I'm a beginner in adult colouring and this video has been so helpful and informative and you explained everything so well for someone starting out, thank you so much for sharing, I am so glad I have found you, you're awesome ☺️
Finally !!!! Somebody explained light source so a beginner like me can understand !!!! Butterfly Lady is my new name for you !!! FAIRY..ANGEL...BUTTERFLY LADY...LOL. You are awesome !! Thanks so much!!!
Karen Squirrell said it best " Awesome Video " It's about shadowing not alot of babbling. I actually learned how to put shadows in my pictures. Finally after tons of videos .
I wish I'd taken art training but you have really helped me get smart about my coloring.i hope you realize what a great positive influence you are to me and, I'm sure, others who realize the importance of learning why and how color choices really matter. You are truly loved ...your mom did a good job with you. Love and thanks...Marcia in Modesto...p.s.i lived in Fort Knox during Vietnam war..I was 19 and boy did I have fun..thumbs down to snow and icy roads..thumbs up to autumn foliage, kentucky derby. G.I.s who needed cuddle time.😻
Amazing video Erin, and so easy to understand. Thank you for this, and I would love to see this as a series. You have so much knowledge and I just adore learning from you. Thank you🥰❣
Thank you so much to make a video that is simple for beginners to follow. Please continue making this kind of video. I get so intimidated with other videos OMG!!! to me it take the fun out of coloring with so much techniques. I understand I would love to color one day the same way but boy as a beginner I gust want to put down the coloring book and never picked up again to be honest. Thank you so much and 🙏🏼 keep making more simple videos. Love it.. I have a Sherry Baldy coloring book that is super cute that I want to try but there is not a lot of videos to watch for this kind of book
A wonderful video, Erin. All that colour theory is probably things we've heard in passing, but you brought it all together and demonstrated it so well with some really beautiful images. A great tutorial or revision piece that will come in useful for most of us.
Erin I just found your channel this past weekend and cannot thank you enough! I've watched a half dozen or more of your videos and have learned some great tips from you!!! You are an excellent teacher!!! And this is coming from a 65 year old artist who has been doing this for years...you really inspire others and your talent is amazing!!! Thank you so much for sharing all your experience with others! God Bless, Rus from Bucks County Pennsylvania 🤓
Hey there Ky. Anywhere near Lexington or Nicholasville? That is a great video, so helpful. Just minutes before you said you didn't go to art school etc I was thinking this girl is like being in an art class. Great job, so many of you are crazy good and so helpful. Thanks for the smiles.
I've learnt so much from your channel and I've only been subscribed 3 days. I've been watching other UA-camrs for a while and i cant seem to learn anything because they make it seem so complicated with very large pencil sets with colours a begginer wouldn't have. You use cheap supplies sometimes too and its nice for begginers because it proves you can acheive really pretty art with low end supplies.
this answered my question about color placement. I wondered how to bring the page together and not be a big mess. I just found your channel and was disappointed to see you are not posting anymore.
Thank you Erin. You are a very good teacher and easy to understand. With the covid #’s going up I’m looking for a hobby so I thought I would take up adult coloring. I will be back to watch your video again you gave us a lot of good information. Thanks, Dolores
I am so happy to see the completed Vilan San image💜. This video was so well thought out and well explained, thank you. I'm so glad you demonstrated using a posca pen, I recently puchased one and am getting ready to transition to using it instead of a gel pen for highlights. I want to add a little information for anyone who has a windows computer with a paint program. I discovered that the paint program has a color wheel and color scheme generator, so if you have a paint program on your laptop or tablet you might want to play with it to find out how to generate a color combination, it's pretty easy really.
Such a brilliant explanation of highlghts and shadows and how to use the colours in a colour palette in a picture. I'm a reader writer learner so have made lots of notes knowing the writing stuff down means I will remember. Can't wait to try everything out. Thank you
Thank you Erin so much ..very easy to understand and follow along. Great explanation on of the light effects on objects..I've always found it a little confusing. Now I get it! I do love your finished pages and your thinking behind the color distribution. Enjoy your channel. I've had the rainbow color wheel for years since I started doing embroidery. I do find it helpful.
