Basing With Alcohol Markers | A Beginners guide to Adult Colouring

[@heathermingeaud2337]

Thanks😊 I have a fractured shoulder and I m having a hard time coloring with colored pencil . Thank you so much for this lesson . I just finished a page in 2 days ! Coloring is a large part of my everyday life due to anxiety and being retired and alone .

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

Hi Heather, thank you so much 🤗 A fractured shoulder sounds super painful! Hope you heal quickly. Love how quick and easy alcohol markers can be and perfect for when you can't use pressure to blend. Get better soon xx

[@32763]

Please do more marker videos. I will buy whatever you are using just to learn and follow along. You are my favorite youtuber for coloring. Love your work!!!

[@msemma4316]

These are all gorgeous colouring books! And your colouring - wow!!

[@waymire01]

If anyone is looking to get started the best by far are the Ohuhu Honolulu B. They are brush/fine tip and you will want those fine tips for most coloring pages. The brush is by far the best for smooth larger spaces. They are affordable, excellent quality, and do not yellow. Many cheap brands bleed yellow over time, which will ruin your pages. Most also have very few light colors, and chisel tips which aren't ideal. You want light colors.. while you can add opaque pencil highlights, dark colors will overwhelm your page and make things much harder. Aim for markers in your highlight or midtone shade. The only exception is the occasional dark background, but you can easily pick up a few markers for that purpose. Ohuhu has the BEST pastel range, hands down. Always swatch on plain paper as the colors in any marker brand are often quite different than the caps, and paper does make a difference. My holy grail set is the two Ohuhu pastel sets combined with the midtone set.. it's 120 total and perfect for basing, there is not a single "wasted" color that is too dark. I have them in a beautiful bamboo marker case sourced on Amazon, but they all come with a nice zippered case as well. You don't need that many though.. I used the original 48 pastel set for a couple of years without issue, remember you are adding pencil on top so it's easy to modify the marker base underneath and give variety to your finished color. They have since been renamed but look for the one with the color "prawn", it contains a warm and cool of every hue, including red, grey, and brown. That original set is three years old BTW and still going strong. It's actually very helpful to not use too many different colors for basing.. you can use the same blue for water, brown for trees, green for leaves, etc and simply use your pencils to add variety.. it gives your page a lot of cohesion. As for pencils, you can use any set for shadows but you will need an opaque pencil for highlights, as a transparent pencil simply won't show up. My absolute favorite is my Polychromos for shadows combined with a selection of pastel Prismas. If on a budget just get a few white Prisma. If you are somewhere you can't get Prisma try Chromaflow. You can use an opaque budget pencil, but you will go through them so open stock is best.

[@susanchristopherson658]

Love watching you do a whole page with alcohol markers and pencils. Learning shading, etc is wonderful. Thank you

[@silvers_ink]

I love how smooth and vibrant it turns out when we use alcohol markers for basing! If only all books had single sided pages! Also, I'm not sure if you noticed but starting around timestamp 1 hr 45 min the video turned to slow motion. I thought maybe I had accidentally done it but I checked my settings and it was set to normal speed so maybe it happened during editing. But I just thought I'd let you know! Thanks for sharing another beautiful page!

[@taliaelkarif9035]

I really want to learn to color with alcohol markers. Just purchased the 216 ohuhu Honolulu set. Any chance you’ll do some tutorials and amazing color combinations? I love learning from you!

[@BreathofSpring24]

I ❤ your coloring! 😊

[@lilmisscoloring]

43:48 I want to buy the aartx markers just for that pearl white color 🤣 I feel like the Ohuhu markers are missing out on a nice light cream/off white color in their collection

[@lilmisscoloring]

7:36 on Amazon paper when basing with Ohuhu alcohol markers, I find the black widow pencils go on top amazingly!

