A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO COLORING | 1. Choosing your page and choosing your medium | Adult Colouring
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Hi guys!
Many of you have been asking questions regarding the process of colouring, from start to finish! From how to pick out a page, to choosing colours, shading, creating a 3D effect and finishing off the page with embellishments. I have bene avoiding doing these videos for a while as I am self-taught and don’t think I have much theory behind what I do when it comes to colouring - I just colour and have fun doing it!
But I thought it is about time I took on the challenge and atleast share with you all my process of colouring from start to finish!
I really hope you guys find this video informative, interesting and helpful! I hope you enjoy watching this series!
Happy colouring!
Some videos you may be interested in referring to:
How I colour backgrounds with watercolour pencils: • HOW TO USE WATERCOLOR ...
How I colour: basing with soft pastels: • HOW I COLOUR WITH SOFT...
How I colour: Using Tombow dual brush pens: • HOW I COLOUR: TOMBOW M...
How I colour: Distress ink backgrounds: • HOW I COLOUR - BACKGRO...
How I colour: Watercolour pencils for backgrounds: • HOW I COLOUR - BACKGRO...
If you wish to say ‘hello’ somewhere other than TH-cam:
Instagram: @shelscolouringjourney2020
E-mail: shelscolouringjourney@gmail.com
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Is there anything you would like me to share in these videos? Anything you have been itching to ask me?
Let me know! 💗
Might be late to ask this, and not sure if you done a video on it yet. But how do you fix any mistakes? I'd love a video on that to see your process.
I would highly encourage anyone starting out when it comes to dry media... buy one big set of pencils... the best you can afford or are willing to spend. More colors makes everything easier.. don't listen to professional artists who say you only need 12, yes you CAN do anything with the right 12 colors but it's so much easier to have a nice big selection of hues, tones, and shades ESPECIALLY if you are not a trained artist. I have never once said "I wish I didn't have so many colors to work with" when it comes to dry media. Learn that set. Know that set. Your hand, eye, and brain learn the colors and how the formula works with application and you will get better results easier with a product you know inside and out. If you really are not sure and want to try several of the more expensive brands buy a nice three or four color spectrum, light to dark, of a color you will use.. I like greens because I color a lot of plants. Maybe choose purple if you like flowers, or brown/grey if you like urban scenes or wildlife. It's so much more useful to really get a feel for how they color than a 12 set with random midtone colors and it's less expensive. You can save a ton of money buying a large set vs open stock.. or you can budget out open stock purchases a little at a time until you collect the set... but if you do the math most small sets don't save you much at all.. just lock you into random colors that are hard to use together. I'd rather spend the same amount or even a bit more buying 12 open stock colors that actually work together in spectrum and tone. Also remember you can mix any pencils together.. I know many colorists/artist who buy purely for color and mix tons of different brands together on a regular basis. It's way too easy to get caught up in collecting pencils vs coloring with them, it's something I struggle with constantly even though I know better.
Totally agree with all your points. I definitely like having a big set…I am not an artist and I would not know where to start with only a small set and having to combine colours to get the colour you want. I have been working with ADs only since 2015 and yes it helps to learn your set of pencils. And it is always a good idea to try open stock pencils if you can before going and buying the expensive sets 👍🏻 thanks for sharing 🤗💗
I can slightly disagree that it's better to start with a bigger set... You can easily get overwhelmed with lots of various shades that you have no idea of how to combine with each other... This happened to me with my 150 Prisma set. At some point I even wanted to limit myself to 12-24-36 etc. colors, just to learn better how they work together, because I really struggled with picking up colors from among all the variety of 150. If I had a chance to restart, I'd buy some medium set to start with, 36 or 72 would be ideal 😅
@@nuivrae I can relate to this so well. I've been colouring for five years, but still would feel overwhelmed with any new set larger than 120. With the Prismas, I started with a small set, then added in the rest of the colours a few at a time. I have all the available Black Widows because I love the way they lay down, but it will be quite a process to get to know all of them.
