How I use the White Polychromos Pencil
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Faber-castell polychromos pencils come in 119 brilliant, jewel like colours; and 1 transparent, hard and seemingly useless white pencil.
In this tutorial video, I show you how I use this pencil to protect my paper from staining by other colours. This allows me to have bright highlights or white hairs, even on the darkest backgrounds.
Far from being a useless, it is the first pencil I use for every colour pencil piece I create.
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If you want to add that white pencil over your already set pencils, spray your art with workable fixative. You can go over it because you are drawing over the fixative.
Good tip
The beginning is literally meeee!! I bought the polychromos two days ago and tried the white pencil this way, so i definetly need this video :)
You have no idea how thankful I am for this video. Not only does it show how to make Polychromos white useful, but it will help me feel that I am not stuck because I cannot get products like Brush and Pencil here in Alaska. You have given me options, thank you so much!.
oh yes, I feel you there. We have only recently been able to get the brush and pencil products here in Australia.. and while I do love them, there are definitely ways to get the same effects without it. Good luck!
Hi! I can't not get the Brush and Pencils touch of texture or a textured fixative! I understand you completely! I live in Puerto Rico, a Territory of the US...and I don't know why I can't get them! If you like... there's a product call Liquid white colored pencils from Pearl Barnish, you get it on Etsy...if you want it. That's what I had to do.🤷🏻♀️
@@claritzairosario68 So fun not having the US know you are part of the US isn't it?
@@OmasHouse5976 Yeah! we are part of the US, that's the funny thing about it all! and it's frustrating! It's something that I do not understand! I can buy the titanium white, and powder blender, but I can't buy the touch of texture and textured fixative spray! Because they have a warning about the hazard and flammable issues, I contact customer service from Blick, and they told me, it was USPS restrictions.... 🤷🏻♀️
I just love tips and tricks for artwork. I had no idea that’s how the polychromous white pencil could be used. Cool beans! Thanks!
I personally prefer the white prismacolor for going overtop of color that I have already put down, but it is good to be able to know how to use any white pencil
thanks for making this it is very helpful! !
Great tip. Colored pencils are awesome.
THANK YOU. Finally someone who understands how the polychromos white work. All these pencil 'artists' saying it's a shitty white by only focussing on the opaqueness. Even the booklet that comes with the Polys explain how light / dark colours work :P
Oh! thanks for those options. I can't get the Brush and Pencils products, and for me this video it's very useful! Thank you!
Brilliant advice. I've just bought polychromos and wondered about the point of white. Can you tell me what thinner you use?
Good techniques and pretty useful information. Whilst I had no idea these even existed, I did learn a thing or two.
Love the way you went about introducing this video! You captured the way most of us feel perfectly... and now I know what to do with my white Polychromos! Haha.
Thank you for not drawing in Time lapse, it helps me learn.
Cassandra, What a wonderful tutorial using the white pencil to create a miracle on the paper. I am definitely using this method in my next drawing. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Great video - I will buy both as I think both the polychromos and the prisma have their uses. The softer edged lines of the 2nd one would look more natural when trying to bring out the veins of a leaf.
Why, oh why didn't I find your channel sooner!!Thank you so much for all of your incredibly helpful videos!! You are making my foray into CP art SO MUCH easier with each video I watch!!
I use several brands of white and some of white colours keep them with blending and burnishing kit.
white is great for blending and creating a watercolor effect...... and lightening colors..
i feel better now...as an absolute beginner I thought itjust me who thought the white poly was a most frustrating pencil. I am thinking the white Caran D'Ache luminance....have you any experience with this? Thank you for your straight forward narrative!
Unfortunately I have not yet had a chance to play with the Caran D'Ache pencils :( But they are most certainly on my wish list!
The Luminance white pencil is probably the most opaque. As for using the white Polychromos, you can blend with it and you can also use it to knock back brighter colours in order to better show perspective.
Neat! It's like wax resistance. What a cool tip. 👍
Thank you for your reply Cassandra 🙂 I absolutely love the PastelMat! It's an amazing paper for rendering animals and for combining PanPastel and coloured pencil.
Bravo! Well done! Excellent content on this how-to use WHITE pencil techniques video. Thank you very much!
