I just bought this set of pencils for myself for my birthday in December. I have been floundering around with them for the past three days, and finally had come to the conclusion that I am the only person in the world who hates them. And then I remembered you. So I went diving into your playlists, and it took a bit of scrolling, but I found this video! Thank you! I had figured out almost all of the techniques on my own, but was only enjoying using it as paint either by dipping the end in water or by shaving off some of the pigment with a sandpaper block, and then tapping the pigment out onto a pallet, adding water and using it like paint. But that’s what I do with the Tim Holtz, watercolor pencils, so why do I need these expensive pencils? the trick for me was when you said to use these like you do polychromos. The lightbulb went off! Those are my very favorite pencils because you use them very lightly and with lots of layers. The color pay off is fantastic and it’s much easier on my arthritis. I was using these watercolor, pencils with way too heavy of a hand, and I was just fighting with them. . Once I lightened up my hand, the pencils worked great. I am not one who likes to see the white of the paper, nor do I really like the pencil look. I’m just trying to find a way to get that smooth painterly lookthat I can use on double-sided pages when I cannot use my alcohol markers. Now that I’ve watched this video, my coloring is getting much much better. It will take a while for me to find my style with these pencils but I think I am really going to like them now. Thank you so much.❤
@@shelscolouringjourneyand if you ever lose you highlight area, just take a wet clean brush and you can take color away with your wet clean brush. Watercolor painting 101 😉 you can take the brush and dab it in your paper towel and repeat and that'll open up your highlighted area. Would you mind doing another one of these technique vids with you choosing larger subjects to work on so we can actually see the technique in action? That leave is just a bit too small ti see the application.
The Tombow clear blender is a go-to for me for activating watercolor pencils, especially on thin paper, but I never even considered using a colored pen so thanks for that tip.
SUPER great tutorial 🎉 thank you! I truly do love coloring with pencils but I get frustrated with how much time it takes and how hard it is to get a smooth nice look. I hope this technique will make it easier and then I can really enjoy myself 😊
Yes, pencils do take time to work with for sure....I don't mind, I do enjoy them. But to be honest, where I can speed things up I definitely try, and that's why I love using these pencils 🤗💗
I just purchased a 36 set of Albrecht Durer's and am currently trying them out in a Mythographic book. So far, I am really impressed. Thank you for all the information here. So comprehensive and well demonstrated.
Thanks for the demonstration! I recently received the 120 set of Albrecht Durers for Christmas, so I am trying to learn how to use them. I found this very helpful.❤
Wow thank you so much for doing this step by step how you color with your watercolor pencils wet and dry. I love the look of your pages. They are so beautiful. They are on my list for my boyfriend to buy me for my birthday now that I see how well they actually work !! He said no price tag I get to choose !!! Yay!
It's my pleasure and thank you so much!! That is awesome, I hope you get the Albrecht Dürers soon...they are lovely to play around with 🤗💗 Thanks for watching ☺️
Hello Shelly. I have watched this video twice. Thank you so much. Faber-Castell Watercolour Penils are my favorite. Didn't know how to really use them. Thank you. Excellent video.
Your tips & tricks for the Albrecht Druher was so inciteful considering I have had a small set for over 35 years and never activated them until I bought the 120 set for the Xmas two years ago. I have activated them with a blender tombow and even with an alcohol blender in my 2 sides hardback books. They are so versatile and when used as I did for 35 years as just normal pencils and they are beautiful just as pencils. I loved watching this video. If I could only have 1 set of pencils it would be the Albrecht Druher pencils (a close second would be my inktense) tho I wouldn't use the inktense just in a drawing pencil format as the ink once activated is blindingly beautiful but I have activated them in good quality two sided pages with no bleed through at all. Thank you Shelly for taking the time to show how you work with Albrecht Druher as your main pencil brand. I watched avidly as I have never used my waterbrush pens as accents and basing your pictures as I have had my primrosa water brush pens (60) for over 2 years and never used them. I checked if they had dried out last night and to my delight & astonishment they are as juicy as the day I got them. So thank you so much for this video I was stuck to the screen as you showed all the different ways to use the best watercolours of all time (in a pencil format). I am inspired after losing my colouring mojo and for that I am so grateful. Much love & *Virtual hugs* love from Australia xxx
Thank you so much for your lovely comment Claire. I am most happy to read that you have found some inspiration after watching this video and I truly hope you get your colouring mojo back!! I look forward to hearing how you find using some of these techniques such as using the waterbased makers - so glad your haven't dried out!! I am so glad there is someone out their who appreciates these pencils as much as I do 🤗 Thank you for taking the time to watch my video ☺️💗
You are so welcome Shelly. You inspire me and even tho not a newbie I always learn something that I hadn't thought to do before. I have watched this video twice as for the 1st time I am down with covid 😢
Faber Castell Gold Faber colored pencils are even better than Prismacolor! They are creamy soft, blend easily, and affordable. Complete set only has 48 - hope they extend that set some day.
This video is very helpful and interesting. I'm learning so much from you. I'm new to Albrecht Durers, so I have a lot to learn. I would love to see a video about some of your favorite color combinations, your art is beautiful!
Thank you for sharing this! I find watercolor pencils to be a little frustrating but I really think I wasn't using them correctly. I'm definitely going to try these techniques and see if I can fill in love with them.
My pleasure! I do hope this helps you fall in love with your watercolour pencils! They are so versatile and work wonderfully for colouring books! Have fun experimenting 🤗💗
Thank you Shelly for sharing all your techniques. I bought these pencils a long time ago and stashed them as I am not good with adding water to them. Saw your videos and folowed some of your tutorials and love using them dry. They are definitely softer than Polychromos and harder than Prismacolor. I absolutely love the intensity of your coloring!!!! Will try some of these techniques and hopefully improve adding water to them.
You are so welcome! I am so glad you liked using the pencils dry and I hope you are able to play around with using water with them. You need such little water with them and they are quite forgiving, in that you can go back in with more pencil (wet or dry!). Have fun playing with them!! Thank you for taking the time to watch 🤗💗
2:45 Albrecht Durer (120) - Faber Castell was also my first purchase instead of Polychromos pencils. I bought the Polychromos pencils (120) later. Thank you for sharing!
