I have always wondered why there’s so many different greys. This is the first time someone finally was able to help me understand. Thank you so much for that little lesson.
I now realise, before watching this video, that I had absolutely no idea how to use Greys. I just thought of them as a singular colour on their own. I thought that I'd only use them on stuff that is actually Grey - idk... Like an elephant, bricks etc and I was whingeing about Prismacolor - and a lot of other artist grade pencils I have that also contain a lot of Greys - especially at least the Warms and Cools that have so many Greys - having all these (what I thought of as) useless pencils. You are the best teacher I've come across on UA-cam - and I watch/listen to when swatching a LOT of UA-cam tutorials. But you are - by quite a long way actually - the best instructor of coloured pencils on the whole of UA-cam. Thank you so much 🙏
OMG Where have you been!!!??!! I have been coloring (going on 3 years) for a short while and I have learned more about my "tools" in this one video, than all of the time I have been coloring!!!!! Thank you so much! Please keep the videos coming, I will be an avid student! Audrey
I can finally understand how to pick colors. I had no idea before of how you stay in the groups of color. I am so thankful that I found you. I love the colors mauve and pinks etc. I am coloring an Angel and using the red/orange and yellow combination on the wings and hair. Now I have to figure out what color dress would be awesome. Again, I am so thankful for your tutorials. Have a wonderful day. Elly
This is absolutely fascinating! Since following your tutorials, I can see a definite improvement in my colouring. I'm still intimidated by shading and highlighting but am trying to use them.
Think of it this way, the only thing you lose is a picture. Jump and don't be afraid. Sometimes I do things called learning time outs. I'll use a new color blend or technique just for the heck of it. Nobody sees it but me. I can make mistakes, screw up the picture and start over all I want. When I finally master it, that's when you guys see it. I still get the jitters right before pushing the publish button on a video. While I have done it hundreds of times, sometimes I have to just close my eyes and push, but if I didn't my subs wouldn't learn anything. So lets be intimidated together.
I have just stumbled on your video. I am self teaching myself currently. Started last year. Thank you for your videos. I have friends and family complementing me on my improvement in my pencil coloring art work. Thank you 💓🎨
I am just finding your page and it is sooooooo helpful. I am not an artist by any means. I am a papercrafter - I make scrapbook pages and cards. I wanted to learn to color so that I can make my stamping look fabulous and to enjoy coloring books. I have invested in the Prismacolor 150 set and your tutorials are AWESOME!! Thank you
Well I am the type that reads about Color Theory just for fun :) In the next weeks coming up I'll be using other mediums for color theory lessons so I'll remember you are around and be sure to talk about it so it's relavent to you. Glad you told me. I scrapbook also a little. I go in spirts. I work with resin, fluid paint, inks, etc. Lately I have been doing a lot of dotting so I was going to do a lesson on color blending paint too. Paint, ink etc. I am just waiting for some packages to arrive. I ordered some really cool colors.
Yesterday I watched your video that you did the cherries. Last night I colored the best picture I ever colored. It was a picture with strawberries and different berries but I learned from you so much in just one lesson. Thank you, thank you, Mary
I just wanna know how come I’ve been coloring and watching coloring artist on UA-cam for two years and I haven’t found you until now? I’m so happy I finally found your channel! 😘
Thank you so much for taking the time to do your videos! I have learned so much and look forward to watching everyday. The videos are concise, short and you can immediately apply what you taught. Again, thank you so much!
Omg. I have only watched 3-4 of your videos! I am having sooo many aha moments. I don’t know if it is how you explain it, or explanation with demonstration! Thank you soo much. I’m getting so excited about my journey. Hoping to get more confident in understanding my tools better.
Your videos are one of the most, if not, the most educational/informative videos on coloring and color theory on UA-cam. Thank you for all your knowledge. :)
Omg this video is AMAZING!!!! I am now colourring the same page as you did (the christmascandy) And I'm so happy that I was coloring and listening to your explaining of the colors ,because for the candy cane I used red(and red is a warm color)but now I won't use the warm grey anymore and the cool grey def!!!!!! BIG KISSSSS from Holland
I found this to be extremely helpful when dealing with greys. Thank you! I really enjoy your videos. Your accent reminds me a lot of my late mother- in -law......Italian American from Rochester NY. It wasn't quite as strong but she had lived in California for a lot of years.
This is so interesting. It also follows on from my previous question about using greys. I watch a lot of colouring tutorials and I haven't found anyone that explains colouring in such detail as you do. I'll be watching all these videos multiple times to make sure I absorb everything. Thank you
Your videos are like sitting in an art class for a semester. I just love the way you teach and that comes from a former teacher. Your information is real life useful....thank you! Can you tell me what electric pencil sharpener you use?
