How To Color Grayscale Fairy Wings

[@pennymeyer3416]

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!!

[@RuthSanderson]

Thanks!

[@sherryramirez6329]

please come back to doing these type of tutorials. You are so brilliant

[@ellym279]

Thank you. This was a very good video.

[@peaches5712]

This song is so intense mysterious, I love it!!

[@bethsolomon1895]

Ruth, I’ve only just recently discovered your colouring books and your KZbin videos. I’m watching every one of your videos I can find on KZbin and I intend buying your books also. I want to let you know that I love your tutorials and please can we have more tutorials on KZbin?

[@RuthSanderson]

Thanks! I do plan a few more this year.

[@13Moondancer]

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 🙏

[@sheilacym]

Just discovered your videos. Love your style of tutoring. No music…no unnecessary chit chit…..professional and so helpful, and I found this very easy to listen to you and learn. Thank you ! 🤗🎉🤗

[@linseybuchanan6353]

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

[@catlady256]

I bought this book and others, followed your kitten before I am new to greyscale, I got four of your books today

[@ellym279]

I am so happy that you are doing videos. I have your book and love your art. Thank you.

[@peggyebbett5936]

Hi Ruth. I've been truly enjoying your colouring books; and I do go with lighter colors but I use a bit of medium Grey for some of the dark lines such as tree branches.

[@RuthSanderson]

Thanks, Peggy!

[@sandraplaza5712]

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

[@RuthSanderson]

Thanks, much appreciated.

[@CSC-lj1kl]

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!

[@RuthSanderson]

Thanks for your note! I am glad you are enjoying my videos. I have not done any in a few years, but hope to do more at some point. I have a Facebook coloring group if you are interested in seeing how other people color. And if you sign up for my newsletter I send them out just a few times a year if/when I have a new book out. My next one will be Birds, and possibly a Teddy Bear's Christmas, though I might not get to that this year. The coloring book of A Castle Full of Cats might be a good Grayscale one to start with. Up to you, though.

[@CSC-lj1kl]

@@RuthSanderson Thank you for the info/suggestions. I hadn't known about the group on Facebook... so I will look into that. And thank you for telling me about your newsletter. I did print a few of the free grayscale downloads from your website--printed on colored pencil drawing paper--so I may start there and and watch the accompanying video as a guide. As someone who knits, my ears perked up when you talked about coloring being similar to knitting in the repetitiveness... "I can do that!" Thanks again!

[@deb.e.mixedmedia]

Your artwork and these tutorials are awesome! Thank you so much! 🧚‍♀️

[@sandracecile3971]

I absolutely love your colouring tutorials. Thank you so much. Looking forward to more.

[@lryan1965]

Great video, beautiful image Thank you

[@RuthSanderson]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@caerhardt]

Thank you! I am learning so much from your tutorials! Working on a lighter hand with my Prismas.

[@rustykeifer3456]

Thank you Ruth, that helped tons. My requests would be 1) how to color what I call foggy back grounds. 2) Some of the coloring book come out really dark, how do you color those? I also ask, am I doing something wrong with the Gamsol, my pictures come out looking faded. Again thank you much for the tutorial stay well and safe.

[@RuthSanderson]

Thanks, Rusty. Soft transitions are perhaps the hardest. I suggest a very light hand and overlapping and "feathering" the areas with the two colors you are using Burnish with a lighter pencil if it is a light "fog" or with the lightest of the colors you are using. If you use Gamsol too soon without enough color built up, that might be why you are getting that result. Good luck! I am planning a blending demo soon...

[@rustykeifer3456]

Thank you very much. I forgot to wish you Happy Easter

[@rustykeifer3456]

I knew there was something I Gorgonzola. What type of printer do you use to print your demos. I have a laser power cartridge and when I printed the princesses and castles from Etsy the smeared. Is ink jet better on drawing paper?

[@RuthSanderson]

I think that inkjet has the preferred type of ink. If you use a lazerjet let the ink dry overnight, that might help. I am not familiar with that ink though. I have an Epson archival printer, but a regular inkjet should be okay. Again, prints seem dry right away but they are not. Always safer to let dry overnight, or at least a few hours.

[@theresarossi6306]

Thank you

[@CreaWicca]

Hi Ruth, just found your channel yesterday but I LOVE it! Just a few quick questions: 1. which paper would you recommend when you print the coloringpages? 2. The pencils you use in this video, are they all from the same set as in the Cinderella tutorial?

[@RuthSanderson]

I use Springhill Vellum card stock. Prismacolors all the way.

