How to Draw with Watercolour Pencils: Demonstration by Lynne Chapman
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- Drawing demonstration by Lynne Chapman, Urban Sketcher and award-winning children's book illustrator. From first sketched guidelines through to finished artwork: watch as Lynne creates her drawing, giving hot tips on how to use watercolour pencils and explaining her creative decisions.
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Thanks Caroline - so glad you liked it. They are especially good for out and about - I use them all the time on the train, drawing other passengers and, with a waterbrush, you can actually paint without being spotted!
The more I draw, the more I hav to learn... I´m glad sharing xperiences is the best way keep improving, and knowing there is beautiful people like you to teach us. Best 5 minute class in years! Tnx!
Thank you Lynne for showing me how to use watercolor pencils properly. I took some Inktense pencils on a hiking trip, but was impatient and adding water too soon! Now I know...wait till the end. It's been ages since I sketched on a daily basis, but your videos inspire me. Many blessings in all your artistic endeavors.
Thanks Paige. I just carry about 10 pencils in an elastic band, along with the waterbrush, in a handbag pocket. Sometimes I pop them in a pencil case if I have pens I want to carry as well. The key is to dump the tin they come in and limit the number of colours.
One word...STUNNING!
Thank you so much! I'm so sorry for the crazy delay in answering your comment. I have trouble with notifications, so only just saw it.
Thanks Susie - glad it's helpful. If you've not tried them before, one tip is to try not to blend too many colours at once - a couple of colours in any one place will stop you getting the 'mud factor'! There are lots more tips on how to learn to use them in an illustrated article on my blog, on the post for 26th Oct 2012. I'm not allowed to post a link here, but there's a link from my website. Have fun!
Thank you Lynne, I found you via Urban Sketchers and this is the by far and away the best tutorial for Inktense pencils I've seen and I really love your work . It was also great to see someone actually out and about and not in the studio - and in the UK too!
This is a fundamentally important video, absolutely the no-messing-around technique I'd like to experiment with. 4:38 Brilliant, you don't actually mix the colurs to get a grey, instead just put the colors next to each other, I love it.
Just incredible! Love your art and thank you for this informative video. I'm a newbie at watercolor pencils. Just bought a starter set yesterday. This makes me excited to give them a try and experiment. :)
Great video! I love my inktense pencils and hadn't thought of using them when out and about.
Thank you for that lovely feedback - I am thrilled to bits that it inspired you to get out your watercolour pencils again so quickly!
loved the video..and the way you bought these buildings to life with so much imagination and colour,... havnt painted for a while just what i need to give me ideas and inspiration ...a beautiful picture :)
Im a begginer with water colours and ive been watching tons of people drawing with water colours to inspire me and so that i can kind of teach my self some techniques, but this, this truly inspired me, thanks for sharing! Love this!
Lovely!
Thank you. If you want more tips on how to get started with the Inktense pencils, go to my website, to Learning Resources / Tips for Illustrators and you'll find a link to an illustrated article on my blog, which might help. Should give you some ideas for different subjects to try too. Have fun!
Thanks Sandra - so pleased the film was helpful. They are a bit of a knack to get used to, but I can't be without them now, especially for drawing on and about.
You've made it look a much nicer place than it actually is!! Great job!
Yes, that might be it. : )
Thank you Promethea - glad you found it useful. And thank you for leaving the first comment!
Very inspiring Lynne. Delighted to see a bit of Sheffield, many years ago I knew a young man from there, he broke my heart... but it was worth it. ;) By the way, I didn't find the music to interfere at all. It was lively and went well with your work. Thank you for sharing your techniques, very appreciated!
HELLO LYNNE,;I LIKE YOU,LOVE TO DRAW,AND WHEN I SAW YOUR INKTENSE PENCILS,I SAID WOW, NOW I'M GONNA HAVE TO GET SOME OF THEM.THE ONLY PROBLEM I HAVE IS FINDING ONE SPECIFIC THING TO DRAW,'CAUSE I LOVE TO DRAW EVERYTHING. THANX FOR YOUR VIDEO,AND I'LL CONTINUE WATCHING.
Thank you Susan. I'm so pleased to hear that I might just be the thing to get you painting again! :-)
Neat! Thank you very much for making and sharing this video. I really enjoyed watching your process, and if nothing else, will take away the lesson of the convenience of using a sports wristband instead of a cloth or my bare arm to clean my waterbrush. I only just learned about waterbrushes today, so your video was doubly interesting to this particular beginner.
Thank you so much Darren. Sorry to pop up so long after the event. Hope it is going well with the waterbrush!
Hi Lynne! I love watching your illustrating tutorials! I also love and appreciate how you teach us how you create your wonderful characters and plan your compositions out and how to use the mediums in your children's books. I want so much to illustrate and author children's books. I love children's books and loved reading them to my wonderful children when they were little and now I love reading children's books...and "acting out" the characters to my darling grandchildren! I collect children's books...I almost have my own children's library now! I know you are very busy but could you put together more videos of you working on your illustrations and tutorials?! You are an excellent instructor and artist! Have you authored as well as illustrated your books before. I am going to order the booms you have illustrated. I love your style! I have taken some art classes at the Salt Lake City Community College in Utah, including 3 figure drawing classes, and a few drawing and watercolor classes from the local school district. I can't afford any more college classes now so I have been watching artists on CZcams learning from them..delightfully you also! I have a collection of "how-to" art books that I treasure and I'm teaching myself from them, but it is definitely not the same as a live instructor or an instructor on CZcams or from a CD. Have you ever made pop-up books? Thank you for taking the time to share your talent and tutorials! I am going to tell my friends about your books and share them with my grandchildren! Someday I hope I can delight them with my own illustrations and books and help children to love reading and art! Why Is It publishers don't want a beginning illustrator to write their own children's story as well as illustrate them? When authors of children's books first wrote children's stories they also illustrated them, like: Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"! She had such beautiful illustrations and a wonderful story! Now they make complicated with the rule of "you can't illustrate and author your own story" until you have become "established" or well-known. I have stories but I want to illustrate them as well...and have them published! Well, thank you again from a big fan(who hopes to see more of your tutorials)!
