One thing I do like to do with the Inktense is to either use them in Kirby Rosanes books, because he includes so much shading in his penwork a simple wash is very effective (and fast, his pages are huge and usually really detailed).. or for very simple coloring I will use a mid to dark tone pencil to go around the edges of an object and then just drag it out over the white of the paper with a waterbrush.. it kind of "auto shades"...very quick and effective. This is similar to how I use Prisma only with the blender pencil instead of water. The pigment moves easily. They can also act as an alternative to pen for basing.
Same! I don't understand why people say you cannot get a light wash with inktense... just use less pencil, and drag the color with water... there's no need to cover everything with pencil before activating... I absolutely love them, and their "auto shading" capability that you mention. Also... you get to save a lot of pencil if you just color a small part of the image; I can see these lasting ages!
@@andreae. Exactly. It also blends out a lot smoother in my experience with less pigment on the paper. You can tell if you have too much because it goes "clumpy".
Hi! The page you colored in Aviary is one of the best I have ever seen, by anyone! One day, when you feel up to it, I would love to watch you create another page with those same techniques! Thank you for sharing!
Hello! Thank you so much!! I am so glad you like that page….I absolutely loved colouring it. I will keep it mind and hopefully share it in a colouralong sometime. Thanks for requesting 🤗💗
There are quite a few but may not always be mentioned in the title. An epic one to start with is Peta Hewitt - Paris. I would love to see Shel colour with them, though!
I just purchased the full set of Faber-Castell Pitt Pens and absolutely love that the colors match the Polychromos pencils. I use the Pitt pens for basing and the Polys for shading. The only downside is that they’re more of a fine liner, but Faber-Castell has come out with a 30 set of dual marker Pitt Pens with a thicker brush nib. And the best part is you can buy them individually when one runs out. They don’t soak through the page as they are India ink based. The colors would also match the Albrecht Durers since they’re all in the Faber-Castell color family.
I love the Neo Color I also like them for backgrounds. I used them in Amazon paper. It can be used, but the paper ripples when the water is applied. It’s not bad not bad and the paper eventually flattens.
I don't have the Albecht Duer pencils, I have the polychromoes. I do have a lot of pencil sets, but up till now these have been my favorites. However, the lightest blue, sky blue is really not that light. They have a few beautiful pinks, but a very light pink is not included. There is no lavender or pale mauve. So I decided that I wanted a artist quality set with colors that were missing in the polychromoes. I also went for the Pablo set. I use the sets together and they have a similar laydown to the polys. Of course all the colors are different in the 2 sets and it's 😊been really great having a 240 range of colors to work with.
Every supply you named are my absolute favorites! I also love my ADs dry or wet. I love the colors in Supracolours + Pablos + the colors in ABs + Pablos. I love them! The colors of both are gorgeous especially the greens in CDs. You’ve taught me so much!! I couldn’t get over the difference after I embellished with Fineliners. You’re extremely creative. ❤️
I really enjoyed your show and tell and I had to swallow hard because you are so disciplined in your supplies. You buy what you like and stick to it and do not allow yourself to be swayed to try budget brands etc. But I must tell you that you would love the supracolors by Caran d‘ache. The colours are brilliant when activated. I think they can also be used as regular dry coloured pencils too. Anyways wishing you a wonderful new year when it comes around!
Your videos are so enjoyable and informative, thank you for taking the time to create them. Your work is absolutely beautiful! Im wondering if you would mind sharing your swatch book supplies list? I haven't created a book yet for the very same reason. Thank you so much!