You are so good at explaining things so that they make sense. You are so informative and not just telling us what to do but why to do it. Thank you so much for taking the time to do all these videos, you amaze me 🤩
Hi Lori, you make me understand the mechanics of what I’m coloring....if that makes sense. You make me feel like I’m going to Art School Everyday.....which I wish I would of done. Thank you !
That's what I am trying to do. I am working on 2 skin ones. One is explaining the pencils and the other is how to contour the facial features. So many videos to do, I'll never run out of ideas.
Thank you Lori for taking your time to do these videos :). I do not own Prismas but still it helps me as then I would apply this knowledge to my pencils
Thank you again and again! I’m so glad you’re doing this I have to revisit process red as it looks pinky to me. And find that list so I can re organize my pencils.
Just catching up with some of your videos. I heard through this one when doing the red candy! Like me! I don't know if anyone thought of it. But why not just jump into just using the red color! I know there's a reason, you don't! Maybe in a future video you can tell why not. I'm still learning, maybe you have one already made. With the next big holiday coming up, valentine's day! Lots will be coloring with the reds! Lol. Thanks again for another great learning video.
I have been watching some of your videos and have greatly appreciated them since I am a beginner with colored pencils. I have researched the various kinds of better pencils and have bought a set of 36 Polychromos. I like these pencils but continue to wonder about the Prismacolor pencils. They have both an amazing following and a huge number of deep criticisms. Here in this video you make it very clear that you love these pencils (prismacolor). Should I just forget about Prismacolors due to their huge quality control issues?
There is no huge quality control issue now. There once was when they stopped manufacturing in Canada and the pencils were so drastically different than the Mexican made ones. Every company puts out an occasional blooper. They are machine made. Try the Prisma out. They do drastically different things. BTW they are produced by the same corporation but two different companies within that corporation. Poly are for details, Prisma is for blending. Both are great.
Hi Lori videos only getting better. You have me thinking of things I’ve never thought about. Question: what brand is the book you have in this video? Thank you Dan
Hi That’s beautiful I love it 😍 thank you for the video with snow and with the candle thank you 😊 💕 when you have time would you be able to show how to colour blueberries ? Xxxx 💕💕
Hi again..I was wondering if you ever found the correct placement or order for the 150 set awhile back I dropped my box n they fell out it drives me crazy because I can't figure it out ..some are warm some are cool etc..any help in that area would be so appreciated! I know your busy but any info please..thank you so very much in advance! Xoxo Tori
Loving the series. I have had my prisma pencils for a year and was about to give up on them. Would it be possible for you to zoom in while coloring, thank you
I'll zoom in more. That's an easy request. I was getting complaints that my hand sometimes covers thing so I stopped doing it as much, but I can do it more. I'll just find a happy medium.
This visual colour wheel theory experiment to show us why and when we get a " muddy brown " ..was so effective.. thankyou . I also noticed that you hand labelled under each of your pencils in the case the proper pencil number .......Can you let me know why it is so effective to put them in number order and not just arranging them into color groupings .??
It's caused by the undertone. A color will get muddy when the undertones don't match or when the undertones and overtones all melt together and form brown. A Red Orange mixed with a Blue green. Normally a red and a blue would be fine but when you throw in the Orange and green undertones it becomes muddy.
@@ColorMyWorld Thanks for the quick reply! I'm just starting out and probably am not familiar enough yet with the undertones to make good choices. Just another reason to test out combinations separately before applying them to a project.
Tfs. I follow everything, except when you describe the highlight/light line and "the object going this way..and the light going that/this way." It's confusing. Everything else is very helpful, including the first video.☺👍
I'll redo that part of my lesson for you. Sometimes I say it a different way and the light bulb goes off for new people. I'll try to get it done tomorrow night.
Could you list all the red colors (not just show pictures of red pencils). List all the red blue and then all the red orange. I am learning so much from all your videos. Thanks.
Ohhhhh...... I think most people describe highlight placement in terms of the light source and the direction its coming from(and keeping it consistent throughout a picture). Not the shape/position of the actual highlight. I was confused
Re: "The secrets of the Prismacolor 150 set." Hi I have watched the first two in this series, then I got sick for a long while. I now cant find the rest of the videos showing the rest of the color
Melody, colored pencils will never be perfect. There are too many factors such as the wax in the pencils and the tooth in the paper. Did you know some of the greatest pieces of art were also called garbage back in the day. Vincent van Gogh was a second rate artist when he was alive. Even he would call his work garbage, but the world now hails him as one of the greatest post-impressionist painters ever. You will see your flaws when other people won't. Don't give up if it's something you like. I know your struggling with it.
