Toned Paper makes Colored Pencils 💥 POP! 💥

The colored pencils I bought were actually ERASABLE, something I didn't realize until they arrived. I bought them because they were advertised as working well on toned paper, because they are "highly opaque" according to JetPens, so they stand out from the background or something. Anyways, I'm always excited to try new art supplies. They did work well, although I noticed a more than usual amount of the pencil building up on my hand and smearing across the paper than I was used to with the Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils I've grown more accustomed to.
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[@reeda5390]

Peter, I think your super power is how you analyze the world and iterate your thoughts. Whether it's with your art or your words. It's very unique and captivating.

[@tripptank]

With a super power like that, nothing would be lost to history ever again. You could touch the ashes of The library of Alexandria and regain all that knowledge.

[@spinningfish8233]

i like to imagine the superpower you described as "tagging" every, let's say, pebble in a certain area, then rolling back the time 100 years to the past, with the pebbles still tagged, and then you could walk around the world with a special pair of glasses that would highlight everything that has been tagged in the future. perhaps the highlighting would work even through walls and even the earth, so if you looked below you and something was on the other side of the planet you would see a tiny spec. yes i have also daydreamed about this :)

[@waddledee474]

I think the term for that "connections" power in fiction is "Psychometry", where you can read the history of an object. Personally, I think about the same thing: I think about the manufacturing of different products I see whenever I'm bored somewhere, everything has a story

[@s.kristinedall5705]

Your content has always been very calming. I've never used grey paper, but it looks so nice with the colored pencils.

[@anitamitchell3452]

When I was a child I wanted to stay asleep because I could fly in my sleep. I lost the ability when I was here/awake. Now, I would love to have binocular eyes and perfect vision. Always good to share time with you Peter. Happy New Year and I hope you hit 1M soon. Much love.❤

[@meganm.9809]

I have been watching your content since 2015 and still, 10 years later, your channel remains my absolute favorite. I hope you're able to make it to 1M subs, peter! You deserve it

[@mjpete27]

Hullo Peter, I am going to say that this drawing feels like something from “Forbidden Planet” it is nothing specific about it, but it just does! I have been converted to better paper for years now. Knowing that whatever I do is on the best surface I can afford! I know that many people believe Pastelmat is one of the best surfaces for quality artwork! I am more of a watercolor paper person, since starting working with soft pastels my range of papers and surfaces has expanded dramatically. I have even started using different “grounds” treatments for papers, even panels that will accept different mediums. From watercolors and color pencils to acrylic ink washes to fountain pen inks too! I am very excited about you posting your artwork for sale and I hope to be able to afford a Peter D original! Stay safe, be well and have yourself a lovely day!

[@tecktonalex]

getting better with years like a fine wine subs gotta go 1mill soon

[@applefreak1954]

I've been OBSESSED with JetPens for years. They're amazing!

[@menuhin]

Thanks Peter! For your very creative stream of thoughts and your beautiful and imaginative color pencil drawing 👍

[@my_broken_face]

Such a curious mind. truly captivating.

[@emiliocespedes3685]

I've forever been obsessed with the idea of being immortal, but at the same time, with people not being possibly able to be aware of my existence. I think that counts as a super power. Like, being able to go to a café and make myself a coffee and sit at one of the tables, but for some reason, no one sits at that table and the barista doesn't offer that table, unaware of the reason. Like being in the corner of everyone's eye but going completely unperceived. Idk if I can even explain what I mean. Kinda like that buzzing sound some fluorescent lamps and neon lights make, that you are not aware of until someone turns the light off, at which moment you're like "huh, I didn't notice that sound was annoying me", you were hearing it, but it just went through your brain inadvertently. And just wander around the universe witnessing it all, until the end of times or until I say "I think I'm done and ready to move on"

[@irukandji123]

Thanks for being you and a staple in my life for the last 10 years

[@mlmattin]

I always learn so much from this channel! Who knew washer/dryers delivered packages! Also, who opens packages like that?! Haha. Love your art. Thanks for sharing.

[@michellep237]

You are the very 1st person I've ever "met" that thinks about those connections too! It's nice to not be alone. I like your progression into colored pencils. I work with pencil over watercolors, or gouache sometimes. It's very versatile! Anyway , I enjoyed tonites episode.

[@Caffeinated-Neanderthal]

Peter you posted this right as I took my coffee break thank you for your excellent timing!

[@BodhisattvaFehily]

Your art is wonderful, Peter!

[@peter_draws]

Thank you, a compliment from a bodhisattva!

[@ichirofakename]

Thanks for this. I'm inspired by and enjoying this current polychromatic phase.

[@rainbowtropolis]

I bought a bed sheet with your art on it, I love it! I was thinking of coloring it, but it's so intricate! I also didn't want to ruin it if I goofed. Thank you Peter! I think your super power is making people happy by doing what you like, which is a win-win 👍☺

[@gaelhillyardcreative]

Jet Pens are super. Great drawing! Why take a chance on a just getting a random superpower in your next life. Start designing the superpower you want next in this one.

