercolour papers are my favourite so far :)
I wish other artists would more often discuss their 'failures' and mistakes they've made with their particular medium.....unlike the home renovation TV shows where the end products seem to have been done perfectly, without stripped screws, broken saw blades, unexpected expenses, split joists, etc. Your willingness to share mistakes will no doubt help others to avoid them.
I guess Murphy's Law applies in most areas of life:
Nothing's as easy as you think. Everything takes longer than you thought. And if anything can go wrong, it will.
Your 'failures' are beautiful and I aspire to produce pictures that are as lovely as yours. Thanks so much for some very helpful, solid advice.
Agree very much, I too wish more artists showed their 'fails' :3
The tiger looks so derpy, it's actually pretty cute though.
Clerence xD
Got me choking on my cookie
I think he is so cute! 😻😻😻
The tiger looks stylized and artistic....in one way not bad at all....a little "picasso-esque"
The pieces you show and call mistakes are beautiful art to my eyes. Wow, you are so talented!
Thank you for sharing!
Oh thankyou so much!! I really shouldn't label them as mistakes, as for the most part I was quite proud of them at the time (well.. except for the cross eyed tiger!!) It's more about looking back to see what I would change with more experienced eyes :)
I think the cross eyed tiger is especially lovable.
the cross-eyed tiger is ADORABLE
I don't make mistakes, I make learning experiences
excellent !! love it!
I had a loooot of experiences lol
@@powerblades nice 😂
Happy accidents*
I wish I was that positive about my art
Lol.. your bad examples... are my masterpieces!!!
🤩😁🤭
i honestly wanted to write the same
Ikr
Ditto...and I thought I was doing pretty good.
they were her masterpieces once too!
Mistakes are just techniques you haven't yet found a use for.
+velcroman11 I love this!!
velcroman11 That sounds very Bob Ross-ian. "There are no mistakes, only happy accidents." His attitude towards art is inspiring, and that fits right in with it. So many people get discouraged so quickly, and I wonder just what beauty they could have put into the world had they been encouraged by people like you and him.
@@randomrainbow4479 'happy accidents' seem to be life savers for me 😂 honestly when I draw or colour I never practice. I draw out a piece and dive in with new techniques or mixed medium and improvives. I dread a piece not turning out as good as I want it so I go with the flow half the time. Also depends on my mental state as well when using drawing techniques probably why alot of 'happy accidents' occur 😂😂😂
The cross-eyed tiger is absolutely adorable.
Apart from the poor tiger, I actually liked all those pieces! Just started with CP's myself and appreciate the tips very much; thanks for posting xx
haha, poor tiger!! he is just....not good! lol. Thank you, I am glad this was helpful!!
just draw a fly on the tiger's nose and... hey presto! your drawing is fixed!
+Lee Stephenson oh my! That would absolutely work! Haha, wow, I wish i had thought of that. You're a genius :)
@@CassandraHanley If you stumble, make it part of the dance, my mom always says. ;P The fly on nose is an example of that and what most of everything I do ends up with, lol. Except for the few there's absolutely no fix for, put them in a frame and pretend you did it on purpose. xD lol
Also, nature makes mistakes too, like placing eyes inwards.
Thanks! I am just starting out in colored pencil. Now for that posture, I have been sewing for over 50 years. It is very easy to slouch over the machine. One must discipline oneself to sit straight. Here is a tip I learned from Nancy Zieman, she says when quilting, "Sew a block, walk a block." Meaning, get up and walk around at least every 30 minutes. I actually set a timer on my mp3 player ( always listing to books or tunes) to remind me to GET UP. This little interruption refreshes mind, body, and creativity.
Watching this video makes me realize that courage is required to showcase our mistakes. Shine a light on them for all the world to see. Presenting this to us so that we may learn is both brave and generous. It speaks to a well adjusted ego and confidence in your ability. I am happy to have found your channel. Be well.
What you consider your poor art....just WOW! This is the first video of yours I've seen while researching colored pencils. Consider me addicted. You are more qualified than you give yourself credit, and quite talented! Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this. As a beginner, I'm feeling a lot better about getting my toes wet in the medium. I'm impressed by the hard hints that you give. I'm impressed by the fact that you keep examples of where you went wrong so that you could learn from them as well as see the progress you are making today. But most of all: I'm impressed by your humanity in looking at your foibles with a sense of humor and then sharing them so the rest of us can learn through your experiences. Thank you so much!