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

Good to know ☺️ I tend to reach for the ole faithfuls haha 😆

[@kyliescolouringindownunder3098]

Hi Karen this is just so beautiful.. I was watching colouring bumblebee 🐝 and she was showing her Ohuhu markers and some of them yellowed so she put baking paper in front and behind her books to protect the other pages after she finished her colouring in..

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

Thank you hun. Mine have yet to yellow or discolour. This could be the prismas over the top or the fixative or a combination of both, but I haven't had any issues

[@beverlyjdesigns1410]

Absolutely Magical! Beautiful Indeed!❤❤❤

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

Thank you 🥰

[@ew72360]

Great demo and instruction! Can’t wait to try. Thank you!

[@vielkahelenprincesseboli4383]

Love it !!!

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

Thank you hun 🥰🤗

[@jackdooarts2208]

Amei as cores, parabéns pelo colorido lindo.

[@coffemuse]

Thanks Karen. I have a video request if you'd consider it - I'm looking for colouring books with more tooth in the paper. I can't find many videos comparing roughness and smoothness of papers. Also I use Arrtx pencils for budget reasons and I'd love to get any tips about books with the best paper for those pencils... just a suggestion if you're interested.

[@LeeDee5]

It's such a shame that so many popular artists have double-sided books because I love a good marker base.

[@heathermingeaud2337]

Great for having a hurt right arm . Those pencil layers were killing me due to only being able to use lite pressure . And Im to adicted to coloring to stop coloring till Im healed!!!!. I also jut watching you color .Your voice and the softness of your hand coloring is so lovley and relaxing .Thank you from the bottom of my heart . Keep up the great work . I just wanted you to know what a blessing from God you are to people who have mental and physical problems . God bless you . Your friend Heather Mingeaud .

[@joannemeulenbelt9436]

I have been using this technique with pleasure for two years now and have expanded it. In case the back of the page is printed you can NOT use alcohol markers, but I have found a solution for that. Very good pigmented watercolor pencils or Derwent Inktense pencils. Wet these with a THIN layer of water (the smallest water brush) you can find. The smallest brush is also handy for the very detailed pages nowadays. That is how I did pages in Rita Berman books, which are double-sided. Let dry and then finish with pencil as in this video. Some people use a colorless alcohol marker to dissolve their watercolor pencils, but I have experience with that by now. If you use too many layers of alcohol, it leaves a "greasy" layer (the solvent itself) which creates an annoying shine. I suspect that this will affect your archive result.

[@cherylcraver160]

You can print the other page before you start coloring

[@joannemeulenbelt9436]

@@cherylcraver160 This doesn't always work with all books. I've tried it. Some books aren't "white" enough, but cream colored, which gives a gray cast to black and white printing, which reduces quality. You also have to deal with the distortion shadow of the binding side. I only use a copy to try out the color palette. Another problem I ran into is that my inkjet printer won't accept paper over 110 lbs, so that limits my choices, BUT I still like the coloring books best over the loose sheets...

[@eileenreding8552]

Great information Karen and it is brighter with the markers.Love it😍💖🐞🐸

[@katecurrie7499]

I'm just blown away by your colouring Karen, the depth and vibrancy is awesome. I've never used alcohol markers as a base, and never got on well with them when I tried to colour images with them. However, I'm going to give this a go. Just wish I hadn't got rid of a whole range of promarkers years ago Anyhoo, I've ordered this book, have you done a flip through of it, can't find it if you have. Thank you so much much for your tutorials, I'm learning such a lot 🙏💖

[@rebeccahicks3554]

Fantastic. I guess ill have a try at this. am debating which alcohol markers to step up to. defo cant afford copics unless I win the lottery this weekend!. Have cheapish set from B&M, bit like target in OZ. Any way great video thanks. Would you recommended arrtx of ohuhu??????

[@jacintasimpson1719]

Can you please tell me how you clean the tip as you said to do. Thanks

[@desireehaynes9151]

Gorgeous!!!