[@LegendOfMoonDragons]

Love the white highlights, they make this pop. Love that the window into their head is completely empty 😂 I feel this one

[@raminmoheb6504]

Your videos are the best. Hope you never stop. Your drawings are all valuable, but your videos are priceless. Peter D. is to doodlism as Picasso is to cubism. ❤.

[@Figmentius]

best superpower is to be more creative 🙏❤🙃

[@tbone2885]

I was going to say you open boxes in a very... idiosyncratic way. But then I saw your art.... Make sense, now.

[@fakenamefakesurname5005]

Yeah i love jet pens, i bought my sakura gellyroll pens there but unfortunatelly, since i'm european, the shipping cost is more expensive than the items themselves so i only used it once! Anyway, i didn't check your channel for a while and i'm shocked to see that you are close to 1million subscribers 🎉🎉

[@judybrooks]

Nicely done! This one seems a little more planful/preconceived than your typical approach (which has greatly influenced my ability to loosen up when drawing). As you added the layers/views to the inside of the head, it reminded me/I recalled you mentioning that one of your early influences is Stephen Biesty’s Incredible cross-sections book. I really appreciate these types of visualizations. Your use of color and shading is also nicely handled and helps to focus our attention into the windows to the internal layers. Always a pleasure to watch and listen… thank you!!!

[@apocalypse_frau]

Have you tried Canson Mi-Teintes portrait sheets? Lots of colour variety and you don’t have to suffer the ring bound nonsense. How do you like the Uni Colorerase? If you like the thicker core, I highly recommend Derwent Lightfast and Caran d’Ache Luminence. I think you have the excellent and lightfast Faber Castell Polychromos, yes? Just thought I would mention the Derwent because their price has gone down recently; most art stores price match. I mention the Luminence too because you can acquire some very interesting colors in their range (open stock is a bonus). Do you watercolour often? I feel that your drawing style would be beautiful over a free form watercolour underpainting.

[@natan_ist]

Hi Peter. These close up thumbnails are amazing!

[@tsuhai5474]

Awesome drawing! Really like it.

[@emiliocespedes3685]

I paint digital but I always start with a gray canvas

[@ch-arts-us]

when we are all dead there will entire art shows about us we dont know exist.

[@coloringanddoodling9751]

Well done

[@ADUMBMAN]

One of the superpowers i would like to have if i could is telekinesis. Cuz then it comes with the pro of flight Or maybe to get rid of the need for me to breathe. I feel like it’s a waste of energy

[@DegaGray]

follower for a very long time, youve even judged one of my art pieces and liked it (one of the highlights of my life thank you :D ) but this piece right here, is a monstrosity of magnificence. This is my now favorite pieces of yours, I love it so much. I wish i could buy this but my means are little as i am in the intro stages of selling my art as well. Be well Peter and Be king to yourself

[@peter_draws]

Thank you!

[@linden5165]

If I could have a superpower I'd choose something similar - the ability to have clear knowledge of things from the past. Even if it was just some part, eg one city, my own ancestors, one object, etc. I try and think of superpowers that wouldn't give me responsibility or obligation though. Knowing history perfectly I'd probably be obligated to help forensic investigations and having actually done that work I am not enthusiastic about that idea. I liked the purple landscape-esque elements in this drawing.

[@elastiekjeelastiekje7071]

Your next breath has been part of a dinosaur fart millions of years ago. This probably means that you are partly a dinosaur yourself now .... 😄

[@itsBASILLICUS]

The super power I want is to be able to view any place I'm standing at the time how it looked however many years ago in the past as I wanted, like real-time. So I could stand in the center of town square and wish to see that place 68 million years ago, then get a vision of that exact place (accounting for the movement of tectonic plates and such) at that point, flora and fauna and all. I wouldn't be at risk of being like.. squished by rocks, or drowned by water, or burnt by lava or anything since it would just be a real-time reality-accurate vision of that time in space. I would be quite the savant in the biological and evolutionary sciences if I could do that.

[@lju5001]

Have an order coming today from Jet Pens! Love all the pencil work you are doing. I’m just coloring with them, should I branch out and try real art, if so will I be happy or demoralized with the outcome and go running back to adult coloring?

[@cosmiclettuce]

if only rocks (and their components) could talk, we could hear the history of the universe. also true for any material not just rocks

[@Apothecartea]

Yeah imagine water…air molecules maybe. But mostly water because yknow the “dinosaurs drank the same water” fact. And I want to hear the hot gossip on the dinosaurs.

[@cosmiclettuce]

when I was a kid and learned that protons were the first pieces of matter generated in the (so-called) big bang, I wanted to talk to protons. Still trying -- workin' on it....

[@Apothecartea]

@@cosmiclettuce I mean, theoretically…us talking to each other is protons speaking. Maybe you already succeeded.

[@cosmiclettuce]

@@Apothecartea yeah! and you sound great! :)

[@Apothecartea]

@@cosmiclettuce :D you too!!

