Step-by-Step Portrait TUTORIAL with the MOST UNDERRATED Pencils

Learn about the Derwent drawing colored pencils and and how to create quick portrait studies with them!

Get the MOST UNDERRATED Colored pencils HERE! (thanks for using my links 🥰)

📒 The awesome sketchbook

⏱️⏱️VIDEO CHAPTERS⏱️⏱️
00:00 Derwent Drawing Pencils!
00:11 portrait #1
02:34 portrait #2
05:16 guided portrait WITH PHOTO REFERENCE!

[kathycleriucuzio]

Yes - these are the best and 100% lightfast! Just wish there were more colors

[arwenmenna]

I love them. I also have the colorsoft 72, which I absolutely love!

[tjs]

I bought the 24 pack for £1.50 recently because the tin was slightly dented. Was a great find

[Replicanna-rlzg]

Ahhha! I just got this set (a bit less than 40€ plus a free art creations sketchbook) just to learn this! The timing of your video was just perfect for me, thank you very much! And also the quality of your drawings and filmin is on point!

[MsVivian]

I have these ! Have no idea how to use them !! Hoping I will learn something here lol

[GreenlifeFin]

Wow, you really see the values and can draw them! 😮 Great work.

[ritawilbur]

I love to see how you use these pencils! I really wish that Mars violet was in the 12 set, because IMO there are way too many reds in the 24 set. I agree with you that I much prefer a limited palette. But I do struggle with the lack of value/contrast in these pencils, and how muted they are. I mean, the muted colors are very pretty! But I struggle to work with them. You definitely need to adapt yourself to these pencils - which you do beautifully here!

[cindyyoung]

Very inspirational and love the colours. You have a great talent!

[greekveteran]

Solid advices there! Good job on the portraits too!!!

[louisea]

a wonderful video, thank you. i was looking at buying a few of these loose the other day.

[jeanlanz]

Thank you! I really appreciate your generosity in sharing your knowledge and expertise. Your enthusiasm for your work is inspiring. Three beautiful portraits. God bless you!

[rosered]

Love these pencils ! I also like derwent chroma-flow, they are similar to lightfast .

[Lisa_Rose]

Thank you for this excellent tutorial! I love those colors, and I would even love them to study still lives. You made your process so approachable. Will have to try this!

[SerenWen_art]

I use them with the lightfast pencils as an underpainting when drawing animals on pastelmat, speeds up the process by filling in the tooth a bit, plus quite a few of the colours are the same or similar in both. The chocolate is very useful, like you I prefer not to use black straight off, and the white is nice and opaque too (if a little chunky for the very finest detail!)

[bunnysm]

This was THE BEST video on portrait sketches I have seen! Can't wait to try it on the weekend, my sketches usually end up with not so well defined shadow (granted, my refences are not so contrasting as well). Thank you!!! Oh, and I have the pencils, they are absolutely fantastic! I only miss one pinkish colour for white ski portraits, but I borrow from other sets.

[grannysmithart]

Thanks for very useful video. I' ve had these pencils for several years and didn't really know what to do with them. Recently got brave and used them for 2 tree portraits on vellum, worked so great! i also mix them with my Derwent Lightfast set, very similar feel. They both are lovely pencils with limited color ranges, but work so nicely, not too hard, not too soft.

[criandocolorindoevariedades]

Seu desenho está show. Que tipo de lápis é esse? Notei que ele tem a mina grossa e solta bastante tinta.

[michellelaw]

These are my favourite Derwent pencils. Some years ago I did some work for Derwent and asked them back then if they would increase the range as they were perfect for the wildlife art I was doing. But they said they had no plans on increasing the range. It was disappointing but led in the end to me changing over from using exclusively Derwent pencils in my art to now using predominantly Faber castell and CaranDAche. I rarely use Derwent these days, I now consider Faber Castell and Caran d’Ache superior. I think Derwent missed an opportunity when they gave up on the Drawing range.

[marysartwork]

Hi, thanks for sharing the drawing process!
I am a 12 year old artist....
I have a question that i have the 24 set of Derwent drawing pencils but i cannot make many layers with them and the texture of the drawing looks like it is colored over and over again and it looks really waxy,
The tooth of paper fills so quickly that i can't add more color to it and color pencil strokes are visible 😔
What should I do, maybe it is because of the paper i use (Canson 1557 /160g)
Can you please suggest me that which paper should I use because i am very disappointed with these
Thank you so much 😊

[katsmith]

Wow, you blew my mind, and I'm not that impressed usually with others (cause I know how to draw) . I subscribed.