Hi Shel, I love your channel always learn something new…..can you share where you got the page protectors that you use for your swatches?? I’m in the USA maybe we don’t have them? But I like how you can easily move them around, right now my swatches are in a ruby color book I would like to take apart the book & use protectors. Thank you! Keep up the great beautiful work. ❤
Hello, I am so glad you enjoy the channel, means a lot to me. Sure, the folder I use is something like this one and I got it from Amazon UK: amzn.eu/d/hd72b2q (not an affiliate link). The clear sleeves do come off very easily however I do like the fact that they come off so easily and the binder lies flat and can be folded over - makes it so much easier when you have limited space. Hope this helps 🤗💗
i love my toms, I never used colored pencils with them (Because i cant use color pencils) I usually use gel pens. Its nice to see another Tombow fan. I usually run out of the greens (The darker greens) and i need to get a new one, because i just did a big back round. I need something other then Tombows for backround because as you said they do streak. Do you have a good backround marker to do that with so i dont have to keep replacing my greens all the time? (sorry if you said i was multi tasking at the time)
Tombows are spendy, but they are very nice pens. I too have some that are going on three years old and the only one that has ever dried out is one my daughter mistakenly put the caps on backwards. The only other waterbased marker I've tried and enjoyed are the newer Goldfaber aqua dual markers, very similar to Tombow, a bit larger brush tip, but some unique colors.. they follow the faber castell palette. I find the earth greens (may green, chromium oxide green, olive green yellowish, etc) in particular a good addition.There is also a gorgeous antique rose and a grey blue that are stunning and rare in pens. They are also sold open stock so you can pick up just a color or two if you wish.
Thank you for pointing out those Goldfaber aqua dual markers. Had never heard of them, but I see I can buy all 60 colours open stock here in my country. I especially like some of the pastel colours in that collection. Sakura Koi brush pens are decent waterbased markers as well and they also have some colours that are a nice addition to the Tombow set.
I want to start into coloring to learning more about blending to get more skilled at art bit more, whats to best color pencils for a starter ? I mean Prisma and Faber are popular and expensive side 😅
That is a great idea! Colouring will definitely help you practice your skills. To be honest, I like to use artist quality pencils, as I have tried a couple of budget brands and I have not enjoyed them. That is why I have a very limited colouring pencil collection. I love my Albrecht Dürers and I think they are great to work with wet and dry. If you are after budget brands I have heard that Brutfuner squares are decent and Arrtx pencils too. But you have have to check out other channels for reviews for them. Sorry I was not much help 🤗💗
I heard you say to only use pastels or lighter colors to lay down a base. I had tried to use a base a couple of times with poor results. I wish I had heard you before my attempts. I know now what I did wrong. Will try again and hopefully be more successful this time. Thank you for this advice!
great video :D i really need to give the albrecht durer pencils a go, i got them and can't say i used them yet apart from swatching, i do love my polychromos though so i probably wont be dissapointed. Also if you want more subtle colours with inktense pencils, just scrub some of the pigment onto pallet [like the caran d'ache one where one side is more coarse, or even chopping board xD] and delute with water just like you would with watercolour paints ;) then you can build up the colours and intensity from there.
I decided on the Supracolors over the Pablos.. mostly because I have an absolute favorite dry pencil set already which is a mix of the Polychromos and the light/pastel shades of the Prismacolor... but my favorite colors different from the Faber Castell palette are the many olive variations (not just green but yellow, grey, black, and brown), and those cool browns (beige/cocoa/etc). The Ivory black is also lovely.. it's a warm black (there are actually both warm and cool black in the set), I find it so nice for super deep shadows on warm toned colors. I also like Apricot, it's quite unique.
I love the supracolors as well and am slowly building up the set. I'm also building up the Neo IIs, which have the same pigments so they work perfect together.
Curious, when you use the tombow brush markers, which are water-based, like you did in the briar book, did you use a water pen? Whenever I’ve used the Thomas brush markers that always either streak don’t blend too well but I’ve never actually applied water.