Hi Lori your videos are fantastic! There is so much to be learned. I would like to become a student of yours I don't know how I would do that but I really would like to be a student of yours can you please PM me so I can give you my information. I really want to work with you to learn how to color.
I have always wondered why there’s so many different greys. This is the first time someone finally was able to help me understand. Thank you so much for that little lesson.
I’ve learned more from you in five videos than I have in years of watching other channels. Thank you!
I now realise, before watching this video, that I had absolutely no idea how to use Greys. I just thought of them as a singular colour on their own.
I thought that I'd only use them on stuff that is actually Grey - idk... Like an elephant, bricks etc and I was whingeing about Prismacolor - and a lot of other artist grade pencils I have that also contain a lot of Greys - especially at least the Warms and Cools that have so many Greys - having all these (what I thought of as) useless pencils.
You are the best teacher I've come across on UA-cam - and I watch/listen to when swatching a LOT of UA-cam tutorials. But you are - by quite a long way actually - the best instructor of coloured pencils on the whole of UA-cam. Thank you so much 🙏
Thank you for the visual of the Reds and grays . . . I had an "aha" moment when you wrote down that warm grey has green in it. Awesome!
OMG Where have you been!!!??!! I have been coloring (going on 3 years) for a short while and I have learned more about my "tools" in this one video, than all of the time I have been coloring!!!!! Thank you so much! Please keep the videos coming, I will be an avid student! Audrey
I can finally understand how to pick colors. I had no idea before of how you stay in the groups of color. I am so
thankful that I found you. I love the colors mauve and pinks etc. I am coloring an Angel and using the red/orange and yellow combination on the wings and hair. Now I have to figure out what color dress would be awesome. Again, I am so thankful for your tutorials. Have a wonderful day. Elly
This is absolutely fascinating! Since following your tutorials, I can see a definite improvement in my colouring. I'm still intimidated by shading and highlighting but am trying to use them.
Think of it this way, the only thing you lose is a picture. Jump and don't be afraid. Sometimes I do things called learning time outs. I'll use a new color blend or technique just for the heck of it. Nobody sees it but me. I can make mistakes, screw up the picture and start over all I want. When I finally master it, that's when you guys see it. I still get the jitters right before pushing the publish button on a video. While I have done it hundreds of times, sometimes I have to just close my eyes and push, but if I didn't my subs wouldn't learn anything. So lets be intimidated together.
I have just stumbled on your video. I am self teaching myself currently. Started last year. Thank you for your videos. I have friends and family complementing me on my improvement in my pencil coloring art work. Thank you 💓🎨
I am just finding your page and it is sooooooo helpful. I am not an artist by any means. I am a papercrafter - I make scrapbook pages and cards. I wanted to learn to color so that I can make my stamping look fabulous and to enjoy coloring books. I have invested in the Prismacolor 150 set and your tutorials are AWESOME!! Thank you
Well I am the type that reads about Color Theory just for fun :) In the next weeks coming up I'll be using other mediums for color theory lessons so I'll remember you are around and be sure to talk about it so it's relavent to you. Glad you told me. I scrapbook also a little. I go in spirts. I work with resin, fluid paint, inks, etc. Lately I have been doing a lot of dotting so I was going to do a lesson on color blending paint too. Paint, ink etc. I am just waiting for some packages to arrive. I ordered some really cool colors.
Yesterday I watched your video that you did the cherries. Last night I colored the best picture I ever colored. It was a picture with strawberries and different berries but I learned from you so much in just one lesson. Thank you, thank you, Mary
Now use the same technique to color anything round. You would probably learn a lot from the video I did on coloring 3-d shapes.
Thank you for doing this series on Prismas. This is making my pencils better tools and giving me a much better understanding of color.
So helpful! I needed to learn about red/oranges & red/blue. Super important to know about what the Cool Grey vs. Warm. Thanks Very Much!!
Thank you again. I have the 150 set of prismas which I have used for years and you have given me a new insight into the colours.
I just wanna know how come I’ve been coloring and watching coloring artist on UA-cam for two years and I haven’t found you until now? I’m so happy I finally found your channel! 😘
I am so happy you did too Terrie
Thank you so much for taking the time to do your videos! I have learned so much and look forward to watching everyday. The videos are concise, short and you can immediately apply what you taught. Again, thank you so much!
