🖍 Drawing Realistically with Crayola Crayons!! 🖍
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- I'm going back in time and trying to create a full realistic drawing using crayola crayons!
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Piano sound in the beginning is my own.
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I love love LOVE Crayola! Their colored pencils are great and terribly under-rated. Give me Crayola any day! Your tips and tricks with the tape are very appreciated and helpful. Thanks for the great ideas!
Yes, their colored pencils do great work, I actually did a cheap supply face-off video with those and the Prang. You can get a lot done with them! I'm glad you found my tips helpful! Thank you for watching!
tbh crayolas are lowkey fire.... always has been! The Big Pack 120 set was my dream as a child :)
I agree! 💖
1st things 1st, who doesn't love the smell of Crayola crayons?!? I started laughing when I heard you inhale the box opening, because that was the 1st thing I always did when opening them up. I remember that wonderful smell from my childhood! It is such a delight to watch you create art, even when using Crayola crayons and common household items. You definitely showed that you can take the proverbial sow's ear and turn it in to a silk purse! That's a great colored raspberry, especially being that it's crayons and construction paper. Thanks for showing what "can" be creatively achieved, without using artist grade supplies.
Lol, I'm so glad you can relate! I felt like a weirdo sniffing them on camera, but I couldn't resist!! Thank you so much Cheryl, I'm glad you like my drawing! I really appreciate it!
@@CautionArtistatPlay You're welcome and hey, I'm a crayon sniffer from wayyy back, lol! When I was growing up, all there was were crayons at the time. Crayola hadn't come out with their line of colored pencils or markers yet when I was a child, so their crayons were my favorite. They also had those big, chunky, fat crayons; I think they were called Jumbos. I don't know if they still make those now or not, but I liked them too.
I remember the jumbo crayons! I had some as a kid too! Incidentally they actually came out with scented crayons when I was a kid and I still remember the black one smelled like leather lol. I don't know if they make either of those anymore to be honest. So funny how many memories crayons can bring back!
@@CautionArtistatPlay Yes, I remember the scented crayons! I had bought some some for my niece and it seemed like there was a Blueberry scent in there that I liked sniffing, lol! Thanks for bringing back such great memories of Crayola. I may have to pick up a box at Walmart for nostalgic reasons...and to smell that scent again, lol! :)
You should! It's totally worth it!! Lol
Thanks for the tape trick! Beauty in simplicity.
My favorite from Crayola is still their crayons. I have so many of their products, but I never stopped coloring, even through high school and college. It was my secret hobby back then. I have quite the collection including many discontinued crayons. I also really like their colored pencils. I really appreciate the colors of the world line in so many of their products now too.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching! 😊
Great job!
Using a different paper would give you an even better piece! For example, a lightly sanded pastel paper or a rough watercolor paper. You could also try using a ground that has a bit of grit in it. Lastly, painting a few layers and then scraping in one clean sweep the top layers of crayon. So you're left with a flat layer of mixed colors without all of the built up wax.
Happy painting!
Thank you Denise! Yes, these would definitely work better on nicer paper, I tried a few swatches on Mi-Teintes and they looked great! I'm sure the sanded paper works wonderfully as well! I enjoyed the challenge of using the construction paper though and it added to the fun for me. I have seen the scraping method, but I noticed that while it gets rid of the grainy texture, it often leaves the colors looking more muted and one of my favorite things about crayons is their vibrancy, so I decided against using that technique this time. Thank you for watching!!
@@CautionArtistatPlay oh, okay! I was just suggesting🙂 I used to create portraits with colored pencils and with pastels (soft). Not together, though. I think you do a great job with mixed media! I'm a purist, I recently found out and I can't make myself mix my media, lol! I tried.....I just can't 🥴 For the last 8 years I've been a silk artist. I paint on silk with dyes, but you can paint on silk (or cotton, etc) with Inktense. Have you tried that yet?
Anyway, thanks for your reply😃
I know what you mean. In the past I have been a purist too, I have always liked to use a variety of supplies, just not usually in the same piece. I have been overcoming that over the past few years and it's quite liberating! I have heard great things about Inktense on fabric but haven't tried it myself yet! I really need to!
