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Always great explanations Katia 😊 Thank you! ❤

Lighter bases give more room for highlight/contrast, that is true. My alcohol marker collection is only the pastels and midtone sets from Ohuhu for that reason... it's 120 colors and almost none of them are too dark. One of the biggest complaints I have about most marker brands is not enough light shades. Faber is especially bad about it, although they make beautiful products. That is one of the reasons I only buy products available open stock. You can always darken light bases, but you can only lighten darker bases to a certain extent. It's often frustrating as you wind up with a bunch that you seldom to ever use. For a budget product Crayola is surprising well stocked with light shades in thier supertips. I really wish they would release the Colors of the World markers in the supertip range, the two they have, the fat and thin, just are not very useful. The other alternative is to dilute dark colors with a wet brush, or to use a pigment based watercolor pencil instead either with water or alcohol blender for basing.

This is how I approach it. Do the base, do the basic shading.. then when done with the whole page go back in with poly black, paynes grey, or sepia (depending on the base color) for shadow and prisma white for highlights. If I had to pick one of the polys it would be paynes grey as it is the most universal shadow color being a mix of grey, purple, and blue. You can use other pencils but it's worth it to get these open stock and I will tell you why. Polys are transparent, so they actually change the color underneath as a glaze instead of laying on top it gives you a darker version of that color instead of just it's own color. Prisma is very easily blended and very opaque so it has the power to show up on top of the color underneath while still being able to smoothly blend, enabling the same type of color transition. I keep those specific pencils separately, along with my pencil sharpener, etc, and use them regardless of what pencils/markers I'm using on a particular page. I go through them so often I have an extender for each of them. You can still go in with a posca and add a pop of bright white if you wish, and even use a black fine pen to add very dark areas as well. Just be very selective and hit only the very lightest or darkest points. I tend to use dots instead of a full line around an edge, I find it gives me more control, keeps me from going overboard with it, and gives a "sparkle" to the page. It's tempting to do each element all at once, to color all the leaves completely and then move on to the flowers, etc... or to shade an element evenly all the way around... but this has the effect of giving the entire page the same value. It's not so much how dark and light everything is, but where the dark and light is located. You need to be selective, and it's easier to see that once everything has some color on it. For example there should be a darker shadow behind items that sit on top of another item, such as where an ear lays over a hat, or where a leaf crosses another. In a bunch of flowers, the ones underneath and behind should be darker than the ones in front and on top. In a single flower the petals underneath and behind should be darker than the ones on front and on top. The same is true for all elements on a page. This is what gives the page dimension. You can start this from the base layer, but you can also use the same base and adjust with the pencils on top. Once you get good at it you can go in after the base and add your deepest shadows all in one go, this can really help create a map for the rest of the shading.. just be very selective again and don't outline everything.. just the darkest areas. If you are comfortable with markers you can do this with a grey marker as well (choose a lighter grey than you might think, test on scrap paper first, it will come out darker than you think since there is already color underneath), creating your own greyscale or grisaille. The soft brush pitt pens are awesome for this, but you can do it with others. Pencil is more forgiving than marker though if you are unsure, it can usually be lifted where once marker is down.. it's there to stay.

Wow such a great idea Katia thank you for sharing ❤

Wow! This is a great hack and explained so well. Thank you!

Katia, thank you for sharing this hack and for using my color palette! 💜✨ The idea of using a black & white view to assess contrast on a coloring page is absolutely brilliant-I have to try it out! 💪🎨

How do you change your phone to black and white? This is a great idea

beautiful pages, thank you for sharing x

Such awesome pages ☺️ Really loved the color palette in Hanna Karlzon portrait page. I also love your page in the Goblin book. I don’t have the book and actually destashed her books recently. But I can see how fun they could be for others. Thanks for sharing and take care!!

Lovely pages! The goblin page was amazing!

Beautiful pages 💗💜💗

Your pages are always gorgeous! Which glitter glue do you use?

I looooooove the goblin page!!! Absolutely stunning 😍

Beautiful pages Katie , love your goblins page , very tempted to buy it 😊

Beautiful pages!

Those metallic watercolors look lovely. What is the brand name? I couldn't figure it out by what it sounded like.

The Yuri the mouse page is absolutely beautiful ❤❤

I just love your pages

Beautiful Coloring Pages

I love the page of the woman with the cat that is beautiful. I even like the goblins page the colors are perfect

One of Denyse Klette’s books are out of print and some of her others are not always available. Maybe buy them sooner than planned, because they might become hard to get. Love your pages!

Beautiful pages Katia, I am hoping to see you colour a page from Fairy tales and folklore if possible 😊❤

May I ask where you found these? Im looking for the least amount of shipping. Love your work!