Thank you 😊
Hey! I just wanted to say...I'm so happy I stumbled across your channel! I'm a colored pencil artist myself...albeit a different style of course...and the tips I've learned here just today through only 3 videos have given me loads of ideas...also...I totally felt that when the pencil broke while you were sharpening it 🤣🤣🤣💯
omg I actually tried this technique with my polychromos and it works SO WELL!!!
Odourless mineral spirit... the same stuff you use to clean up or thin oil paint. :)
Thanks, good video. I thought my white Polychromos pencil was pretty useless until now. Granted, Idon’t use these techniques presently, but I do intend to try them out.
You just keep on keeping on Cassandra, thanks for the hints. Whites have always frustrated me. Several people below seem to disagree with you about the Prismacolors..saying they are better but surely you just proved them wrong or weren't they listening? Keep those real time tutorials coming it makes you better than others. We don't learn by watching speedups...
Excellent advice!!! I am new to colored pencils art and this is great help!!!
When you had the Prismacolor crumbs on the paper, I found myself leaning toward my monitor, lips pursed to blow them away. I only realized what I was doing and stopped myself as you blew them away yourself! ;-D
What about blotting the lines after applying each layer of thinner, seems like that would help? I am a big fan of the Poly Chromosome but I find that the Prismacolor white works better. Your tutorial is new info to me and I will try.
Yes, in many ways the white prismacolor works better as a white pencil. unfortunately I have found if I put it on the first layers though, it spreads out and causes a milky/cloudiness to my colours that i really dont like. I have found that using polychromos white to protect my highlights first, then using my white prismacolor in the final layer for highlights works the best for me
I have both brands as well and I find this exercise makes sense. The Prismas have slightly more blendability and the Polychromos white seemed to dig a bit deeper into this paper and doesn't blend quite as easily ....
Mmm yes poly chromosome
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This was really interesting Cass, and congratulations on over 200 subscribers
Thankyou! Yay 200!! it's a good start, but i'm still learning.
Thank you! for this wonderfully clarifying demonstration! :)
Thank you for this video, I have a question, if I want to create say a bookmark with pencil will the drawing fade away? Do I need a fixer for the colours?
Great info about using the white polychromos and other techniques to preserve the white of the paper. One thing I wanted to note - that is not a fountain pen. It's a dip pen. Fountain pens have internal ink reservoirs.
I think that both Primacolors and the Polychromos are both excellent products. However, were each one seems to fail in a certain area. It just means that you need to find a solution that works for particular pencil. I mean like the wax of the Primacolor would work well doing portrait work on water color or a paper with some tooth. Where as the Polychromos would work well with doing animal paintings. The paper would be similar except, as you have shown here. Pastel paper can work well with the Polychromos. I hope I made a tiny bit of sense. I'm new at this after all. Lol
Hi, this is great information, I use polychromos more often than any of my other pencils. Could you tell me what kind of brush you are using?
I have 2 NEEF brand, Taklon bristle, oval brushes that I use for colour pencil a large one 3/8 and a smaller one that I think is 3/16 but the writing has long worn off!! Just look for the white soft bristles with a bit of a rounded tip and it should serve you well for many years!!
Excellent tutorial Cassandra, very Helpful, thank you for these great info!
I'm so glad you found it helpful!! thank you :)
Excellent vidéo!
Thank you so much for this! I only just bought my polychromos set, but i'd heard about it's infamous shitty white...good to know it can be used and so beautifully!
Great tips thanks il try this
I find that the prismacolor white blends well and in my opinion, prismas blend better because they're wax based pencil, unlike polychromos with are oil based.
You're a good teacher (🍐🥭 🌹). I've heard tell that the Caran D'Ache Luminence white pencil is good and unlike the Brush and Pencil products is available to you in Australia.
It is a lovely creamy white pencil… but the brush and pencil product as are available here now too! Yay 😁
Good idea, but what if you etched with the pen (or other item) then put the white pencil in the 'grooves'?
Thanks so much Cassandra for this super video:) I only just started using PastelMat for the first time so like Mi -Teints it has a rough sandy surface and I discovered that I could use my white Polychromos over the darker areas. It is so different from working on a smooth paper. Since buying an X-Acto electric sharpener not a single one of my Prismacolor pencils has broken. Do you like the Mi-Teints? I've heard it is very thin which is why I got the PastelMat
I have very much enjoyed working on the mi-tients tex (branded "touch" outside australia) so far.. but i havent really tried out any other kinds of sanded paper yet.