Your talent is enviable!! Your boo boo's would be framed in my house!!!! Wow! 🤗
naw shucks.. That is very sweet of you to say!! Thank you
Me (looks at colorful stickman I made)
"Ah so it's not me it's my paper" 😂
Great tips!! I've been guilty of every one you mentioned...I guess it's the learning process for many of us. I hope all those beginner colored pencil artists take heed and avoid some of them..
I really enjoyed the earlier works that she shared. How can we learn without mistakes along the way? Cassandra seems very supportive of artists. Even though she doesn't have decades of experience with colored pencils, she is still willing to share her experiences with us. Nicely done!
Cassandra, thank you for sharing your advice and showing your mistakes. It takes a lot of openness to share mistakes, but we can learn from them. So, thank you.
Yeh this is a good video. Learning from mistakes is always best thanks for showing us your old stuff. New birds are great where is your other new art..I sometimes get a burst of energy to draw when I see drawings that need fixing and I go and redraw them. Always learn so much more from doing that than from how to draw books that show perfect construction steps etc.It's amazing how our eye will pick out the mistakes. I've also learned to put a drawing down and not do the whole thing at once coz I always want to either finish it quick or saturate the colour. I try do a few at once now. The best thing about putting a drawing down too is sometimes when you wake up next morning you go... Oh it's already finished. Nothing worse than an overworked drawing
OOOhhh, I wish I could do a few at once!! I get too focused on each project to have more than one piece on the table at a time!! But knowing when to step away is difficult! I usually take a photo with my phone when I think my piece is finished.. It is funny, but the camera seems to distance me enough from my work so I can see what still needs work and what is already finished
Shiny King I totally agree with everything you said. All those things will help keep you fresh while doing any type of artwork. (especially if you do it for a living). I love reading the great tips and constructive comments as well as the excellent video 😄
Thank you for sharing your experience with colored pencils and explaining your difficulties by showing where you went awry. I just picked up colored pencils and found this video helpful in pointing out mistakes I am currently making. Thank you again and congratulations on your progress and honestly when it comes to your own work.
Thanks so much for your video! You've hit the nail on the head with most of these problems, and they can be so very frustrating... Fortunately, and I haven't seen anything in the comments section about this, there are ways to cope with some of the troubles you've described! I know that we're specifically discussing 'colored pencil' drawing, but if you absolutely love pencil art AND watercolor paper texture all is not lost; try using watercolor pencils. You can color in the usual way, and then just use plain water and a brush to spread the pigments over the texture in the cold pressed paper. This does give a painterly quality to your work when it's finished, and some people just love the look! A friend of mine gave me a handful of lessons using watercolor pencils and his work actually looked like photographs when he was finished-- astounding! As to your trouble with pastel paper (or any other smooth-ish paper that lacks tooth), you can use textured/workable fixative spray to add the tooth back to the surface in between layers of pencil. There are lots of brands available, and they're all very good; Brush & Pencil makes two kinds of fixatives that are suitable for working and finalizing/preserving your finished pieces. You might also like their powdered blender, which makes blending and layering an absolute breeze (but ONLY on sanded paper). Your so-called 'failures' are not as bad as you think they are, and as many people have said beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so the cross-eyed nature of your tiger is actually very endearing. Keep on creating!
Who ever you are madam , you are a TEACHER FOREVER, you are a divine instrument of our human community taking on your responsibility or not !!!!!!!
Great video! Nothing more valuable than making mistakes in your chosen medium to learn, and having another artist willingly expose their own mistakes is, as the saying goes, priceless. This is a new medium for me - I'm a metalsmith and want to expand the use of various means of applying color to metal - Prismacolor pencils on a layer of gesso applied to copper is what I'm researching at the moment. This one's a keeper - thank you!
I remember many years back I got a pad of canvas paper to do sketching on. I can't remember if I had planned to paint on it with acrylics or not, but there are just a few pages of shaded sketches. Not a good paper by a longshot for pencil.
Currently getting into coloured pencils. I tried just pencil/ graphite and greyscale drawing last year and got bored quickly. I wanted to get good with values first but I needed colour to keep me interested.
