I really appreciate all the little tips you throw in, like noticing that hair/fur/eyelashes appear as clumps rather than individual strands when you actually look at your subject. Those tips are so valuable and important! We tend to draw what we know is there (a million little hairs) rather than taking a closer look at what our eyes perceive is there.
It's funny because when we try to draw the millions of little hairs it takes more time and doesn't even look as good. It's like we are determined to make extra work for ourselves lol.
Thank you for saying that draw is about seeing! I have always told people drawing is how things relate to each other. One line to the next, one shape to the next, drawing isn't about your hand or how you move, it's all about how you see.
Wow! That is amazing! You combine two blender technique!! I love it so much!!! I've never seen this before, it's great! I want to ask you something, when do you know which blender use, in this case the powder blender and odorless mineral spirit if you use both? Because I see the difference between one and the other. And I wanted to tell you that this drawing technique with colored pencils and the powder blender, the application, is very similar to soft pastels. I really enjoy this video Lisa It's so beautiful!!! Thanks!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤🥰
When you start a colored pencil project, do you draw your contour outline with graphite? That's what I've done in the past and I think I make my lines pretty light but the colored pencil doesn't stick to the graphite. Any tips would be very helpful.
Hi. As usual, great work and video. Questions: Is the powder blender only good to use on sanded paper? If not, should it be used on a certain type of paper other than the sanded paper? Also, in your Patreon, do you show detail steps on portrait drawing with the Luminance and FC pencils, e.g., eyes, mouths, etc.? I don't draw animals, so I'm mainly interested in portraiture (adults, teenagers, kids, and babies). If you do, then I will see you on Patreon. Thank you in advance for your response.
Make sure you use the sanded paper, so like Fisher 400, 500, etc. And oil based colored pencils. Polychromos is pretty great for it. But I guess the most important part is the paper.
I have been used to using watercolor paper and clear gesso. I finally bought some mi teintes paper. I am not used to smooth paper. I posted my color pencil.picture on Steve Mitchell's site. It is a bus in Guatemala and I completely changed the background. Anyways that was 300lb cold pressed paper. Love your portraits. I would love to hear again which paper you would recommend. The white and cream shows up on cold pressed just fine.
It's totally up to you. If you do start working in color, don't be frustrated. There is a bit of a learning curve. Because you're used to black and white you should be ahead of the game when it comes to values and contrast so this is going to really help you when you jump into color :)
@@Lachri thanks for the feedback...I'm always looking to expand my skills and your right. No need to get frustrated if it doesn't work out. Your very talented and it's nice to see your work.
Is there a cheap paper for starting out on colored pencil? the papers you use are not available here in my country which makes them pricey here. Using a normal paper warps my work even without using the oms.
Lisa, you never cease to amaze me! I need help with getting the image onto paper - what kind of projector would you recommend? Also, have you any experience with handcolored photographs? You're the best and thank you so much for sharing!!
Dear Lisa! I love this painting! You are so perfekt in all your Art! Mmmhh... I have a question for you: You are using stencils quite a lot and I love it, but how do you fix the stencil on the canvas or paper? I bought a beautiful stencil and on the back it says that I have to use their stencil fix to fix the stencil on my survace. Do I really have to use that or do they just want to make money with that? Do you have any tipps for me on using stencils on paper and canvas and how you do it? Your advice is highly appreciated! It's a plastic stencil. Already thank you and be blessed! Love from Manuela to you dearest Lisa and take care!
You have been so informative. Thank you. I signed up to support you on Patreon after this video. Have you done watercolor underpainting and polychromos/powder blender on top yet? Interested to see what the results would be.
I promise you Lisa if you shorten Odorless Mineral Spirits to OMS, we will still know what you're talking about lol. And Chicken walking to the music over your pencils gave me so much joy. xoxo
Amazing blends on background. Love the techniques for making the hair. I think I have a ways to go, but usually I just do landscape or preferred abstract. Great tips on the teeth and eye whites. I think most artists wouldn't know this for awhile, so you definitely save time that way. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Lisa. Have you ever tried Holbein colored pencils? They are a Japanese brand. Some artists claim that these pencils are even superior to Luminance! It seems to be quite expensive though. If you could, you might want to consider trying one of its smaller sets and make a video on how they perform compared to the other top brands. I think it is available on ebay. Anyway, great video. Keep up the fantastic work.
I personally won't purchase pencils that I can not get open stock. What are we going to do when one runs out? Go buy another full set? That is not acceptable to me. The next issue I have is that the Holbein's do not have actual lightfast ratings that I can find. All they say is "Excellent light resistance". That means very pretty much nothing. If these were available open stock like most colored pencils I would suggest trying a few (assuming you were able to find any lightfast ratings at all), but that isn't really possible with those pencils because they can not be legally sold in the US being that the company will not do tests for toxicity. This brand has three strikes against it to me 1) Not available open stock. 2) No real lightfast ratings. 3) Grossly overpriced considering points 1 and 2.? I know artists who I trust who have used them and they are not much different than Polychromos in performance from what they've said so there is no benefit to buying these at all IMO. On top of that, the colors are mostly pastels which are not super useful for me :)
Yeah, true. The lack of open stock availability makes it difficult to stick to the brand. But I do think they have a 3 star light fast rating system like the Polychromos. Anyway, thank you very much for the information, Lisa.
