30 Colored Pencil Backgrounds With Tutorial

[@tammygeorge1638]

Thank you for showing my picture. I'd of never gotten it done without your help, and learning all the steps I had to go through getting it done. That lace! I'll be waiting awhile before trying to do it again! Lol. By the time I got that done, I had to walk away from the picture for about a week, lol. I've never seen the video on the background of the bubbles! Omg! I love it! Going to have to go check it out! And try them! Love all your pictures you have shone, thanks for sharing! 😉 ❤.

[@ColorMyWorld]

You did great! But you were a good artist to begin with. You just needed a push in the right direction.

[@tammygeorge1638]

@@ColorMyWorldthank you! Cool! Can't wait to see what you think with what's coming in the mail next! Heeeeheee! 😆 😆 😉.

[@ColorMyWorld]

@@tammygeorge1638 Well I already picked out your Christmas present. HAHA I can be as sneaky as you.

[@tammygeorge1638]

@@ColorMyWorld Lmfao 😂 😂 😂

[@tammygeorge1638]

@Ridge Shiloh and your point!?

[@Bonofox1]

THANK YOU FOR THIS!! I tend to get lost when doing backgrounds!!.. This is AWESOME!!😃👍

[@dianneallen583]

Love looking through your books with colorings.

[@roxanneosterling9009]

Just discovered your page and videos. You have taught me so much! You are such a great teacher, I love listening to you. Besides being a great teacher you are one hell of an artist. I'm new to adult coloring and everything you said about being scared of backgrounds is true. I can't wait to use all of this new knowledge. Thank you.

[@scruffyscrubs5468]

Great points! Yep...you want the main focal illustrations to pop! Not be drowned out.

[@patriciamoore7414]

Thank you! I have the tools and paint for the dots on my wish list for Amazon. My daughter actually uses it for my Christmas gifts. I will try really hard not to buy them...lol. I loved hearing your voice again! It is easy to relax and learn when I hear you speaking. You have a calming voice with a great tone. I have missed you chatting with us...Puff & Mina stories too! Thank you for your willingness to teach us & all the time you take to do so. I'm quite aware that reading & answering emails, video editing, voice overs, and tutorial prep is time consuming. It makes what you do for us much more precious.

[@michelepastele5347]

I love this video - so many tools I never would have thought of! Thanks!

[@SaraGardiner-j2y]

Yes! Just lovely! Thank you. Sara xxx

[@ilovecoloringhazel4597]

Just watched this video today! Now, I know what to do for my pic! Thanks, so very much. 💚

[@nickmad887]

Lori you are a good person. Thanks

[@judithmorgan1718]

BEST VIDEO I COULD HAVE ASKED FOR and didn't know existed. TY X 70

[@lost619]

Great ideas thank you I got some younger colouring pictures so very basic lots of paper to fill wad looking for ideas!

[@kenivrataric9783]

Lori, your coloring has improved immensely, also, I don’t think you do your best when you are showing us examples, either way, I adore you! 💖

[@michelinelavoie2086]

I love that dotting tool!

[@ColorMyWorld]

Me too

[@4alicekg]

Omg. I forgot I had my Playback Speed setting to 2X and then opened your video and was like "Damn she must've been hella excited editing this video" the music was going so fast 🤣🤣😂

[@ColorMyWorld]

LOL, I have done that too.

[@lanatedford3569]

Yes thank you for this video very informative and i look forward to watching all these background tutorials . you mentioned that it is difficult to go over wax pencils like prisma and you are so right. trying to outline over wax is damaging my sharpies and pens and i'm wondering if there is anything i can use to trace or go over my prismas that won't clog and ruin the utensil.

[@ColorMyWorld]

I have used a workable fixative, but remember once you decide to use it the wax will no longer blend out. This is good for doing layers you don't want the color to mix and it provides a drop of protection for the outliners (not that much). Thicker sharpies do better than those tiny outline markers.

[@nicolemitchell446]

2:37 in the makeup course I did many years ago, we used to say ‘colour steals colour’.

[@jessieraebishopart3386]

Thank you for this, I actually hate doing backgrounds because they waste so much of my pencils and I was actually considering using pastels like pot pastels I guess what they're called and just using some colors to background it out

[@michelinelavoie2086]

I love those dots! Now to find something in all my junk that will work! Thanks Lori, you rock!