I found the key to blending Crayola crayons was heat. I had a miserable experience trying to blend or dissolve them with spirits and chemicals. My first experiment was on a piece of cardboard paper. I put my portable electric radiator to full heat and laid the area of paper that I wanted to work on for a few minutes until it was hot. After that the crayons act like paint sticks on the surface and melt like butter, and blend like oils. The final results are something that resembles an oil painting with very bold colours. Problem was though that the paraffin soaked all the way through the paper. My second try was a success as it was done on primed canvas sheet, where nothing soaked through. I use q-tips to blend.
Downsides are that its not the safest method, you can only work on one layer, and small details are hard. You could put an extra scrap piece of canvas sheet on the radiator as a detail work palette and melt a few colours, then paint the detail with a small detail brush. But you have to be very quick on the draw. Colour mixing can only be done on the fly, but shouldn't be an issue due to the large amount of colours you get. You'd need a lot of white though. As for light-fastness, I'm not certain, but I gave my cousin my first experimental still life (made in 2011) as a gift 2 years ago, and it still looks as vibrant today 11 years later.
That's very interesting, thank you for sharing! Heat had crossed my mind, but I couldn't figure out how to do it with what I have on hand, so I decided to just stick with the alcohol. I did this piece over the span of a couple days (just because I had a lot going on at the time) and one of the days was warmer and they laid down a lot better that day.
It's good to hear about your older work not fading!
Tks a lot for sharing your tips! I will give a try by using an electric foot map 😂from Quebec in Canada 🇨🇦 😊
I could smell those crayons as soon as you inhaled them! That’s so funny! I loved the 64 pack of Crayons. Anytime I got sick my mom would usually buy me a box of crayons, some paper and coloring books. I hardly ever got sick though so it was like getting an extra birthday gift lol!
Lol yeah, it's a one of a kind smell! That's a sweet memory and coloring can be so comforting so I think your mom was on to something there!
I love the smell of crayons and colored pencils! This was awesome. Your raspberry turned put really great! I had never thought to use crayons to do a piece of artwork.
Thank you Teresa! It was certainly and interesting experience, I had a lot of fun with it.
I’ve made a few realistic drawings with crayola crayons. It was fun.
It is fun!
*i've seen some really nice examples of using crayons for encaustic drawings/paintings or whatever encaustic is classified as*
I have a friend that puts them in a glue gun to make encaustic art and ahe gets some really cool results!
@@CautionArtistatPlay *yes, i've seen that being done although from my understanding it also ruins the glue gun at the same time...the things we do for art no less*
Lol yeah, just another casualty in the pursuit for creativity. 😂
@@CautionArtistatPlay *one of the things i've done in the past was to get black and white transparencies made and then physically remove parts of the image by scraping them off with an x-acto blade... and then combine them with other images before having copies made...this was decades ago and before photoshop was a thing...not that i really use those programs personally as i prefer the hands on tactile process of making collage...the rawness of the creative experience (for me at least) is more akin to a meditative/therapeutic zen like thing...the shop that i had the transparencies made have different copiers now and can no longer handle the transparency film without damaging them...so that's kind of depressing but i can honestly say i'm very very good at using an x-acto and getting the images i need from many other sources*
Sounds like a fun process!
Wonderful work!
Thank you!!
Honestly, if I saw a picture of that drawing without having seen this video, I never would have guessed it was done with crayolas, Shana. So maybe I'll give this a try. I believe the trick to making it work is to have an extensive set, so you can use multiple shades of the same color to get dimension.
Thanks Sara! It definitely helped, especially with the greens in the background!
Really great, thanks for the demo 😊
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
That masking tape trick is pure genius! Also, the smell of crayons is so nostalgic, no judgement at all 😄
Lol so glad I'm not alone!!
This is amazing !!!!!
Thank you!! 💖
I love all there products honestly. Both there crayons and coloured pencils, as well as there markersm
Yeah, they are all fun!
Amazing!!!
Thank you!!
Thanks
Thanks for watching!
The drawing turned out wonderfully, and that tape strategy was brilliant💕🔥!What higher grade papers do you recommend for crayolas and oil pastels?And your hat is pretty, did you knit or crochet it yourself? My fav Crayola tools were the crayons and markers, and color pencils.