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

Thank you 💐🥰

[@nicoleferguson2160]

Can you please link the dusting brush you used in this video! 😍

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

Ooh I can't remember which one I used. Was it a black make up brush? If so it's a Sigma fan brush. But any makeup brush with soft bristles can work. I'm using a brush I had in my makeup kit that I never used. Or was it the little pink vacuum?

[@bethbrady8146]

loved this!!! thank you Karen!!

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

You’re so welcome Beth 🥰

[@FAAS1981]

love it!❤❤❤

[@tanyaschmith9737]

Awesome video ❤ thank you😊

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

You’re very welcome ❤️❤️

[@sheebaqueen3146]

Awesome 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@joanst-gelais7420]

OH YES! C'est le fun, j'en ai déjà fait un avec toi et j'ai vraiment aimé. Alors cette fois-ci je vais encore m'amuser, même si je n'ai pas la même marque que toi. J'ai les Arrtx Marqueur et je peux facilement te suivre.

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

Thanks Joan, yeah you can follow with any brand of markers. Enjoy ❤️

[@wendyjo6233]

Also, what fixatives do you use?

[@Hillary-hl9ly]

Thank you for the video Karen 🙏 I have put off using alcohol markers for so long because they are permanent 😂 I can’t rub them out and was afraid of spoiling my pages 😊but again you have filled me with confidence and I am going to give it a go! I have a few matchstick mouse books 📚 which would be a good start for me because the pictures are smaller. I don’t have this book yet but will order soon and try this picture. You explain everything so clear and I love your channel 💯🌼🌷💕✏️xxx

[@Marina-dm5oj]

Which color maker do prefer? 😊 thanks, marina

[@SanneDolstra]

I am considering to buy alcohol markers. Have water based but they leave stripes. I do have the FC Pitt pens too but cant work with them so well some leave stripes, some dont... wonder if alcohol markers work better. Which of the markers do u prefer most?

[@lilmisscoloring]

I bought the 320 Ohuhu set and it was sooo expensive, but sooo worth it ❤ I use them alllll the time to base. And I do base with darker shades. I sometimes use them to do backgrounds if it's a small area. I have not yet been brave enough to try shading with alcohol markers. Maybe that will come later. Great video!

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

Ohhh yeah I so need to get the bigger set. They’re great markers and not as expensive as some other brands. 🥰❤️

[@kianas.kaleidoscope]

Love this vide, I was just wondering how I can use these alcohol markers I have just sitting here and wanted to get better using. I would also love to know how I can get the plastic sheets?! Any idea anyone>???

[@wendyjo6233]

Can this be done with pigment markers such as pit pens or staedler?

[@CathrynSkelton]

Hiya what book is this please I would like to buy it and practice with my markers

[@melissaegan48]

Does anyone know copic conversion??

[@kimscales5150]

can you do this for all kinds of pages, i have been in a coloring slump, just nothing seems to work,

[@ShimmeringFocus]

Can you use water based markers instead? I have a set of the ohuhu water based markers but not the alcohol ones.

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

You can base with water based markers, I've used my tombows in this book to do that too. Just be careful to avoid streaks on large areas 😁

[@TxBreeze06]

If you use alcohol markers as a base, are you still able to erase the pencil that is on top? I've never used the markers so was just curious

[@MyColourfulCountryLife]

Ooh I've never actually tried. I don't imagine it would work too well though

[@joannemeulenbelt9436]

Yes, very carefully. I do it not with the elecric eraser but with my small Tombow so that I do not damage the tooth of the paper. AND I hardly have to erase because my methode is from light to dark not the other way around, so mistakes are minimum.

[@shellyt2906]

Karen I loved how you showed the pages to compare to the ones you based and the ones that was just pencils only. Also thanks for doing one in this book❤ MY DEAR FRIEND YOU AND HAVE A DATE COLOR ALONG AS SOON AS KIRBY’S NEW BOOK COMES OUT😂 can’t wait❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️