Very few pages in our colouring books allowing blending with water on the paper as they are not marker paper. I use them various ways - direct to paper with no water (like in th briar page), off a palette with water and in books that allow it, I blend with water on the paper. I never use them for large areas, as they will streak since they are waterbased. And most often I use pencil over the top. Hope this helps 🤗💗
Thank you for sharing your top ten. Wonderful supplies. Your work is just stunning. I like using my Inktense to lay down color and then my Tombow blender pen to activate. When you use your Neo ll’s do you use a water brush or paint brush ? Thank you for sharing
Thank you so much! I will definitely try how the Tomboy blender works for me with the inktense, thanks for sharing. For my Neo IIs I use an empty water brush, so basically a paintbrush I guess lol 🤗💗
Hello! I am so glad you liked this video. I tend to use fixatives on all my pages once completed 'just incase' (unless I use only markers, which I never really do or watercolour only). So yes, I do use them with my ADs when dry. Hope this helps 🤗💗
@@shelscolouringjourneyhi. i’m new to colouring and i’ve rlly been enjoying ur channel🩷. would a fixative protect the page from getting damaged by water as they are a watercolour pencil?
Thanks for sharing. When you base with your Tombows as you did in the Briar book do you apply them directly to the paper or use them off a pallette with a waterbrush? Thanks.
My pleasure. So for this specific page in Briar I used them direct to the paper. Generally, I tend to use them both ways - certain factors make me decide, such as paper I am colouring on (amazon paper would ruin the nib, so I use it off a palette), thick and smooth paper I tend to use it directly, and also the colour I depth I want to achieve - if I need the specific colour to laydown lighter, I will use it off a palette. On paper that is very smooth where my pencils may not work well, I use the Tombows off a palette as it gives some tooth to the paper which then helps me work with my pencils. I hope this helps 🤗💗
09:19: "I would say you don't need all the sets unless you use paint pens a lot"" WUAHAHAHAHA LOL You say that to someone with FSS (Full Set Syndrome) 🤣*they are actually in my a.zon basket
Hi shelly love your too supply’s i use most of what u mentioned like the Albert deure neo Color’s 2 and the tombows tooli art as well so many products I have I recently added the Pablo to collection as well.. happy new year 🥳 too ❤❤❤😊😊😊xxx
I enjoy your videos. You are very talented and fun to watch. I want you to know that colorist is related to colorism, and is a very negative term. Every time you say it, it bothers me a little although I know that you and other people in the coloring community use the term innocently. This is just for information so that you know. Enjoy your day.
Thank you, glad you enjoy the videos🤗💗 I totally agree with you that the term ‘colourist’ can have negative connotations. So sorry if it has bothered you. The context in which a term is used is very important, as you have alluded to….it is solely being used to define us as someone who colours and is commonly used in the art world. 💗
Shel, I enjoy your videos but some of your supply and favorite things videos are so long and repetitive. Your top 5 coloring supplies took over 26 minutes! I just don’t have the time or interest to watch almost an hour (57 minutes) of your top 5 supplies and top 5 new supplies. I like your content very much but not all the repetition which easily doubles or triples the length of your videos. Please keep the rambling to a minimum or edit it out. Thanks.
One thing I do like to do with the Inktense is to either use them in Kirby Rosanes books, because he includes so much shading in his penwork a simple wash is very effective (and fast, his pages are huge and usually really detailed).. or for very simple coloring I will use a mid to dark tone pencil to go around the edges of an object and then just drag it out over the white of the paper with a waterbrush.. it kind of "auto shades"...very quick and effective. This is similar to how I use Prisma only with the blender pencil instead of water. The pigment moves easily. They can also act as an alternative to pen for basing.
Same! I don't understand why people say you cannot get a light wash with inktense... just use less pencil, and drag the color with water... there's no need to cover everything with pencil before activating... I absolutely love them, and their "auto shading" capability that you mention. Also... you get to save a lot of pencil if you just color a small part of the image; I can see these lasting ages!
@@andreae. Exactly. It also blends out a lot smoother in my experience with less pigment on the paper. You can tell if you have too much because it goes "clumpy".
Hi! The page you colored in Aviary is one of the best I have ever seen, by anyone! One day, when you feel up to it, I would love to watch you create another page with those same techniques! Thank you for sharing!
