Seeing the colored pencils after the piece is finished really gets the idea across of just how much pencil you use on a piece like this. Those were all basically new pencils!
Thank you for this quick tutorial! Even though I’m not so new to painting and art, I’m totally new to watercolor and colored pencils so even hints about basics are helpful for me. You are a great teacher and quiet mentor.
I also REALLY REALLY love the way how you blend in those colours! Im thirteen,and i too prefer colour pencils over paint because they're easier to blend somehow,from my perspective
Your videos are truly helpful in a lot of ways, both in the technical aspect and giving us inspiration and motivation - really, thank you for doing what you do
I really appreciate your detail when you talk about art - the names of the colours, the order that you lay them down in. It feels like I can have a go too
Wow your technique is fantastic! I've got Faber-Castel Polychromos coloured pencils and they definitely seem to be very different to Prismacolors but are great for my not-so-photorealistic style. Thank you for the delightful videos Scott! 💖
Have you tried Neocolor IIs? They are also wax, and basically function as an extra soft colored pencil, so you can blend them without having to push quite so hard. You can also use them on their side to cover larger areas quicker (at least for the first layer). I think you'd like them!
This video helped alot thanks Scott. Also does anyone have any advice on how to motivate yourself when you have a art block. I am struggling with it alot and feel like I am not motivated to make art but at the same time feel guilty because I am not making any art or practicing at all.
There's two answers to that imo. 1: is when you're just having a bad time in general and it's effecting your art. With that don't feel bad about stepping away for a day or two. Get your head right and don't get discouraged! 2: Youre not enthusiastic about what you're doing. Try something else, get something on the page. Challenge yourself to do a full page of something you've never been able to get down or create something KNOWING you'll fail. Get all that bad energy out and maybe you'll find that spark again!
Draw things that you like, wether it’s movie or game fan art, book fan art, people you like, or you could just force yourself to sit down pick up a pen and doodle, and maybe you’ll get inspired by what you draw.
The old Berol Prismacolors are still light years better than the new ones! I go out of my way to find them at second hand stores and rummage sales as much as possible! The new ones just aren't the same IMHO
my medium has trended into almost exclusively digital art, and i chronically abandoned pieces. i haven't finished a traditional piece that wasn't an assignment in over a year. but your videos are really motivating me to invest more in my favorite hobby, instead of limiting myself because of perfectionism. :,)
This helped me so much. I remember asking my art teacher how to shade with color pencil and she said if you could shade with a normal pencil you could shade with anything besides ink… safe to say I never learned how to shade with color pencils until now.
5:58 ever tried posca pencils , a wax and oil mix that are soooo smooth to use, would love to see how you got on with those, and price vs the most luxury of pencils. Never expected them to become my favourite pencil, only 36 colours but probably enough ?
My friend was showing me colored pencils, and I can say that I’m hooked. I used to paint, but it’s just so much cleanup and set up. I will always use acrylic paint for abstract art, but I’m so excited to try something new. This helped so much, thank you❤
Sir, I’ve been watching your videos for a long while and you are the reason I began expanding my mediums. Watercolors, colored pencils, even just regular pens at times. You’ve influenced my art, and many other aspiring artists. Thank you for stepping out of your comfort zone all that time ago to show us your art, while helping us. To me, you are one of the masters. Thank you. 💙💙💙
I recently got a set of 12 good quality color pencils (derwent chromaflow, apparently designed for blending which is why I picked them because I figured that 12 pencils made to blend gives me more colors for the same price than 12 pens not designed to blend), and I sort of liked them, more than my cheap bic pencils that don't layer very well. Then I watched this video and found out that I'm not supposed to use them like graphite pencils, and first try with this method was in a whole different league than anything I have drawn before! Thank you Scott, I love color pencils now!
even I found this helpful and coloured pencils have been my main traditional medium for 8 years! personally I push lightly for the entire piece, and when it comes to blending I just go over and over the same spot and it has a similar effect without the broken pencils or wrists. though I'm also not going for photo-realism, and I quite like the raw pencil texture, so there's that difference. definitely agree that coloured pencils are a lot more predictable than something like paint. I find that for me at least, most of the work is up to my imagination, and my colour choice. to have interesting shapes and colour combinations, to use several colours to shade with and sharing colours (like if I did pink hair and a blue shirt I might put some pink highlights in the shirt and some blue in the hair). I'm also generally going for a whimsical fantasy sort of aesthetic, so this technique works for that great comprehensive video :)
I recently got into drawing with colour pencils, got me back into my art journey and i want more. I absolutely love the smooth blending when u press harder. It does give the feeling of shading digitally- but i never knew that's what i needed to experiment with.
