Such an amazing tutorial, thank you for the great advice 😊

3:27 I love that picture! I wish I had the skill to be able to colour with shading and light in a picture with the correct colour.

I really appreciate this because I often struggle with large areas such as sky or grass.

I really appreciate this video, thank you for providing useful and interesting content...

Wish you would get to the point a bit faster and leave out the plugs for your books

I just found your channel. Your work is beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

The video was perfect to showcase your outstanding paintings! I have one other painter/illustrator I love as much, Kinuko Yamabe Craft. I collected all her books back in the day, but now I'm too old for collecting or I would certainly have all yours as well. At least I can buy as many of your coloring books as I can finish. Thank YOU for all your videos. I wish there were more & that they were longer, where you finish an entire page. Phooey on that half-hour limited attention span meme. There are many like me who watch 2- & 3-hour videos of our favorite artists. But yours are teaching me what I want to learn so mission accomplished!

Best fairy wings I've seen!! I respectfully disagree that KZbin viewers lose interest in long videos. I've watched many long coloring videos &, believe me, there are a lot of them out there as well as long multi-media ones. Other well-known artists with large numbers of subscribers do this on a regular basis. So I would at least start with an hour long video to check out the response. Or at least post more. A lot of people would be happy. I, for one, would love to see more of your outstanding tutorials from your awesome coloring books. Thank YOU!!

I just bought one of your books and following your videos to better my coloring. Thank you so much for your help, you are so generous, I know that is years ago this video but I am drawing my maincoon with pencils and this will hep me a lot.

I chose nectar as the primary (brown) skin color for a whimsical picture that I colored for my friend's daughter. It was the right choice.

Just found your channel, very helpful thank you.

I loved this! Thank you!

Is there another part to this video that shows how to color the rest of the picture? Hat, nose, scarf, etc.

It’s a beautiful book. But there’s so little to colour with the extent of this grayscale. What’s the point lol. To each his own I guess.

The grey gives the image with the colors over it makes it look more natural 👌love it ❤️

This tutorial is amazing! I already had this book and had been too intimidated to start it... FYI fellow colorists--Ruth's greyscale books are SO good. Many others are cheap, pixelated, too light or too dark. Hers are perfect, such warm gorgeous images.

Question. what kind of paper is the image printed on to & what type of pencils? I've tried greyscale colouring with cheap paper and cheap pencils and it isn't working well at all.

Almost all coloring books are 8 1/2 x 11 size. I think many card makers would love a greyscale book to be able to use them on size 5x7 and 4 1/4 x 5 size cards or the new tall cards and book marks of Christmas pictures and one of cards for all occasions. It would be nice to have different sizes on one page. This would be a dream come true for many of us. Your work is so beautiful. Would you ever consider doing this for us. Hugs

Love this Santa and greyscale. So beautiful. The face and the eyes are the best I have ever seen. Thank you so much for the download also. I really appreciated it. I'm ordering more books today. Have a happy holiday. Many blessings. Hugs.

Totally LOVE your teaching style I learned a great deal from your straight forward explanations

Hi Ruth, I cannot find the first demo of this greyscale tutorial. I saw at one time you had a video teaching how to colour hreyscale you were colouring from a "Vintage" book and it was roses you were colouring. I understood greyscale from that video of you colouring roses in a vase or basket. Do you still have that video? I so want to learn!

Interesting way to develop color on greyscale. I have primarily worked with line art, where I add my own shadows, and am just getting into coloring commercial greyscale pieces. I usually scan the pieces and reduce darker greyscale pictures to a lighter greyscale. Using your layering technique, I should be able to skip that step now. Thanks for sharing your technique for coloring greyscale.

This book is amazing Ruth, i really love what you've created it's new and the grayscale is spectacular on these exquisite illustrations, love this very much Ruth, thank you for the hard work you do to please all of your fans😍😍😍

YOU ARE AWESOME 🤩 .. 👏👏👏 YOU list the COLOURS❣️ Thank YOU 🙏 😊

FINALLY 😁A tutorial that PUTS UP THE COLOURS USED❣️ Thank YOU 🙏 New Subscriber Here 😊👍👍 ( Ive looked everywhere ... soooo many videos 🙄.. YOURS are PERFECT 🤩 I can't thank you enough☺️)

Hello Ruth Sanderson my name is Beth and I would love to see some life like angels to color that would be fun just to suggestion lifelike looking angels thank-you is Sanderson❤

One tip when coloring greyscale pages. If you create your own with images. Your own or from online. Do not use a laser printer. If you have any darker portion you have a greater portion of toner overlayed on the paper. Any color pencil you lay down is being layed down over the toner.

Is the back of the page white or grey please ? In this book

Mrs. Sanderson I love this coloring book it's fantastic and I'm having a great time with it thank you so much for your art

Hey Ruth Sanderson I was wondering if you could come up with a coloring book of realistic lifelike angels that would be so much fun🎉

Ruth I am a huge fan of your art! I got your golden dreams book and can’t wait to receive it! Your art blows me away.

Please do Nancy Drew greyscale Flipthrough ❤ also your horses coloring book. I can’t decide which to purchase.

Wow. I didn’t know how to do it and now I understand. It’s gonna take some practice with me. 😅

Thank you for posting these grayscale videos.. and for the free downloads on your website. After scouting around different coloring youtube channels and purchasing a few coloring books by various authors, as well as pencils, I found your channel and it was a relief. I've only recently gotten interested in adult coloring, and it has been a surprise that there is much to learn. I've also enjoyed learning about your art and books--I ordered a used (but good condition) library copy of A Castle Full of Cats and may send it to my niece's young children. Just as long as it doesn't give my niece's husband any ideas about getting another large dog (German Shepherds are his favorite)... with their last GS my niece found the shedding level difficult to deal with!

very charming.. every aspect of this.

Oh my word, you show us mere mortals how to improve our technique with such aplomb 🙏

Another master class 🙏

I have only just discovered your art colour books although I have several of your cross stitch artwork hanging on my walls. A great lesson from a superb, imaginative artist whose work I truly adore. Many thanks for enriching my life 🙏

I have several cross stitches hanging on my wall - beautiful artwork 🙏

Thank you

Those two blue pencils i don't like either especially electric blue

I need to work more at layering.

Just found you, too bad no more recent videos. Your artwork is amazing! Thank you for a short concise demo.

Such a helpful tutorial! Thank you so much for the videos plus practice sheets. Just colored my first image in the “Fairies” book. I also did not realize you were an instructor at Hollins in Roanoke- I was born & raised there and was accepted to Hollins although ultimately ended up at Bridgewater. Thanks for all you do!

I’m wayyyyyyyyy late to this party!! But, I’ve had A LOT of Tabbies & something that people don’t notice or always notice. (Most)Tabbies have the letter “M” just above the eyes & between their ‘eyebrows’. There’s quite a bit of lore as to why. There is also a video I saw not to long ago, about Tabbies. If you ever run across it? Watch it! It’s interesting. I was right about the “M”😎!!! I’m really just starting w/grayscale. I use to do some, but, there wasn’t a lot of grayscale then. I’m back to coloring again! After a long hiatus. A lot of things have stayed the same, & a lot of things have change….or are just a bit different. So, here I gooooo…….

Why did you use the second color over the darkest section please?

When I was a little girl coloring was my thing. I colored with crayons in small circles to get a smoother, more blended look. I see you do that with pencils when needed. Beautiful artwork.

Best example I've seen by far. Thank you.

Just beautiful I am a learner thanks for the ideas

Marvellously informative and love your spoken reasons as to your colour choices. Excellent tutorial for us mere mortals 🙏