Loved this video Erin! Thank you for sharing a wealth of information and that page from Vilan San is FANTASTIC! The time it took shows in the result. Really beautiful.
Fyi from a Barry about raspberries...individual raspberries are actually clusters of many fruits and each of those fruits are called " drupelets" and contains a seed. Usually the seeds are soft and not noticed when eaten. If you could watch a video of a berry forming, you could see how each drupelet grows by itself and they then get stuck together because they are growing so close to each other. That's why raspberries are so fragile. Not being a smartass, just answering your question. A benefit of being really old is the mass of useless knowledge one collects. 👵👍❤
@@SimpleArtforAdults Yes I am, but this tidbit comes from being a farmer's daughter. Lol! Growing food wasn't our primary concentration, but we did have orchards and gardens, including some berry bushes. We tried to grow as much as we could because farming is not a very profitable occupation. But it is a great way to live, especially for kids.
Your videos are amazing, I've learned so much from you, thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos, your artwork is gorgeous, God bless sweetheart ❤️
Excellent tutorial, reminds me of my high school art class with lights and shadows and the individual shapes with formation theory. I needed this reminder as I forgot show much since it's been too long ago. Now let's put it into practice.
Wow, great video tutorial Erin! Such a wealth of information and hopefully I can follow it. lol I'm such a newbie, inexperienced colorer. So thanks for all the tips and tricks, especially that color wheel. The pictures you colored are amazingly beautiful. I will never reach that level, but I am ok with it. lol Hugs, Brenda
Hopefully this video will help me with shadows and light because I have a few beautiful books I REALLY want to color in but I'm afraid to start because my shading shadowing and light is damn near non existent lol.
Kim(uk) Contd. Sorry Erin I managed to send the message before I was ready ( senior moment, me thinks). Anyway as I was saying I have a long way to go to be as good as you but I enjoy colouring and that’s all that matters. Thanks again Much love Kim x
I think what really matters is that you enjoy yourself while you're choosing those colors! Haha. We all have to teach ourselves how to put what we see in our heads down on the page, and that takes time... but it can be done. :)
wow Erin I really enjoyed this video. It was well thought out and very informative. I can't wait to try out your ideas in my own books now. One thing I wanted to ask is why my posca pen lets out huge blobs of ink instead of small dots like yours? Its very messy and ruined one of my coloring pages. :( Thank you for sharing all your knowledge with us. I am soooo glad you came back to the coloring world. We missed you
Thanks, Sheila! I really appreciate that! I'm not sure why your Posca would do that. I have only ever used a black and a white and these are my very first Posca pens ever. I haven't experienced that. I know you aren't alone, though. Posca pens need to be shaken. It's acrylic paint inside the pen, and it can separate over time or due to the temperature. If you can, try to keep it at room temp (always) and give it a nice, hard shake (with the lid on - I made that mistake once and got Posca EVERYWHERE!) before you try to use it. Maybe try it on a piece of scrap paper to the side to make sure there aren't any clumps or anything before you move to your coloring book, too. And I'm so happy to be back! I missed all of you! Hugs!
@@SimpleArtforAdults thanks for the quick reply and oh my goodness I can't imagine having the posca paint everywhere like that LOL Pooor you! Mine are the black and white ones too, but the white one just may be a dud as no matter how much or how hard I shake it, ......it always lets out a huge blob instead of a nice little dot. Grrr... They are in a pencil container on my desk , nib side down. Maybe they should be laying down flat? Or nib up? They should come with instructions lol ...thanks again Erin.
Hello Erin. This video was very enlightening. Thank you. One question. What if your picture doesn't have a obvious "focal point "? For example ONLY a lot of flowers on a page (no vase or other item and no large or main flower) like in a lot of Johanna Basford's book World Of Flowers. Hoping you can advise💜💙💜💙
Great video btw. I don't do as much shading as you. I guess I need to develop more patience. The pic in Vilin San turned out really gorgeous. You're becoming a pro!!