I’m absolutely loving these longer videos Scott! Thank you so much for these! I would love to see a longer video on your swiss medic bag and all the art supplies you carry around with you. AMAZING WORK AS ALWAYS!!!
Well… there’s something about having a strange pink stain that stands out on it own become almost invisible when incorporated properly that makes watching the process so interesting.
Oh my lord thank you. this is amazing. I been making a ton of art and I always use colored pencils but never have I ever imagined that it could look this nice.
Thank you for sharing your art wisdom. I enjoy your art and appreciate all your tips. Thank you for inspiring me to return to art. I'm 50 this year and have not really made any art in years, but your videos have inspired me to return to it and see where it goes. Thank you
This is exactly what I need right now since I have my first "Abitur" exam in a week in my art class (Abitur is the German equivalent of graduating high school). I want to do the exam with a praxis part and I plan on using coloured pencils even though I almost never use them, since I am a painter, but you can't really paint elaborate paintings in like two hours with the cheap material the school offers. But since they aren't my usual medium I could really use the advice on how to use them correctly! So thanks, you saved my "Abitur"! (At least in one class) Update: I got 10 Points!!!! (B-)
I absolutely love the drawing of Pink! The small tip size and the amount of pressure you have to use with colored pencils always made me not really like them much. You can get amazing results, but filling large areas with smooth flat colors is a pain. Then I started practicing with Crayola markers and over time found lots of tricks and techniques to use with them that kind of gives me a blend of watercolors, colored pencils, and alcohol markers depending on how I apply them, and now I feel so comfortable and confident with them that I can get really cool results
Honestly i like color pencils exactly because of the control you have over them unlike painty meduims sooo yuh ..this vid helped alot thank you very much ❤❤❤❤
I feel so motivated for your videos. Sometimes I'm just worried of making mistakes that I avoid even trying, but you encourage me to keep trying and to be proud of my mistakes! Thank you!
Thank you for mentioning how hard you push on your pencils! I always thought I was being too hard on my art supplies and that I was going to ruin them, but I didn't know how else to get them to blend. What a relief 😌
p!nk gets better and better every decade, her stage presence is not to be underestimated!! a powerful voice AND she does aerial performances during her shows too!
I love my Prismas, but I mainly only use them for adult coloring stress relief. I use light layers, I never bear down so hard I break em. I like layering the different shades of the same colors. I hope you gave this great art piece to your wife.
Thank you Scott, your videos are an inspiration, and I truly appreciate it, I had a suggestion for what you could do as another art project. I know from experience that there are a couple drawings that I truly love, perhaps you could do scenes with your favorite characters from the guild, like the centaur, or the couples, etc. Also thanks for the help on colored pencils!
Thank you for this video! It was fun to watch you use it in a longer form video, and it was insightful. I'd just like to ask, when you're choosing the colours to use in blending will they always be closer to the base than the shadow or is there a different thing to consider?
I work with my pencils over alcohol markers on Hot Pressed Watercolour paper, I start with markers and put on the highlights then the deepest colours and then work with the lighter deep tones and eventually fill in the rest with a mid tone. I also now use a topographical approach to the face, the areas closer to the light are lighter coloured the deepest parts of the face the darker I go.
So so helpful! That emphasis on pressing hard really hit home. I've always been heavy handed, and I can just feel the pain of every time I've colored a large piece heavy handed. It's why I'm glad I invested in better paper too. The poor printing paper did not handle pressing hard well at all-
Wow. I have been penciling for 30 years; I started with my mother’s prisma pencils after she died. I love the vibrant colors and was huge into blending. I understand what you meant about cramps and sore muscles lol I did get bored after say 20 years and moved onto painting. Anyhow, I have restocked my prima colors, but don’t quite have the strength I did to do all of the blending. I once did but have also and acquired a ton of the alcohol markers. I must say you have sparked my interest at combining two together and see what I can make happen.
