My favorite colored pencil paper is hot pressed100% Arches watercolor paper ,i use Strathmore drawing for graphite only its my fav. , and Strathmore Charcoal best for charcoal only :)

I'm not really familiar with graphites. I only use HB when I sketch and mostly line my artworks with pen and ink. Awesome review thank you for sharing.

Gatekeeping artists are just insecure about their own skills! Truth.

Human drawing and shading.

I am a prismacolor fanatic. I like using them with polychromos for my portraits and dog renderings. Im getting thr luminance for cristmas. Also i build custom wood cases. My prismacolors look beautiful in my wooden case.

I have this same paper & use it for charcoal & graphite pencil drawings & it works great for that. Nice drawing, it's been quite awhile since I've been able to be on due to all my music gigs, hope all is well with you, you are an AMAZING ARTIST!!! Keep On Creating, Rock On & God Bless.

could i use water mixable pencils on first layer then add illumines wax pencils on top ?

I found i prefer to not sharpen prismas to such a sharp point. I use polychromos when i need that fine point.

Way late on this vid. Found it looking up Thomas Fluharty's work and his obsession with Prisma 901 Bleu Indigo (an amazing illustrator btw) - random observance playing around at home Luminance 159 Prussian Blue is the same exact tone as the Prismacolor Indigo Blue from what I can tell.

The colors are also reminding me of the subtle hues you get looking at natural rock formations and minerals, if you have any liking for landscapes with a lot of exposed geological features. Look at good photos of anything from chalk cliffs to basalt to sandstone to the crazy red earth formations in Africa and Australia, or even all kinds of minerals lying in shallow water at the seashore. If the colors themselves work well and you can combine them for even more subtle creation of hues, then they are perfect with perhaps another harder pencil type for surface texturing when needed.

Oh my gosh!! Thank you so much for this video!! You’ve saved me so much time!! I’m getting ready to start a portrait and purchased this putty a few weeks ago. I saw its potential!

Is it permanent and water proof?

Mine were not intense at all!!!

2:21 What&How???

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Hello! Thank you for the comparison! Did you stretched the papers previously?

I use Faber-Castell pencils specifically for light grade drawing specifically light detail and underdrawing. Your cat is spectacular thanks for the pencil review.

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I go by the indigo bunting bird, that said W&N is the correct indigo color. I use FC Poly indigo over a brown pencil to create a beautiful more interesting dark/black.

Eek mine looked SO bad but this video was very informative!

Amazing video. very helpful!

It's really so beautiful...🖤

Thank you

I have an a level ppe tomorrow, so im doing a bit of last-minute research even though ive already drawn it before lol.

This may not have been true when you made this video but FC 9000 now do go yo 5H.

I think this is great. I am in retirement, returning g to a modest kind of talent for art class in school that I left off once I started to pursue college and professional training, and work. I am thrilled how much good instruction is on the web, and how much real fine art you can do with colored pencils, which were almost like a toy when we were kids in the 50s and 60s. A real good foundation, and this is good advice too about pressure and how to lay down color because a lot of retirement age people have some trouble with their hands and need to work more gently. Colored pencils are a beautiful medium if you know how to handle them! Thank you!

Thank you for this video! This was extremely helpful as I'm working on a dinosaur for my son. I practiced with our bearded dragon and the texture on him. It was okay but not as realistic as I hoped. Your tips in this transformed my drawing from okay to....almost great. Love your channel! Thanks again

I matched about all but 3 with the Prismacolor from all 50 Holbeins

Sad to see that your poor little bird only has two front 'toes' on its left 'foot'. Maybe its mom married a woodpecker. Still love your videos.

Great videos. The correct pronunciation of the word 'Foliage' is FO....LEE....AGE...not FOI...LAGE. the 'I' comes after the 'L'..not before. From one teacher to another. Keep up the good work.

I like it 😊

you know the drawing of a snake is good when it gives you the ick. very impressive.

I love the real distance you take from the pencil tip with your fingers on the barrel to get that feather light application. It took me ages to trust the control that much, but it was worth it. Nice to see someone doing it. I thought this was very nice and you had a lot of control and finesse over the "out of focus" green background. Do you ever use brushes with the solvent, or do you just like the Q-Tips? I used them at first, but I do like brushes for tiny places and edges.

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Hi Alexis! I love your pencil case holder shown in this video. Can you provide me with a link to purchase it? Thanks!

The vibrancy of these pencils in your demonstrations remind me of the intensity of Inktense pencils. Love your videos…your demonstrations are great and the talking you do is all about what you are demonstrating (not just a lot of chit chat). Thank you!

You're not allowed to blend. You're greatly mistaken. You rubbed off the graphite and left behind grey wax. You're basic fundamental knowledge is WRONG. You don't know about this brand. You don't know what makes them different to other professional brands. This is just you misleading the public. You paid for sifting the graphite. Once it's been mixed, you can't unmix it. You can't use a tissue to unmix the mixture. YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO USE A TISSUE TO RUB THE MIXTURE.

No entendí lo que dijo, habla muy rápido. Para la próxima usaré el traductor. Faltó comparar con el blanco de Derwent Lightfast. Está bonito el gatito

I know this is 2 years old now, but still I want to say that I love Pablo pencils. The colour range is so different and lovely. I started with an 18 count set and found that with layering, and use of black and white, I could generate just about any colour or tint or tone that I needed. Gorgeous to work with. I now have the 120 set. They are a dream on toned paper.

Put the f******g codes

I use Clairefontaine pastelmat or Grafix drafting film for all my coloured pencil drawings

Holy, that’s just phenomenal. GREAT JOB!

This is so good.

Why are you not uploading videos

I've been following your channel for a couple of years, and I love your content, I like it even more when it's not the content that KZbin obviously pushes, but the one full of your real observations about the techniques and products you show. Obviously I'm not a professional artist, I just like to draw as an amateur, like many here, but I really enjoy your videos. Happy to see your new content when you feel that you have something valuable to tell us and when your life and activities, which are the most important thing, allow it. Thank you very much for your videos, a hug from Chile.

We need another lake placid

What's in a word, that by any other word would smell as sweet... Art is a very confusing word today with many connotations. Many people see it as a meaningless term to mean whatever somebody wants it to mean. For some, it means a craft, for others it means beauty, for some it means something spiritual, for others, it means something that challenges society's values, for some people it means a livelihood, others see it as self-expression, and then others see it as anything they want to see it as… even if it is a urinal. So art is a word that nobody and everybody knows what it is. But Gatekeepers are another thing. We all know what that word means. I think what some artists need is to find a patron… if they want to do the European thing. If they want to fashion themselves like that, then they need to have a rich and influential patron, and then they are in the league of well-known European artists and musicians. Gatekeeping otherwise is for delusional peasants. Peasants who pretend they are important, but who don't have a patron to get the really important things done. If you want prestige and fame, get a patron.

very nice teaching sister, im new to this but your teaching is on spot so far, i'm a 59 year old man , trying to learn different talents thanks for the lesson's

Most amateurs/beginners try to take off too much wood. Slow and steady, thin shavings. Remember use a thin blade. HTH