I wish I could find the lightfast ratings online. I would really like to see what those are. It's weird to me that they tested for lightfast but not toxicity which would allow them to be sold in the US. That seems quite backward.
Yeah, I hope they have tested for toxicity. I am basically not sure regarding what I need to buy. I do mixed media art, and I have prismas and polychromos (thankfully, none of my prismas have broken till now!!). I wasn't sure whether I need to buy Polychromos large set, Caran d'Ache or Holbein. Maybe I'll buy both Polychromos and Luminance, and leave Holbein for now, given some of the valid points from your side. I am also looking forward to Derwent lightfast, they have released a preliminary set of colors, they are all natural shades, hopefully they'll release more colors in the future.
You’d get a far better looking background with more depth of color if you used either oil pastels (Sennelier) blended with mineral spirits, or Pan Pastels for a more diffused look. Both would give you far less work and a better result. Coloured pencils are not meant for large surface areas.
I really appreciate all the little tips you throw in, like noticing that hair/fur/eyelashes appear as clumps rather than individual strands when you actually look at your subject. Those tips are so valuable and important! We tend to draw what we know is there (a million little hairs) rather than taking a closer look at what our eyes perceive is there.
It's funny because when we try to draw the millions of little hairs it takes more time and doesn't even look as good. It's like we are determined to make extra work for ourselves lol.
Thank you for saying that draw is about seeing! I have always told people drawing is how things relate to each other. One line to the next, one shape to the next, drawing isn't about your hand or how you move, it's all about how you see.
I can’t get over how beautiful your artwork is but this is so ... lost for words thank you for sharing with us I look forward to watching you.
I’ve learned a lot from just this one video. Thanks for the upload!
Me too!!!
Amazing Lisa! Awesome stuff!
Stunning portrait Lisa. Her hair is beautiful!
Wow! Nice project. And perfect done. I am look forward to try powder blender
Wonderful tips, very generous, thanks Lisa
This is a gorgeous concept, and amazingly executed!
Thank you!
Such a good video! Thanks.
Super cool!
Wow! That is amazing! You combine two blender technique!! I love it so much!!! I've never seen this before, it's great! I want to ask you something, when do you know which blender use, in this case the powder blender and odorless mineral spirit if you use both? Because I see the difference between one and the other. And I wanted to tell you that this drawing technique with colored pencils and the powder blender, the application, is very similar to soft pastels. I really enjoy this video Lisa It's so beautiful!!! Thanks!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤🥰
Beautiful! Lol at first glance i thought it was a photo 👏👏 also really loving the Betelgeuse theme 👌💞
Thanks :D
@@Lachri np! Really love your artwork 🙃 you rock at animals too! 👌💞✌
Beautiful portrait Lisa. Thanks for sharing :) Marion
What’s the paper your using again because I can’t find fishers to buy in Australia can you recommend another brand?
When you start a colored pencil project, do you draw your contour outline with graphite? That's what I've done in the past and I think I make my lines pretty light but the colored pencil doesn't stick to the graphite. Any tips would be very helpful.
Hi. As usual, great work and video. Questions: Is the powder blender only good to use on sanded paper? If not, should it be used on a certain type of paper other than the sanded paper? Also, in your Patreon, do you show detail steps on portrait drawing with the Luminance and FC pencils, e.g., eyes, mouths, etc.? I don't draw animals, so I'm mainly interested in portraiture (adults, teenagers, kids, and babies). If you do, then I will see you on Patreon. Thank you in advance for your response.
I got these powder blenders (the set) but don’t really like the sanded papers to work on. Are there other options?
I've never used a powder blender. I'd like to give it a shot. Are there any type/brand of pencil it doesn't work well with?
Make sure you use the sanded paper, so like Fisher 400, 500, etc. And oil based colored pencils. Polychromos is pretty great for it. But I guess the most important part is the paper.
17:53 I've actually thought for a long time that the concepts in making, particularly contouring and highlighting could help artists with portraits.
you and lena danya are my favourite artist!!!❤❤❤❤
Aww thanks!! :D
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your reply made my day!!!💟❤
I have been used to using watercolor paper and clear gesso. I finally bought some mi teintes paper. I am not used to smooth paper. I posted my color pencil.picture on Steve Mitchell's site. It is a bus in Guatemala and I completely changed the background. Anyways that was 300lb cold pressed paper. Love your portraits. I would love to hear again which paper you would recommend. The white and cream shows up on cold pressed just fine.