[@nellykerr]

Peter, read Material World by Ed Conway......you'll find out exactly where stuff comes from. It's a rabbit hole I also fell into. X

[@LeroyMustang]

They import Japanese stationary mostly, I bought Japanese pens and pencils there 15 years ago. There is a .18mm gel pen there, said to be small enough to write on a grain of rice.

[@LeroyMustang]

Uni-ball Signo bit 0.18 mm

[@frankus1122]

I have a similar but different super-power fantasy. It is to be able to predict and control the 'Butterfly Effect'. My super-hero name would be 'The Nudge' because I could do subtle little things and I would know the exact effect it would have at some point in the future. I could use this to deal with super-villians or anything else I chose to do. So whereas Peter wants omniscient knowledge of where things came from I want knowledge over what would happen in the future due to small actions on my part.

[@savannahlevy97]

Awesome and terrifying. Your powers would be unnoticed and no one could ever trace the events to you. So there's no government coming after you, which is something I thought a lot about when I used to fantasize about flying with huge bird wings as a kid

[@macklee6837]

Lol this drawing looks like a Thalasin Blue side-effect 🤪

[@RichMitch]

*pop*

[@peter_draws]

pop pop!

[@pw6467]

Hey Peter! I draw with black ink pens 99% of the time and using color feels overwhelming. Would you have any advice for someone that wants to start using color in their work?

[@peter_draws]

I dunno, I didn’t do it for years because I was happy with black and white, I think you’ll just do it when you’re ready, when your creative brain starts exploring in that direction. I couldn’t force it for myself

[@pw6467]

@ thanks for the reply!

[@vorpled]

To fly you have to aim at the ground, and miss.

[@marthatahir2865]

I love shopping at Jet Pens, but my wallet doesn't!

[@samuil_maxim]

First time i see Mitsubishi pencil...) Don't know man,...i stick to Kawasaki they are my favorite...

[@MrJPEZ123]

Toned

[@erikasolnc]

I was thinking....You remind me of someone. Then I realized you remind me of Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman).

[@danimalsphone]

Do yoi think you'd like having the superpower to induce deja vu?

[@trihorsegrizz1169]

You’re favorite color is till green

[@peter_draws]

it’s a great color

[@Monty-in-gumboots]

The Superpower I always thought to be the ultimate would be to understand and speak all languages. Not just every human language. think about this. No code or pattern would be a mystery. You could understand ead\talk\communicate natively to computers, spiders, whales, trees, Rocks, crystals, planets, stars, galaxies, everything. You could listen to the internet and understand and speak back to all that is going on there. There would be no mathematical theorem or equation you did not understand.

[@quintenskevin]

There are 50 shades of grey

[@peter_draws]

So I’ve heard

[@tori8956]

I guess you could call it Orgin-sense?

[@quintenskevin]

In almost any super heroes ttrpg there is a power that lets you touch something and see his past live. You then are able to see thibgs around it, like people who interact with and what they said. It is sometimes located to an area but sometimes it followa the item.

[@arefuu6682]

bro buy Mitsubishi color pencil

[@abhabh6896]

How do you price your art exactly... I mean, what makes a 500$ art 500$ and another one 100$? How can an artist even place money on his art. With paintings it must be extremely hard, especially with those that arent round numbers. What is the process?

[@peter_draws]

Yeah it’s not a logical thing. It’s a lot of my gut, a combination of how long I spent on it and how much the art supplies cost, how big it is and how nice the mediums/supplies are, how much I like it and how good I think it is, how proud I am of it.

[@abhabh6896]

@peter_draws I am a layman when it comes to drawings and paintings, but from what I have seen, you are very consistent. I am not much of an abstract art fan, but I keep coming back to your videos. Colored pieces like this one are truly amazing, though.

[@peter_draws]

Thank you, I appreciate it!

[@TONY19021965]

So, Peter, are you an atheist now?

[@peter_draws]

I guess so

[@TONY19021965]

@peter_draws Too bad, 👋 bye.

[@peter_draws]

cya

[@TONY19021965]

@@peter_draws I doubt it! Besides, what do you care, I'm just one subscriber. Btw, want to buy your Narwhal signature pens? I have all of them, except the silver and black, but I have the gold one. You can have them for $50.00 each.

[@hasanraza430]

"atoms of rubber" - ughhhh 🙄🙄🙄

[@peter_draws]

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[@hasanraza430]

@@peter_draws Just want to start by saying, I'm a huge fan of the channel and your work! Been watching since the beginning, and your work inspires me to make art. I am also thinking of investing in some of your work because I think you are heralding a new genre that will be defining for future artists! However, rubber is a molecule made of smaller atoms (of hydrogen, carbon and sulfur); rubber per se has molecules or particles, which are made up of atoms of other elements.

[@peter_draws]

Thanks! And yeah it’s not technically correct, you’re right, but like you pointed out here, it’s still made of atoms. If I looked at the hydrogen and carbon atoms in a hydrocarbon polymer chains that make up rubber, you could say I’m looking at rubber atoms.

[@nibornnyw3185]

Peter, God's name is Jehovah. Pray to him in Jesus' name. Ask for wisdom and understanding. Seek knowledge about him. He is ready to be found.