@@nuivrae I can totally see what you mean. It can be very overwhelming when you are starting off to have too many colours. I guess it comes down to individual preference….I think for me with a small set I struggled with the limited shades and I didn’t have the colour theory knowledge of how to mix colours to get the shade you want if it is not available on your set…so I think I really benefitted from having many shades all available. But yes, for some people, having too much choice can be overwhelming and it may be better to get a smaller set to start with - to be fair I did start with a set of 36 which I had for 3 years before getting g a full set 😂
I agree - I love having the 150 Prismas. I've enjoyed getting to know the combinations that work well for the look I want, and after almost a year with them I'm starting to experiment with small sets or open stock of other brands. I also find you tube videos helpful to learn color palettes for certain effects (metal, skin tones, etc)
One of my biggest tips for beginners is to start with coloring books that have images that are easier to color. I started off with some Kerby Rosanes and Mythographic books, and a few other more advanced coloring books, and I really struggled! I think part of my problem was that I had seen so many videos of other people's pages and they did such a wonderful job, but I wasn't able to do nearly as good of a job as them and it really discouraged me and had me feeling down for a while. I still struggle with Mythographic Magical Earth but I am doing much better than when I first started! I already knew how to do shading and blending really well, and I was pretty good at knowing where shadows go when I first started because of some art classes, but I almost quit coloring altogether because I was so discouraged. I was so frustrated and upset with myself that I actually thought about giving away all of my books and supplies! But then I realized that I do love coloring, and I have $150 set of Prismacolor pencils, plus other sets of pencils and many other mediums and supplies, and I snapped out of it and was like, I can't just give 100's and 100's of dollars worth of my precious art supplies away!!! (I got tax return money and did a major coloring book and supplies haul before I even started coloring officially). Finally I had gotten a few books with images that were a lil easier to color, and that really helped. So my advice is, don't try to start at expert level like I did lol! The Nice Little Town books and Nice Little Dragons books are good ones to start out with, or even the Johanna Basford books. I think Johanna's books are good for all skill levels. And ALWAYS watch a flip through video before buying any coloring book, that way you know what kind of coloring pages are in it because some have these covers that draw you in, but when you get the book you realize that the images aren't really your style or what you enjoy coloring! Sorry this comment is so long, but I hope it helps at least one person to not make the same mistake that I did!
Everything you said makes a lot of sense and I am sure people reading it will definitely get some good tips and advice from it. Thanks for sharing. And definitely, choose simpler pages if you are a beginner or even if you have lost inspiration and just need to get yourself going again, definitely helps!! 🤗💗
@@shelscolouringjourney I totally agree! And thank you for your kind words! Also, thank you for sharing your coloring with us! I've gotten a lot of inspiration from your beautiful coloring pages!
It's very hard to look at the works posted on Instagram and such. It can be discouraging if you can't keep up or don't like yours as well. I enjoyed detailed pages (Mythographic, Kerby, etc) even in the beginning, but I had to distance myself from social media examples. "Comparison is the thief of joy," as they say. I'm glad you found a way through your frustration so you can have fun coloring again!
@@MissTiffanyK1 Thanks love! I definitely think distancing from social media examples is a very good idea! I have cut back on looking at other people's work, but I do still scroll through to get ideas when I'm having a hard time. I probably should distance myself a little more, but I keep scrolling anyway lol! I'm not sure if you've heard of the Mermaids in Paradise book, I believe it's by Denyse Klette, but there are a lot of pages in that book that have quite a bit of blank space in the backgrounds, so I scroll through instagram a lot looking for ideas for backgrounds. I'm not that great a drawing so I try to go with easier backgrounds lol!
And I really appreciate your kind words and encouragement! I have found a lot of kindness and support in the coloring community, and it means a lot to me!
Thank you, Nicole. This information is so needed for me. I am new to the adult coloring community. I already had all the pens, pencils, markers, paints, etc., for Bible Journaling.
I used to use the 64 box of Crayola Crayon Colors and color books with big spaces. I still do that sometimes. It is really stress free.
