It’s so true. Learning to work with the gray scales, shadows, shading, lighting, etc helps you to learn how to use color. I worked with gray scale for years before I used color.
I actually hated working with colors for the longest time. Just recently I have decided to force myself to get over it and start working with color. Your videos and other people's videos have really been a blessing . I'm glad to have found you.
I am so thankful for this realistic eye opener. I am a beginner and start school to obtain my BA in Art and I was already overwhelmed. I know I have a passion but no real teaching but since enrolling in your course, I know feel more confident in pursuing my goal with art! Greatly appreciated!
This is totally how I felt... bought a beautiful set of colored pencils and they sat there for almost a year before I even opened them. Very overwhelming.
@@blackbat908 so learning the basics like proportions, and values, before you do color is "lazy"? Why am I even bothering? You just said that for attention.
I dont know all this text book technique and vocabulary ..U say beginner alot like u ain't one yourself what are u 30 I been drawing painting for 50 years and no teacher or textbook taught me but u too are definitely still a beginner ...
I signed up for your drawing class and after the first and second lesson I was amazed by what I drew in black and white on toned paper. I had never done any of that before, I always just played/doodled with color. I have used what I learned and applied it to my use of color and it has made a huge difference. I am now ready to go back and start lesson 3. Love how simple you make learning skills I never thought I could do.
I personally think it's better to start grayscale drawing like with charcoal and pencils. You can learn a lot of value, shading, and blending before bringing in all the billions of colors to get you confused.
I was too scared to use color as im not the best. But i just did an artwork with color and ut turned out really well! I do love greyscale though!! Its easier especially as a beginner
This is a great advice. Finally someone is stressing it! My dad thought me this in the beginning of my art journey 20 years ago. And I still sometimes go grayscale, when I want to relax a bit and not worry about colour. I always do this, when I feel overwhelmed or experience an art block.
I've been working with digital art and photography for years and thought to get back into physical art to improve my other skills and completely forgot how difficult (and slow) a process it can be. I've learned so much from you and I'm just getting started. My physical art is well.. much less than satisfactory; but I'm confident to move forward. Thank you!
I am watching you from 1 year and you never disappoint me I really mastered drawing in 1 year with colour pencils with your help now I am most popular artist among my friends schools and relatives thank you Kirsty! 💜💜
No offence,I just checked your videos and you definitely have NOT mastered drawing with coloured pencils lol Keep practicing for sure. Even your proportions are very off. Best of luck.
@@blackbat908Did it make you happy to put someone else down? Just curious if your negativity paid of in the end, as it seems to be the only thing you have to say.
I remember when I was very young, my uncle gave me some very cheap brown paper, just stacks and stacks of it. I only had a pencil and eraser but I was able to use the brown tone as a mid tone and when I used the eraser quite hard I could create a highlight! When I showed my Gran some of my drawings she gave me a watercolor tablet and a 10 color set of watercolor paints! So at 10 I fell in love with the watercolor painting medium and have painted ever since. I have still enjoyed drawing and watching the videos on RUclips are a complete joy! Your instruction is so inspirational and quite wonderful, I enjoy watching your videos immensely, thank you for sharing your art. Please take care and be safe out there!
Currently I was going through the same thing, I was trying to improve my greyscale skills but on the flip side I was worried about my color skills!!!! And it was really affecting my concentration. So, thanks Kirsty for guiding me. Santa will give you a special gift this Christmas 🎄🎁
I WAS ABOUT TO START MY DRAWING ASSIGNMENT SO I GRABBED MY PHONE BUT THEN SAW KRISTY HAS UPLOADED A VIDEO....... WHAT CAN BE BETTER.. DOING ART WHILE LISTENING TO THE BEST ART TEACHER
This will never get old : Hello everyone this is Kirsty and my aim is to help you improve your drawing skills I feel that how much love you speak in this sentence 💜💜
I'm 33 years old and I've been drawing my whole life but really only drawing and inking. I'm now diving into color and omg I feel SO strange feeling like a beginner artist (which I am with color!) and I feel so overwhelmed by color. Every single color choice and why and how to use it etc etc. So glad I found your videos!
Well explained. Hard to do but so worth following that advise. As I think a person can learn faster if they start out in grey scale then colour. I didnt’t have that great info when I started but see the value in it.
Thank you kirsty. I was very much disappointed with my first colour pencil drawing. I need to work on my values and I had been trying to improve my values while drawing in colour. I will start focusing on my values with Grayscale from now on.