[@sirishavura4824]

Ur backgrounds are so unique

[@vilmabertulino436]

Olá, sou do Brasil! Você é uma artista incrível. Obrigada por compartilhar seus conhecimentos e experiências!!

[@andrabeta1971]

I never do background with pencil. Hardly ever i use soft pastel. I use Brusho if i want bright and unpredictable washes, White nights watercolour or gouache if i want predictable result. Arteza gouache is ok. Best, smoothest and even colour i get with Turners acrylic gouache. In Hanna karlzon books i make background in contrasting colours. I make contrasting backgrounds wherever it is possible if it is not landscape or street scene. I hate bokeh backgrounds. Realy hate those bokeh bubbles. Do not know why:) I totaly fail with Arteza metallic acryl. Every time i try to make smooth background i have to "repair" it with blotting other colour with sponge or specialty brushes (like foliator or fan brush). With that acryl i manage just add details and lines here and there on top of watercolour or brush pens. I like when You teach art principles. I find those videos very usefull. I'dlike to see more videos about light and shade, reflected light, different light sources and types of light, night scenes. I liked all videor from Klara Markova books. Sadly for me its difficult to apply it to my colourings because i prefer brushes and water and from all pencils prismas are my least favorite. Why You never make videos using other mediums than prismas? It would be interesting to watch You paint. I bet You paint in loose style(judging from how You use pencils) what i like very much in watercolour. Currently learning (from books) to watercolour in more loose style flowers and street scenes, but of course my work is more sloppy than artistically loose.

[@creaminthecoffee293]

My new Mantra for today is: Focal point, Focal Point, Focal Point!!!

[@xxriotgirlxx]

Wow I got a lot of videos to watch now 😆 definitely subscribed you are super talented and I’d love to learn these techniques.

[@ColorMyWorld]

Thank you

[@illumardimago2307]

Gorgeous. Artwork. I struggle. With. Backgrounds I don’t. Know. What to. Do. But ur advice. Is. Good. U. From. The. Big apple. I’m. From. Manhattan. New York. I. Live. I. California. Good video ma’am. I’m animator. And. Comic book. Artist. I post my stuff on my channel. Thanks. Again. Nice. Meeting ya

[@ColorMyWorld]

Thank you Mario. I am originally from NY but it's Long Island not Manhattan. Close enough. I now live out in the Desert, Las Vegas.

[@ColorMyWorld]

Your magic is so good. I subscribed.

[@akasha1779]

I love your artwork! All of it! Congratulations! 👏👏👏💖

[@ColorMyWorld]

You know what I love about the coloring community. It's people like you that just make me feel good for the day. Thank you Akasha.

[@akasha1779]

@@ColorMyWorld Please, Keep up that awesome work! 🥰

[@jeremylawson6648]

this is wonderful btw

[@deirdrelewis1454]

I’ve been olouring for the past 5 years now and I still avoid backgrounds. The only one I’m comfortable with is soft pastels. I’m quite happy leaving large areas blank. Every time I try to colour large areas, they always look bad.

[@raggedblossom508]

There's nothing wrong with leaving areas blank, if you're not sure. Sometimes the foreground picture is striking enough in itself. Or you can always come back to the background later. 😊

[@patriciamoore7414]

Deirdre, I fully understand where you are coming from. I have the same fears and have ruined some nice pages with the wrong background choices. But, that being said, I feel more confident after watching Lori's background tutorials. I want to do clouds and fog, I just have to find the right picture.

[@dianneallen583]

Lori. I am working on a picture with main colors of browns, grays and light tan. It’s 2 owlets in a tree with rocks. Would orange be too stark for background?

[@ColorMyWorld]

Probably. I would test it first. Green may be better

[@dianneallen583]

Ok green was second choice. Will test. Thanks

[@judithmorgan1718]

question....with regards to the ground cover picture, it appears the decanter would be glass...wouldn't the background show up through it? how would that be done?

[@ushaanand4940]

Amazing work can I inherit them.

[@GiGi-Gigi408]

Love this 😀 ❤

[@RealMelodyBlue]

I haven't touched the background on the blood moon picture cause I'm afraid I will mess up

[@glitterbug8808]

who did you learn to color the background from? Cristian someone? Could you tag them please! Thank you!

[@ColorMyWorld]

I do my own backgrounds. I don't know any Christian someone

[@jeremylawson6648]

can people still send you backgrounds?!

[@viktor10bg16]

Are you a female or a male