I went and bought all the coloring books I saw on TH-cam. 😂
I don't have any other social media accounts. I bought a lot of books that you mentioned. I am so frustrated because it seems so hard to understand, the shading, blending, highlights, backgrounds, etc. And this is supposed to be fun.
Today, I wanted to give up. Like you, I have spent several hundreds of dollars on this hobby. I found this video, and I found your comment. It has helped so much. I am not going to give up. I am going to start with my books that are less detailed. Thank you so much and God bless you.
You shouldn’t be intimidated by anything all of your pages are stunning
Thank you so much 🤗💗
I find this video so refreshing having watched a lot of colorists here on YT. Most of them have so many brands of pencils and other stuff that it's quite intimidating. I'm just coloring a couple of months, I'm not very good at it (yet), but that's fine. Thank you for this video and I'm definitely going to watch the rest of the serie's.
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch the series...I am so glad you liked the video! I hope you are enjoying your colouring journey so far, the main thing is that you enjoy the process of colouring and have fun! 🤗💗
@@shelscolouringjourney Yes, I'm definitely having fun.
@@KarenHavenaar
I'm new at colouring in my 50s not very good But getting better ( I think )
It helps me with the pain I am in every day
@@deborahjane68 I hope it will help you.
I like the way you broke down the process, eg, background, base, then the colouring. I also love the vibrancy of your finished pages! 💗
Thank you so much, so glad you liked it! Hope you enjoy the upcoming videos too. Thanks for watching 🤗💗
Absolutely enjoyed this video! I’ve been coloring since 2016, so I consider myself on the low end of intermediate.
I am so glad you enjoyed the video despite the fact you have been colouring for so many years! Thank you for watching 🤗💗
Superb video Shel, watched a bit and will come back to it later but I’m enjoying it. Thank you ❤
So glad you were enjoying it K, it is a long video so thanks for taking the time to check it out! 🤗💗
That's a great idea to make a series of such videos. Looking forward to the color choice one - something that I usually struggle with 😊❤
Hope you enjoy the colour choice video and I can give some tips to help out 🤗💗 thanks for watching 🤩
Thank you so much. Very good guide in so much depth and length you have gone to explain it and make it so easy. You have spent a lot of time bringing this information and I really appreciate it. Thank you.
You’re most welcome! I am glad you enjoyed the video…thanks for taking the time to watch 🤗💗
Just watching the first 5 minutes and I love it already! Yeah for a serie. Thank you!
Glad to hear it, and hope you enjoy it 🤗💗
I came back to watch this video again and refresh my memory! And now I'm off to watch the other parts of this series! And yes, it was very interesting! Thank you for all of the info, tips, and ideas!
I am so glad you found it interesting! Thanks for watching the series, and hope you enjoy all of the videos 🤗💗
It is so relaxing to watch your videos 🤍🙏🏻 I also enjoy taking a cup of tea and flipping through my books. 🤍 It’s as enjoyable as coloring itself. 😊
I am so glad you find my videos relaxing 🤩 and I totally agree, flipping through the colouring books is definitely as enjoyable as colouring, glad you can relate 🤗💗
Thank you for your time and effort putting these videos. Yes I’m an experienced colourist but I find it so useful as there’s always something new you can learn also, it gives you a different perspective that may be conducive to my normal methods. But most importantly for new colourists what I’d have given for this comprehensive direction when I was starting out, like you I had to ‘feel’ my own way.
I look forward to watching the upcoming videos 👍🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
It’s my pleasure! Thank you for taking the time to watch despite being an experience colourist yourself. Means a lot! Hope you enjoy the rest of the videos too 🤗💗
This sounds like a great series it will be helpful to many beginners and for the rest of us to ❤
Glad you think so Jackie! Thank you 🤗💗
Thank you for such a clear, well thought out and thorough video, I really enjoyed it and you have inspired me to finally get over my hesitation in colouring a page from Mythographic. Breaking the page down as you suggest makes perfect sense and eases the feeling of being overwhelmed and wondering where the heck do you start? LOL. Looking forward to the rest of the series, thanks again Shel!