Just a demo?! Not me being in awe of your art, yet again! Your videos have helped me so much on my journey making art and while I don't do it as much as I'd prefer, your channel is what gives me the motivation to when I can snag an hour or two. I think I've improved so much. Though, to be honest, even if I didn't make art at all I think I'd still come here, because you truly make the internet a brighter place. I definitely want to try out coloured pencils now lol.
I also always start with the eyes for the same reason haha. They really make the drawing. One tip I have for coloured pencil drawings, and I actually do the same for paintings where I don't use line art: use a coloured pencil to sketch with. That's personal preference, but I don't like how the graphite can mix in with your colours, so I use a coloured pencil. A light grey or yellow. My favourite paper is Toned Tan, so then I use white
I love Pink. I just saw her 2 months ago and she was amazing. I also appreciate a man that does things because he loves his wife 🙂 I know mine would be the same. You do pencils so different to everyone else I've watched. They're always about 200 light layers and no pressure. Whatever works for an artist though. I don't believe in one right way. I'm all for people doing what makes them happy and also what achieves the results they're after. I like alcohol markers with pencils. I've also used Inktense for the backgrounds as that gets a nice even colour for the larger back drop area and it's quick too. Rough in the background and water brush over it. Probably little difference in time to pencil with marker over the top like you did 🙂
Thanks for that. Have you not ever tried the method blending coloured pencils with alcohol, like hand sanitizer? Needs a good coverage of pigment, but doesn’t require the pressing hrs, and gives a beautiful painterly effect, no very smooth blending. I found it too smooth. So came back over with pencils again just so they still looked like a drawing, but it’s a Really cool technique.
prisma colors were always my favorite to use back when i did art alot. i found that using a paper towel like bounty helped to blend the colors without having to press so hard on them
About your comment about not having bigger brushes or something with the colored pencils, your demonstration with the markers got me to think, could you lightly fill in the base color with colored pencil and marker like that and when it dries, put more colored pencil or marker over it? I know alcohol markers can be finneky about being laid on top of each other, but I'd you just put colors pencil on top of it and blend like normal, wouldn't it work? And vice versa, could you lay down your colored pencil loosely first and then use the marker to quickly blend it, then clean it up with more pencil? I love using alcohol markers but I feel I can only achieve sort of two-toned basic shading and highlights with it, so I thought that maybe layering it with the colored pencils might help me. Thank you for reading, and thanks in advance! Oh, and thanks for the video too ofc!!
I love your shorts tutorials on how to draw eyes, water-color, ect. but I would love to see more of that at a similar style and length of this video. Great job man.
I recommend making the initial drawing with a light colored pencil instead of graphite so that later it blends in and doesn't show thru. To me it helps a lot
To me it really helps when I'm using a reference, but if you're going to draw from imagination I supose graphite is best. Pencil can be erased but a little bit of color will always remain on the paper. This may or may not work for everyone so go try for yourself and have fun!
This was so incredibly helpful! I've worked with colored pencils but you have a technique I've never considered. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and experience with us!
Hey Scott, I know you say this a 90 min demo, but it did great! I’m starting to use colored pencils more and really want to know how to use them professionally. Thank you! :)
Ahh im so glad you made this video! Just yesterday I started using my arrtx colored pencils again (from your review of them!) and this video could not have come at a better time!! Thank you!
I have a nice collection of colored pencils at this point, but sadly never enough time to use them! It was so nice to watch you color with them. It reminded me of the first time I got to try prismacolors and how magical they were. I prefer the Derwent coloursofts now, but the magic is still the same! Also nice to see another artist with a love of bristol, it's my favorite paper for drawing (though I'm mostly using it for markers these days.)
Wow, thank you for this! Question - what could you improve so much if you were to spend 10 times the amount of time on? I'm guessing blending? If so could you teach us your ways on 10 minute vs 100 minutes blending? Thanks for the inspiration Scott!
