Tips & Tricks For Coloring With Polychromos Pencils

Check out these tips & tricks for using Polychromos Pencils to color stamped images!
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In the Weeds By Brandi Kincaid, Essentials By Ellen Designer Dies ---- www.ellenhutson.com/in-the-we...
Totally Random Sayings Vol. 3 by Julie Ebersole, Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps ---- www.ellenhutson.com/totally-r...
Unicorn White, Hero Arts Pigment Ink Pad ---- www.ellenhutson.com/hero-arts...
Yeti, Lawn Fawn Ink Pigment Pad ---- www.ellenhutson.com/lawn-fawn...
White, Hero Arts Embossing Powder ---- www.ellenhutson.com/hero-arts...
White, Hero Arts Liquid Watercolor ---- www.ellenhutson.com/white-her...
Polychromos Pencil Tin Set of 120, Faber-Castell ---- www.ellenhutson.com/polychrom...
Polychromos Pencil Tin Set of 60, Faber-Castell ---- www.ellenhutson.com/polychrom...
Desert Storm - 25 pk, Neenah Environment Cardstock ---- www.ellenhutson.com/a3-cardst...
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[@MariaNyceDesigns]

Thanks Emily, this card is stunning! I love coloring in colored pencil, it’s soothing to zone out a bit. So happy to hear that it took 2 hours to color, it takes me about that long too. Thanks so much for sharing your time and creativity, hugs!!!

[@meganharp2422]

Thank you so much for this video! I’ve had my polychromos pencils for months now, and every tutorial is geared more towards drawings or towards artist’s level of use! This was perfect! Now I better start sharpening!! TFS!

[@fitmor_til_4]

You can use a small brush with a bit of baby oil on, and go over the colors very lightly. This blends the colors more and brightens the color.

[@theresehudran7635]

You have done a fantastic job on creating this card.

[@michelegourd5742]

Beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@spdybug]

I have been resisting buying this stamp and die but after I saw your card I POUNCED! I have also been resisting really diving in to using my Polychromos....but with your video and with the In The Weeds set...I am READY! Thanks so much Emily! Not only is your card just beautiful but the video was SO helpful!

[@adj822]

Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and coloring techniques. Great video! 💜 ps... love this new stamp set.

[@glennistrotman8421]

Thank you for all your helpful tips

[@denisenadeau5243]

really special

[@lauratracy4033]

Thank you so much for the great video! By the way your wedding ring set is gorgeous!!!

[@Grankie1]

Love using colored pencils! It is a labor of love and looks so different! Thanks for the tutorial!

[@jennsklenerczt6524]

Great video

[@kimrouthier6518]

Love the lead size on your pencils. Can you share what pencil sharpener you use? Thank you for sharing this beautiful coloring.

[@selvakumarvelayutham1858]

Thats a Kum AS2, Two Hole Automatic Long Point Pencil Sharpener

[@lianealbert7728]

I just tried doing Yana Smakula’s pink cardstock with another company’s daffodils background step. You going into how you layer color helps tremendously. I’m a watercolor person… I’ve had an entire set of polycromos for years. I definitely need to slow down and remember that I didn’t learn to watercolor over night!! This was huge help!!! I have a lot of Ellen’s sets including this one… I definitely need to follow more. Any tips for sharpening pencils??

[@EllenHutsonLLC]

We're so happy it helped!! Here's an article that should help you out: fabercastellusa.reamaze.com/kb/products-art-and-graphic/sharpening-pencils

[@surekhagalagoda4047]

Dear Emily Thanks a bunch. i really enjoyed and learnt a lot. for a new bee like me is it bettter to use polychromos or prismacolors which are wax based. I love to color and improving in baby steps and i will keep on practicing my colorfing. I even bk marjed this so that i can come back to it later. Blessings to you and your family and Ellen too.

[@EllenHutsonLLC]

Here's a little more info from Emily...
"Hi there!! So glad you enjoyed the video! Prismas are a great product for learning the basics of colored pencils. It depends a lot on your personal coloring style; if you are a color layer-er like me, Polychromos pencils will give you a bit of leeway to add lots of layers. Prismacolors lay down thicker, more opaque color and can be blended quite smoothly with the help of a blending pencil or other blending medium. I started with prismas, but after working with them for quite a while, I discovered that I prefer the blending of the Polychromos. Sorry if that’s clear as mud!"

[@surekhagalagoda4047]

@@EllenHutsonLLC Dear Emily thanks a ton for taking time off your busy schedule to reply me. It means a geat lot to me so that i know what to buy when i plan to buy a set of pencils. I am improving a lot on coloring and i am so greatful to all of you lovely people who teach me coloring through your master pieces. I thank each and every one of you and your families for opening the beautiful world of crafting each morning during my daily prayers. God and You all lovely people held me together silently through your master pieces without questioning me during my most difficult time l am so greatful to you all and the world of crafting is just about happiness and spreading love and i am humbly proud to be with you all. May you and your family as well as Ellen and her family and her staff and their families be healthy and happy always with loads of love and gratitude

[@kimbish3259]

Sorry what white pencil do you use? Is it also a Poly?

[@indimusiq]

I think it's best for the learning process especially in a tutorial to use the "name" of the color and NOT a number! The process of learning and understanding colors... tones etc. Is in my opinion very important for technique, blending, mapping out a piece etc. No1. Can do the work for you. Also, the chart offered here (not free) also encourages the same practice of numbering the colors. If someone referenced phathalo blue you wouldn't really know what that color looked like! 😂 kinda a no brainer why the number system just seems like cheating oneself.

[@ciannacoleman5125]

Unlike with paints, colored pencil companies tend to change color names periodically but keep the number the same. Some of the names correlate to traditional paint pigments but many of them don’t so numbers are the most accurate for people wanting the same color.

[@darladoxstater8528]

The plural of medium is media.

[@Vet4FallujahCJ]

Im sorry, but the bling bling of that Cascade of BLING on that finger kept pulling the attention away from the video. lol Shine Bright Like a ..... nice job on the detail