So happy to read this and I really do hope you manage to tackle a mythographic page soon! Once you colour in these books, you will enjoy the process of colouring in them so much it will be hard to avoid them 🤗💗
Very interesting video Shelly look forward to the rest of the series happy colouring xx
Thank you, I am glad you found it interesting, thanks for watching 🤗💗
Thanks for your awesome tips 🌸✏️
You are so welcome! 🤗💗
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I so appreciate you taking your time to help some of us newbies get started. I love this video and can’t wait for the rest of the series. Your pictures are phenomenal! You are a true artist!
You are so welcome and I am glad you liked the video. Hope you continue to enjoy the rest of the series. Thanks for taking the time to watch 🤗💗
Thank you for this video. Very helpful. Your finished pages are AMAZING! I don’t even think I could ever color like that. Did you use pencils?
Thank you so much, glad you like my coloured pages. Glad you liked the video too! Yes, I use pencils as my main medium, but I use other mediums sometimes for backgrounds, basing etc. My pencils of choice are definitely my FC Albrect Dürers, which you will likely come to know from my channel 😂💗
I loved this video! You are helping me so much on my coloring journey!🥰💯✏
So glad to hear this, thank you for watching 🤗💗
Hi Shel, I want to thank you for a very detailed and comprehensive video. I believe this series you've planned is going to be excellent and very helpful for beginners or for people who maybe are like me who want to go from doing color alongs, to planning out their own color themes.
I'm looking forward to your next video!! P.S. I do still like all the color alongs!!🤗
Hi Eileen, it’s my pleasure! So glad this was a useful video even if you are not a beginner. And hope you continue to enjoy the series and find some tips that can get you going on planning your own pages!! Thank you for taking the time to watch 🤗💗
Hi, I’m not very experienced myself, but I think I have a good idea for building up slowly. I have watched a colour along and then used the colours and techniques on a different page. Of course the page has to be similar, but I think this is a good mix between following a tutorial and starting from scratch.
I'm in love with this series! Greetings from Brazil! ❤
So glad to hear this!! Hope you enjoy the rest of it 🤗💗
thank you for sharing really love this video 😊, I always pick a page that I really like to color, and some of them are botanical drawing, I love coloring flowers and leaves, so they will be my first choice, I will pick another page if I want to color something different. I always use my polychromos all the time so I don't waste time to choose my medium and I can focus to pick my color palette
Thank you for watching, glad you liked the video! I totally agree with you, I use just my Albrecht dürers and it really does help to just get going on a page as you learn your pencils well 🤗💗
Hi Shelly! This was a Great Video, very informative and Amazing Ideas. I've been Coloring since 2009, posting since 2014 and I have picked up some fantastic ideas.
Thank You very much for Sharing Your Thoughts!👍🏻😃💜
Hi Sherry, thank you. So glad you liked the video. Even happier to hear that despite not being a beginner yourself, you got a few ideas out of it, thank you! Thanks for watching 🤗💗
You're Very Welcome, Shelly! Keep Up the Great Work! I'm Excited for the next Video! Have a Wonderful Day!💜🌹
Hi Shelly great video😊 thank you for sharing. Looking forward to the next video, appreciate your ideas💜
Hi Cindy, thank you so much! Glad you liked the video. Hope you continue to enjoy the rest 🤩 have a lovely weekend 🤗💗
I’ve only watched 5 minutes, and I have to go now, but I’m already enjoying it so much and looking forward to the rest.
Thank you! So glad you were enjoying it….I hope you enjoy the rest of the series too 🤗💗
@@shelscolouringjourney I’m sure I will, I enjoy all your videos!
You made me realise what’s holding me back. I want to experiment, but I don’t want to do it in my beautiful books. While I should do it in the book, because the paper matters so much. But I don’t want to, and so on. So I’ll have to find a way to get past that.
Also, I’m doing it backwards 😅 Most of the time, I want to use this medium or that technique, and then I try to find a fitting page. It doesn’t work very well like that, and then I get stuck. Again, I’ll have to find another way.