Canson does make a thinner mi-tients pastel paper (160gsm, or 108lbs) which is kind of like a textured coloured card.. but the the Mi-tients sanded paper is pretty thick (350gsm , 236lbs) the pastelmat is a little thicker at 360gsm, 246lbs. I have heard people remark they have different tooth patterns, so I am curious. The results were so different to regular paper, that i really want to try out some more texured surfaces, I feel another trip to the art shop is in order!! (did i just hear my wallet cry out??? lol!)
I usually dont have too much issue with breaking prismas. while they certainly break more than the polychromos, breakages are usually pretty mimimal ... I think this pencil just wanted to show off on camera!!
Thank you Cassandra:) I really love the Pastelmat and highly recommend it!
So what do you you use to add highlights after you drawn and coloured your drawing? Or how do I just draw white on top for say, a white line or white circle without preplanning, what the best pencil or type of pencil for just laying on atop a pure white on top of your drawing (after it was coloured)
I've heard maybe to use a wax based, or oil pencil that will basically leave the pigment behind and on top.
As fart as I know for the prisma colour which demonstrated perfectly was how well it blends together to create whole new colours, allowing you to get a away with 12 or 24 pencils and having literally 1000's of colours available just like mixing paint. That was shown pretty well with the white, as you drew black on it. So you could work with the black and white pencil and be able to create a wonderful grayscale image.
anyway was wondering what type of white pencil would be best for me to lay down some great pure white lines (without have to pre-empt the lines before you start drawing)
so far i have found the prismacolor to be the best for laying down over coloured areas the luminance pencil works about the same but for a much higher price.... however it really doesn't turn out pure white without a little planning an advance :( I do like the idea of a greyscale image though.. it might need a little practice, but that could turn out very nicely.
Another fantastic video!
thanks mate :)
Hi
Great video!
Have you tried the powder blender stuff from Brush & Pencil? It seems to be getting very popular in the coloured pencil world. I just got it myself and so far I'm enjoying it. :-)
Thankyou very much! no I haven't tried the powder blender yet :( unfortunately Australia has very strict customs rules... awesome for protecting our flora and fauna, terrible for allowing fun new art products onto our shelves. We are still waiting for a way to ship the textured fixative into the country and the powder blender is pretty much useless without it :( I will be ordering some to play with the minute it is allowed in!!!
This is helpful 👍
Yet again great video and tutorial!
Thankyou so much! I was dealing with the exact same thing
I love the Poly pencils as well as the Prismacolors. They do things deferently, not necessarily better. I get a better blend with the prismas than the Polys. I believe this is do to the wax content. (Blending with a solution that is). Also you need to sharpen Prisma pencils with a good school type sharpener (Screw blade type). The soft wax does not do well with a straight blade (Unless you're sharpening by hand going from back to front. Also!!!! Big for me, because of the bad rap on the Presmas, I can find good deals on these. So yes, the Polys are very very good, but don't think the Prismas are bad, because I love them and use the Prismas almost exclusively if I know I'll be using a solvent blender. And indeed, work with what is best for you guys.
I have a pencil sharpener that screws and it sharpens all my pencils very well. It's adjustable and I am able to get a fine point or a shorter, stubbier point. The only pencils that get mangled are my Prismacolors. The sharpener has an autostop feature that does not work with the Prismas so I have to check it every few turns until I reach the desired length. The leads look chewed up sometimes and I'm tempted to use sandpaper to sharpen them cleaner.
If Prismas weren't so cheap and available open stock I'd have to use another brand for fun coloring.
Thanks for sharing your tips.
@@1Letter23Numbers. Yeah, when I use the screw type sharpener, I'm very slow with the lowering of the prisma. The sharpener spins fast and I use 2 hands to insert it very slowly.
I also use sandpaper for the final part of the sharpening.
Sounds like a process but not that bad really.
All the best to you.