Kim (uk) Hi Erin Thank you very much for a great video, really helpful especially when choosing colours. I’m afraid I get so carried away with the colours by the time I’m finished it looks like a child has coloured the picture. Limiting myself will hopefully go some way to sorting that part of my colouring out
This is why I like UA-cam
I'm a beginner in adult colouring and this video has been so helpful and informative and you explained everything so well for someone starting out, thank you so much for sharing, I am so glad I have found you, you're awesome ☺️
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Finally !!!! Somebody explained light source so a beginner like me can understand !!!! Butterfly Lady is my new name for you !!! FAIRY..ANGEL...BUTTERFLY LADY...LOL. You are awesome !! Thanks so much!!!
Haha BamaBells! I'm so happy it made sense to you!
agreed I have been trying to understand light source for years Thankyou so much
Karen Squirrell said it best " Awesome Video " It's about shadowing not alot of babbling. I actually learned how to put shadows in my pictures. Finally after tons of videos .
Thank you so much you are a wonderful teacher and your work is wonderful too.
I wish I'd taken art training but you have really helped me get smart about my coloring.i hope you realize what a great positive influence you are to me and, I'm sure, others who realize the importance of learning why and how color choices really matter. You are truly loved ...your mom did a good job with you. Love and thanks...Marcia in Modesto...p.s.i lived in Fort Knox during Vietnam war..I was 19 and boy did I have fun..thumbs down to snow and icy roads..thumbs up to autumn foliage, kentucky derby. G.I.s who needed cuddle time.😻
I really like how your showing how to use budget friendly colored pencils, I have the nice ones but sometimes I like the others.
Best tutorial ever. Thanks you.
WoW! You are an artist! Thank you for this, I have learnt so much from you. Sara x
Hi fellow kentuckian! Thank you for this video, very helpful and enjoyable
Amazing video Erin, and so easy to understand. Thank you for this, and I would love to see this as a series. You have so much knowledge and I just adore learning from you. Thank you🥰❣
Thank you so much to make a video that is simple for beginners to follow. Please continue making this kind of video. I get so intimidated with other videos OMG!!! to me it take the fun out of coloring with so much techniques. I understand I would love to color one day the same way but boy as a beginner I gust want to put down the coloring book and never picked up again to be honest. Thank you so much and 🙏🏼 keep making more simple videos. Love it.. I have a Sherry Baldy coloring book that is super cute that I want to try but there is not a lot of videos to watch for this kind of book
Wow, a channel that shows you how to colour with Crayola coloured pencils! Thank you!
i love the fact that you are using crayola
Thanks, very helpful 👍😊😊
I really like your tutorials
Great tips. I like the idea about using a lamp to get a better idea of how the light hits objects
This beginner thanks you for the clear and detailed tutorial. Some of these mysterious concepts now make sense to me.
Super helpful tips thanks!!
A wonderful video, Erin. All that colour theory is probably things we've heard in passing, but you brought it all together and demonstrated it so well with some really beautiful images. A great tutorial or revision piece that will come in useful for most of us.
Erin I just found your channel this past weekend and cannot thank you enough! I've watched a half dozen or more of your videos and have learned some great tips from you!!! You are an excellent teacher!!! And this is coming from a 65 year old artist who has been doing this for years...you really inspire others and your talent is amazing!!! Thank you so much for sharing all your experience with others! God Bless, Rus from Bucks County Pennsylvania 🤓
This was extremely helpful. Thank you so much! 😊💕
Happy it was helpful, Becky!
Hey there Ky. Anywhere near Lexington or Nicholasville?
That is a great video, so helpful.
Just minutes before you said you didn't go to art school etc I was thinking this girl is like being in an art class.
Great job, so many of you are crazy good and so helpful.
Thanks for the smiles.