Before I saw this video, I had no idea what I was doing with my coloured pencils, I figured that it would work the same as watercolours, from the lightest to the darkest. But this is so much better. Thank you! ❤
What I've found, to combat regular pencil size boredom and same make variation, is that a lot of German pencil makers have different larger sizes in their pencil range, like the Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer Magnus watercolour pencils, and their Jumbo Graphite, and also Lyra's Colour Giants. The Lyra for example have a skin tone set that is so good for life drawing, big chunky pencils. Staedtler also make jumbo lumographs in graphite. They're all really helpful for large scale drawing and filling in areas, they give a lot of great variant to pencil art, and I've been told if you've got larger hands or some other difficulties holding regular pencils they can also be really useful.
This is like wasting colored pencils, wearing them out quickly and leaving very little undertone because it already applies burnishing to the first layers. When you build layers calmly and lightly, you create lots of tones and undertones, which lead to 'artsy' surprises. But if your mindset is 'Hey! This will only take me 90 minutes!' then you're better off avoiding a medium that demands patience. The privilege of reaching a vast, varied audience comes with the weighty responsibility of ensuring that messages are not superficial. This is particularly crucial in the arts, which serve as a vital sanctuary for many seeking solace from the trials of life.
I always like these videos, its tips that over the past year and a half or so of really trying to improve my art I've picked up on my own, and then here I get to see it at a profeshinal level. I've got the basic knowlige, now I just need to practice and its so cool to watch it happen and pick up on the small things other artists do.
You’re absolutely a big inspiration for my teen self, I’ve been interested in all types of art including music, dance, and obviously my favourite, painting and drawing. I stumbled onto your channel when I was around 8 and I’m so glad I did. Your videos always inspire me. I step out of my comfort zone and occasionally try to paint like you do, but I think I’m good with my own style 😂😂
I also used to use colored pencils alot then stopped, but recently someone gifted me some Prismacolors, and I fell in love with them again. What are tips for sharpening them? My biggest frustration is I'd sharpen them, pull them out the sharpener, and the tip would be broken off in the sharpener! As an aside, I thought you'd appreciate this, after the solar eclipse I felt inspired to make a drawing of Bonnie Tyler!
Seeing the colored pencils after the piece is finished really gets the idea across of just how much pencil you use on a piece like this. Those were all basically new pencils!
Thank you Scott for the non stop help with my art journey
Man I know he’s so helpful and somehow I always get recommended the PERFECT short for my situation
Not Scott saying that this was “just a demo” -_- sir that is a masterpiece
Agreeable
Maybe in the eyes of a master its a demo, i mean all his paintings are masterpieces!
Thank you for this quick tutorial! Even though I’m not so new to painting and art, I’m totally new to watercolor and colored pencils so even hints about basics are helpful for me. You are a great teacher and quiet mentor.
I also REALLY REALLY love the way how you blend in those colours! Im thirteen,and i too prefer colour pencils over paint because they're easier to blend somehow,from my perspective
Thank you so much for this kind of videos. I love this 8 to 10min format!
Absolutely My Pleasure ♥
Your videos are truly helpful in a lot of ways, both in the technical aspect and giving us inspiration and motivation - really, thank you for doing what you do
Thank you for that advice for using colour pencils. Never did that before
I really appreciate your detail when you talk about art - the names of the colours, the order that you lay them down in. It feels like I can have a go too
Wow your technique is fantastic! I've got Faber-Castel Polychromos coloured pencils and they definitely seem to be very different to Prismacolors but are great for my not-so-photorealistic style. Thank you for the delightful videos Scott! 💖
Thank you Scott😊
I am also in love with coloured pencils.
Have you tried Neocolor IIs? They are also wax, and basically function as an extra soft colored pencil, so you can blend them without having to push quite so hard. You can also use them on their side to cover larger areas quicker (at least for the first layer). I think you'd like them!
This video helped alot thanks Scott. Also does anyone have any advice on how to motivate yourself when you have a art block. I am struggling with it alot and feel like I am not motivated to make art but at the same time feel guilty because I am not making any art or practicing at all.
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There's two answers to that imo.
1: is when you're just having a bad time in general and it's effecting your art. With that don't feel bad about stepping away for a day or two. Get your head right and don't get discouraged!