Very helpful information!! I've been needing something like this for awhile. I just got my albrecht durer set finally so I may try some of your color alongs
The palette is also very nice for mixing colors. If you ever want to try watercolor paint you can do a similar technique by putting out a little spot of diluted paint and letting it dry (or carefully drying it with a hair dryer to speed things up).You can then pick it up with your damp brush just like you do with those spots of pencil. It gives you a ton more control and is super helpful when starting out.
I use watercolor pencils to save my poor hands and wrists, which have major issues with arthritis, so I tend to one of three things.. either put down a mid tone, reserving white, activate while blending at the same time, then use the pencil to brush technique to deepen shadows and add accents of color.. or use them as a flat base in midtone and use my prisma over the top to just add highlight and shadow (prisma because they are soft and opaque so cover the base light or dark easily)... or put down all my color at once and activate to blend in one go. Which one often depends on the paper, the thinner the paper the less wet application I want to use on it. Every layer of water is another layer of damage. The pencils look great with those multiple layers of application, but at that point I'm right back to hours of work and pain during and after. I typically only use watercolor on double sided pages and much prefer alcohol markers when I can use them.
Yes I totally agree to everything you said....pencil only colouring can be very hard the wrist even if one does not have any problems with their hands, so I can totally understand it must really be painful for those who do. But your techniques for getting round these issues are great! I am yet to try alcohol markers - other than my mythographic collection, I don't have many single sided books, so haven't invested in alcohol markers yet. But I love seeing the work others do with them!! 🤗💗
You have inspired me to get these pencils :) I brought my first set today. The 24 from my local art store, to test them out. Can't wait to play around with them, when my water brush pens arrive. Looking through your watercolor tutorials for tips, as I don't know how to use water colored pencils lol.
What an amazing teaching tutorial ❤thank you I loved ever technic can't wait to start watercolor pencils I have been a frustrated watercolorist now something different to try ❤ Heather thank goodness I found you🎉
Thanks Shell for showing this I will watch this tonight , got about 80 now wont be long ill have my full set ! i get so worried using water in my books I need to get over the fear of ruining it and just enjoy it !
My pleasure Lisa, hope you try using the ADs more, they are so much fun. You need so little water to activate them, so don't stress about using the water with the pencils, but I totally know what you mean! 🤗💗
Thank you for this. I have a full set of albert durech watercolour pencils and have never got to grips with them. So I shall certainly be trying these techniques and the water colour pencils and blender pens. I would be having a go immediately but I have to go out.
Really hope you are able to play around with your ADs and get a better feel for them. Such lovely pencils to work with. Let me know how you get on with them 🤗💗
Thank you so much for this! I have some Caran d'Ache Supracolor Soft pencils (same pigments/colours as the NEOII), which I also use dry and wet. But now I'll be able to try some new techniques. Happy colouring!
That was such a good video, I've just brought a set of pencils because I love your finished pages. I've been a bit scared of having a go, now I've watched your video I'm feeling braver. Thanks for all the information. Xx
Hi Shelly! I have both the Polychromos and the Albrecht Dürer pencils. I have a lot to learn so i love this tutorial! I am not verry good with wathercolour and a brush so i need a lot of practise. I don’t want to ruin my books so practise takes forever 😂……for now i colour a baselayer with a tiny bit of pastelchalk pencils and wipe it out witn a paperstump. You can layer these guy’s beautiful and than deep the shades with pencil!! Verry easy for people with jointpain. But thank you verry much Shelly, you keep me going!!
Hi Linda, I am so glad you like this video. Your method for basing is great! I don't have soft pastel pencils, but I do sometimes use soft pastels for basing and they work great. Thanks for taking time to watch my video ☺️💗
@@arose4u2 Hi Alex, i have 3 brands. Caran D’ache, Stabilo Carbothello and Derwent. You have to color verry light and then work it out. It’s beautiful and you don’t need so much layers to work out the white of the paper. For me it is also much faster! Enjoy! 😉
@@lindaverkade438 Hi Linda, with the Derwent Pastel Pencils in particular, you can actually use a damp brush to blend them out. This way the pastels will be fixed on the paper as well.💡😉
Thank you for a very informative video. You explained the different techniques you use very clearly, and I learned so much. Might be time to get my AD pencils out of the the drawer and actually use them !!
Hi shel really enjoyed this video .. this has really helped me loads on what to do with all the different ways of blending and different techniques.. thank you so much for this I’m going to keep this in my library to refer to.. so glad I found your Chanel tysmfs 🥰
Hi Emma, so glad you enjoyed this video. I was happy to share it as I love these pencils. So happy you found my channel too!! Thanks for watching my videos 🤗💗
Hi Cindy, thanks for taking the time watch. I would love to try that....maybe I will have to pick a very simple page! I am sure it will be a very very long video 😂💗
I love your video and hope you make more of them so that we can learn more about watercoloring and improve our skills. Top. I have pencils but they are not watercolor they are just dry and I am considering buying a set like yours because it gives more options. I will still be able to use the set i have as a supplement to the. Albrecht Durer set of watercoloring ones. Thks so much for the website and very useful tips and techniques you present.
I am so happy you liked my video and were able to get some good tips from it. Hope I can continue to share my colouring journey with you. Thank you for watching 🤗💗
Thank you so much for sharing this video Shelly its very helpful this will really be a game changer I have these pencils and I love them I will definitely be trying these techniques in my next coloring. I love watching your videos I always see something that I wanna try you have definitely help me on my coloring journey. Take care have a great day
I am so glad to ready your comment Vanessa, thank you so much. I am so happy to hear that you have picked some new ideas from my colourings. Thanks for always taking the time to watch my videos!! Have a lovely Sunday 🤗💗
A great tutorial, thank you. I learnt so much, especially backgrounds. I have not tackled one as I had no idea where to start. So pleased I found this video. Keep up the good work. 😊😊
Super tutorial, some great tips, totally hadn't thought of using coloured Tombows with them. AD's are beautiful pencils, they dissolve so well compared to most other watercolour brands, I've started adding in a few CD Museum Aquarell's with mine to give a wider range of colours, which seems to be working well. Sadly I do find the AD's quite tough of my hand, I'm sore for days after using them, you must have super strong hands!😉😁Great Video, Thank you, x💗
Thank you for watching! I didn't realise they are so hard on the hands, especially if they are used wet and then dry. However, of course I don't own/use anything softer to compare them to, so I have probably just got immune to it 😂😂
Absolutely amazing video you have shown me how to use my pencils. I did have a go like you was a bit scared to make a mistake but you learn by your mistakes. Thank you xx 😊
Glad it was helpful and that you had a go playing with the pencils! Keep playing with them and you will get more used to using them....lovely pencils! 🤗💗
Thank you for the amazing tips. Can I ask where you found the metal pencil holder for very small pencils? Wonderful way to help those of us with arthritis in our hands.