I've learnt so much from your channel and I've only been subscribed 3 days. I've been watching other UA-camrs for a while and i cant seem to learn anything because they make it seem so complicated with very large pencil sets with colours a begginer wouldn't have. You use cheap supplies sometimes too and its nice for begginers because it proves you can acheive really pretty art with low end supplies.
this answered my question about color placement. I wondered how to bring the page together and not be a big mess. I just found your channel and was disappointed to see you are not posting anymore.
Thank you Erin. You are a very good teacher and easy to understand. With the covid #’s going up I’m looking for a hobby so I thought I would take up adult coloring. I will be back to watch your video again you gave us a lot of good information. Thanks, Dolores
I am so happy to see the completed Vilan San image💜. This video was so well thought out and well explained, thank you. I'm so glad you demonstrated using a posca pen, I recently puchased one and am getting ready to transition to using it instead of a gel pen for highlights. I want to add a little information for anyone who has a windows computer with a paint program. I discovered that the paint program has a color wheel and color scheme generator, so if you have a paint program on your laptop or tablet you might want to play with it to find out how to generate a color combination, it's pretty easy really.
Such a brilliant explanation of highlghts and shadows and how to use the colours in a colour palette in a picture. I'm a reader writer learner so have made lots of notes knowing the writing stuff down means I will remember. Can't wait to try everything out. Thank you
I’ve learned so much from your video! Thank you so much fo shearing! 🌹
Thank you Erin so much ..very easy to understand and follow along. Great explanation on of the light effects on objects..I've always found it a little confusing. Now I get it! I do love your finished pages and your thinking behind the color distribution. Enjoy your channel. I've had the rainbow color wheel for years since I started doing embroidery. I do find it helpful.
Loved this video Erin! Thank you for sharing a wealth of information and that page from Vilan San is FANTASTIC! The time it took shows in the result. Really beautiful.
I’m learning so much from your videos! Thank you!
This was so helpful! Thank you so much❣
Fyi from a Barry about raspberries...individual raspberries are actually clusters of many fruits and each of those fruits are called " drupelets" and contains a seed. Usually the seeds are soft and not noticed when eaten. If you could watch a video of a berry forming, you could see how each drupelet grows by itself and they then get stuck together because they are growing so close to each other. That's why raspberries are so fragile. Not being a smartass, just answering your question. A benefit of being really old is the mass of useless knowledge one collects. 👵👍❤
Omgosh Nancy. This is why we are friends. I am a sucker for random trivia, and clearly... you are too! Lol!
@@SimpleArtforAdults Yes I am, but this tidbit comes from being a farmer's daughter. Lol! Growing food wasn't our primary concentration, but we did have orchards and gardens, including some berry bushes. We tried to grow as much as we could because farming is not a very profitable occupation. But it is a great way to live, especially for kids.
Isn't it sad that farmers can barely make a living? And I agree that it's an excellent experience for kids!
I just found this video and i have to say thank you so much! I put my own touch in things but overall i learned a lot.
It's great to see you back !!!!
Your videos are amazing, I've learned so much from you, thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos, your artwork is gorgeous, God bless sweetheart ❤️
Awesome colour shading nice art 🖼 sb done nice channel 👌
Oh it would be great if you did a page using that color wheel, I just ordered it! I’m just starting to color, your work is awsome!
Excellent tutorial, reminds me of my high school art class with lights and shadows and the individual shapes with formation theory. I needed this reminder as I forgot show much since it's been too long ago. Now let's put it into practice.
Thank you, you explained it perfect for me to finally "get it"
Hi,
Learned a lot from this tutorial.
Thank you so much for doing this.
Great video Erin.! Very informative-thank you!!
Like your new intro music.
Le résultat est splendide 😀 Un grand merci. 🌝🐦🌝🐦
Where did you get the glove? I would really like to get one :) Great tutorial by the way :)
I think I put a link in the description. If I didn't I'll find one.