2: Youre not enthusiastic about what you're doing. Try something else, get something on the page. Challenge yourself to do a full page of something you've never been able to get down or create something KNOWING you'll fail. Get all that bad energy out and maybe you'll find that spark again!
Draw things that you like, wether it’s movie or game fan art, book fan art, people you like, or you could just force yourself to sit down pick up a pen and doodle, and maybe you’ll get inspired by what you draw.
It's ok to have a break from it. It is a normal part of being artistic.
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The old Berol Prismacolors are still light years better than the new ones! I go out of my way to find them at second hand stores and rummage sales as much as possible! The new ones just aren't the same IMHO
my medium has trended into almost exclusively digital art, and i chronically abandoned pieces. i haven't finished a traditional piece that wasn't an assignment in over a year. but your videos are really motivating me to invest more in my favorite hobby, instead of limiting myself because of perfectionism. :,)
Ive been getting into using coloured pencils as of late- so this definitely is a big help! Thank you Scott!
This helped me so much. I remember asking my art teacher how to shade with color pencil and she said if you could shade with a normal pencil you could shade with anything besides ink… safe to say I never learned how to shade with color pencils until now.
Thank you for this video! I was really struggling with the blending aspect of coloured pencils, & I appreciate you putting subtitles in the video :))
5:58 ever tried posca pencils , a wax and oil mix that are soooo smooth to use, would love to see how you got on with those, and price vs the most luxury of pencils. Never expected them to become my favourite pencil, only 36 colours but probably enough ?
My friend was showing me colored pencils, and I can say that I’m hooked. I used to paint, but it’s just so much cleanup and set up. I will always use acrylic paint for abstract art, but I’m so excited to try something new. This helped so much, thank you❤
Sir, I’ve been watching your videos for a long while and you are the reason I began expanding my mediums. Watercolors, colored pencils, even just regular pens at times. You’ve influenced my art, and many other aspiring artists. Thank you for stepping out of your comfort zone all that time ago to show us your art, while helping us. To me, you are one of the masters. Thank you. 💙💙💙
I recently got a set of 12 good quality color pencils (derwent chromaflow, apparently designed for blending which is why I picked them because I figured that 12 pencils made to blend gives me more colors for the same price than 12 pens not designed to blend), and I sort of liked them, more than my cheap bic pencils that don't layer very well. Then I watched this video and found out that I'm not supposed to use them like graphite pencils, and first try with this method was in a whole different league than anything I have drawn before! Thank you Scott, I love color pencils now!
You should do an expanded video, like this one, on watercolors!!
Its amazing you get such great results from colored pencils. To tell the truth I didn't know it was possible to achieve results like this.
Wow! You really got Pink's gaze down perfectly - I could immediately recognize her - so good!
even I found this helpful and coloured pencils have been my main traditional medium for 8 years!
personally I push lightly for the entire piece, and when it comes to blending I just go over and over the same spot and it has a similar effect without the broken pencils or wrists. though I'm also not going for photo-realism, and I quite like the raw pencil texture, so there's that difference.
definitely agree that coloured pencils are a lot more predictable than something like paint. I find that for me at least, most of the work is up to my imagination, and my colour choice. to have interesting shapes and colour combinations, to use several colours to shade with and sharing colours (like if I did pink hair and a blue shirt I might put some pink highlights in the shirt and some blue in the hair). I'm also generally going for a whimsical fantasy sort of aesthetic, so this technique works for that
great comprehensive video :)
Actually I think its solvent. You can use that for some really nice blending.
my mom bought me new coloring pencils today so ty for this video scott i really needed it!!
Thank you I’m new to colored pencils andI just got new colored pencils!! I realllyyyy struggled at first but now I’m getting better❤❤❤❤❤
please keep doing these longer form videos, so educational!
I recently got into drawing with colour pencils, got me back into my art journey and i want more.
I absolutely love the smooth blending when u press harder. It does give the feeling of shading digitally- but i never knew that's what i needed to experiment with.
I’m absolutely loving these longer videos Scott! Thank you so much for these!