You're welcome! Yes I got mine from Amazon UK....it is the Derwent brand and the silver one works well with ADs because of the size they don't fit in all pencil extenders. Hope this helps 🤗💗
Hi shelly thank you this is amazing I’m definitely going to be tryouts this technique.. I love these pencils one of my favourite pencils to use in my books.. ❤xx
Thanks for this amazing tutorial 🥰 I have polychromos and Goldfaber aqua but the AD are on my wishlist. Think I will have to wait untill my birthday in July though 😅 Btw I showed my husband the palet tip to scribble on and pick up pigment (he has a 3D printer so maybe he could make me one) but he said it would be much easier to use a cheap cutting board (Kitchentool). They come with the same rough surface. Thought it was genius (dont tell him 😂) and wanted to share this hack 😄
My pleasure!! Yes, absolutely those would work too! I tend to use the smooth side of my palette a lot for my waterbed markers as well (again you could just some simple plastic packaging for that too to be honest!). Great hack though, thanks for sharing 🤗💗
I wanted to make sure you knew about the 30 magnus set of these. You inspired me to get out the 12 set of magnus I have and start using them dry. I am not quite brave enough to try them wet, but I think you have inspired me to attempt them wet. The last time I used water was on a blue neocolor 2 background that I felt was a big fail.
Thank you Veronica. Yes, I am aware of the Magnus pencils, but I thought they were the same colours as the ADs, so don't think I will be getting them. So glad you have found some inspiration to try your wet mediums again! Hope you enjoy playing with them 🤗💗
Hello! Thanks for the video! Could you advise me on the best way to sharpen pencils? I've been trying to use a Faber-Castell sharpener, but it creates such a short pencil tip.
Hello! It’s my pleasure! I tend to use an electric sharpener or Dahl 133. When the pencil is tiny then I move to using a small silver KUM sharpener. These work great for me. Hope it does for you too 🤗💗
Hello! It’s my pleasure! I tend to use an electric sharpener or Dahl 133. When the pencil is tiny then I move to using a small silver KUM sharpener. These work great for me. Hope it does for you too 🤗💗
Hello! It’s my pleasure! I tend to use an electric sharpener or Dahl 133. When the pencil is tiny then I move to using a small silver KUM sharpener. These work great for me. Hope it does for you too 🤗💗
Hello! It’s my pleasure! I tend to use an electric sharpener or Dahl 133. When the pencil is tiny then I move to using a small silver KUM sharpener. These work great for me. Hope it does for you too 🤗💗
I find Caran d'Ache Museum Aquarelle better for portrait artists. 1. It provides more essential colors for variety of skin coloring despite of limited 76 colors in total. 2. Essential colors for portraits are significantly more Lightfast than the Albrecht Durer. 3. The way how the pigment works in wet is almost the same as the Albrecht Durer. For landscape enjoyers, I would say it's Albrecht Durer since the vast majority of Blues, Greens and Browns are at maximum lightfastness and provides plenty of color selection for the said subject of art .
I have learned so much today! Thank you, thank you! I have a question about the background (I will watch the longer video you mentioned soon)...Why do you color with the lighter colors and then cover them with the darker colors? TIA
I am so glad to read this, thank you! Glad you have found this video helpful. I like to layer up my pencils with different shades as I find that my colours don't look 'flat', I feel like it gives more interest. I hope that makes sense.....I don't have an art background so I just see what appeals to me haha 🤗💗
@Shel's Colouring Journey, sounds good to me, and I was thinking it might be to produce a richer effect as you said. I really like your coloring! I have a 72 set of Castle Arts watercolor pencils that I have never even tried, but I got them out and experimented with them on a couple of rita berman illustrations. Not bad and will probably be better as the colorist, i.e. me gets a little more practice. I am really excited to try out your "grass" ideas on a couple of pages I am working on now. Thanks for sharing so much with us.🥰
Is it possible to do a background for a portrait with these that was done colored pencils and not the portrait itself? Would it hurt the colored pencil portrait?? I guess it depends on the kind of paper I used. I used Strathmore Bristol for the portrait....
Hello! You're most welcome, hopefully you found them useful. I use a Tenwin electric sharpener until the pencils are too short to fit in it. Then I use the Dahle 133 and finally when the pencil is too short for that, a regular silver KUM handheld sharpener till I am unable to sharpen anymore. Hope this helps 🤗💗
Would this work with the Arteza watercolour twin tip pencils. I’m actually waiting for my Albet Drurer 120 set to arrive, as I’ve seen guy you use them on so many if not all your pages, I’ve also got FC Polys to go over the watercolour pencils for extra shadowing xx do the Arteza bleed through pages do I know? Cheers Ness xx
Hi Ness, I am so sorry, I have no idea how the Arteza watercolour pencils work as I have never tried them....hope you receive the ADs soon. Let me know how the two compare and if you have a preference 🤗💗
Looks really good I don’t have one water color pencil that I can use dry none of them look good they are not soft at all ! I have always wanted your pencils 😂
Yeh, I think that is why people are so surprised I use the Albrecht Dürers dry....watercolour pencils do have the tendency to need to be activated to work properly. You could always try the ADs as a few stock pencils to see what you think 🤗💗
Thank you so much for this video 😍 I'm learning so much from it ❤ Do you have experience with Johanna Basford books? I wanted to do the background with watercolor pencils and then blending the layers together with a little bit of water, but I am afraid I will ruin the picture on the other side of the page 🙈
You're welcome, I am so glad you are getting some ideas from it!! Unfortunately I don't have any experience with Johanna Basford books, as I don't own them. I thought her books have good paper though? Does she have a test page on the back of the book you a test on? I don't think it should go through the page....I tend to use water on my pencils in Amazon books and Colouring Heaven books too, which have very thin paper. Sorry I wasn't much help 🤗💗
Inktense are great. The colors are very vibrant. BUT there are only 72 colors. There are very few hours, browns, Grey's, etc. So I feel limited in what I can color with them. I am excited to buy these ones one day.
