Hummingbirds in Colored Pencil - Tips and Techniques w/ Lachri

Today I'm showing you tips and techniques for drawing realistic birds in colored pencil! See how I layer and blend my pencils and even how I achieve a bokeh background with the airbrush!

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Time lapse and speed painting tutorials and demonstrations by award winning artist Lachri. Learn how to paint portraits, surreal landscapes, pets, lions, tigers, and birds...pretty sure a Wizard of OZ reference should be made right about now. Get tips and watch techniques for working in acrylic and oil paint, carbon pencil, graphite and colored pencil.

This video was shot using the Canon VIXIA HF G20 HD camcorder.

[TheArtGearGuide]

Absolutely amazing Lisa, I learn so much from you and the teaching never seems to stop. In every video you upload there is always something new to learn. You are amazing Lisa and I love your work. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. This channel and your pod casts are just amazing.

[claritzairosario]

Exquisite work! I don't know if one day I will be able to make my works in colored pencils as beautiful and realistic as yours... I love how it looks so realistic! Beautiful work as always Lisa!

[raylenosgarage]

another beautiful drawing! cant wait for part 2!

[Kitslam]

This drawing hums with beauty! Really lovely pencilcolor work!

[joycewickman]

Your instruction is so thorough and extremely helpful. I follow you On patreon and love your work. Thank you, Lisa, for sharing your expertise!

[jjtsmom]

Bless you for this tutorial and the reference photos, Lisa. My elderly mother-in-law adores hummingbirds, and I plan to do a CP painting of them for her. :-)

[saphireartist]

It's so pretty! I finally got my first set of polychromos for Christmas and I can't wait to try them out!

[stephw]

Im so addicted to your vids! Oh dear i dont know what frisket is! Not another thing i need to buy!

[UltramarineBlu]

Thanks for the reference photos, thanks to the photographer as well! :) Amazing drawing and tutorial! :) Unfortunately the Titanium White and Touch-up Texture are not for sale in Europe, I would totally buy them, I can understand your excitement about these products, they make such a huge difference!

[joshuadansby]

Thanks for inspiring me to start my own channel! Much love Lisa

[graciesartcorner]

I had to bring my fiancé over to listen to the last part of the video. I laughed so hard because that's what we do. Great video!!

[adzpers]

Absolutely amazing. I learned a lot from looking at this vid. Thanks, Lisa!

[teresawebster]

Thank you for this video, and the reference photos!

[RaymondOreFineArt]

For those in the UK and Europe as I believe they ship there, I found this interesting bit of Info on the Jackson Art Web site.

The other two products in the Brush and Pencil system of 5 products are Coloured Pencil Touch-Up Texture and Coloured Pencil Titanium White. Unfortunately these are not available in Europe. The company is formulating a new product that is a combination of the two products and will be sending it to us sometime in 2017

[shenangela]

You should have more subscribers ! Your draw so well ! Maybe you could try to draw some famous people, you would be able to do fantastic.

[jenniefrench]

Do you by chance use any medium on the paper like clear gesso or Liquitex? I also noticed how much different the blacks are in the Lightfast pencils. I really love it. And thank you for the photo. Hummingbirds are my favorite bird and I can never get enough of them.

[faithfullmess]

That's me and my hubby at lunchtime every day!

[BrushesandBunnies]

Love this video! Maybe I missed it but what surface are you painting/drawing on? I really admire the effect you create with the mineral spirit & polychromos. Do you know if this works well on watercolor paper? (And if not, which paper would you recommend?)

[riyathakkar]

Hi Lisa! You are an amazing inspiration! I love your work! I want to re-create these hummingbirds. Can you help with the reference photo please? The link in your video description doesn't seem to redirect to the reference photo. Thanks!

[foreveryoung]

very interesting video, how to sharpen the pencils that good?