Tips and Techniques for drawing realistic leaves in Colored Pencil w/ Lachri

[@germaicanlady]

Awesome! I love hummingbirds - and these are sooo cute! The leaves really are wonderful!

[@bellamildew3713]

Excellent camera quality! The close up shot in the beginning revealed so much about the process because of the camera quality.

[@marshacole7]

Love all the changes you have made to your branding items. The lively cards on a line, etc. This new look is terrific.

[@Lachri]

Thanks! I've been having fun reworking everything :D

[@mustafafh4402]

Thank you so much lisa! like you have no idea how much i got better from your tips and everything! i JUST WANNA THANK YOU!!

[@beverleygardam151]

You are certainly a very very good artist , love your work Lisa.!!!

[@theblessedmystic6796]

You're a great teacher Lisa! 😌

[@RaymondOreFineArt]

Truly stunning, one of your best

[@pattip539]

Love this. Definitely one of my favorites of yours!

[@j.fayart5857]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@Leontinevanvliet]

beautiful! i need to get that touch-up texture stuff. I hope it is available in the Netherlands already

[@Lachri]

If you email brushandpencil.com they can ship it internationally.

[@InezDoesLife]

Can't unsee the face... It's always there... lurking... FOREVER!

[@DiRidpath]

This is stunning!

[@attheranch873]

Beautiful!!!

[@monikam3897]

I love your creativity :)!

[@Lachri]

Thanks :)

[@montykot]

Great job as always! Thank you!

[@JeffLafferty]

Great piece

[@jacqdunstan8221]

Just love it, and I think that you subconsciously drew the face to have a little Surrealism in this piece as well :p

[@DrawingWithFire]

Great video Lisa! 😆 The eye in the dead leaf seems to be watching you back. 😉 How can you not bring home a sparkling droopy tree? Hubby just needs to go back and get it...there is always room! lol

[@rhondawillington9214]

Thank you for the video. I work with Pastel pencils and the layering is the same, lots of it to get that lifelike look. I had to replay the video a few times because I could not catch what you were saying, as at times you talk extremely fast. Your work is gorgeous. 😁

[@rafaelmezao1979]

How did you make the background? Do you have any video of how you did it?

[@drBenyy]

How is it possible that everything blends out smoothly but stays on its place? (for example those brown veins remain basicaly untouched). When I try to blend with mineral spirit, all colors end up mixed together. I feel I have almost no control over the color when blending :(

[@felixsatia]

Is polychromos can be "watering"? Or must using albrecht durer?

[@judyptak7118]

Love this!

[@WeddingxPeach97]

I have a question mainly pertaining to when you work with colored pencil in with the powdered blender. In your most recent powder blender color pencil video you said you could spray your texture fixative is over each layer to avoid lifting color from the previous layer. my question is can that method be applied with blending colored pencil with paint thinner. For example if I blended a couple layers of color pencil with paint thinner and then sprayed it with workable fixative will that keep that layer from lifting off when I blend another layer?

[@condorreades2148]

What is she doing with the brush to blend? What is she using?

[@LuisNgchongJrArt]

nice video I learned a lot today

[@mistry565]

How do you get the initial sketch down before shading/colouring? Do you just trial and error until it looks right, or do you use a grid method or trace? Personally I don't like tracing, I've started using grid and it's ok, I struggle with just seeing and copying as my proportions go all over the place

[@melmel8670]

amazing job :)

[@maitreyeemhatre921]

You are awesome...

[@123animalcrazy]

is your final layer just pencil or do you use the blender on the final product?

[@thecrayolaeffect7]

Lovely work. I really appreciate sharing your techniques with us. The grainy unfinished look was very frustrating to me, even with lots and lots of layering. Can't wait to try this out. I do have a question though. I'm an art student and they want us working exclusively with Prismacolor. Is this achievable with Prismas? I know they tend to be softer than other pencils.

[@lucaslima-tn9rv]

the paint thinner does the same effect as baby oil?

[@Lachri]

No, baby oil doesn't ever dry quite right. It's not something I recommend for fine art.

[@elizabetedemela9105]

Is using normal store bought turpentine alright to use as well? Or does it damage the pencil because I have the luminance and don't want to wreck them! :)

[@nancyzimmermann3949]

This is so lovely! All those details*-* I recently got some touch-up texture and titanium white and I love it! Now all I need is a proper liner brush lol Also, I think your description is wrong. It says something about a lion, earth and moon :)

[@Lachri]

HAHA woops! I fixed it, thanks!

[@jjtsmom]

your work and your tutorials are amazing. when do you sleep, Miss Lisa?

[@noahspaulding-schecter3218]

I can't stop looking at the face!

[@Lachri]

The face is a lie!

[@bulbo26]

herbert is an araucaria heterophylla :3 , has nothing to do with a chrtistmas tree xD, it grows only in new caledonia ! (PS: it's an amazing house plant)

[@teresawebster3498]

I new I recognized the leaves on your berry bush. We call them beauty berries.

[@zainzaid505]

u r my favorite

[@corvuscorone7735]

Poor Herbert. Lonely and abandoned in the shop, still not re-homed. *sniff*

[@jpc_art]

Not ganna lie I was staring at the face the entire time. Maybe it's good that you don't see it because it's very destructing once you see it

[@angiewyers5462]

Can no longer play videos because it gets stuck buffering the ads.

[@equitime77]

That face ...

[@AafkeVultink]

Sounds like my husband. Darling I have enough loungewear to last me a lifetime. Call ithe covid sideeffect. Darling; look this one has you written on it. Me; sigh. Darling; why do you have so many? Me; have you checked your messages recently? Darling; fair enough :P LOL

[@ArtOfRavenD]

Nice!!!! I really love your hummingbirds portrait. Yeah, colored pencil takes so long. :/ I agree. It makes me wanna charge more for CP commission than oil despite being told oil portraits are more money than anything.

[@BairyxHalls]

#saveHerbert