I like the largest set of pencils I can get 😂 Although, the Inktense are meant to be really good....very vibrant when activated, which is different to watercolour pencils. 🤗💗
You say you are just dipping your water brush in water, but I see there is water in the brush. I have trouble controlling the water flow when I use my water brushes. Are you only dipping the brush for this demonstration and not using the water in the brush? When would you actually use the water in the brush if you aren’t using it for any of these techniques? I’m asking because I’m hoping to improve my technique with the water brushes. Thanks!
Very good question! I should have emptied the brush before I did this video 😂 So basically this is a very old water brush I have had since 2015 and it is blocked, so water doesn't flow through it. I had use a scissors at the tip of the brush to use it, as I wanted a flat end. My other half tried using my water brush a few weeks ago and added water to it, which I never emptied. But basically any water I was using was only coming from when I dipped it in water! So sorry for the confusion 🤗💗 hope this makes sense!
I find that when I use distilled water in my water brush it doesn't get clogged at all even if I forget and leave the brush with water in it for years 😅maybe because it's essentially "dead" water unlike regular bottled/mineral/tap water, which has or can grow stuff in it over time that clogs the brush. Thank you so so much for sharing with us! I super love your work and am so glad I found your channel ! I used to watch Peta Hewitt's channel until she stopped posting. Now I look forward to your videos 😊❤@@shelscolouringjourney
I just bought this set of pencils for myself for my birthday in December. I have been floundering around with them for the past three days, and finally had come to the conclusion that I am the only person in the world who hates them. And then I remembered you. So I went diving into your playlists, and it took a bit of scrolling, but I found this video! Thank you! I had figured out almost all of the techniques on my own, but was only enjoying using it as paint either by dipping the end in water or by shaving off some of the pigment with a sandpaper block, and then tapping the pigment out onto a pallet, adding water and using it like paint. But that’s what I do with the Tim Holtz, watercolor pencils, so why do I need these expensive pencils? the trick for me was when you said to use these like you do polychromos. The lightbulb went off! Those are my very favorite pencils because you use them very lightly and with lots of layers. The color pay off is fantastic and it’s much easier on my arthritis. I was using these watercolor, pencils with way too heavy of a hand, and I was just fighting with them. . Once I lightened up my hand, the pencils worked great. I am not one who likes to see the white of the paper, nor do I really like the pencil look. I’m just trying to find a way to get that smooth painterly lookthat I can use on double-sided pages when I cannot use my alcohol markers. Now that I’ve watched this video, my coloring is getting much much better. It will take a while for me to find my style with these pencils but I think I am really going to like them now. Thank you so much.❤
You're most welcome.....I am so glad the video was useful and I hope you have continued enjoying these pencils!! 🤗💗
This is so full of information and so well demonstrated and explained! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much, so glad to hear this ☺️💗 thanks for watching 🤗
@@shelscolouringjourneyand if you ever lose you highlight area, just take a wet clean brush and you can take color away with your wet clean brush. Watercolor painting 101 😉 you can take the brush and dab it in your paper towel and repeat and that'll open up your highlighted area. Would you mind doing another one of these technique vids with you choosing larger subjects to work on so we can actually see the technique in action? That leave is just a bit too small ti see the application.
I learned more from this video than months of the others I’ve been watching. Thank you!
It's my pleasure. So glad it was helpful! 🤗💗
The Tombow clear blender is a go-to for me for activating watercolor pencils, especially on thin paper, but I never even considered using a colored pen so thanks for that tip.
You are so welcome and yes, the blender pen is awesome with the pencils! I actually prefer the Tombow blender pen to the Derwent one 🤗
I love how your backgrounds turn out with that technique. Thank you for sharing your methods with us.
My pleasure, glad you like the technique. Thanks for watching ☺️💗
SUPER great tutorial 🎉 thank you! I truly do love coloring with pencils but I get frustrated with how much time it takes and how hard it is to get a smooth nice look. I hope this technique will make it easier and then I can really enjoy myself 😊
Yes, pencils do take time to work with for sure....I don't mind, I do enjoy them. But to be honest, where I can speed things up I definitely try, and that's why I love using these pencils 🤗💗
I agree!
Being new to coloring, this information is exactly what I needed to know. Thank you for sharing your talent.
You're welcome, glad you found the video helpful 🤗💗
I just purchased a 36 set of Albrecht Durer's and am currently trying them out in a Mythographic book. So far, I am really impressed. Thank you for all the information here. So comprehensive and well demonstrated.
This is wonderful! I am so glad you are enjoying them. They work so well in the mythographic books 🤗💗
Thanks for the demonstration! I recently received the 120 set of Albrecht Durers for Christmas, so I am trying to learn how to use them. I found this very helpful.❤
That's wonderful! So glad you found this helpful and I hope you enjoy playing around with and learning your ADs 🤗💗
Wow thank you so much for doing this step by step how you color with your watercolor pencils wet and dry. I love the look of your pages. They are so beautiful. They are on my list for my boyfriend to buy me for my birthday now that I see how well they actually work !! He said no price tag I get to choose !!! Yay!
It's my pleasure and thank you so much!! That is awesome, I hope you get the Albrecht Dürers soon...they are lovely to play around with 🤗💗 Thanks for watching ☺️
Thank you so much for sharing all your secrets lol LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos. You did great with real time coloring. Hope to see more.
I am so glad you liked the video, thank you so much for your lovely comment! 🤗 and thanks for watching my videos ☺️💗
Hello Shelly. I have watched this video twice. Thank you so much. Faber-Castell Watercolour Penils are my favorite. Didn't know how to really use them. Thank you. Excellent video.