Hello! Thank you so much!! I am so glad you like that page….I absolutely loved colouring it. I will keep it mind and hopefully share it in a colouralong sometime. Thanks for requesting 🤗💗
I love the little nubbin pencils! Goals! Use 'em up!
Thanks for being so informative
My pleasure! Thanks for watching 🤗🤗
Very very helpful for a beginner. Thank you
You're welcome , glad it was helpful 🤗💗
I would love to see you color a page with Inktense! I just got the set myself and can’t find that many colouralongs and tutorials.
There are quite a few but may not always be mentioned in the title. An epic one to start with is Peta Hewitt - Paris. I would love to see Shel colour with them, though!
@@JoColours thanks for the tip!
Me as well, would love to see how Shel uses them, she’s brilliant
I will definitely try and work on getting some colouring with the Inktense out for you soon 🤗💗
@@shelscolouringjourney thank you!
I just purchased the full set of Faber-Castell Pitt Pens and absolutely love that the colors match the Polychromos pencils. I use the Pitt pens for basing and the Polys for shading. The only downside is that they’re more of a fine liner, but Faber-Castell has come out with a 30 set of dual marker Pitt Pens with a thicker brush nib. And the best part is you can buy them individually when one runs out. They don’t soak through the page as they are India ink based. The colors would also match the Albrecht Durers since they’re all in the Faber-Castell color family.
Thank you for sharing this!! Helpful to know 🤗💗
I love the Neo Color I also like them for backgrounds. I used them in Amazon paper. It can be used, but the paper ripples when the water is applied. It’s not bad not bad and the paper eventually flattens.
I don't have the Albecht Duer pencils, I have the polychromoes. I do have a lot of pencil sets, but up till now these have been my favorites. However, the lightest blue, sky blue is really not that light. They have a few beautiful pinks, but a very light pink is not included. There is no lavender or pale mauve. So I decided that I wanted a artist quality set with colors that were missing in the polychromoes. I also went for the Pablo set. I use the sets together and they have a similar laydown to the polys. Of course all the colors are different in the 2 sets and it's 😊been really great having a 240 range of colors to work with.
Thank you Shel for all you do!! I am adding to my wish list now!! Have a happy new year!!
You are so welcome! 🤗💗
I just bought the southwestern tooli-art paint pens. The colors look beautiful! They remind me of the earth tones
They look lovely...haven't got them. I really have to stop buying more!! lol
Every supply you named are my absolute favorites! I also love my ADs dry or wet. I love the colors in Supracolours + Pablos + the colors in ABs + Pablos. I love them! The colors of both are gorgeous especially the greens in CDs. You’ve taught me so much!! I couldn’t get over the difference after I embellished with Fineliners. You’re extremely creative. ❤️
I really enjoyed your show and tell and I had to swallow hard because you are so disciplined in your supplies. You buy what you like and stick to it and do not allow yourself to be swayed to try budget brands etc. But I must tell you that you would love the supracolors by Caran d‘ache. The colours are brilliant when activated. I think they can also be used as regular dry coloured pencils too. Anyways wishing you a wonderful new year when it comes around!
Thank you so much! I may try them one day as stock pencils to see what they are like...have heard a lot of good things about them! 🤗💗
Your videos are so enjoyable and informative, thank you for taking the time to create them. Your work is absolutely beautiful! Im wondering if you would mind sharing your swatch book supplies list? I haven't created a book yet for the very same reason. Thank you so much!
