Colored Pencil Tips - Lachri
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Watch colored pencil tips and techniques while I draw a black cat, coral and fish!
This cat and coral belong to Than of Tidal Gardens! This is also where I got all of my coral reference photos! I'm drawing in colored pencil using Polychromos, Derwent Lightfast, Derwent Drawing, and Luminance. I will show you how to blend and layer colored pencil along with other tips and techniques while we chat about art!
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★★Tidal Gardens★★
Tidal Gardens is a coral farm in Ohio that has a youtube channel focused on corals and has a patreon that makes high-resolution reference photos available for artists starting at the $5 level.
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★ Fabriano Artistico HP watercolor paper
★ Polychromos amzn.to/2qjrD9C
★ Caran d'Ache Luminance amzn.to/2qqBUzY
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★ Mona Lisa Odorless Paint Thinner amzn.to/2qjnwui or
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★ Glassine (this is the paper I keep under my hand) amzn.to/2psNADk
★ Kum Sharpener amzn.to/2pJwTGm
★ Easel daylight lamp amzn.to/2DpMMsN
★ Slice Ceramic Blade amzn.to/2WAIow4
★Touch up texture & Titanium White mixture (for painting white highlights) brush and pencil.com
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I'm learning to watch ALL your lessons, even topics or subjects I don't " think" I'd be interested in, and always learn something fantastic!
Ahhh, this is gorgeous❣️💐
Beautiful! I'm sure Than will love it. His voice is so relaxing to listen to.
Lisa, I love the way you talk through your process. Thank you!
So helpful and it turned out beautifully!
Great job Lachri‼️Another great color pencils tutorial. Thanks for your Great Tips👏🏼😊👍🏼👍🏼
Absolutely stunning Lisa .l just love cats ,and this one is beautiful.
Very beautiful work, and a very charming cat!
Sooo beautiful ❤👏
Every drawing I do, I hear your voice saying get your darks dark & your whites white! Thanks Lisa, it makes a huge difference ‼️👌 xx
I’ve wanted to see this one for soo long. Yeah!
Me too.
Beautifully done, as always, Lisa!!
Thanks :D
I think Penny was just thinking to herself, "Yes that portrait is gorgeous and perfect -- but then wouldn't it be? It's of me after all!" She's just such a beautiful little fluffbucket. :-)
She really is! :D
Yey shorter vids, thank you x
Lisa,
It is so beautiful, thank you for sharing
Thank you :D
I'm so glad you said white pens are not archival! Phew you just saved me lol
Thank you so much Lisa!
Now I need to send her to you, complete with clownfish :P
It's So Beautiful
Omg "kitty don't lick your bum" 🤣🤣🤣🤣. We call that "playing bagpipes" pose.
Great video as always ❤️❤️❤️
I love how shiny you made Penny's fur. She looks better in your drawing than she does in real life. Working in small sections is such helpful advice, although sometimes if I have a color mixed, I look for where I see that color in my photo or where I want to use it in my painting, so I don't have to keep mixing it, even if it means I'm jumping around from place to place.
Thanks Sara! :D
These are great tips, thanks for sharing! Will definitely use them as I create more art for my channel!
😀
Lisa this is beautiful 💕💕
Thank you :)
thank u for that tip of focusing on a small area at the time. i always work around the whole drawing at the same time and i start to get very frustrated and i tend to leave my drawing there and start to procrastinate. im going to start applying that tip to my life haha
YAY!
Very nice 👍👌
Awesome
I actually love how you can actually see the blue reflections in her fur at the end cart clip, like this is exatcly what Lisa was talking about, black is very reflective (just like white). Awesome video, beautiful cat and a wonderful piece of art
:D
@@Lachri I got noticed! Yay!
Lovely! Thanks for the tips. :)
Bello, bello!!
I love your work. I stumbled across an old video of yours that said you had some health problems, hang in there and get better. One thing I really miss is your critiques. You were so kind and thorough. I learned so much from them.
I still do critiques but now they are done in livestreams where I critique several at a time every couple of months :D
I just got internet at home and can watch more closely now. Thanks for letting me know.
Love your videos! Do you have one on transferring or drawing the image onto paper? I'm struggling with dividing the areas like you do in your tiger on black paper for example. That is, dividing them before you color the sections. Thanks! ♥️♥️♥️
If I had only one video to watch over and over again it would be this one. ^^
Blue Tea Art me too
Aww thanks! :D
Me, too, too.