Your tips & tricks for the Albrecht Druher was so inciteful considering I have had a small set for over 35 years and never activated them until I bought the 120 set for the Xmas two years ago. I have activated them with a blender tombow and even with an alcohol blender in my 2 sides hardback books.
They are so versatile and when used as I did for 35 years as just normal pencils and they are beautiful just as pencils. I loved watching this video. If I could only have 1 set of pencils it would be the Albrecht Druher pencils (a close second would be my inktense) tho I wouldn't use the inktense just in a drawing pencil format as the ink once activated is blindingly beautiful but I have activated them in good quality two sided pages with no bleed through at all.
Thank you Shelly for taking the time to show how you work with Albrecht Druher as your main pencil brand. I watched avidly as I have never used my waterbrush pens as accents and basing your pictures as I have had my primrosa water brush pens (60) for over 2 years and never used them. I checked if they had dried out last night and to my delight & astonishment they are as juicy as the day I got them. So thank you so much for this video I was stuck to the screen as you showed all the different ways to use the best watercolours of all time (in a pencil format). I am inspired after losing my colouring mojo and for that I am so grateful.
Much love & *Virtual hugs* love from Australia xxx
Thank you so much for your lovely comment Claire. I am most happy to read that you have found some inspiration after watching this video and I truly hope you get your colouring mojo back!! I look forward to hearing how you find using some of these techniques such as using the waterbased makers - so glad your haven't dried out!! I am so glad there is someone out their who appreciates these pencils as much as I do 🤗 Thank you for taking the time to watch my video ☺️💗
You are so welcome Shelly. You inspire me and even tho not a newbie I always learn something that I hadn't thought to do before. I have watched this video twice as for the 1st time I am down with covid 😢
Faber Castell Gold Faber colored pencils are even better than Prismacolor! They are creamy soft, blend easily, and affordable. Complete set only has 48 - hope they extend that set some day.
Yes! I was blown away with how creamy they are…FC should do a large set!!
This video is very helpful and interesting. I'm learning so much from you. I'm new to Albrecht Durers, so I have a lot to learn. I would love to see a video about some of your favorite color combinations, your art is beautiful!
Thank you for sharing this! I find watercolor pencils to be a little frustrating but I really think I wasn't using them correctly. I'm definitely going to try these techniques and see if I can fill in love with them.
My pleasure! I do hope this helps you fall in love with your watercolour pencils! They are so versatile and work wonderfully for colouring books! Have fun experimenting 🤗💗
Excellent video! I adore my Albrecht Durer pencils and was so excited when I found your channel because of the way you use them.
Awesome, so glad you found me and I am even more glad to hear you like the ADs! They are stunning pencils. Glad you liked the video 🤗💗
Thank you Shelly for sharing all your techniques. I bought these pencils a long time ago and stashed them as I am not good with adding water to them. Saw your videos and folowed some of your tutorials and love using them dry. They are definitely softer than Polychromos and harder than Prismacolor. I absolutely love the intensity of your coloring!!!! Will try some of these techniques and hopefully improve adding water to them.
You are so welcome! I am so glad you liked using the pencils dry and I hope you are able to play around with using water with them. You need such little water with them and they are quite forgiving, in that you can go back in with more pencil (wet or dry!). Have fun playing with them!! Thank you for taking the time to watch 🤗💗
2:45 Albrecht Durer (120) - Faber Castell was also my first purchase instead of Polychromos pencils.
I bought the Polychromos pencils (120) later.
Thank you for sharing!
My pleasure, I am glad I am not the only one. I don't regret the purchase for sure 😂💗
Very helpful information!! I've been needing something like this for awhile. I just got my albrecht durer set finally so I may try some of your color alongs
Glad you found it helpful! Hope you have been enjoying playing with the ADs 🤗💗
The palette is also very nice for mixing colors. If you ever want to try watercolor paint you can do a similar technique by putting out a little spot of diluted paint and letting it dry (or carefully drying it with a hair dryer to speed things up).You can then pick it up with your damp brush just like you do with those spots of pencil. It gives you a ton more control and is super helpful when starting out.
Oh, thank you for the tip! I really need to figure out watercolour paints this year, so this is very helpful. Thanks for sharing ☺️💗
I use watercolor pencils to save my poor hands and wrists, which have major issues with arthritis, so I tend to one of three things.. either put down a mid tone, reserving white, activate while blending at the same time, then use the pencil to brush technique to deepen shadows and add accents of color.. or use them as a flat base in midtone and use my prisma over the top to just add highlight and shadow (prisma because they are soft and opaque so cover the base light or dark easily)... or put down all my color at once and activate to blend in one go. Which one often depends on the paper, the thinner the paper the less wet application I want to use on it. Every layer of water is another layer of damage. The pencils look great with those multiple layers of application, but at that point I'm right back to hours of work and pain during and after. I typically only use watercolor on double sided pages and much prefer alcohol markers when I can use them.
Yes I totally agree to everything you said....pencil only colouring can be very hard the wrist even if one does not have any problems with their hands, so I can totally understand it must really be painful for those who do. But your techniques for getting round these issues are great! I am yet to try alcohol markers - other than my mythographic collection, I don't have many single sided books, so haven't invested in alcohol markers yet. But I love seeing the work others do with them!! 🤗💗
Thank you for this video! I have learned so much! 💜
So glad this video helped, thanks for taking time to watch 🤗💗
Thanks so much...I have gotten the albrecht durers...now I have much more of an idea how to use them. Love your color combinations.
I am so glad to hear this, thank you for taking the time to watch! Have fun playing with the ADs 🤗💗
You have inspired me to get these pencils :) I brought my first set today. The 24 from my local art store, to test them out. Can't wait to play around with them, when my water brush pens arrive. Looking through your watercolor tutorials for tips, as I don't know how to use water colored pencils lol.
Ohh I hope you have been enjoying the pencils!! 🤗💗
Thank you for this brilliant tutorial. I'm looking forward to trying out some of these methods.
You're very welcome, hope you enjoy trying them out 🤗💗
Thank you cause Ive been wanting to try water color pencils and now I have an idea of how to effectively.