Hi Shelly thank you for sharing. Happy New Year 😊❤️
Hi Shel, I love your channel always learn something new…..can you share where you got the page protectors that you use for your swatches?? I’m in the USA maybe we don’t have them? But I like how you can easily move them around, right now my swatches are in a ruby color book I would like to take apart the book & use protectors. Thank you! Keep up the great beautiful work. ❤
Hello, I am so glad you enjoy the channel, means a lot to me. Sure, the folder I use is something like this one and I got it from Amazon UK: amzn.eu/d/hd72b2q (not an affiliate link). The clear sleeves do come off very easily however I do like the fact that they come off so easily and the binder lies flat and can be folded over - makes it so much easier when you have limited space. Hope this helps 🤗💗
One thing I do like to do with the lnktense is to either use them in Kirby Rosane
I still need to try that out 🤗💗
i love my toms, I never used colored pencils with them (Because i cant use color pencils) I usually use gel pens. Its nice to see another Tombow fan. I usually run out of the greens (The darker greens) and i need to get a new one, because i just did a big back round. I need something other then Tombows for backround because as you said they do streak. Do you have a good backround marker to do that with so i dont have to keep replacing my greens all the time? (sorry if you said i was multi tasking at the time)
Tombows are spendy, but they are very nice pens. I too have some that are going on three years old and the only one that has ever dried out is one my daughter mistakenly put the caps on backwards. The only other waterbased marker I've tried and enjoyed are the newer Goldfaber aqua dual markers, very similar to Tombow, a bit larger brush tip, but some unique colors.. they follow the faber castell palette. I find the earth greens (may green, chromium oxide green, olive green yellowish, etc) in particular a good addition.There is also a gorgeous antique rose and a grey blue that are stunning and rare in pens. They are also sold open stock so you can pick up just a color or two if you wish.
Thank you for pointing out those Goldfaber aqua dual markers. Had never heard of them, but I see I can buy all 60 colours open stock here in my country. I especially like some of the pastel colours in that collection. Sakura Koi brush pens are decent waterbased markers as well and they also have some colours that are a nice addition to the Tombow set.
You have some very nice supplies! It's given me a few ideas for my wish list. Have a happy new year!
Thanks ❤
I want to start into coloring to learning more about blending to get more skilled at art bit more, whats to best color pencils for a starter ? I mean Prisma and Faber are popular and expensive side 😅
That is a great idea! Colouring will definitely help you practice your skills. To be honest, I like to use artist quality pencils, as I have tried a couple of budget brands and I have not enjoyed them. That is why I have a very limited colouring pencil collection. I love my Albrecht Dürers and I think they are great to work with wet and dry. If you are after budget brands I have heard that Brutfuner squares are decent and Arrtx pencils too. But you have have to check out other channels for reviews for them. Sorry I was not much help 🤗💗
I heard you say to only use pastels or lighter colors to lay down a base. I had tried to use a base a couple of times with poor results. I wish I had heard you before my attempts. I know now what I did wrong. Will try again and hopefully be more successful this time. Thank you for this advice!
You're welcome, I do hope that it has helped you and given you some new ideas to play with 🤗💗
great video :D i really need to give the albrecht durer pencils a go, i got them and can't say i used them yet apart from swatching, i do love my polychromos though so i probably wont be dissapointed. Also if you want more subtle colours with inktense pencils, just scrub some of the pigment onto pallet [like the caran d'ache one where one side is more coarse, or even chopping board xD] and delute with water just like you would with watercolour paints ;) then you can build up the colours and intensity from there.
Thank you for the tips, I will definitely play with the Inktense more 🤗💗
I decided on the Supracolors over the Pablos.. mostly because I have an absolute favorite dry pencil set already which is a mix of the Polychromos and the light/pastel shades of the Prismacolor... but my favorite colors different from the Faber Castell palette are the many olive variations (not just green but yellow, grey, black, and brown), and those cool browns (beige/cocoa/etc). The Ivory black is also lovely.. it's a warm black (there are actually both warm and cool black in the set), I find it so nice for super deep shadows on warm toned colors. I also like Apricot, it's quite unique.
I love the supracolors as well and am slowly building up the set. I'm also building up the Neo IIs, which have the same pigments so they work perfect together.
Curious, when you use the tombow brush markers, which are water-based, like you did in the briar book, did you use a water pen? Whenever I’ve used the Thomas brush markers that always either streak don’t blend too well but I’ve never actually applied water.