Huh. A very interesting and informative video of your process as an artist. I must admit that I never really considered watercolour pencils before. You have wonderfully demonstrated their versatility and ease. Thank you!
Bartlett Mk Cheers!
Such a beautiful drawing! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. Love your hair by the way!!!
Excellent demonstration and very inspiring as I'm just getting started with watercolour pencils. I grew up in Sheffield and I know that junction at Broomhill. Your painting made it look quaint and made me feel quite nostalgic.
very nice to see an area I know painted so nice..a joy to watch yr work
Wow amazing
What lovely feedback! Thank you Wagner, so glad you enjoyed it :-)
You're welcome - glad you enjoyed it Sandy x
Your post on the FB page for Everyday Matters brought me here, and I'm so glad you posted it. Love your work, I'm off to watch some more of your videos.
Lovely! Thanks for sharing Lynne!...
This is great! I feel like I have learned a lot. Thank you so much for sharing!
It's called a water-brush - you can get it from most art shops of on-line. Not very expensive and a great idea for sketching on location.
Thank you Terry - on both counts!!
Thank you Eveline - hope you enjoy the others too! :-)
Thanks S - that's lovely feeback! So pleased you thought it was so useful. :-)
muito legal! o "truque" com a munhequeira foi show!!!
Not sure what you mean. The only large plastic sleeves I can think of are portfolio sleeves, which come at A3 - A1 size. They are good for pencils drawings and watercolour, but I don't use plastic sleeves for pastels - they need to be mounted onto card and then given a paper overlay, to protect the chalk from smudging. A plastic sleeve just picks up chalk from the surface and looks a mess, plus you would almost certainly damage the artwork sliding it inside. Hope that helps! :-)
Hi Lynne, Suzy, Melissa and I just watched your video. Suzy has some new inktense pencils we bought her in Singapore (Melissa doing a gymnastics competition there!). Kids loved recognising Broomhill and even sat there "in that exact seat" when we were last in Sheffield. We love your picture. We think it looks better and brighter than the real Broomhill :-)
Lynne Chapman Thanks Lynne. Suzy already spotted the waterbrush and wanted one so its great to know its name; can order it for Xmas. We have been loving watching your blogs - you are a natural in front of the camera - they are very inspiring to Suzy
Sharon X
Thanks AzKate. My brother wrote and performed the music, so he will be pleased to have more positive feedback!
I have looked up the Shoo Raynor interview film. It's not a sleeve - the system is just the same as my usual paper overlay, except I have used a sheet of acetate instead of paper. It's sellotaped along the top edge to the card mount.
As long as the paper is decent quality cartridge or watercolour paper, it doesn't get wet enough to be a problem: you are working on small, localised areas and using small amounts of water at a time, rather than soaking big chunks of the paper, as with painting.
I'm not sure if it's a sleeve!, if you check this video ( in interview with you) minute 12:10 I guess you'll know what I mean. There is a plastic cover over you chalk or pastel illustration That I really loved. I usually use watercolor, but liked the idea of how you save your drawings in that vedio, it
Sorry you don't like the music. Did you find it too loud or just not to your taste?
Thank you.
I'm afraid being an illustrator is a massive area, so I offer general advice - there would be way too much to say. However, I do believe in helping people who are trying to get started, so I have written various articles on my blog, dealing with some of the specifics about how to get work and the sort of things you need to think about when building a portfolio. Go to my website, then to Learning Resources / Tips for Illustrators and follow the links
Good luck!
I love this! Thank you so much. It looks as if you have several different colors of pencils. Can you tell me how you transport them so that they are more portable? I like the pencils but find them cumbersome to carry.
Cool. Wristband idea.. but ive avoid water due the paper streching bubleing does that happen after you add the water ?
Hello Lynne. Very nice demo; enjoyed it very much. I have a question. In the blender you are using, is it plain water in the tube? I have never used one of those. Looking forward to your reply so I can go out and purchase one. Thank you.
hello lynne, what is it called the plastic files that you store your pastel pages in? they are large and protective..
thank you
Hi Lynne, I love your artwork. What type of sketchbook are you using with the watercolours?
What do you call those water containing stuff used to put water in the drawing? Thanks
Good thinking Cycleboy. Will that next time :-)
Dear Lynne,
What is the black sleeve u were using while using the water brush.
Is it to remove the excess water from the tip or cleaning it subject to subject?
Nandan
I really like your work it is quite beautiful. I am considering becoming a freelance illustrator and if its not to much of a bother could you give me any advice?
I love your work, can you tell me where you got your water brush from?
Hi Rinorca - sorry, I can't understand. What language are you speaking?
it's shown here with Shoo's interview with you ( czcams.com/video/rqUiaRCE3ao/video.html ) minute 12
Thank you Lynne for replying, I'm a big fan you your art and style :)
What is the music?
It's a shame that so many otherwise good videos are ruined by too-loud and annoying music.
Lovely!!!but the music is highly annoying.