One mistake I have recently made is over saturation with the colour. I was aiming for blue highlighting on black feathers. (They have that blue shade when the sun hits them) But ended up with bright blue feathers. I should have blended more with greys, than blended with different blues I thought matched the reference colours. I just kept layering until I couldn't anymore and I wasn't satisfied. Now I have a blue toucan.
To anyone who sees it, I wanted it to look that way.
But I'm seeing it as a learning experience. I'm new to coloured pencils, I'm more familiar with water colour, gouache and digital art where it's much easier to correct mistakes.
NO NO NO..THERE ARE NO BAD EXAMPLES HERE..You are a cool artist and don't forget it.
Keep Calm and Paint On!....you're great.
I absolutely love the sunglasses one if that was in the store I'd buy it 😍 they were all beautiful
Thank you...great tips. The one where I felt especially guilty is ruining the project by failing to give the background and secondary objects their due. Thanks again for sharing.
The one with the sunglasses is nice! - The background "gives it away" in a good way - saying look, this realism was done with pencils. Cool.
Great info. I feel your pain regarding the paper. And as I discovered, the "wax bloom" from wax based colored pencils is SO very annoying.
Oh yes!! Wax bloom!! grrrrrrrrr.... lately I've been spraying my finished major pieces with a light coat of spray varnish, which keeps the bloom at bay. But it is very disheartening to open up my sketchbook and see the white fuzzies all over my work!!!
Maura Szymecki what is wax bloom? I'm using oil based pencils, and wax based are really hard to get here, so I'm generally not familiar with this term.
+Line B waxy pencils (especially prismacolors) can develop a funny waxy coating over time (sometimes overnight) it's a funny waxy white layer that kind of looks like the white bloom on a blueberry and it is seriously annoying when it pops up on a piece you are particularly fond of. It doesn't seem to happen with the more oil based pencils. If you have a problem with it I have found you can use a little spray fixative or even varnish (on mounted pieces) to keep the bloom from coming back
Maura Szymecki That is why I use oil based pencils.
All of your tips are quite helpful to a beginner. Thank you for taking the time to share.
Thank you for this. I do appreciate it. I'm about to start drawing and using colored pencils is goal. I don't expect great work right from the start, but it's funny how the mind can deceive you otherwise! Lol. The tips you gave will certainly help a newbie like me.
thanks for the helpful advice!and it's nice to hear an 'aussie' voice too! Your advice very encouraging for beginners like me!
we don't hear many aussies here on youtube!! I must admit the accent made me a little self conscious at first. I am glad you found the video helpful :)
I just LOVE that cross-eyed tiger, so cute! :D (I'm definitely not being sarcastic! It's a lovely drawing!)
Excellent advice, btw!
Thank you Cassandra. I found this very helpful. I am a newbie to coloring with colored pencils, so I appreciate all the help I can get!! LOl!
That was really informative, thank you. I am guilty of adopting poor posture and really need to get it fixed if I am to carry on enjoying my colouring.
OH MY GOSH THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!I have been using the paper from that student sketch book and been wondering and searching what im doing wrong and it is my paper!!!!im so happy ik rn
Thank you for the tips and thanks for showing examples! It’s nice to see how the “mistakes” look. (And figure out that I’m guilty of them. 😳)
Thanks for this.I have made all these mistakes- now to begin to rectify them with these tips.Thanks!
I absolutely LOVE the peacock piece!!! It's beautiful even if you didn't use the paper you should have and thanks for showing us these snafus in able to teach us.
Thanks for making me feel like I won't be this bad forever , in your short 3 yrs, you have grown leaps and bounds. Your cross eyed tiger is awesome for demo of what I have really needed to get better at... Making my drawing the best It can be, before working the color pencils .You are my new favorite on You Tube Thanks So Much.
Thank you so much for sharing your 'mistakes', I'm certainly guilty of a few of them and have learned a lot by watching your video.
I love how honest and forthright you are. Thank you.