Mine was a gift, but they are available on Amazon for $6 to $8.
erin loved the video tfs
Wow, great video tutorial Erin! Such a wealth of information and hopefully I can follow it. lol I'm such a newbie, inexperienced colorer. So thanks for all the tips and tricks, especially that color wheel. The pictures you colored are amazingly beautiful. I will never reach that level, but I am ok with it. lol Hugs, Brenda
Awww Brenda! Thank you! All it takes is patience and practice. Remember it takes me a million years to finish a picture! This is why. Haha.
@@SimpleArtforAdults It takes me forever too Erin. lol
Wonderful video. I like this type of video very much!!
Good! I'll be sure to make more like them!
And thank you very much!
Hopefully this video will help me with shadows and light because I have a few beautiful books I REALLY want to color in but I'm afraid to start because my shading shadowing and light is damn near non existent lol.
Kim(uk)
Contd.
Sorry Erin I managed to send the message before I was ready ( senior moment, me thinks). Anyway as I was saying I have a long way to go to be as good as you but I enjoy colouring and that’s all that matters.
Thanks again
Much love
Kim x
I think what really matters is that you enjoy yourself while you're choosing those colors! Haha.
We all have to teach ourselves how to put what we see in our heads down on the page, and that takes time... but it can be done. :)
wow Erin I really enjoyed this video. It was well thought out and very informative. I can't wait to try out your ideas in my own books now. One thing I wanted to ask is why my posca pen lets out huge blobs of ink instead of small dots like yours? Its very messy and ruined one of my coloring pages. :( Thank you for sharing all your knowledge with us. I am soooo glad you came back to the coloring world. We missed you
Thanks, Sheila! I really appreciate that! I'm not sure why your Posca would do that. I have only ever used a black and a white and these are my very first Posca pens ever. I haven't experienced that. I know you aren't alone, though.
Posca pens need to be shaken. It's acrylic paint inside the pen, and it can separate over time or due to the temperature. If you can, try to keep it at room temp (always) and give it a nice, hard shake (with the lid on - I made that mistake once and got Posca EVERYWHERE!) before you try to use it. Maybe try it on a piece of scrap paper to the side to make sure there aren't any clumps or anything before you move to your coloring book, too.
And I'm so happy to be back! I missed all of you!
Hugs!
@@SimpleArtforAdults thanks for the quick reply and oh my goodness I can't imagine having the posca paint everywhere like that LOL Pooor you!
Mine are the black and white ones too, but the white one just may be a dud as no matter how much or how hard I shake it, ......it always lets out a huge blob instead of a nice little dot. Grrr...
They are in a pencil container on my desk , nib side down. Maybe they should be laying down flat? Or nib up? They should come with instructions lol ...thanks again Erin.
Hello Erin.
This video was very enlightening. Thank you.
One question. What if your picture doesn't have a obvious "focal point "?
For example ONLY a lot of flowers on a page (no vase or other item and no large or main flower) like in a lot of Johanna Basford's book World Of Flowers.
Hoping you can advise💜💙💜💙
Great video
thank you
Great videos. One question..what are the shiny metalics you are using and where can I get some? Thank you
Great video btw. I don't do as much shading as you. I guess I need to develop more patience. The pic in Vilin San turned out really gorgeous. You're becoming a pro!!
Thank you Nancy! :) All that shading takes a lifetime so I don't always do it. Haha.
Kim (uk)
Hi Erin
Thank you very much for a great video, really helpful especially when choosing colours. I’m afraid I get so carried away with the colours by the time I’m finished it looks like a child has coloured the picture. Limiting myself will hopefully go some way to sorting that part of my colouring out
Grapes
It sounds like you are spraying something from a water bottle between each pencil.... Are you?
It's a sharpener.
Is it a mulberry
Not entirely sure! Lol
We used to pick black raspberries and they looked exactly how you are coloring it. There is a red raspberry too.
Great lessons - but your nail polish- although quite lovely is VERY distracting! A more natural / neutral would be easier to ignore.
I enjoy all tutorials from most of you, but the nail polish you all use is very distracting! Pretty but distracting!
You should learn to edit your videos so we don't have to sit through finding your colors. Just a thought!