Omg. I have only watched 3-4 of your videos! I am having sooo many aha moments. I don’t know if it is how you explain it, or explanation with demonstration! Thank you soo much. I’m getting so excited about my journey. Hoping to get more confident in understanding my tools better.
Your videos are one of the most, if not, the most educational/informative videos on coloring and color theory on UA-cam. Thank you for all your knowledge. :)
Thank you so much, Ive had to brush up on skills due to stroke. You explain it so well.
Omg this video is AMAZING!!!! I am now colourring the same page as you did (the christmascandy) And I'm so happy that I was coloring and listening to your explaining of the colors ,because for the candy cane I used red(and red is a warm color)but now I won't use the warm grey anymore and the cool grey def!!!!!! BIG KISSSSS from Holland
Amazing video. Especially the experiment in the end. Please post more!
I found this to be extremely helpful when dealing with greys. Thank you! I really enjoy your videos. Your accent reminds me a lot of my late mother- in -law......Italian American from Rochester NY. It wasn't quite as strong but she had lived in California for a lot of years.
If the warm grey has green in it, what colour does cool grey have? And French grey?
I wish you made a video on every prismacolor pencil. Tell us about where is on on colorwheel just everything.
Each video of yours gets better and better. Love learning from you. You do it so well. Thank you for taking the time to do this💘💘💕😏
This is so interesting. It also follows on from my previous question about using greys. I watch a lot of colouring tutorials and I haven't found anyone that explains colouring in such detail as you do. I'll be watching all these videos multiple times to make sure I absorb everything. Thank you
Your videos are like sitting in an art class for a semester. I just love the way you teach and that comes from a former teacher. Your information is real life useful....thank you! Can you tell me what electric pencil sharpener you use?
Really interesting video especially the colour mixing at the end. Always useful to know how to make a grey too.
Im sooooo extremely thankful for you teaching us soo much!! 💖 You're so awesome!!
Have only just found your channel which has taught me so much about the prismacolor colour scheme. Thank you
You are so good at explaining things so that they make sense. You are so informative and not just telling us what to do but why to do it. Thank you so much for taking the time to do all these videos, you amaze me 🤩
Hi Lori, you make me understand the mechanics of what I’m coloring....if that makes sense. You make me feel like I’m going to Art School Everyday.....which I wish I would of done. Thank you !
You always have different videos from other colourists all very well explained
Looking forward to the skin one ☺
That's what I am trying to do. I am working on 2 skin ones. One is explaining the pencils and the other is how to contour the facial features. So many videos to do, I'll never run out of ideas.
@@ColorMyWorld great to know
Did you notice we both have the same profile pic avatar? It's coloured so differently! ☺
Thank you Lori for taking your time to do these videos :). I do not own Prismas but still it helps me as then I would apply this knowledge to my pencils
This is so helpful, I really need to learn what colours are made up of. Amazing ty
Thank you again and again! I’m so glad you’re doing this I have to revisit process red as it looks pinky to me. And find that list so I can re organize my pencils.
Wow again! Your teaching skills are fantastic.
Just catching up with some of your videos. I heard through this one when doing the red candy! Like me! I don't know if anyone thought of it. But why not just jump into just using the red color! I know there's a reason, you don't! Maybe in a future video you can tell why not. I'm still learning, maybe you have one already made. With the next big holiday coming up, valentine's day! Lots will be coloring with the reds! Lol. Thanks again for another great learning video.
Normally my undercoats are different colors because the blends come out so much better. I know how to judge. Watch the video on seeing more colors.
Oh so much to learn. It is very interesting. Thanks for sharing
Ty so much for these informative videos. I have learned so much.
So helpful!! I'm new to watching you and I love how you instruct! Happy to be here and I am a newbie colorist.
This is so interesting! Thank you for all your teaching videos!
I have been watching some of your videos and have greatly appreciated them since I am a beginner with colored pencils. I have researched the various kinds of better pencils and have bought a set of 36 Polychromos. I like these pencils but continue to wonder about the Prismacolor pencils. They have both an amazing following and a huge number of deep criticisms. Here in this video you make it very clear that you love these pencils (prismacolor). Should I just forget about Prismacolors due to their huge quality control issues?
There is no huge quality control issue now. There once was when they stopped manufacturing in Canada and the pencils were so drastically different than the Mexican made ones. Every company puts out an occasional blooper. They are machine made. Try the Prisma out. They do drastically different things. BTW they are produced by the same corporation but two different companies within that corporation. Poly are for details, Prisma is for blending. Both are great.
925 Crimson lake has always ALWAYS been my favourite shade of red
And one more question what paper do you use when you use a printer to print pictures u want to color instead of in your expensive coloring books?