[@jade_nev2020]

I love your videos. And I just now realized that you make coloring books. I will definitely have to purchase some of them.

[@sharonvanderpool4611]

Thanks for this tutorial.. I am going to order this book also I think your other one is called Seasons..your a great teacher! 😀

[@RuthSanderson]

You are so welcome!

[@sherleysreallife]

New to your channel. I really like the chance to the picture. Tfs

[@tiffanybrantley2271]

This was a great tutorial! Can’t wait to try the techniques out.

[@mandypoole6828]

Wow i really enjoyed this tutorial. I really enjoy adult colouring but i have not coloured this type of grayscale before. And i want to learn how. Please keep these coming Ruth. At this time its such a great distraction. Thank you so much for sharing. Hair combinations would be really helpful too. Sending lots of love from the UK. And happy Easter. x❤️🇬🇧🐥🐣🐰

[@RuthSanderson]

Thanks for your note and feedback!

[@cassandrak9753]

I learned a lot about greyscale from this stream

[@RuthSanderson]

Glad to hear it!

[@rustykeifer3456]

I’m sorry to keep pestering you with my wants but...I noticed in the fairy book you have a black fairy child. What color pencils would work on black skinned people? Thank you again for the wonderful coloring books and replying to my tons of questions.

[@RuthSanderson]

I'm doing a skin tones demo next, you are in luck. Sometime this week or next. Possibly will be my Live demo on ruthsandersonart facebook page at 2pm on Saturday. Have not decided what I am doing Live. Skin tones might take too long for that. (I'd do at least three skin types) Be sure to subscribe to my channel. If I do it live I will post it on KZbin afterward.

[@RuthSanderson]

Still working on the skin tutorial--I will get to it, I promise!

[@rustykeifer3456]

Thank you for the update. Being a 70 year old grandmother I stay at home because of this crazy virus and look forward to your posts.

[@barbarabolton1768]

Are you blending into the other colors

[@RuthSanderson]

I do overlap colors in some areas yes.

[@soucky1]

My dear Ruth, i think you'll be happy i've4 miss the live streem because i would have so many Q. to asked you about these wings which i absolutely love but ( what's gonna happen when i will do the Grass on the Background and the big rocks which whe seen these colors of Grass & rocks on the wings ???) THE WAY YOU'VE COLOR THESE ONE ARE PERFECT BUT HOW I WILL ADDED MY ROW OF GRASS ON WINGS WHEN THEY ALREADY PINK, LILAC BLUE'S ????? CONFUSE LOL! this is that kind of Q. i would asked you live and i was wondering do whe do the Backgound brfore coloring the wings or whe really color the Wings and after the Background these are some other's i would asked you but anyway that was to short for me because i would of spend at least an hour with you to understhand very well your techniques because you YOU KNOW WHY YOU DO THIS & THAT but me i don't have a clue of what you will do next so YES YOU EXPLAIN VERY WELL RUTH is not the point but like colors could you have on your screen the colors you've use Please because i was out mess up with these which one goes after the other and why not to use this colors insthead of other's these i understhand because you weir explain this without coloring butat the end i have a good idea of how i will color my wings but i need YOU RUTH TO TELL ME IF I SHOULD DO THE GRASS COLORS GOES ON WINGS BEFORE OR AFTER LOL! \ sorry my dear Ruth i send you so many thinhgs i hope you will keep going doing LIVE STREEM AND I WILL DO MY VERY BEST TO BE THERE ON TIME, Thank You so so much, you have no idea how many things you could teached to us Ruth, on this 35mn. i've learnb more then when i wen't to my Art school for 3 hours so you could imagine why i called your tutorials PRECIOUS TUTORIALS it's because they change completely my old technique to gave it a try with the one you've show because the final result is always more beautiful and that';s worked for real, i'm a better colorist each time i learn from you Ruth, so hope next week, i'll be at the right place so i will post all of my Qs. LOL! Big Hugs it's Joyable watch you teaching how to, you are so CALM & RELAX Geez! can't wait being that calm & relax when i will colored a page, Love U xx

[@RuthSanderson]

Sylvie, so if I understand your question, I'd say ---don't color the grass over the wings, just make the wings whatever color you want. And color the grass in the background up to the edge of the wing. Technically the grass behind might show through transparent wings if this were a real dragonfly.... but hey, artistic license lets you color it however you want. I like to break rules. And the iridescence of wings actually comes from the wing itself, not what's behind it. There is no one right way. It is fantasy art! Anything goes. Does this make sense?

[@theresarossi6306]

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

[@dianecox9578]

Sorry I only got four minutes and 20 seconds and couldn’t take any more Ummmms