I am so happy to hear this and hope you get a set of watercolour pencils you enjoy playing around with ☺️💗
Thank you for sharing. I am going to try to use the Aquarelle and the Goldfaber sets that I have. I always love how your pages turn out.
Thank you so much, hope you enjoy trying out the techniques ☺️💗
@@shelscolouringjourney I am!
What an amazing teaching tutorial ❤thank you I loved ever technic can't wait to start watercolor pencils I have been a frustrated watercolorist now something different to try ❤ Heather thank goodness I found you🎉
So glad you enjoyed this video and hopefully it gave you some good ideas 🤗💗
Oh, what a wonderful video! Very inspirational and great techniques. I need to take some more time to watch it fully. Really, really nice!
Thank you so much, so glad you liked the video! Thanks for taking the time to watch ☺️💗
Thanks Shell for showing this I will watch this tonight , got about 80 now wont be long ill have my full set ! i get so worried using water in my books I need to get over the fear of ruining it and just enjoy it !
My pleasure Lisa, hope you try using the ADs more, they are so much fun. You need so little water to activate them, so don't stress about using the water with the pencils, but I totally know what you mean! 🤗💗
This is the 3rd video I've watched of yours and you explain things really well. Thankyou
Thank you so much! I am so glad you feel that - thanks for taking the time to watch 🤗💗
Thank you for this. I have a full set of albert durech watercolour pencils and have never got to grips with them. So I shall certainly be trying these techniques and the water colour pencils and blender pens. I would be having a go immediately but I have to go out.
Really hope you are able to play around with your ADs and get a better feel for them. Such lovely pencils to work with. Let me know how you get on with them 🤗💗
Thank you so much for this! I have some Caran d'Ache Supracolor Soft pencils (same pigments/colours as the NEOII), which I also use dry and wet. But now I'll be able to try some new techniques. Happy colouring!
Glad you got some new ideas to play with you, thanks for watching 🤗💗
That was such a good video, I've just brought a set of pencils because I love your finished pages. I've been a bit scared of having a go, now I've watched your video I'm feeling braver. Thanks for all the information. Xx
So glad to read this, I really do hope you enjoy playing with your new pencils!! I am sure you will love them 🤗💗
Hi Shelly! I have both the Polychromos and the Albrecht Dürer pencils. I have a lot to learn so i love this tutorial! I am not verry good with wathercolour and a brush so i need a lot of practise. I don’t want to ruin my books so practise takes forever 😂……for now i colour a baselayer with a tiny bit of pastelchalk pencils and wipe it out witn a paperstump. You can layer these guy’s beautiful and than deep the shades with pencil!! Verry easy for people with jointpain. But thank you verry much Shelly, you keep me going!!
Hi Linda, I am so glad you like this video. Your method for basing is great! I don't have soft pastel pencils, but I do sometimes use soft pastels for basing and they work great. Thanks for taking time to watch my video ☺️💗
what brand do you use?
@@arose4u2 Hi Alex, i have 3 brands. Caran D’ache, Stabilo Carbothello and Derwent. You have to color verry light and then work it out. It’s beautiful and you don’t need so much layers to work out the white of the paper. For me it is also much faster! Enjoy! 😉
@@lindaverkade438 Hi Linda, with the Derwent Pastel Pencils in particular, you can actually use a damp brush to blend them out. This way the pastels will be fixed on the paper as well.💡😉
@@1SilentWatcher That’s great!, now i use fixative it works verry wel for me, but it is not healthy. Thank you for the tip i wil try!!
the video i was waiting for
Thanks, hope you enjoyed it ☺️💗
Thank you for this tutorial, I learned a lot from your many techniques. I can't wait to practice them!!
So happy to hear this, hope you enjoying playing with your pencils! Thanks for watching ☺️💗
Brilliant video. Thanks for sharing your techniques. I have plans to try them out immediately 😃
That's wonderful!! I hope you enjoy playing with the pencils. Thanks for taking the time to watch ☺️💗
Thank you for a very informative video. You explained the different techniques you use very clearly, and I learned so much. Might be time to get my AD pencils out of the the drawer and actually use them !!
Glad it was helpful! I do hope you enjoy playing with your ADs again 🤗💗
Hi shel really enjoyed this video .. this has really helped me loads on what to do with all the different ways of blending and different techniques.. thank you so much for this I’m going to keep this in my library to refer to.. so glad I found your Chanel tysmfs 🥰
Hi Emma, so glad you enjoyed this video. I was happy to share it as I love these pencils. So happy you found my channel too!! Thanks for watching my videos 🤗💗
This is an outstanding tutorial, thank you!
You're welcome, I am so glad you liked the video 🤗💗
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Amazing tricks!
Glad you liked the video, thank you for watching ☺️💗
Hi Shelly thank you for sharing your techniques. Would love to see you complete a page from beginning to end in real time. This is so helpful.
Hi Cindy, thanks for taking the time watch. I would love to try that....maybe I will have to pick a very simple page! I am sure it will be a very very long video 😂💗
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Thank you for this very interesting video . The results are beautiful. I will try it soon.
You are welcome 😊 Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy playing around with your pencils ☺️💗
I love your video and hope you make more of them so that we can learn more about watercoloring and improve our skills. Top. I have pencils but they are not watercolor they are just dry and I am considering buying a set like yours because it gives more options. I will still be able to use the set i have as a supplement to the. Albrecht Durer set of watercoloring ones. Thks so much for the website and very useful tips and techniques you present.
I am so happy you liked my video and were able to get some good tips from it. Hope I can continue to share my colouring journey with you. Thank you for watching 🤗💗
It looks good ❤😂
Thank you 🤗💗
Beautiful pages as always Lucy ❤
Oh my gosh, this is Amazeballs! Thank you so much❣
Glad you found the video, I was going to direct you to it. Hope it helps 🤗💗
Thank you so much for sharing this video Shelly its very helpful this will really be a game changer I have these pencils and I love them I will definitely be trying these techniques in my next coloring. I love watching your videos I always see something that I wanna try you have definitely help me on my coloring journey. Take care have a great day
I am so glad to ready your comment Vanessa, thank you so much. I am so happy to hear that you have picked some new ideas from my colourings. Thanks for always taking the time to watch my videos!! Have a lovely Sunday 🤗💗
A great tutorial, thank you. I learnt so much, especially backgrounds. I have not tackled one as I had no idea where to start. So pleased I found this video. Keep up the good work. 😊😊
It was my pleasure, I am so glad it was useful! Thanks for watching 🤗💗
Thanks so much.