Hi Lori . you are fantastic. Thank you for your time .Between you and Dede I think Ill end up being the colorist I want to be . Loves
Hi Lori videos only getting better. You have me thinking of things I’ve never thought about.
Question: what brand is the book you have in this video? Thank you Dan
Hi That’s beautiful I love it 😍 thank you for the video with snow and with the candle thank you 😊 💕 when you have time would you be able to show how to colour blueberries ? Xxxx 💕💕
Hi again..I was wondering if you ever found the correct placement or order for the 150 set awhile back I dropped my box n they fell out it drives me crazy because I can't figure it out ..some are warm some are cool etc..any help in that area would be so appreciated! I know your busy but any info please..thank you so very much in advance! Xoxo Tori
Loving the series. I have had my prisma pencils for a year and was about to give up on them.
Would it be possible for you to zoom in while coloring, thank you
I'll zoom in more. That's an easy request. I was getting complaints that my hand sometimes covers thing so I stopped doing it as much, but I can do it more. I'll just find a happy medium.
Do you have a tutorial on feathers?
Loving your videos. What colours do you use for the gingerbread men. I have the same pack of prismacolor pencils. Xxxx 🌷 🌷 🌷
Goldenrod, dark brown, and a touch of sienna brown
Another great lesson! Thanks so much!
Cool example. I am learning so much that I had no idea.
another excellent lesson!
This visual colour wheel theory experiment to show us why and when we get a " muddy brown " ..was so effective.. thankyou . I also noticed that you hand labelled under each of your pencils in the case the proper pencil number .......Can you let me know why it is so effective to put them in number order and not just arranging them into color groupings .??
I'll answer that in my next video because I have another tip like that.
Fabulous video for teaching color theory. Keep up you hard work and I will eventually be an "artiste"😁😁😁😚
Thank you so much for your teaching. 🌷 🌷 🌷
Mud! I've encountered that and couldn't figure it out. Thanks for the cool info.
It's caused by the undertone. A color will get muddy when the undertones don't match or when the undertones and overtones all melt together and form brown. A Red Orange mixed with a Blue green. Normally a red and a blue would be fine but when you throw in the Orange and green undertones it becomes muddy.
@@ColorMyWorld Thanks for the quick reply! I'm just starting out and probably am not familiar enough yet with the undertones to make good choices. Just another reason to test out combinations separately before applying them to a project.
This is so helpful! Thanks very much. I learnt a lot from your videos
Wow that was very informative!
Very interesting, thank you.
So helpful 👍🏼 thank you 😊
Another wonderful video! So much to think about with this one =D
Thank you Lori ❤️
Tfs. I follow everything, except when you describe the highlight/light line and "the object going this way..and the light going that/this way." It's confusing. Everything else is very helpful, including the first video.☺👍
I'll redo that part of my lesson for you. Sometimes I say it a different way and the light bulb goes off for new people. I'll try to get it done tomorrow night.
Thank you ! Very helpful :)
Could you list all the red colors (not just show pictures of red pencils). List all the red blue and then all the red orange. I am learning so much from all your videos. Thanks.
Yes, at the end of all this there will be a webpage with all the lists. I don't want to do it yet because I am just going to be adding to it.
Thank you so much. Very helpful!
Ohhhhh...... I think most people describe highlight placement in terms of the light source and the direction its coming from(and keeping it consistent throughout a picture). Not the shape/position of the actual highlight. I was confused
Very informative 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Re: "The secrets of the Prismacolor 150 set."
Hi I have watched the first two in this series, then I got sick for a long while. I now cant find the rest of the videos showing the rest of the color
There are several more. Check the playlist under color blends.
@@ColorMyWorld Thank you Soooo much!! Hugs! 🙏❤️
Process red can look pink magenta
Thank you for not leaving white highlights stripes white!
I'm a perfectionist and it's holding me back
Melody, colored pencils will never be perfect. There are too many factors such as the wax in the pencils and the tooth in the paper. Did you know some of the greatest pieces of art were also called garbage back in the day. Vincent van Gogh was a second rate artist when he was alive. Even he would call his work garbage, but the world now hails him as one of the greatest post-impressionist painters ever. You will see your flaws when other people won't. Don't give up if it's something you like. I know your struggling with it.
@@ColorMyWorld thanks
I swear, your videos should be required watching before we can purchase any color books!!!
Hi Lori your videos are fantastic! There is so much to be learned. I would like to become a student of yours I don't know how I would do that but I really would like to be a student of yours can you please PM me so I can give you my information. I really want to work with you to learn how to color.
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