Thanks. The tip I appreciated most was the one about posture whie drawing. So little said on this. I would like to find out more about posture for the hand, wrist, back and so on....thanks again this is helpful for an older budding artist like myself
couldnt agree more, this was really helpful! im trying to figure out the best paper for me at the moment... i like blending by burnishing but ive used stonehenge paper which has quite a bit of texture so I think my colored pencil drawings are taking way too long. I might try some more smoother paper instead :)
Awesome tips for a newbie, such as myself! Thank you for sharing your trials and errors instead of just saying what not to do. It helps to see a visual!! Much appreciated! p.s. Love your accent, too =)
Thanks for your video and advice. I am a long time pencil and pen & ink drawer...but have only used color to fill in a bit of "life". So now, I am starting to learn about using colored pencils as an effective medium. Your tips are very useful and I am thankful for them as I start out on this new practice!
Thank you! Thank you! For showing the mistakes - I feel like I personally learn better by seeing what NOT to do in addition to what I am to do. I am guilty of some of these mistakes and I didn;t even know what I had done wrong - just that it didn't look correct. I feel encouraged to try again.
So much lovely information and awesome tips. I'm handicapped and struggle to control most of my right side. This makes me heavy handed like you speak of. I also sit in horrible positions when drawing and coloring. I've started to use my riding vest. It's actually for someone like me who slump over and can't sit straight. I tend to lean to my right (my bad side) and ice discovered that this vest actually helps me both when riding a dog when drawing and coloring. It makes me sit up straighter and then help my muscles to work properly so I don't get more cramps and pain.
The tiger made me giggle. He looks like me before I have my coffee in the morning.
Great tips! I'm new to the medium and did experience a hurt neck after 2 hrs of slouching lol. Also, something I had to learn the hard way was not to grip my pencils so hard. It's crazy because you don't even notice that you are until after you're finished and your fingertips are hella sore!!
Hi Cassandra. I'm preparing to teach a class using colour pencils and found your tips useful prompts for me to pass along. In some cases they were things I already knew but good to be reminded. Also thanks for showing unsatisfying past work especially how certain papers behave. It took me years to appreciate the importance of using quality art materials and stop blaming myself for unhappy endings. Now I always tell my students a bad piece may not be simply due to their talent or lack of it. Nice to hear the Aussie accent as well.
I surely appreciate your advice about posture. I'm a beginner, but already have had a few neck pains before realizing I'm slouching over. It helps me to straighten up and look around every so often, or even do a few neck stretches in place. Thanks for interesting advice.
I'm guilty of being very lazy with every aspect of my art X3 I do it mainly for fun and people consider me somewhat good for my age. Most of the people that tell me I'm good though don't notice how lazily I colour and how I don't bother to fix mistakes most of the time even if I can fix them very easily.
+Nerdy Owly ah! Yes! That sounds familiar! I worked like that for years, and it was the main reason I liked using charcoal so much, you can be so, so lazy with that stuff.
The great thing with art is that it really is up to you how far you want to take each piece, as long as you are having fun and are happy with the results you're getting, you're doing it right!!
I eventually decided I wanted to stop cutting corners and make my pieces as good as I could possibly make them. Just to see what I could do really! But just quietly, there are still always little moments where I get lazy and start scribbling and rushing! It is a hard habit to break!
I'm so guilty of the rushing a piece. My technique now is to concentrate on one area until its perfect then move on to the next. That's the only way I can force myself to slow down. Great tips!
It is nothing personal, it is just more of a general thought. I've seen some of the "beginners mistake" videos, and when I see an argument about bad quality paper, pencils or anything like that, the first thing that pops to my mind is "a bad workman blames his tools". I believe, If someone is experienced enough, practicing a lot, and learning from one's mistakes, the art will always look better, no matter what tools that person is using.
Thanks so much for the student sketch book shout-out 😆 I literally started again some color pencil pratice and when I tried blending the colors in it's paper, it was so difficult to reach something good towards blending. So glad I found someone else to point this out
I’ve been going over recently of famous artists, who have 200 - over 800 paintings, , what you said is so true,, when you rush over one area of picture to do another part that is more exciting,, I’ve seen that done on about every great work they have done, good advice you gave, I’ve done this myself many times.
Thank you so much for this video. I am just "getting into" colored pencils. I did a too detailed drawing of a person and had a terrible time getting the face to look right. I used a paper with too much tooth. Had I seen this video first, I would never have started it on that paper. My intention was to do a watercolor base and finish the details with colored pencils so I used a multimedia paper. The result was passable but not what I had envisioned. I had been working mostly in graphite and wanted to branch out to color. Huge learning curve!