Thank you Anastasia! Honestly, I recommend the Canson Mi Teintes paper, it's for pastels, it comes in different colors but you can get in in white too. I recommend the smooth side of that paper, it takes layers well. I also really like Lux Archival sanded paper for oil pastels. As far as the hat goes, my mom actually made it! And my sister made the sweatshirt, though that's not as visible on camera lol.
@@CautionArtistatPlay @Caution: Artist at Play You're quite welcome! I've always wanted to try Canson Mi Teintes and Lux Archival, thank you very much for the recommendations and pointers😁 Wow your mother and sisters have great craftswomanship, my mother crochets too, so I'm always hyped to see handmade apparel💕
They are talented, though my mom doesn't know she is. My sister actually makes a living by writing and selling crotchet patterns. She likes to do other crafty things too, as you can tell by my sweatshirt. If you google Blackstone Designs you can see more of her stuff! My sister taught me to crochet years ago, but I never really persued it so only know a couple of stitches and never learned to read a pattern. But I do benefit from the cool things her and my mom make! Lol
@@CautionArtistatPlayI agree they are. Lol most talented people don't know how talented they are. That's awesome, I'll definitely be checking out your sister's work. I have yet to get to that point lol, my mother has been recently trying to teach me to crochet. It's a bit mind boggling for me, but I really want to make something. I can identify a few stitches, but can't create them yet.
I have made a couple if things, I made a scarf, and I made a stuffed mouse out of my imagination lol they definitely weren't perfect lol. But that was years ago now, I'm not even sure I remember the stitches I used. The motion of crocheting in and of itself can be super relaxing. I just have so many other creative endeavors going on that I never really got back to it. If you check out my sister's site, you will probably see me on there, she has had me model a bunch of her patterns over the years!
WOW, I think you did so great! I use Scotch tape to lift pigment as its see-through. Anyway, Now, I'd love to see you try them on good paper with artist grade supplies (plus crayola!) Also the neocolor 2 might be fun for you to try? Have a great day.
Ooh...and I only had the Crayola watercolor as a kid...I remember loathing them and moaning till I got some proper ones. Hahaha
Lol, Yeah their watercolors are interesting! I love the neocolor 2, they are so much fun to work with. I have had those for years and just recently tried the neocolor 1. Both great products! Scotch tape does work more easily for this trick, that's what I learned to use with my colored pencils, though I don't use it anymore because it's not acid free and I don't want to risk the adhesive leaving any residue and causing archival issues down the line. I wasn't worried about that with this so much though, I used the tape I did because I had it near by and didn't feel like trying to find my scotch tape! Lol.
It looks bombastic! I have also taken out some of my crayons from childhood (I didn’t draw at all so they were pretty much new when I opened them 😂) and I was surprised just how good they are 😂 I actually used them on a cheaper pastel paper and they were just nice 👌very enjoyable to work with. Only one snapped 😂
Bahaha it's always a score when you don't break many of them! Lol I used to get so sad as a kid when they would break! 🤣
Beautiful work!💓🌞😊
Thank you!
Redo this project but use the meltz!
Ooh! Great idea! I will have to try it!
Is the crayola construction paper light fast rated?
Not that I know of, as far as I know, none of their products have been tested for lightfastness. It's also not listed as acid-free on their site, so there's that, too. www.crayola.com/faq/another-topic/are-crayola-products-acid-free-and-permanent-on-paper/
How about the pattern for the crochet hat!!!🎉
My mom made the hat and I'm not sure what pattern she used. However, my sister is a crochet designer and may offer a similar pattern! Her name is Sonya Blackstone and her company is Blackstone Designs, feel free to check it out! She has a ton of awesome patterns! blackstone-designs.com/
I know EXACTLY the smell you are talking about. Mmmmmm.........childhood! Also, I wonder if you would be able to actually get some good white highlights if you did this on a sanded paper. Or, to keep with the high society standard of Crayolas lol, you could use the Canson XL Sand Grain paper. Only $5 for a whole pad!
I was wondering the same thing! I have been wanting to try the Canson XL Sand grain paper, I have some in my cart on the Blick website lol.
@@CautionArtistatPlay I don't know if you watch Lindsay TheFrugalCrafter, but she got some and gave it a pretty good review. Worth it for the money!
I do watch her! That's actually how I heard about it! Lol