Wow, that border would take me years to do. Loving the aquatic feel and the cat I’d love to stroke.... silly me it’s a drawing. Looks so real and the overall composition is amazing, great imagination
Yeah, it was the most time consuming portion for sure!
I never understood why artists break up their work into smaller areas instead of doing whole layers all over the work. Now that you explained it, it actually makes sense, I still have a piece I've never got to finish because it's overwhelming and there isn't a part of it that looks good, since the whole drawing is on the same stage.
On the other hand, I'm not sure I'll be able to repeat the same steps in the next area if I take a break between two similar areas let's say of fur.
No worries there. You really don't need to repeat everything exactly the same to make them look the same. I sure don't :D Just keep layering until it looks right :)
topik801 warm up with 10 minutes practice on a separate piece of paper before hand as it usually takes a a good few minutes to get back into the zone (method) no matter how long the break.
Tell him the clown fish is ironic. 😜. Lovely work, Lisa!
haha :D
Lots of good tips! I tried purple tests for a black highlight (for a dress) and didn't look right to me. (I first tried browns and greys, and neither looked good). I settled for dark green highlights and it looked decent for the dress, but am guessing that would look terrible as a solution for hair or cat fur... Green hair? I'll look next for one of your portraits that has dark hair, and what colors to use for lighter areas (besides browns). 😀
Thanks for sharing all these great demo and tips. May I know if I can use the Derwent Lightfast and CDA Luminance as a watercolor pencil? Or they you can recommend some a product from them, that I can use or mix with my watercolor paint (I am new to this materials). Best regards.
I just recently started getting more serious about colored pencil work. I had kind of put it on the back burner for a long time, mostly because I never understood how to make it work. Thanks to some of your videos I finally figured out a huge trick to it, which is the mineral spirits. The other problem I had is my actual pencils. I had been studying mixed media work last year and everyone was swearing by prismacolor. I only knew of a few artists at the time that used polychromos, of course most of them didn't do pure colored pencil work either. So last Christmas I managed to get some prismacolors, I didn't use them a ton at first. I loved how smooth they were however, every time I tried to use them they always broke. I had brand new sharpeners, tried numerous ones. I tried turning the pencil, tried turning the sharpener, tried a sharpener that held the pencil in place. I have kept them in a padded case since I got them, and rarely drop them. Still they break, I will not be able to afford to get any other pencils for some time as our budget is extremely tight. I have thought about trying the baking method to see if I can some how make these work until I can get new ones. I know it has to be possible as I have seen other artists do great things with them. I know you aren't a huge fan of prismacolors for the same reasons after using them in the past. However, do you have any advice on how to make these work well until I can get something with a better quality? When you baked yours in the past how long did you bake them and at what temperatures? Were there any other things you did to stop the breakage? Thanks in advance for reading this long comment.
I had better luck with electric sharpeners than I did manually sharpening them.
@@Lachri Thank you, is there a good brand you can suggest? I am desperate to make these work till I can buy something better. As an upgrade which are better to upgrade to first Derwent or polychromos? Trying to figure out what to save up for or hope for as a Christmas gift lol.
The one I used was by Derwent. They no longer make that one but I've heard good things about their current model. As for which pencils you upgrade to, Either Derwent lightfast or Polychromos will both make you happy. You really can't go wrong with either :)
For the drawing, how do you decide what details to draw in and not draw in? I struggle with wanting to put in every line or every detail and I jusy neber know what is considered helpful and not helpful. Can you do a video of you tracing on a design for colored pencil or acrylic?
the kitty looking at those fishies like they are a snack lol
I dunno, I would put money on that clownfish being more aggressive than the cat haha!
What if you see spots of Mineral spirits on the back of the paper? Is that bad or you need to wait until it dries?
I just released a colored pencil tips upload too! Of course, Lachri remains the queen of pencils, but I tried my best :P This drawing is AMAZING Lisa! WOW WOW WOW!
Ooh I need to check that out! :D
@@Lachri I'm nervous now lol!
Great work Lisa! Just a comment/question: how do you know when to stop the purple/magenta from interfering the real color? I do not know if this is different in person, but those fishes look orange and purple to me instead of yellow and white - they are gorgeous anyway. Thanks!