I would love to see a longer video on your swiss medic bag and all the art supplies you carry around with you. AMAZING WORK AS ALWAYS!!!
I never thought coloured pencil and alcohol markers would blend 😮
Yep.
Well… there’s something about having a strange pink stain that stands out on it own become almost invisible when incorporated properly that makes watching the process so interesting.
Oh my lord thank you. this is amazing. I been making a ton of art and I always use colored pencils but never have I ever imagined that it could look this nice.
Thank you for sharing your art wisdom. I enjoy your art and appreciate all your tips. Thank you for inspiring me to return to art. I'm 50 this year and have not really made any art in years, but your videos have inspired me to return to it and see where it goes. Thank you
Love these longer videos! Thanks for being such an amazing art teacher Scott!
This is exactly what I need right now since I have my first "Abitur" exam in a week in my art class (Abitur is the German equivalent of graduating high school). I want to do the exam with a praxis part and I plan on using coloured pencils even though I almost never use them, since I am a painter, but you can't really paint elaborate paintings in like two hours with the cheap material the school offers. But since they aren't my usual medium I could really use the advice on how to use them correctly!
So thanks, you saved my "Abitur"! (At least in one class)
Update: I got 10 Points!!!! (B-)
I absolutely love the drawing of Pink! The small tip size and the amount of pressure you have to use with colored pencils always made me not really like them much. You can get amazing results, but filling large areas with smooth flat colors is a pain. Then I started practicing with Crayola markers and over time found lots of tricks and techniques to use with them that kind of gives me a blend of watercolors, colored pencils, and alcohol markers depending on how I apply them, and now I feel so comfortable and confident with them that I can get really cool results
Honestly i like color pencils exactly because of the control you have over them unlike painty meduims sooo yuh ..this vid helped alot thank you very much ❤❤❤❤
I feel so motivated for your videos. Sometimes I'm just worried of making mistakes that I avoid even trying, but you encourage me to keep trying and to be proud of my mistakes! Thank you!
Love it! Love P!nk!
Thank you for mentioning how hard you push on your pencils! I always thought I was being too hard on my art supplies and that I was going to ruin them, but I didn't know how else to get them to blend. What a relief 😌
p!nk gets better and better every decade, her stage presence is not to be underestimated!! a powerful voice AND she does aerial performances during her shows too!
I loved this video, very useful. Thanks so much Scott!
Thank you. Seriously thank you. I colour with pencil colours but i really get confused sometimes, this video really helped.
Please can you do the same video with watercolor's
Sure
Using coloured pencil as my main medium for my five hour art exam this month so thank you for this !!
I love my Prismas, but I mainly only use them for adult coloring stress relief. I use light layers, I never bear down so hard I break em. I like layering the different shades of the same colors. I hope you gave this great art piece to your wife.
I did.
Am I the only one who calls them pencil crayons?
yes.
obviously not@@jayman1462
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Not the only one, but my 3rd grade teacher did and some friends
Most of my Canadian friends call them pencil crayons!
Not as much of an artist as I was when I was younger but these videos inspire me and are very wholesome ❤
This really helps me think about where to add highlights when doing hair. Thank you for your advice!
Wow! Only 90 minutes? That's amazing!
The highlights and shading is 🤯🤯🤯 SO GOOD 😍👌🏻
Thank you Scott, your videos are an inspiration, and I truly appreciate it, I had a suggestion for what you could do as another art project. I know from experience that there are a couple drawings that I truly love, perhaps you could do scenes with your favorite characters from the guild, like the centaur, or the couples, etc. Also thanks for the help on colored pencils!
Thank you for this video! It was fun to watch you use it in a longer form video, and it was insightful. I'd just like to ask, when you're choosing the colours to use in blending will they always be closer to the base than the shadow or is there a different thing to consider?
I work with my pencils over alcohol markers on Hot Pressed Watercolour paper, I start with markers and put on the highlights then the deepest colours and then work with the lighter deep tones and eventually fill in the rest with a mid tone. I also now use a topographical approach to the face, the areas closer to the light are lighter coloured the deepest parts of the face the darker I go.