Love this lesson... I am a beginner artist I may go back to using Grey scale after this... Usually when I do Grey scale I have like five different values black, dark grey, grey, medium grey and light grey and white I don't have nowhere near the shades represented on your art
Starting simple benefits a lot. I started with the same pen I was taking notes for school. Just wireframes, figure out the basics. After a while, I introduced the pencil to bring more life to the sketches. Then I started *_gradually_* introducing color: Add small hints of blue red and green to make small areas of the drawing pop using pens of the respective color. Pens are more predictable than pencils so they are a good place to start. Only after that I introduced colored pencils to my drawings. This type of progression has worked for me, I never felt confused or overwhelmed by colors
Because of you I started my youtube channel. It's quite small. I need to grow both as an artist and youtuber. But really, I have to say I have found this confidence from you and you only. Thanks Kirsty ❤️😘
I'm so thankful I have just found this channel. Your artwork is incredible and you explain things so well that I can understand what you mean. Thank you Kirsty 😁
I already switched to a small Set of Colored Pencil because like you said it was just too much choices for me. I still have the big box but I decided to save it for later when I feel a bit more confident. I still try to find “my right thing” but I was able to narrow it down to Pencil, colored pencil and Ballpoint pen. Pure or combinations. A little bit of Marker sometimes for a foundation. I did some try some own little sketches past month but my main thing is coloring books so far. Think I gonna step back a little further and try a coloring page in pencil. I have a Tattoo Coloring book where it could look really dope to give that grayscale a go I think
yes it all makes sense whenever I try to draw something with colours it just takes me an hour or so to decide what colours To use and what not and also why and after spending hours I come to an end where I am even confused and waste all the time I had to draw and in all this process I never even thought about proportions, shading , sketch, foundation all of the most important stuff I think all you said was so practical thnx for this 🤗
I'm learning art from when I was 6...I'm 12 years old now and I have learnt a lot from your channel and I have learnt a lot more tricks which were not taught in my art school😃.
Bro this helped me so much I know how to use high lights correctly and I can blend well it really helps drawing in grayscale because it helps you understand drawing highlights and even proportions way more.
I am 14yrs old and have been doing pencil sketching since I was 8 or 9. I feel it is easier after learning the pencil shading technique. I started it a week back and have progressed a lot
I spent the first 20+years only doing graphite because I was afraid of color. Then I jumped right in the deep end and went for it. I find looking back at my old work really shows my progress. Now I can practically blend my colors effortlessly
Exactly what I needed to hear. I'm struggling with color drawing I'm going back to black pencil drawing and mastering it first And I'm using "Derwent " color pencils
Hi KP A really valuable video! Had I just gotten this understanding and watched that video many years ago, then I would have started in the right place. I am a person who LOVES colors and that is my motivation for drawing / painting, but one of the most important disciplines in the picture world is precisely "tone value" which I have overlooked for years and have not really understood, but have learned through the time. I still have a lot to learn in terms of values and this video reminds me that it's central to making a picture look realistic!
The more I look into things the more I realize I need to go back to fundamentals. As a self taught artist I am trying to improve and this video helped give me direction. Thank you
It's quite interesting. As a child in our Arts classes I was among the only ones comfortable with graphite drawing and long, most of my drawings/pieces were only black and white ones (Indian ink or graphite). The teachers had to force me to use color 😂 I'm terrible with paint and brushes in general... I'm currently trying my hand with markers (water-based ones, as the alcohol ones are still a mystery to me). I've been doodling and coloring in the past weeks, and decided to go back to drawing. Of course I invested in color pencils, but this video makes me indeed think I should go back to my black and white, or limited colored drawings first. Thanks 😊
This video makes a great point. I drew exclusively in graphite for 15 years (off and on) before I started doing colored pencil. Now for nearly 2 years, I've only drawn in colored pencil, and love it. If I didn't have those 15 years of experience in just graphite, there's so much I never would have grasped. Not saying everyone should do exclusively black and white for 15 years like I did, that was just my preference and I didn't take my art seriously. But doing just one or two colors for a while is important. It helps you understand the fundamentals before you get into more complexities like color.
I am comfortable drawing with pencils but I am not confident using colours. 😬 I just downloaded your colour guide. Thank you so much! I couldn't find detailed guides that are free.