I want them to look magenta and orange. The white reflects the color around it and if you just make them white they will look flat. Now I definitely over do the color saturation, but that is just how I stylize my fish. Personal preference there. :D
Hi thereplease excuse the question in this way.Your website has inspired me to revamp my own and i intend to buy Divi from Elegant themes I believe. My question is I use Woocommerce to conduct my shop. May I ask you if you also use this plugin, or something else, If you do how do you find it please. I thank you in advance, for your kind help in this matter, best wishes Paul
Yes, I use woocommerce with Divi. They work great together :)
Thank you Lisa
Love Hun
Hi, do you have the link for white paint on top of colored pencils?
Jenny Luan Art She’s not talking about white paint. She’s talking about a product called Colored Pencil Touch-up texture Titanium white, made by a company called Brush and Pencil. Here is a link: brushandpencil.com/content/brush-and-pencil-titanium-white-finishing-highlights/ In the link, in the “store” section, they tell you some of the other places that also sell this product.
I've been wanting to try OMS, but have a question. Does it matter what type of brush is used? For example, are synthetic brushes better to use? Also, how do you clean the brushes after using OMS? Thanks! Been following you for years!
I prefer taklon bristled filbers and occasionally flats. You don't want a brush that absorbs too much of the oms or isn't firm enough to blend :)
OMS is a paint thinner so it cleans the brushes just by using it. Just wipe the brush on a rag or something to remove the colored pencil pigment :)
Lachri Fine Art thank you for the response!
I'm still pretty hesitant about using odorless mineral spirits on my CP drawings. I should find a long, in-depth tutorial on it. I've tried it a few times and did not get the results I wanted so I just put it away and said forget it.
Just try it! Here is a video that may help you get started :) czcams.com/video/go7vg2ozENo/video.html
Usually it's bc people use too little or too much OMS. Also not enough pigment is laid down for the OMS to move (either bc you didn't put enough layers or your color pencils don't have much pigment to begin with). Another issue is not letting OMS dry in between layers.
If all of this is too much of a hassle, consider using mineral oil (Like baby oil) or coconut oil. Nail polish remover is another good blending medium. My preferred tool is a semi-dried out alcohol marker in the same color I'm using with pencil. For ex. I'll use a partially dry red erase marker on top of red or pink color pencils.
Or just get a colorless alcohol blender marker. I just like the semi-dried markers bc there's still a bit of tint that adds dimension without oversaturating my work.
Lisa... have you picked up the Derwent Lightfast 72 set, yet? Opinions on additional colors vs the opening 36 tin, of the line? I noticed several art supplies selling open stock, which is nice.
Btw... I know there are a lot of "soft colors," (aka light or muted colors) but, that's what I love them for. I've found that the 36 set, really complimented my polychromos from F/C.
Example: the simple flesh, wheat, champagne, ect., colors from Derwent are very much needed for skin tones that aren't pink based. These colors where severally lacking in the Polychromos line.
The same could be said for the blue & purple colors too. Thus I am hopeful for your opinion on the additional colors of the 72 set.
To be honest, between my full sets of my Poly & the 36 tin, I've found myself using my Luminance, less & less.
Thank goodness for open stock, finally available for the 36 tin colors!
Not yet, but I will :D
@@Lachri ... I'll be looking for that video ;).
Btw... I know you know the Derwent people. Maybe you can request they do a color chart, with the "color names." A downloadable PDF, would be ideal.
Thanks in advance for any help you could request of Derwent.
@@Lachri ... I hope you see this post Lisa. When you find out where we can get the Derwent Lightfast 100 Color Pencil Box & open stock, to some of the colors specific to only the 100 box, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
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As stated, I love these pencils with my Polychromos & I'm willing to spend the extra $$$ dor the 100 box pending, I can get the color specific 100 box, open-stock pencils too.
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Side note: once I get them, I am also planning on trying the "Brush & Pencil Advance - Brand," spays & all, that you have shown in the past.
I'm assuming that oil color pencils, still work the best with the B & P Advanced sprays, correct?
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Thanks in advance Lisa for any help & updates
My question is, How many layers is a few layers? 3, 4, or 5.
I'm just getting started in colored pencil.
Use as many layers as you need to achieve the look you want. Too many layers can be just as bad as to little.
I would say normally 3-5 on average for me between blending out with OMS :)
Lachri Fine Art Thank you 😊
Have u tried derwent lightfast ?
I have! I love them!
@@Lachri Can you make a comparison of luminance, polychromos and lightfast
like how many layers they can add
can the last layer withstand white color (esepcially for highlighting)
Thank you Ma'am