So so helpful! That emphasis on pressing hard really hit home. I've always been heavy handed, and I can just feel the pain of every time I've colored a large piece heavy handed. It's why I'm glad I invested in better paper too. The poor printing paper did not handle pressing hard well at all-
Okay like I said I drew you on my UA-cam channel and in that drawing of mine of you do you have any suggestions to make it better it is prismacolor
Wow. I have been penciling for 30 years; I started with my mother’s prisma pencils after she died. I love the vibrant colors and was huge into blending. I understand what you meant about cramps and sore muscles lol I did get bored after say 20 years and moved onto painting. Anyhow, I have restocked my prima colors, but don’t quite have the strength I did to do all of the blending. I once did but have also and acquired a ton of the alcohol markers. I must say you have sparked my interest at combining two together and see what I can make happen.
Even though I'm drawing digitally unlike your traditional drawings, your words to just draw what you want and feel is really inspiring
He used all the nostalgia colours in a drawing AND THAT LOOKS REALLLLL!!!!!!!!✨✨✨
Just a demo?! Not me being in awe of your art, yet again! Your videos have helped me so much on my journey making art and while I don't do it as much as I'd prefer, your channel is what gives me the motivation to when I can snag an hour or two. I think I've improved so much. Though, to be honest, even if I didn't make art at all I think I'd still come here, because you truly make the internet a brighter place. I definitely want to try out coloured pencils now lol.
I also always start with the eyes for the same reason haha. They really make the drawing.
One tip I have for coloured pencil drawings, and I actually do the same for paintings where I don't use line art: use a coloured pencil to sketch with. That's personal preference, but I don't like how the graphite can mix in with your colours, so I use a coloured pencil. A light grey or yellow. My favourite paper is Toned Tan, so then I use white
You're so humble! i found your vidoes super soothing, thanks for sharing!
I love Pink. I just saw her 2 months ago and she was amazing. I also appreciate a man that does things because he loves his wife 🙂 I know mine would be the same.
You do pencils so different to everyone else I've watched. They're always about 200 light layers and no pressure. Whatever works for an artist though. I don't believe in one right way. I'm all for people doing what makes them happy and also what achieves the results they're after.
I like alcohol markers with pencils. I've also used Inktense for the backgrounds as that gets a nice even colour for the larger back drop area and it's quick too. Rough in the background and water brush over it. Probably little difference in time to pencil with marker over the top like you did 🙂
Thank you scott, you gave me a reason to use some of my colour pencils lying around😅
Loved this. Realized I can't do colored pencils. Lol hand issues.
Thanks for that. Have you not ever tried the method blending coloured pencils with alcohol, like hand sanitizer? Needs a good coverage of pigment, but doesn’t require the pressing hrs, and gives a beautiful painterly effect, no very smooth blending. I found it too smooth. So came back over with pencils again just so they still looked like a drawing, but it’s a Really cool technique.
prisma colors were always my favorite to use back when i did art alot. i found that using a paper towel like bounty helped to blend the colors without having to press so hard on them
About your comment about not having bigger brushes or something with the colored pencils, your demonstration with the markers got me to think, could you lightly fill in the base color with colored pencil and marker like that and when it dries, put more colored pencil or marker over it? I know alcohol markers can be finneky about being laid on top of each other, but I'd you just put colors pencil on top of it and blend like normal, wouldn't it work? And vice versa, could you lay down your colored pencil loosely first and then use the marker to quickly blend it, then clean it up with more pencil? I love using alcohol markers but I feel I can only achieve sort of two-toned basic shading and highlights with it, so I thought that maybe layering it with the colored pencils might help me. Thank you for reading, and thanks in advance! Oh, and thanks for the video too ofc!!
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I love your shorts tutorials on how to draw eyes, water-color, ect. but I would love to see more of that at a similar style and length of this video. Great job man.
Love this guys videos always positive and never hides his mistakes , very inspiring
I recommend making the initial drawing with a light colored pencil instead of graphite so that later it blends in and doesn't show thru. To me it helps a lot
To me it really helps when I'm using a reference, but if you're going to draw from imagination I supose graphite is best. Pencil can be erased but a little bit of color will always remain on the paper. This may or may not work for everyone so go try for yourself and have fun!