I, for the likes of me, have never been able to afford any high quality art materials, especially paper. There's just too many of them. People say that this one is good for this, and when I use it, it does the exact opposite.
I use Canson mixed media for my prisma colours and basically everything besides markers and watercolor.
Oh I fully understand!! while expensive art supplies really do make a difference, they sure are hard to justify the cost if your not selling the work. As long as it works for you, cheaper supplies are not a problem. Canson make some really great products, and if they do what you want, you shouldn't feel bad about that at all!
@@CassandraHanley What could you recommend that doesn't break your bank for poor students? :)
I've noticed down your favourite, but haven't checked the price yet. I just have to practice before wanting to throw a lot of money into the paper itself.
Enjoyed you sharing your art and experiences..you are a gifted artist. While I'm not I do sew and enjoy crafting. I've always loved coloring...pencils, crayons, markers...and now have a bit more pencil coloring know how. Thank you.
I like how you show us your mistakes most ppl hide all that thank you for the tips. I am learning how to use colored pencils I always hated them in school and as a child bc I never knew what they could really do.
+Shannon Wooters the trick is that all artists make mistakes, probably on every piece they make! it's just a part of the process, and you don't Need to feel bad about them.
So what paper (exactly) would you recommend for coloured pencils? Also big PLUS for your video for NOT including any background music! I find background music so distracting that I immediately close any instructional video that does have background music. So big yay for that! 👍
Hello i am a high school student in england and i with be doing my art GCSEs next year. I am very scared as all of my work in year 10 at the moment contributes to my year 11 results. Therefore i am always being critical about my work and never saying the good things about it which is why my teach Mr Ashcroft always tells me, and i quote "dont judge a painting/drawing until it is done". No matter how many times he tells me the same thing i always criticise myself which i cant exactly help because thats how i am. But the point is that you are also criticising yourself too much. Those picture are not just art. They are masterpieces. If i was to do that for my art GCSE i would get an A*************. Well done.
Thanks for the advice on getting too close to your work too avoid pain. Im now using a drafting table so good for pencil then adjust to flat for watercolour waaaaaayyyy less pain
Thanks for sharing! Will save a lot of heart ache and shoulders! Keep up the good work
Great advice and very clearly spoken - thankyou! I practically rest my head on the page when colouring so I'm going to work on that
I like this video. Interesting to see your two tigers who show two years of learning and practice. I want to see that more on UA-cam! (Any suggestions for where I should look?) And then at nr 5 when I saw and heard 'bad posture' I did not immediately understood that you were talking about our own posture 😆. I was like: those birds look okay, they can bend like that... Haha. Interesting that you talk about the importance of taking care of our own posture. I like the idea of sitting on a ball. Might try that. Yesterday I bought a Julian table easel, I'm curious how this will change my way of working. What helps me (but which I still find hard to consistently practice) is not putting all the tools I need on my table so I have to get up to take it and get moving a bit...
I will certainly check more of your videos.
Thank you for your video, I too with the exception of using bad paper have learned from the same mistakes. Now I'm working on not pressing so hard :) Great video ~ Keep up the great work~
That sure is a hard habit to break!
Thank you for sharing your learning experiences and tips. FYI if you haven't tried Stonehendge legion paper it takes colored pencil quite well.
Much needed video; I have struggled so much with all you have mentioned…..great info!
Glad it was helpful!
Gee... I wish I could make those same mistakes.....whatever they are. These are stunning.
Good tips. I did buy cold press watercolor paper once to try with color pencils, it was terribly hard and slower than usual. I hope other people get to see your video so they can avoid making the same mistakes!
Victoria Diaz Art That is a mistake I will only make once!! I can't believe I stuck that one out to completion... Not to mention that paper isn't cheap!!
Victoria Diaz Art me too and thought the poor result was me as a starter to coloured pencils
Unlike Cassandra, I never finished mine, but I kept it and look at it from time to time.
Excellent video, as everyone is saying, is hard to find someone who can show their own mistakes, I can see how you are being evolving in your drawing and painting, you are very good, “ practice make the master”
Lovely works! Don't be too hard on yourself! It's beautiful work! Thanks for sharing!