Very few pages in our colouring books allowing blending with water on the paper as they are not marker paper.
I use them various ways - direct to paper with no water (like in th briar page), off a palette with water and in books that allow it, I blend with water on the paper.
I never use them for large areas, as they will streak since they are waterbased. And most often I use pencil over the top.
Hope this helps 🤗💗
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Thank you for sharing your top ten. Wonderful supplies. Your work is just stunning. I like using my Inktense to lay down color and then my Tombow blender pen to activate. When you use your Neo ll’s do you use a water brush or paint brush ? Thank you for sharing
Thank you so much! I will definitely try how the Tomboy blender works for me with the inktense, thanks for sharing.
For my Neo IIs I use an empty water brush, so basically a paintbrush I guess lol 🤗💗
Hi, I loved your top ten supplies video. I'm just wondering if you use any fixatives, especially on the Albrecht Dürer pencils used dry?
Hello! I am so glad you liked this video. I tend to use fixatives on all my pages once completed 'just incase' (unless I use only markers, which I never really do or watercolour only). So yes, I do use them with my ADs when dry. Hope this helps 🤗💗
@@shelscolouringjourneyhi. i’m new to colouring and i’ve rlly been enjoying ur channel🩷. would a fixative protect the page from getting damaged by water as they are a watercolour pencil?
Thanks for sharing. When you base with your Tombows as you did in the Briar book do you apply them directly to the paper or use them off a pallette with a waterbrush? Thanks.
My pleasure. So for this specific page in Briar I used them direct to the paper. Generally, I tend to use them both ways - certain factors make me decide, such as paper I am colouring on (amazon paper would ruin the nib, so I use it off a palette), thick and smooth paper I tend to use it directly, and also the colour I depth I want to achieve - if I need the specific colour to laydown lighter, I will use it off a palette. On paper that is very smooth where my pencils may not work well, I use the Tombows off a palette as it gives some tooth to the paper which then helps me work with my pencils.
I hope this helps 🤗💗
I enjoy your content. I wish you would list the items in the description box as well. 😢
Thank you for the feedback 🤗
09:19: "I would say you don't need all the sets unless you use paint pens a lot"" WUAHAHAHAHA LOL You say that to someone with FSS (Full Set Syndrome) 🤣*they are actually in my a.zon basket
😂😂😂 I am sorry I did that to you!! lol hope you are liking them 🤗💗
Love that -FSS!!
Hi shelly love your too supply’s i use most of what u mentioned like the Albert deure neo Color’s 2 and the tombows tooli art as well so many products I have I recently added the Pablo to collection as well.. happy new year 🥳 too ❤❤❤😊😊😊xxx
Which tooli-art nibs are on those? I was looking at buying a set, but didn’t realize they came in different sizes.
I get the 0.7mm extra fine tip 🤗
these markers look good the tooli i plan to get all sets
I enjoy your videos. You are very talented and fun to watch. I want you to know that colorist is related to colorism, and is a very negative term. Every time you say it, it bothers me a little although I know that you and other people in the coloring community use the term innocently. This is just for information so that you know. Enjoy your day.
Thank you, glad you enjoy the videos🤗💗
I totally agree with you that the term ‘colourist’ can have negative connotations. So sorry if it has bothered you.
The context in which a term is used is very important, as you have alluded to….it is solely being used to define us as someone who colours and is commonly used in the art world. 💗
Shel,
I enjoy your videos but some of your supply and favorite things videos are so long and repetitive. Your top 5 coloring supplies took over 26 minutes! I just don’t have the time or interest to watch almost an hour (57 minutes) of your top 5 supplies and top 5 new supplies.
I like your content very much but not all the repetition which easily doubles or triples the length of your videos. Please keep the rambling to a minimum or edit it out. Thanks.
Thank you for taking the time to leave me some feedback, much appreciated 🤗