Colored Pencil Tutorial For Beginners (7 EASY hacks!)

Colored Pencil Tutorial For Beginners - Let me know which hack you liked the best! In this video I show you some basic colored pencil techniques that will help you get started with this beautiful medium.

Timestamps:
0:00 Colored Pencil Tutorial for Beginners (7 Easy Hacks!)
3:35 How to apply and layer colored pencils
8:22 How to use a colored pencil blending tool
11:50 How to get colored pencils really dark
14:15 How to use an embossing tool with coloured pencils
18:33 How to remove colored pencil from your paper
20:00 How to put a soft pastel background behind colored pencils
21:48 How to add sparkle and shimmer to colored pencils

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[melindabrentnall]

Thank you for making this video I am a total beginner this video is great

[be_a_bright_sparkle]

We grew up with cartridge paper here in the UK and I was trying to explain it to someone last week...it’s what it is...very versatile and useable for lots of art and crafty makes...one side has tooth and the other is smoother...I haven’t found anything you can’t practise on it yet...🥰

[dawnmulder]

Thank you for your thorough teaching. Love your nails!

[Oinsichean]

I would definitely like to see a video on techniques involving blending mediums with colored pencils, for sure :)

[TravisBrady-wnfr]

Great stress reducer. I used to work in graphite only. Now I'm starting to learn colored pencils. I'm saving for the big prismacolor set. The most excited I've been in years.

[melodeelucido]

Super helpful for this beginner!! Thank you

[lisarines]

I love watching you and learning different techniques. Thanks for sharing

[rupalishankerarthub]

Maybe it's called drawing paper or smooth card stock? Also for blending in colored pencils you can use the following after you have about minimum of 5-6 layers down on the paper - Vaseline, baby oil, handsanitiser w/o perfume, vodka and my favourite surgical alcohol or iso propyl alcohol (the stuff that doctors and nurses use to clean your skin before giving you a shot). There are blender pens sold by the colored pencil manufacturers as well. Also the product that is made for this is called "Odorless Mineral Spirits or OMS' and there are brands like Gamsol, Mona Lisa and Zest It pencil blend. Less is more- really if you use too much it's just going to stain the paper.. Use a harder brush like a synthetic filbert or cotton buds in circular motion with very little product on there. You can layer right on top with many layers after your blending product is bone dry. The advantage of this is that unlike a blending pencil the tooth of the paper is in tact and not flattened and you can continue to layer many more times right on top.

[juliemorley]

Loved this video, I am 76 and though I love water colour I should have started 50 years ago, so coloured pencil is for me, I loved the way of using pastel as well as I used to use pastel a lot. Thank you x

[mariannekeller]

Loved this Michele, thank you so much! The Derwent color blender works well as does the one from Prismacolor, I believe they are made with the same materials as the pencils themselves, but without the pigment. I've fallen in love with watercolor pencils and hope you will do more videos using them. Thanks again!

[mikehardy]

Michelle im so glad you are doing videos on colored pencils I tried to do watercolor and watched many of you videos trying to learn but I just sucked at it so i went back to colored pencil I still use watercolor for splatter and wet on wet back grounds but I hope you do more colored pencil videos because I really miss your videos you are the coolest and thanks for your videos

[annettefournier]

Thanks Michele. We call paper for dry media by the technique it's made for. ie sketch paper, pastel paper, mixed media paper etc. Love that embossing for leaving white and lifting with sticky paper. I do not have the patience to layer for hours so I like to blend with gamsol. Definitely advantages to being one's own mistress. 😉👍💜

[crashq]

I tend to keep a bit of fine sandpaper in my art station for cleaning the blenders and reshaping the tip on the paper stump (tortillons). Loved the guide and looking forward to going through your videos. Subscribed and thanks for posting these useful guides.

[delappamy]

Thank you so much for your video really helpful information 😮❤

[janicefound]

Thank you thank you. I love your videos. I’ve been trying to get back to artwork and you are inspiring me!

[tynaheadrick-phipps]

I have a fabulous husband (3rd marriage for both of us), he is very supportive of my art & crafts, no need to hide anything. But we have enough food and shelter, no credit card debt. I have a wonderful large prismacolor set. Colored pencil is a marvelous medium, with enough layers, rich colors can be achieved. The embossing pen is superb. I must try the blender. Great tip for lifting some colored pencils. Have also spent hours doing backgrounds with several layers of tiny circles of the pencils. I also love your nails.

[Andreh.T]

I really like to see more of it especially for beginners like me.thanks for your helpful videos, my lady artist 💎.

[laurawhigham]

I’ve had colored pencils hanging around for years! Now I know what to do them. Thank you.

[nsavar]

Your tutorial is wonderful. Thank you once again for sharing your thoughtful ideas. I like the blending tool tip and eye shadow tip for shimmer. We have dollar stores in the US that sell mica-based eye-shadows that might be very good for this technique.

One of my art teachers suggested this additional tip which might be useful for backgrounds: He recommended using colored papers, and the brand we used for class is called Mi-Teintes drawing paper. It was really fun to use a darker background with lighter colored pencils -- almost like a reverse painting. Thanks again! You are terrific.

[highlandhen]

I'm glad you used some eyeshadow! I have a ton of makeup products, especially dry palettes of eyeshadows that I suspect will end up on paper much more often than my face. I've also got "cheapo" brushes that I'd bought for applying makeup and never used. I wonder if you might ever be interested in how to repurpose makeup products. Meanwhile - I love your sense of humor, and your sensible and compassionate teaching approach for beginners. P.S. - When I was about 14, which was "yonks" ago, I painted tiny pictures on my fingernails with acrylic paints. Nobody else did - they thought it was weird. :-D