In my art class, a lot of people try and just do gray scale, and our teacher doesn't like it. She actually prefers and/or makes it a requirement for us to color all of our art
Even if you're focusing on values, don't neglect colors. Buy a cheap watercolor set. I'd recommend a Winsor & Newton Cotman set and practice/play with colors and color mixing. When you move to color in your work, it will be a piece of cake. Understand color theory by understanding split primaries (warm/cool versions of primaries) and the interaction of color mixing. With a little practice, you'll see a color and say that's a cool blue mixed with green or that's a burn sienna mixed with lemon yellow.
Will you please compare the Black Widow colored pencils to the Prismacolor!? Love your channel, you are a true teacher. I feel like my art has improved so much since watching you. 😊
So do I have to practise greyscale for months or a year before I use colour or what level of experience do I need to acquire before jumping into colour ?
the teachers did this with my art classes as a kid, we were marked down for using colour until we understood how to create light and dark tones with graphite or charcoal
Love your videos and tips are always great, very helpful. I finally found the strathmore´s paper on the store I use to buy art supplies. Thanks a lot! Cheers!
Hey Kristy , I just found your channel and booked all the classes that were free . But the most useful to me were there . I don't think the solvent for blending coloured pencils is available here . Is there something that can help to get those results without using solvent or burnishing? Even a tip will work. Thanks..... Please help
I can't download the file, is there something wrong with it...? It says something about it not being a legitimate file to download... I really needed that guide....
It’s so true. Learning to work with the gray scales, shadows, shading, lighting, etc helps you to learn how to use color. I worked with gray scale for years before I used color.
I actually hated working with colors for the longest time. Just recently I have decided to force myself to get over it and start working with color.
Your videos and other people's videos have really been a blessing .
I'm glad to have found you.
I am so thankful for this realistic eye opener. I am a beginner and start school to obtain my BA in Art and I was already overwhelmed. I know I have a passion but no real teaching but since enrolling in your course, I know feel more confident in pursuing my goal with art! Greatly appreciated!
This is totally how I felt... bought a beautiful set of colored pencils and they sat there for almost a year before I even opened them. Very overwhelming.
It’s called being lazy.
@@blackbat908 nice... and you're called being an ass 👍
@@blackbat908And you are called rude.
@@blackbat908 so learning the basics like proportions, and values, before you do color is "lazy"? Why am I even bothering? You just said that for attention.
I dont know all this text book technique and vocabulary ..U say beginner alot like u ain't one yourself what are u 30 I been drawing painting for 50 years and no teacher or textbook taught me but u too are definitely still a beginner ...
I signed up for your drawing class and after the first and second lesson I was amazed by what I drew in black and white on toned paper. I had never done any of that before, I always just played/doodled with color. I have used what I learned and applied it to my use of color and it has made a huge difference. I am now ready to go back and start lesson 3. Love how simple you make learning skills I never thought I could do.
I personally think it's better to start grayscale drawing like with charcoal and pencils. You can learn a lot of value, shading, and blending before bringing in all the billions of colors to get you confused.
Yeah ! I think this is really a good advice ..
True
@@PaintingwithAvipsaYeah, as a toddler, colors are the starting of every drawing 😂😁
ruclips.net/video/sSh8kV-ZJ1w/видео.html ❤️
I was too scared to use color as im not the best. But i just did an artwork with color and ut turned out really well! I do love greyscale though!! Its easier especially as a beginner
This is a great advice. Finally someone is stressing it! My dad thought me this in the beginning of my art journey 20 years ago. And I still sometimes go grayscale, when I want to relax a bit and not worry about colour. I always do this, when I feel overwhelmed or experience an art block.
I've been painting for many years by now...and I can tell you that "color" is a never ending learning process! Love from Chile!
Thank you for the video. This makes me want to go back to my graphite to improve my skills.
I've been working with digital art and photography for years and thought to get back into physical art to improve my other skills and completely forgot how difficult (and slow) a process it can be. I've learned so much from you and I'm just getting started. My physical art is well.. much less than satisfactory; but I'm confident to move forward. Thank you!
I am watching you from 1 year and you never disappoint me I really mastered drawing in 1 year with colour pencils with your help now I am most popular artist among my friends schools and relatives thank you Kirsty! 💜💜
No offence,I just checked your videos and you definitely have NOT mastered drawing with coloured pencils lol Keep practicing for sure. Even your proportions are very off. Best of luck.
@@blackbat908Did it make you happy to put someone else down? Just curious if your negativity paid of in the end, as it seems to be the only thing you have to say.