I enjoyed seeing all your beautiful pages, especially the Rita Berman book is stunning ❤
I just loved this video ! Thank you so much! ❤💚💙💜🧡
Glad you enjoyed it! It’s my pleasure. Thanks for watching 🤗💗
For choosing pages, I made it a bit simpler. I have numbered all my books, and written down how many pages it has. Than I go to a random number generator and fill in the number of books. Whatever number comes up is the book I will color in. I do the same for the number of pages. It can get quite surprising sometimes but always a lot of fun!
I am so glad I am not the only one who does that 😂😂 I have numbered all my books and have the pages listed too. I have thought many times to do a random generator to choose a page, but I am always trying to chase the uncoloured books, that I have not yet got round to that! But it is a great way to choose a page 🤗💗
I start with 1 site then go backwards site for sith to the book are finish. I do this in each and every books i have. When i finish i one site in a book. I take another book i do one site. I have 36 coloringbooks. Then Lorna Scobies books and two creativity books of Johanna Basford. It this way because its best for my head..
I have diffrent mediums. Pencils, fineliners, soft pastels, glitterpens, watercolors. I buy cheap stuff because i have little income.
I recommend Faber Castel color grip, Staedtler Ergosoft, Maped, Milan triangular, Lyra Osiris and Crayola.
Such great suggestions! Thank you so much for sharing 🤗💗
Great video!
Thank you!
My pleasure, thanks for watching 🤗💗
Thank you so much for sharing your process 😊
It’s my pleasure! Thanks for watching 🤗💗
Can you show us about the color combination choosing Thank you
Sure! I will try and touch on it when I do the colour choice video 🤗💗
@@shelscolouringjourney Thank you very much.. appreciate it .. 🥰
I have tried basing with tombow dual brush and then Albrecht Durer dry in fairy tales by oberg and romantic country by eriy and I cannot get a good blend. I don’t understand what I am doing wrong. It’s very discouraging. Same with Polychromos.
@@avenart110 I have a video up on the channel on using the Albrecht Dürers…maybe there will be some tips in there to help?
Did you use fixative spray for the soft pastel ? Is it necessary ?
Yes, I always use fixative for the soft pastels. I would say it’s necessary, otherwise the soft pastels will go everywhere. Hope this helps 🤗💗
Super informative tysmfs. Loved it 💜
So glad! Thank you for taking the time to watch 🤗💗
What do you do with the hidden items in the mythographic books?
I usually tend to cover them up. I use Winsor & Newton white ink and once dry I can colour over top with my pencils. Hope this helps. 🤗💗
Thank you so much🤗❤️
You’re welcome 😊💗
So do you use the Fabre castle watercolor pencils dry (albertdeaur) is that what hat you mean when you say that
Yes, Albrecht Dürer pencils are watercolour pencils...so when I use them dry, I use them just like regular pencils without any water. I use them both with water and without 🤗💗
How do you find color alongside on Instagram?
Where did you get your color swatching charts
I got them online, they are available for free. The signature on the bottom of the charts have the same Mystic Sparkle Wings - if you google that name, you should find the charts. Hope this helps 🤗💗
Hi Lovely Lady, Do you have any jewelry you used to make? Love to see! 😀
What is your favorite glitter pens? Ty
Sorry, I no longer have the jewellery I made sadly....if I ever get back into it, I will surely share it! At the moment I use Chromatek which are not bad...however I love the pentel hybrid dual metallics in gold and silver - haven't tried the others yet. I do wish they had bigger sets in them though! 🤗💗
I'm confused. What is a base? It sounds like you are talking about something different to the background. Thanks!
Sorry if I wasn't clear. A base is a layer of colour you put down lightly before you do your more detailed work over the top - so you could put down a layer of markers, watercolour paints, soft pastels or even just pencil. And then you do your more detailed shading over the top. Hope this makes sense? 🤗💗
@@shelscolouringjourney Thanks for clearing that up. I am looking forward to Part 4 that you just released.
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