These mistakes. Are Gorgeous though! I'm finally trying my Prismacolors.. Oh and this does take patience! I also practicing controlling. My hand pressure and whether. To hold the pencil. Closer to the base or further back?! Thank you! For this wonderful help!
I know we are all our own worst critic with our work. Honestly though, I thought your work was gorgeous. If all the artwork was done the same way, it’d be very boring.I love your work, especially on the birds. Thank you for your video, you brought up things I hadn’t thought about.Don’t forget the most important element - that you have fun!
Thank you for the tips. It's especially generous of you to share some of your early misses from your "Wall of Shame" with us.
Thank you Cassandra for being real
Thanks for the tip about working at an easel, I suffer from neck pain sometimes and I have an easel, so I'm trying that out!!
Thanks for sharing your lessons-learned, I found them helpful.
Excellent advice, Cassandra. My fave was posture. Thanks for sharing.
so you call those bad habits I call them fantastic thank you so much Cassandra
Just started with colored pencil recently. This was super helpful thank you so much!!!
Great vid, tks. Good info and examples (ur so talented!) and well put together. I'm just at this 3 mos and trying to learn as much as I can. Tks to u I'm going to get the proper paper next!
+Kelsey Jane good paper will change the whole experience for you! Good luck!
Really helpful, thank you! Sadly, I´m stucked in the first mistakes stage since... forever! But I have faith that some day my work would be worthy of showing ;) Thanks again for share your experiences ;) Love the birds!
Learning from mistakes is wonderful!
Thanks for the tips, moving to colored pencil has been challenging so your tips are very help. Lack of patience is my Achilles heel. Thanks again
I wish I could be as good as your 'bad' pieces. Thank you for your videos. FWIW, you got a new subscriber who only just barely started to explore colored pencils.
Oh my gosh you gave me a good laugh. Thank you for your tips. Fantastic! Each and everyone. Your artwork is wonderful. Just subscribed.
Thank you and Welcome!!
I'm just starting with colored pencils so your tips are much appreciated! Thanks, Donna from NJ. USA
I admire your vulnerability to show your 'mistakes' I wish I would have seen this years ago. I paid good money for Fine Arts courses at college, and the Art teacher there never talked about the importance of Good paper. He actually had us pick up really bad paper. The paper is turning very yellowish on some very time consuming pieces I worked hard on and it baffles me why a teacher would suggest crap paper. I Love the birds at the end of this video, and so I can see your talent/efforts have paid off. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Thanks so MUCH! Have a nice set of F-C Polychromos...LOVE colored Pencil Art! It's not a very forgiving Medium like you stated, but I love the results! Pretty Much a beginner, but still love it!
Even the artwork you made mistakes with looked good! I liked the tiger in particular, there's just something about those adorable cross-eyes... Anyway, I've been using coloured pencils for ages now and I still make some of these mistakes. It's quite helpful to see it pointed out, though. Great advice!
Absolutely enjoyed your video. Your art work is amazing, and yes even your hall of shame 🐅. I love the tips and pointers on the "donts". I would love to watch you color another's rose with the dew drops. I love it. Thank you 😊
Thank you so much for this video ..you ROCK!!
very helpful Cassandra, guilty of just about all of them. I like your work.
Color pencil Art is beautifull but among all mediums it requires a lot Of patience .I mainly use it for mixed media art
thank.you for sharing your experience. I love to use color pencils. I am.a.beginning artist and what I have at the moment are color pencila
You maybe could fix the eyes by enlarging the pupil on the eye on the right side, which would shorten the white highlight a bit. The pupil looks incomplete. If you put some darker green to the right of the pupil, also, it would move the eye a bit. OR--You could put a butterfly on the end of the tiger's muzzle like he's trying to focus on it. The right eye is the only thing making the tiger look cross-eyed. :) Listen to me trying to tell such a good artist how to fix her work. I mean no disrespect at all. I like fixing things that went wrong, too. You learn something every time something goes awry, more so than if things are perfect. The second Tiger that you did looks like it's real. What a great drawing that one is.
Oh that poor eye! unfortunately I completely flattened out the paper with my repeated attempt to fix it!! Oh boy did I make a mess, and no more pencil will go down :( sometimes you just have to accept defeat and accept the lesson learned. I don't like to look at that tiger, but I do appreciate that it was a really important step in helping me improve overall!