@@blackbat908 let’s see your art little boy
Wow realistic eye drawing 😨😨😯 I am form india love your art
Her art is lovely
I remember when I was very young, my uncle gave me some very cheap brown paper, just stacks and stacks of it. I only had a pencil and eraser but I was able to use the brown tone as a mid tone and when I used the eraser quite hard I could create a highlight! When I showed my Gran some of my drawings she gave me a watercolor tablet and a 10 color set of watercolor paints! So at 10 I fell in love with the watercolor painting medium and have painted ever since. I have still enjoyed drawing and watching the videos on RUclips are a complete joy! Your instruction is so inspirational and quite wonderful, I enjoy watching your videos immensely, thank you for sharing your art. Please take care and be safe out there!
Currently I was going through the same thing, I was trying to improve my greyscale skills but on the flip side I was worried about my color skills!!!!
And it was really affecting my concentration.
So, thanks Kirsty for guiding me.
Santa will give you a special gift this Christmas 🎄🎁
I WAS ABOUT TO START MY DRAWING ASSIGNMENT SO I GRABBED MY PHONE BUT THEN SAW KRISTY HAS UPLOADED A VIDEO....... WHAT CAN BE BETTER.. DOING ART WHILE LISTENING TO THE BEST ART TEACHER
Kirsty, I LOVE your videos, THANK YOU!
Hey Kirsty!!
Your artwork is absolutely amazing, because of all the intricate details you put in it.
Best wishes to you👍🏻
Happy Tuesday 😊
This will never get old : Hello everyone this is Kirsty and my aim is to help you improve your drawing skills
I feel that how much love you speak in this sentence 💜💜
I'm 33 years old and I've been drawing my whole life but really only drawing and inking. I'm now diving into color and omg I feel SO strange feeling like a beginner artist (which I am with color!) and I feel so overwhelmed by color. Every single color choice and why and how to use it etc etc. So glad I found your videos!
Well explained. Hard to do but so worth following that advise. As I think a person can learn faster if they start out in grey scale then colour. I didnt’t have that great info when I started but see the value in it.
You're so inspiring! I never liked realism until I started watching your videos over a year ago^^
Thank you kirsty. I was very much disappointed with my first colour pencil drawing. I need to work on my values and I had been trying to improve my values while drawing in colour. I will start focusing on my values with Grayscale from now on.
Love this lesson... I am a beginner artist I may go back to using Grey scale after this... Usually when I do Grey scale I have like five different values black, dark grey, grey, medium grey and light grey and white I don't have nowhere near the shades represented on your art
Starting simple benefits a lot. I started with the same pen I was taking notes for school. Just wireframes, figure out the basics. After a while, I introduced the pencil to bring more life to the sketches. Then I started *_gradually_* introducing color: Add small hints of blue red and green to make small areas of the drawing pop using pens of the respective color. Pens are more predictable than pencils so they are a good place to start. Only after that I introduced colored pencils to my drawings. This type of progression has worked for me, I never felt confused or overwhelmed by colors
Because of you I started my youtube channel. It's quite small. I need to grow both as an artist and youtuber. But really, I have to say I have found this confidence from you and you only. Thanks Kirsty ❤️😘
Absolutely true. I realize now it was a good idea I practiced with black and white first. Now I’m ready to use colors!!
That was an excellent job of making your point. I subscribed. I'm glad I found this before I picked up colored pencils.
I'm so thankful I have just found this channel. Your artwork is incredible and you explain things so well that I can understand what you mean. Thank you Kirsty 😁
I already switched to a small Set of Colored Pencil because like you said it was just too much choices for me. I still have the big box but I decided to save it for later when I feel a bit more confident. I still try to find “my right thing” but I was able to narrow it down to Pencil, colored pencil and Ballpoint pen. Pure or combinations. A little bit of Marker sometimes for a foundation. I did some try some own little sketches past month but my main thing is coloring books so far.
Think I gonna step back a little further and try a coloring page in pencil. I have a Tattoo Coloring book where it could look really dope to give that grayscale a go I think
yes it all makes sense whenever I try to draw something with colours it just takes me an hour or so to decide what colours
To use and what not and also why and after spending hours I come to an end where I am even confused and waste all the time I had to draw and in all this process I never even thought about proportions, shading , sketch, foundation all of the most important stuff I think all you said was so practical thnx for this
🤗
I'm learning art from when I was 6...I'm 12 years old now and I have learnt a lot from your channel and I have learnt a lot more tricks which were not taught in my art school😃.