@@NotThatBob my sharpener has a clamp that holds the pencil in place while I turn the handle to sharpen so that helps. I'll definitely have to give sandpaper a try, thanks for letting me know you've tried that. Have a great day 🙂
@@1Letter23Numbers. You're comments come at the perfect time. I got busy and stopped drawing for the last 6 months or so. Yesterday I was about to start a project, but the yard work took priority. But today for sure! This is the day.
I thank you because your responses come at this perfect time to motivate.
So yes, you have me smiling. Cheers.
@@NotThatBob I'm so glad to hear my comment had a positive effect! I totally understand that life gets busy and hobbies take a backseat to chores. I find if I go too long without doing something creative I feel miserable and irritated. It's like the creative desire gets built up and I have to let it out lol.
I hope you have a relaxing and fun day being creative. Have an awesome day and weekend 😀
Haha I love the intro of your video.
And your description threw me off at first..."Faber-castell polychromos pencils come in 119 ???..." but then "and 1 transparent, hard and seemingly useless white pencil." New sub from me!
AMAZING
Can you teach how to draw hair and fur for beginners? İve watched a lot but i dont get it coz most artists are using time Lapse ..Thank you so much! Greetings from İstAnbul,Turkey
Can we use Faber Castell Polychromous without any blending medium?
Yes! Absolutely. You just have to have more patience to build up more layers the old fashioned way. It helps to have a very sharp pencil tip to do this
Useful tips Cassandra :-) thanks!
Great video! I was wondering which is the liquid you used for blending
+Lauren Cherryfield I use odourless mineral spirits (art spectrum brand, but they are all very similar) the same stuff used for oil painting:)
Thanks so so much! i tried several stuff and nothing seems to work that great for Polys :> I will try to find it where i live. Thanks so so much for answering!
Have you tried the Derwent China white or the Luminance 6901 white? They’re both quite opaque.
Hi! When you say you’re going to blend the white strokes out with a “thinner”, do you mean just like something that you buy that is just called a paint thinner, or do you mean some sort of odourless mineral spirits? This was a good video. I normally end my comments with hi from Australia, but I know by your accent that you’re Australian and it’s always nice to find an Australian video on TH-cam! 😃
Yes, I did use odourless mineral spirits. I probably use “thinner” as a description because I also use it to thin my oil paint.. my bad, sorry
And yes, I’m On the Sunshine Coast! Good to hear from Another Aussie :)
Great video
Thanks a lot...that actually helps❤️
Polychromos is superior at having a resist compared to other pencils.
You should try the Derwent drawing Chinese white it's the best I've seen cost about 2.36 US dollars but worth every penny
I have heard it is good! Unfortunately it is not something I often see in physical stores where I am (which is strange because Derwent is kind of the #1 pencil brand available in Australia??? I’ll have to give it a try some time
That's awesome 😊👍
I am relatively new to color pencils. I am using Polychromos and Luminance. On TH-cam, I notice artists use Polychromos way more than luminance. What is your take on why?
Well, if I had to choose a personal preference, I would use my polychromos over the luminance pencils any day... I own both, and they are both wonderful, but I find the polychromos to be more versatile. (Personal preference only)
I also think the polychromos are probably more affordable and more easily accessible world wide probably really helps skew the percentage of artists that lean towards using the polychromos?
It’s a bit tricky as this is one of this things that really boils down to personal preference, but I think that it probably boils down to availability and versatility
Thank you for this video. I'm doing a portrait of a man with a very white beard so I will try your method. Can you tell me what do you mean by thinners? Is it the Zest it Chichester I sometimes use to blend?
I use odourless mineral spirits, (which you would usually find in the oil painting section of the art shop) but zest it would certainly work!
Thank you for the info. Best wishes. Geraldine
Do you also need to use polychromos color pencils to achieve that effect or can you also use normal color pencils with white polychromos pencil ? (cause I don't have them >~
+zapole yeah, it should work. I have tried this with Derwent artists and some cheap monte marte pencils and it worked pretty well. The only ones I've really found not to work very well are the super soft waxy ones like prismacolor or luminance because their white just kind of spreads and mixes instead of leaving nice clean lines
I have Crayola color pencils, they do not come with white, but I do have a very lite yellow will that do?
Well, I think I’m some places then yes, you might be able to get away with a very light yellow, but if you want a really bright highlight on something, you may be better off leaving the area blank and letting the white if the paper do the work for you. It’s a bit tricky to work around an area like that, but sometimes you really need that pop of white!
