Colored Pencil Tips - Lachri

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!

★★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.

Supplies used: (amazon affiliate links) #coloredpencil
★ Fabriano Artistico HP watercolor paper

★★Livestreams for this project★★ (watch me work in real time)

A channel for artists from a professional artist. Get motivation, art lessons art tips in painting in acrylics or oil paints, drawing, colored pencil, graphite, & Inktense, Art Marketing tips (learn to sell your own work) from Lisa of Lachri Fine Art.

I have videos that cover pricing your artwork, what art supplies I recommend, how to use Inktense pencils and blocks to paint, how to paint in acrylics or oil paints, how to draw realistic animals and more!

[BarbaraDick-r]

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!

[claritzairosario]

Very beautiful work, and a very charming cat!

[lynnrushton]

Every drawing I do, I hear your voice saying get your darks dark & your whites white! Thanks Lisa, it makes a huge difference ‼️👌 xx

[SaraMakesArt]

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.

[jcortese]

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. :-)

[asmrhousemouse]

I'm so glad you said white pens are not archival! Phew you just saved me lol

[evasartorius]

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.

[bellyache]

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

[BlueTeaArt]

If I had only one video to watch over and over again it would be this one. ^^

[ReeferDave]

Beautiful! I'm sure Than will love it. His voice is so relaxing to listen to.

[AnarieValedhel]

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

[jeanninemorgan]

Lisa, I love the way you talk through your process. Thank you!

[beverleygardam]

Absolutely stunning Lisa .l just love cats, and this one is beautiful.

[topik]

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.

[abigailgonzalez]

Great job Lachri‼️Another great color pencils tutorial. Thanks for your Great Tips👏🏼😊👍🏼👍🏼

[mystic]

I’ve wanted to see this one for soo long. Yeah!

[camilcurn]

Omg "kitty don't lick your bum" 🤣🤣🤣🤣. We call that "playing bagpipes" pose.

Great video as always ❤️❤️❤️

[melsgalleria]

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.

[shellyparker]

So helpful and it turned out beautifully!

[katywuste]

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