@4:54… the down side is that it’s not artistic???!!!?? 🤯 I was completely amazed the entire video!!! And thought “wow, he’s such an amazing artist!!”
4:04, hand attack 1
4:14 hand attack 2
Thank god there aren’t any more hand attacks :D
I’m half Italian. I talk with my hands.😅
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You make it look so easy. My favorite mediums are colored pencil and watercolors. I learned some things from this. Thanks Scott.
I was rewatching the guild a I saw the folds in the clothes can you make a video about the folds in clothes ❤
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This was so incredibly helpful! I've worked with colored pencils but you have a technique I've never considered. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and experience with us!
Hey Scott, I know you say this a 90 min demo, but it did great! I’m starting to use colored pencils more and really want to know how to use them professionally. Thank you! :)
What an amazing demo. I would love to see your tips on fur or animals using colored pencils. Thank you.
This is really impressive to me. Videos like these motivate me to keep on learning
Ahh im so glad you made this video! Just yesterday I started using my arrtx colored pencils again (from your review of them!) and this video could not have come at a better time!! Thank you!
I have a nice collection of colored pencils at this point, but sadly never enough time to use them! It was so nice to watch you color with them. It reminded me of the first time I got to try prismacolors and how magical they were. I prefer the Derwent coloursofts now, but the magic is still the same! Also nice to see another artist with a love of bristol, it's my favorite paper for drawing (though I'm mostly using it for markers these days.)
Wow, thank you for this! Question - what could you improve so much if you were to spend 10 times the amount of time on? I'm guessing blending? If so could you teach us your ways on 10 minute vs 100 minutes blending? Thanks for the inspiration Scott!
This ws super helpful. Can't wait to see more!
Before I saw this video, I had no idea what I was doing with my coloured pencils, I figured that it would work the same as watercolours, from the lightest to the darkest. But this is so much better. Thank you! ❤
That was certainly an eye opener for me and my past experience with color pencils!
What I've found, to combat regular pencil size boredom and same make variation, is that a lot of German pencil makers have different larger sizes in their pencil range, like the Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer Magnus watercolour pencils, and their Jumbo Graphite, and also Lyra's Colour Giants. The Lyra for example have a skin tone set that is so good for life drawing, big chunky pencils. Staedtler also make jumbo lumographs in graphite.
They're all really helpful for large scale drawing and filling in areas, they give a lot of great variant to pencil art, and I've been told if you've got larger hands or some other difficulties holding regular pencils they can also be really useful.
Are they available in the US?
You r very helpful thx ❤😊
This is like wasting colored pencils, wearing them out quickly and leaving very little undertone because it already applies burnishing to the first layers. When you build layers calmly and lightly, you create lots of tones and undertones, which lead to 'artsy' surprises.
But if your mindset is 'Hey! This will only take me 90 minutes!' then you're better off avoiding a medium that demands patience.
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Colored pencils made easy. You are amazing!
I always like these videos, its tips that over the past year and a half or so of really trying to improve my art I've picked up on my own, and then here I get to see it at a profeshinal level.
I've got the basic knowlige, now I just need to practice and its so cool to watch it happen and pick up on the small things other artists do.
Now I am eager to grow on color pencil art. Thank you!
Wow, absolutely gorgeous! Would love to see her reaction to it, I think she would love it so much! ❤
That just solved like 17 of the problems I've been having with colored pencils, so... thanks!!
I learn so much in a fun way anytime I watch your videos. Thanks Scott.
You’re absolutely a big inspiration for my teen self, I’ve been interested in all types of art including music, dance, and obviously my favourite, painting and drawing. I stumbled onto your channel when I was around 8 and I’m so glad I did. Your videos always inspire me. I step out of my comfort zone and occasionally try to paint like you do, but I think I’m good with my own style 😂😂
Amazing to watch, thank you!
I also used to use colored pencils alot then stopped, but recently someone gifted me some Prismacolors, and I fell in love with them again. What are tips for sharpening them? My biggest frustration is I'd sharpen them, pull them out the sharpener, and the tip would be broken off in the sharpener! As an aside, I thought you'd appreciate this, after the solar eclipse I felt inspired to make a drawing of Bonnie Tyler!