I've not tried cold pressed with the gesso. I really did like how the Hot Pressed watercolor paper with gesso worked though :)
Lachri Fine Art I agree but I accidently bought the other
I enjoy drawing portraits, I've become really good at it. I've stuck with black and white. Do you think it would benefit to add color or experiment?
It's totally up to you. If you do start working in color, don't be frustrated. There is a bit of a learning curve. Because you're used to black and white you should be ahead of the game when it comes to values and contrast so this is going to really help you when you jump into color :)
@@Lachri thanks for the feedback...I'm always looking to expand my skills and your right. No need to get frustrated if it doesn't work out. Your very talented and it's nice to see your work.
Is there a cheap paper for starting out on colored pencil? the papers you use are not available here in my country which makes them pricey here. Using a normal paper warps my work even without using the oms.
Look for a hot pressed watercolor paper. Maker sure it's acid free :)
@@Lachri Ok, thanks.
Lisa, you never cease to amaze me! I need help with getting the image onto paper - what kind of projector would you recommend? Also, have you any experience with handcolored photographs? You're the best and thank you so much for sharing!!
Do you recommend tan toned paper? Like strathmore
I like it when blending with OMS but it won't work with powder blender :)
marvelous art.
What kind of paper do you use for this? As well for charcoal?
The supplies I used are listed in the video description :) I don't use charcoal.
Dear Lisa! I love this painting! You are so perfekt in all your Art! Mmmhh...
I have a question for you: You are using stencils quite a lot and I love it, but how do you fix the stencil on the canvas or paper? I bought a beautiful stencil and on the back it says that I have to use their stencil fix to fix the stencil on my survace. Do I really have to use that or do they just want to make money with that? Do you have any tipps for me on using stencils on paper and canvas and how you do it? Your advice is highly appreciated! It's a plastic stencil. Already thank you and be blessed! Love from Manuela to you dearest Lisa and take care!
Great video Lisa! 😁
this is just gorgeous but all I can think is I want that dress! lol
You have been so informative. Thank you. I signed up to support you on Patreon after this video. Have you done watercolor underpainting and polychromos/powder blender on top yet? Interested to see what the results would be.
I have not tried that. I don't think watercolor on sanded paper would be ideal.
I promise you Lisa if you shorten Odorless Mineral Spirits to OMS, we will still know what you're talking about lol. And Chicken walking to the music over your pencils gave me so much joy. xoxo
Been waiting for this.....😃
Amazing blends on background. Love the techniques for making the hair. I think I have a ways to go, but usually I just do landscape or preferred abstract. Great tips on the teeth and eye whites. I think most artists wouldn't know this for awhile, so you definitely save time that way. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Lisa. Have you ever tried Holbein colored pencils? They are a Japanese brand. Some artists claim that these pencils are even superior to Luminance! It seems to be quite expensive though. If you could, you might want to consider trying one of its smaller sets and make a video on how they perform compared to the other top brands. I think it is available on ebay.
Anyway, great video. Keep up the fantastic work.
I personally won't purchase pencils that I can not get open stock. What are we going to do when one runs out? Go buy another full set? That is not acceptable to me. The next issue I have is that the Holbein's do not have actual lightfast ratings that I can find. All they say is "Excellent light resistance". That means very pretty much nothing. If these were available open stock like most colored pencils I would suggest trying a few (assuming you were able to find any lightfast ratings at all), but that isn't really possible with those pencils because they can not be legally sold in the US being that the company will not do tests for toxicity. This brand has three strikes against it to me 1) Not available open stock. 2) No real lightfast ratings. 3) Grossly overpriced considering points 1 and 2.? I know artists who I trust who have used them and they are not much different than Polychromos in performance from what they've said so there is no benefit to buying these at all IMO. On top of that, the colors are mostly pastels which are not super useful for me :)
Yeah, true. The lack of open stock availability makes it difficult to stick to the brand. But I do think they have a 3 star light fast rating system like the Polychromos. Anyway, thank you very much for the information, Lisa.
I wish I could find the lightfast ratings online. I would really like to see what those are. It's weird to me that they tested for lightfast but not toxicity which would allow them to be sold in the US. That seems quite backward.
Yeah, I hope they have tested for toxicity. I am basically not sure regarding what I need to buy. I do mixed media art, and I have prismas and polychromos (thankfully, none of my prismas have broken till now!!). I wasn't sure whether I need to buy Polychromos large set, Caran d'Ache or Holbein. Maybe I'll buy both Polychromos and Luminance, and leave Holbein for now, given some of the valid points from your side. I am also looking forward to Derwent lightfast, they have released a preliminary set of colors, they are all natural shades, hopefully they'll release more colors in the future.
So on point! Hah!
You’d get a far better looking background with more depth of color if you used either oil pastels (Sennelier) blended with mineral spirits, or Pan Pastels for a more diffused look. Both would give you far less work and a better result. Coloured pencils are not meant for large surface areas.
Or I could keep creating artwork how I enjoy.
It looks so sloppy while you work, but the result is amazing!
I think I’m first?
Lovely, Lisa!
Thanks :)