Very informative.
My pleasure 🤗 Glad you liked it, thanks for watching ☺️💗
Super tutorial, some great tips, totally hadn't thought of using coloured Tombows with them. AD's are beautiful pencils, they dissolve so well compared to most other watercolour brands, I've started adding in a few CD Museum Aquarell's with mine to give a wider range of colours, which seems to be working well. Sadly I do find the AD's quite tough of my hand, I'm sore for days after using them, you must have super strong hands!😉😁Great Video, Thank you, x💗
Thank you for watching!
I didn't realise they are so hard on the hands, especially if they are used wet and then dry. However, of course I don't own/use anything softer to compare them to, so I have probably just got immune to it 😂😂
Absolutely amazing video you have shown me how to use my pencils. I did have a go like you was a bit scared to make a mistake but you learn by your mistakes. Thank you xx 😊
Glad it was helpful and that you had a go playing with the pencils! Keep playing with them and you will get more used to using them....lovely pencils! 🤗💗
@@shelscolouringjourney thankyou for replying to me going to watch the video again thank you 🙏
Very informative video. Thank you!
My pleasure. Glad it was helpful! ☺️💗
I wish I had known this. Incredible. Thank you so much for this video. You are awesome. ❤️🤗
You're most welcome 🤗💗
Great video, Shelly, thank you very much!
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for taking the time to watch ☺️💗
What a useful video, thank you 💗💜💗
It was my pleasure! Glad it was helpful! 🤗💗
Thank you for the amazing tips. Can I ask where you found the metal pencil holder for very small pencils? Wonderful way to help those of us with arthritis in our hands.
You're welcome! Yes I got mine from Amazon UK....it is the Derwent brand and the silver one works well with ADs because of the size they don't fit in all pencil extenders. Hope this helps 🤗💗
Hi shelly thank you this is amazing I’m definitely going to be tryouts this technique.. I love these pencils one of my favourite pencils to use in my books.. ❤xx
Hi Kylie, glad you will tryout some of the techniques. They are definitely beautiful pencils ☺️💗
Very interesting, thank you!❤
Thank you ☺️💗
Thank you for this video. I love watercolour pencils and bought these recently but I'm not sure how to use them. This video was really helpful 🙂
You are so welcome, so glad it was helpful! Hope you enjoy playing with your ADs. Thanks for watching ☺️💗
Thanks for this amazing tutorial 🥰 I have polychromos and Goldfaber aqua but the AD are on my wishlist. Think I will have to wait untill my birthday in July though 😅
Btw I showed my husband the palet tip to scribble on and pick up pigment (he has a 3D printer so maybe he could make me one) but he said it would be much easier to use a cheap cutting board (Kitchentool). They come with the same rough surface. Thought it was genius (dont tell him 😂) and wanted to share this hack 😄
My pleasure!!
Yes, absolutely those would work too! I tend to use the smooth side of my palette a lot for my waterbed markers as well (again you could just some simple plastic packaging for that too to be honest!). Great hack though, thanks for sharing 🤗💗
I wanted to make sure you knew about the 30 magnus set of these. You inspired me to get out the 12 set of magnus I have and start using them dry. I am not quite brave enough to try them wet, but I think you have inspired me to attempt them wet. The last time I used water was on a blue neocolor 2 background that I felt was a big fail.
Thank you Veronica. Yes, I am aware of the Magnus pencils, but I thought they were the same colours as the ADs, so don't think I will be getting them. So glad you have found some inspiration to try your wet mediums again! Hope you enjoy playing with them 🤗💗
Thank you so much for your time.
My pleasure, thank you for watching 🤗💗
Nice video, thanks! I noticed that your pallet was a little stained. They come right out if you use the Mr Clean Magic Eraser!!
Thank you so much for the suggestion...I will have to get my hands on some and try it out! Thank you for sharing the tip 🤗💗
Hello! Thanks for the video! Could you advise me on the best way to sharpen pencils? I've been trying to use a Faber-Castell sharpener, but it creates such a short pencil tip.
Hello! It’s my pleasure!
I tend to use an electric sharpener or Dahl 133. When the pencil is tiny then I move to using a small silver KUM sharpener. These work great for me. Hope it does for you too 🤗💗
Hello! It’s my pleasure!
I tend to use an electric sharpener or Dahl 133. When the pencil is tiny then I move to using a small silver KUM sharpener. These work great for me. Hope it does for you too 🤗💗
Hello! It’s my pleasure!
I tend to use an electric sharpener or Dahl 133. When the pencil is tiny then I move to using a small silver KUM sharpener. These work great for me. Hope it does for you too 🤗💗
Hello! It’s my pleasure!
I tend to use an electric sharpener or Dahl 133. When the pencil is tiny then I move to using a small silver KUM sharpener. These work great for me. Hope it does for you too 🤗💗
I find Caran d'Ache Museum Aquarelle better for portrait artists.
1. It provides more essential colors for variety of skin coloring despite of limited 76 colors in total.
2. Essential colors for portraits are significantly more Lightfast than the Albrecht Durer.
3. The way how the pigment works in wet is almost the same as the Albrecht Durer.
For landscape enjoyers, I would say it's Albrecht Durer since the vast majority of Blues, Greens and Browns are at maximum lightfastness and provides plenty of color selection for the said subject of art .
Thank you so much for sharing 🤗💗
Thanks for all of the helpful tips and techniques. I love Albrecht Durer pencils! What was the name of the book you showed with the cattails?
My pleasure! They are definitely beautiful pencils. The book is Rita Berman's Mein Frühlings Spaziergang (her spring book). 🤗💗
Thank you very much for doing this.