What are you using as a thinner ???
“I’ll just give this one a bit of a sharpen, and then...”, “it broke. Bloody Hell”. Something tells me that you must be a fellow Australian! 👍
Hi from Toowoomba in Queensland 👋 Not sure if you’ll actually read this because I can’t see atm with this comment dialog box up, but I’m fairly certain this video was made a couple of years ago.
Anyway, this is a great video and I hope you and your family are staying safe 💖 🇦🇺
I’m not too far from you then, being up in the Sunshine Coast! I do try to hold back on the slang, but sometimes it just.... spurts out on its own!
What paper are you using in the demonstration?
I think this was on a piece of fabriano academia paper... but I usually use arches hot press for full pieces
Can you please help me with the name of the textured paper?
It was awhile ago, but it would have been Either sand coloured canson mi teients tex (or touch depending on your location) paper... or a colourfix sheet
Thank you so much for those really useful tips! :D
wow so helpful thank you !!
What are the colored pencil makers waiting on about making a white colored pencil that will actually go over darker colors? Surely there must be some kind of formulation that can do it.
Thank you 😊
Thanks a lot that was pretty useful to me 😉
Where did you get that bordered paper?mi tenets written on it on bottom right hand corner
+ANTHONY J MARTINEZ canson makes a couple of papers called mi-tients... this one is their sanded paper line which is called "tex" here in Australia, but it's also called "touch" elsewhere in the world. I picked it up at my local art shop, and it comes in larger and smaller sheets.
Cassandra Hanley,Thank You Very Much,greatly appreciate that,I love 💗 your channel,outstanding artwork,very informative tips,& tricks..👍🙏💋keep up the Awesome work,👋
Very helpful
+Joe Brown I am glad you found this helpful :)
Very informative thank you!
thankyou :)
You're very welcome Cassandra!
Use the fountain pen after you put the black down
Late but 11:41 what paper does she use? 😅
It's canson mi tients tex paper (or sometimes called mi Tients touch ) it's a sanded paper that is usually used for pastels, but can be used with colour pencils too! (I have a video where I use it and the ampersand pastel board with my pencils th-cam.com/video/gorg4iYwUU8/w-d-xo.html
Is it true that prismacolor s quality is becoming cheaper and it breaks easily
Hello, I am an artist. My name is Agshin, I live in Azerbaijan. I want Faber Castell Polychromos pens, but I can't afford them. I'm glad if you help.
Where do you buy you polychromos from?
Or you just ease the pressure when you want a highlight and that’s it
thankyou
begining was me in a nutshell lol
I use it to blend
I tried using my white Polychromos as a blender over light colors just today! *looks at time* Er, I mean yesterday. It worked pretty well, though it did lighten the color slightly. However, I think I like it better than my Lyra Splender, at least for light colors.
prismacolors are the #1 pencils
+TheBombShhh oooooh fighting words there! Lol. The best pencils are the ones you enjoy using! But that's just my opinion ;)
i would never have a fight over color pencils. we must make the choice of putting aside anger and destruction every day in order to make a more peaceful world for our children.
+TheBombShhh I agree!
i ordered these pencils "polychromos". i found the white pencil can be somewhat opaque over dark acrylic paint.
+TheBombShhh really? I've never tried that! Actually, I don't think Ive ever tried putting any pencil over acrylics! I'll have to play around with that sometime
ever heard of an eraser
Wow.... such bias.... You didnt even try with the prismacolor, in where you actually had to fast forward perfecting the polychromos.... plus you just made the lines wider and didnt sharpen your pencil well..... anyone who actually breaks a prismacolor the first time trying to sharpen it shouldnt be making a comparison video.... i use both, like poly more, but the prisma white is the better pencil....
+KonTro113d KhaOZ to be fair it's not really a comparison video! ...it is how I use the polychromos white! Now I love the prismacolor white for different techniques... it's more opaque and better for the final layers.. but for the resist technique and to make fine white lines, I would choose the polychromos.. it's not about which one is "better" because they are best used in very different ways.
TheCowprint No..
Oh wow I didn't know you could do that!! Thank you so much!! ❤️❤️