Hm, ik had hier een heel verhaal geschreven, maar dat is blijkbaar verdwenen. Mooi werk hoor. Ik heb de goblins besteld bij bol en hoop dat hij volgende week binnenkomt. Gnomes en birds heb ik al en de laatste is mijn meest in gekleurde boek. De mermaids is maar steeds niet leverbaar en ik heb zo’n vermoeden dat dat ook niet meer gaat gebeuren, helaas.

Beautiful pages! Love the Lulu Mayo page as well! 🥰☺

You do beautiful work.🥰

Really lovely pages, enjoyed them very much.

Katia, you’ve had such a productive and colorful month-it’s truly inspiring! 😍✨ The pages you’ve completed are absolutely stunning, and as always, I was so happy to see you use a palette from my Autumn Delights book! 🍂💖 Regarding AI-generated images, I’d love to share a bit about my process! I’m a researcher by nature-sociology was actually my major 😉-so when I work on a collection of palettes, I always start with selecting themes, which later form the foundation of the book. Then comes the research phase, where I explore online and offline reference pictures to craft each palette. Only after the palette is finalized do I use an image generator, feeding it the exact colors I’ve chosen to create a visual representation. I’m quite happy with my prompting strategy, as it allows me to generate images with that fantasy aesthetic while staying true to my selected colors-though I do notice AI sometimes adds its own subtle touch🧐, which I’m totally fine with! I find this process exciting and creatively fulfilling. 💖 Plus, as much as I’d love to have hand-painted illustrations for every single palette, that would be far beyond what I could realistically afford. With AI, I have the freedom to curate-keeping only the images that truly align with my vision, which is deeply satisfying. Thank you again for sharing your gorgeous work and for always bringing inspiration to the community! 🥰🎨

Hi Katia! Your Pictures are Absolutely Beautiful! Thank You for Sharing!💜💜

Beautiful pages Katia. I always love your Jewelenkistje pages - they turn out so beautifully ❤

beautiful pages 🎉

Now on my wishlist 😅🥰

So useful 💗💜💗

I have these markers so im really excited to see how you use them xx

Beautiful eyes!

I feel like since alcohol markers became so much less expensive and more available water based markers have become a bit of a lost art. I was determined to learn how to use mine better and spent a lot of time looking for videos and tutorials. I found the best were quite old ones (8-10 years) which taught techniques that allow you to actually lay them down smoothly and blend them, such as using one marker to pick up the ink of another off a palette, or using the colorless blender in the same way to add shading on a second layer without streaking the color underneath. I actually love my Tombows now, they just sat for a couple of years before. I can't get this brand in the US, I looked hard when you showed the alcohol version because it was so nice... but I am very impressed with the quality of their products for the price. I love that the colors are consistent between the different marker types, and the useful cases they include that stack up. From what I can tell they offer over 100 colors, but you have to collect the small sets to get them all. The website offers an 8 page color chart with swatches and numbers. Perhaps you can find one of the smaller sets with those pastel colors and neutrals that you are missing. I agree about the brush tips, I find the tip is a big factor in how well they can perform. I was planning to purchase the big set of Staedtler pigment pens when they released in the US, but I bought a small set of both them and the Pitt pens to try while I was waiting, and I just don't get on with them well.. I think it's mostly the tip. It's so small I really struggle to lay them down smoothly or blend well on anything but a very small area. It just doesn't hold enough ink and cover enough space, so you have no choice but to use a lot of tiny strokes. The fact that it doesn't include a clear or a white really restricts them as well. I did a full page, and it was really difficult, then I did some smaller designs and used my Tombows side by side with them and the Tombows were just so much smoother and easier. The Tombows also work much better with water which makes them more versatile. I'm glad I tried a few pigment pens first. The dye based pens are not lightfast, but for coloring books it's really not an issue.

Ik heb ook Aquamarkers van Decotime maar ik gebruik ze bijna nooit, ik heb ze al een paar jaar, dus die zijn vierkant. Het wordt ontzettend vlekkerig en streperig. Gewoon heel lelijk. Misschien zijn ze nu wat beter maar dat weet ik niet. En misschien werkt ze beter op dikker papier. Bij jou ziet het er wel goed uit.

Great video thanks for sharing. Great tips x

Wow super mooi, het lijkt zo eenvoudig.... ik heb deze video opgeslagen en ga het in mijn volgende 'Hanna Karlzon ogen' zeker gebruiken. Ook ik zou graag een tutorial zien voor de huid. Bedankt!!!!

Stunning 👌🏻

Hello, beautiful colored eyes. I would love to see how you can color skin and hair. Thankyou for your inspiration 💜🙏🏻

Thanks for sharing❤ Would love to see how you color skin & shading in de faces of the beautiful Hanna Karlzon lady’s

Coloured beautifully Katia thank you for sharing ❤

I'd love to see tutorials for all sorts of things. I'm a new colourist trying to learn as much as possible by imitating other people's styles and seeing what works best for me.

Absolutely loved seeing your favourites. All so beautiful Katia. Your colouring blows me away ❤❤

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Lovely Completed pages. You make beautiful coloring ❤❤❤