My pleasure, thanks for watching ☺️💗
I have learned so much today! Thank you, thank you! I have a question about the background (I will watch the longer video you mentioned soon)...Why do you color with the lighter colors and then cover them with the darker colors? TIA
I am so glad to read this, thank you! Glad you have found this video helpful. I like to layer up my pencils with different shades as I find that my colours don't look 'flat', I feel like it gives more interest. I hope that makes sense.....I don't have an art background so I just see what appeals to me haha 🤗💗
@Shel's Colouring Journey, sounds good to me, and I was thinking it might be to produce a richer effect as you said. I really like your coloring! I have a 72 set of Castle Arts watercolor pencils that I have never even tried, but I got them out and experimented with them on a couple of rita berman illustrations. Not bad and will probably be better as the colorist, i.e. me gets a little more practice. I am really excited to try out your "grass" ideas on a couple of pages I am working on now. Thanks for sharing so much with us.🥰
@@carolestevenson1051 So glad it has been helpful for you...thanks for taking the time to watch 🤗💗
Update, found a 120 set of the Albrecht Durers, new, in wooden box for $175. It's not a scam. They are in transit now...😍😍
@@carolestevenson1051 Oh wow! That’s amazing!! I am so excited for your, hope you enjoy them as much as I do 🤗💗
Is it possible to do a background for a portrait with these that was done colored pencils and not the portrait itself? Would it hurt the colored pencil portrait?? I guess it depends on the kind of paper I used. I used Strathmore Bristol for the portrait....
Yes, I think it would perfectly fine for the background even if you are using other pencils for colouring portrait!! 🤗💗
Hi, i also have albrech durers, thank u for the tips! What sharpener do you use with them? I use a kum 4 in 1, but the point gets small
Hello! You're most welcome, hopefully you found them useful.
I use a Tenwin electric sharpener until the pencils are too short to fit in it. Then I use the Dahle 133 and finally when the pencil is too short for that, a regular silver KUM handheld sharpener till I am unable to sharpen anymore. Hope this helps 🤗💗
@@shelscolouringjourney thank you! It definetely helps! 🌷
Would this work with the Arteza watercolour twin tip pencils. I’m actually waiting for my Albet Drurer 120 set to arrive, as I’ve seen guy you use them on so many if not all your pages, I’ve also got FC Polys to go over the watercolour pencils for extra shadowing xx do the Arteza bleed through pages do I know? Cheers Ness xx
Hi Ness, I am so sorry, I have no idea how the Arteza watercolour pencils work as I have never tried them....hope you receive the ADs soon. Let me know how the two compare and if you have a preference 🤗💗
Thanks!
My pleasure 🤗💗
Looks really good I don’t have one water color pencil that I can use dry none of them look good they are not soft at all ! I have always wanted your pencils 😂
Yeh, I think that is why people are so surprised I use the Albrecht Dürers dry....watercolour pencils do have the tendency to need to be activated to work properly. You could always try the ADs as a few stock pencils to see what you think 🤗💗
Thank you so much for this video 😍 I'm learning so much from it ❤
Do you have experience with Johanna Basford books? I wanted to do the background with watercolor pencils and then blending the layers together with a little bit of water, but I am afraid I will ruin the picture on the other side of the page 🙈
You're welcome, I am so glad you are getting some ideas from it!!
Unfortunately I don't have any experience with Johanna Basford books, as I don't own them. I thought her books have good paper though? Does she have a test page on the back of the book you a test on? I don't think it should go through the page....I tend to use water on my pencils in Amazon books and Colouring Heaven books too, which have very thin paper. Sorry I wasn't much help 🤗💗
@@shelscolouringjourney thank you for your reply 😊 I will just try the testpage 😊 and a page where I dont like the picture behind it 😁
Inktense are great. The colors are very vibrant. BUT there are only 72 colors. There are very few hours, browns, Grey's, etc. So I feel limited in what I can color with them. I am excited to buy these ones one day.
I like the largest set of pencils I can get 😂
Although, the Inktense are meant to be really good....very vibrant when activated, which is different to watercolour pencils. 🤗💗
Kje ste dobili to lepo ppbarvanko?
The book is available on Amazon 🤗
Wonderful tutorial Shelly FC pencils really are very vibrant and versatile, thanks for showing your different techniques 😍xx
So glad you liked the video, thanks for watching ☺️💗
Maybe a stupid question, but if you’re covering the aqua up with the indigo, why not just put down indigo?
Layering up really gives a different effect I find 🤷🏻♀️ maybe it’s extra work for nothing, but I feel layering makes the colours pop more 🤗💗
@@shelscolouringjourney to be fair, sometimes these things are hard to reflect on camera. I’m a beginner and have lots to learn☺️
You say you are just dipping your water brush in water, but I see there is water in the brush. I have trouble controlling the water flow when I use my water brushes. Are you only dipping the brush for this demonstration and not using the water in the brush? When would you actually use the water in the brush if you aren’t using it for any of these techniques? I’m asking because I’m hoping to improve my technique with the water brushes. Thanks!
Very good question! I should have emptied the brush before I did this video 😂 So basically this is a very old water brush I have had since 2015 and it is blocked, so water doesn't flow through it. I had use a scissors at the tip of the brush to use it, as I wanted a flat end. My other half tried using my water brush a few weeks ago and added water to it, which I never emptied. But basically any water I was using was only coming from when I dipped it in water! So sorry for the confusion 🤗💗 hope this makes sense!
I find that when I use distilled water in my water brush it doesn't get clogged at all even if I forget and leave the brush with water in it for years 😅maybe because it's essentially "dead" water unlike regular bottled/mineral/tap water, which has or can grow stuff in it over time that clogs the brush. Thank you so so much for sharing with us! I super love your work and am so glad I found your channel ! I used to watch Peta Hewitt's channel until she stopped posting. Now I look forward to your videos 😊❤@@shelscolouringjourney
I wish i can know how to color
You can do it! The main thing is to enjoy the colouring process 🤗💗
Bi bilo možno dodati podnapise tudi v slovenščini 🙏
I want a set badly. But I need a set of polychromos more. Life sucks 😂😂
Sometimes I dab the water brush right on the pencil lead to get an intense colour concentration.
Yes, that works really well to give very vibrant results 🤗💗