Can you make a video how to improve freehand outline ❤️
Bro this helped me so much I know how to use high lights correctly and I can blend well it really helps drawing in grayscale because it helps you understand drawing highlights and even proportions way more.
I am 14yrs old and have been doing pencil sketching since I was 8 or 9. I feel it is easier after learning the pencil shading technique. I started it a week back and have progressed a lot
I learned so many things from you and want to improve so much thank you
I spent the first 20+years only doing graphite because I was afraid of color. Then I jumped right in the deep end and went for it. I find looking back at my old work really shows my progress. Now I can practically blend my colors effortlessly
I love you Kirsty. Your tips helped me so much
Exactly what I needed to hear. I'm struggling with color drawing
I'm going back to black pencil drawing and mastering it first
And I'm using "Derwent " color pencils
Such a good tip for beginner❤️😍😊. Values are so important at the beginning
I am going to try out what you said, thank you for your informative video.
Hi! I’m a beginner and I was wondering how to start whether by using charcoal or colour pencils.. but now you make it clear .. thanks 🙏🏻 💙
Excellent advice Kirsty.
I’d love to see a new watercolor or mixed media tutorial🌸
thank you so much. ive been searching for this.
One of the best teacher and best artist!
Hi KP
A really valuable video!
Had I just gotten this understanding and watched that video many years ago, then I would have started in the right place.
I am a person who LOVES colors and that is my motivation for drawing / painting, but one of the most important disciplines in the picture world is precisely "tone value" which I have overlooked for years and have not really understood, but have learned through the time.
I still have a lot to learn in terms of values and this video reminds me that it's central to making a picture look realistic!
The more I look into things the more I realize I need to go back to fundamentals. As a self taught artist I am trying to improve and this video helped give me direction. Thank you
Your videos are very interesting, I refer the videos to my art students.They are very interested.
hi kirsty i love all ur art work u dont know how much u have inspired me
Hello!
I would like to draw like you do, but I dont know where to start :( can you give me some tips?
And you artwork is amazing!🤩🥰
It's quite interesting. As a child in our Arts classes I was among the only ones comfortable with graphite drawing and long, most of my drawings/pieces were only black and white ones (Indian ink or graphite). The teachers had to force me to use color 😂 I'm terrible with paint and brushes in general... I'm currently trying my hand with markers (water-based ones, as the alcohol ones are still a mystery to me). I've been doodling and coloring in the past weeks, and decided to go back to drawing. Of course I invested in color pencils, but this video makes me indeed think I should go back to my black and white, or limited colored drawings first. Thanks 😊
This video makes a great point. I drew exclusively in graphite for 15 years (off and on) before I started doing colored pencil. Now for nearly 2 years, I've only drawn in colored pencil, and love it.
If I didn't have those 15 years of experience in just graphite, there's so much I never would have grasped.
Not saying everyone should do exclusively black and white for 15 years like I did, that was just my preference and I didn't take my art seriously.
But doing just one or two colors for a while is important. It helps you understand the fundamentals before you get into more complexities like color.
I am comfortable drawing with pencils but I am not confident using colours. 😬 I just downloaded your colour guide. Thank you so much! I couldn't find detailed guides that are free.
I'm feeling so relaxed after this video ☺️
Totally agree; great advice. You’ve shown in your tutorials and on Patreon great methods to start getting better values as well.
In my art class, a lot of people try and just do gray scale, and our teacher doesn't like it. She actually prefers and/or makes it a requirement for us to color all of our art
Even if you're focusing on values, don't neglect colors. Buy a cheap watercolor set. I'd recommend a Winsor & Newton Cotman set and practice/play with colors and color mixing. When you move to color in your work, it will be a piece of cake. Understand color theory by understanding split primaries (warm/cool versions of primaries) and the interaction of color mixing. With a little practice, you'll see a color and say that's a cool blue mixed with green or that's a burn sienna mixed with lemon yellow.
Please upload colour pencil potrait drawing tutorial
Will you please compare the Black Widow colored pencils to the Prismacolor!? Love your channel, you are a true teacher. I feel like my art has improved so much since watching you. 😊
Colors are hard, I’ve been doing greyscale forever, just now trying to make the transition. So many more things to consider
So do I have to practise greyscale for months or a year before I use colour or what level of experience do I need to acquire before jumping into colour ?
the teachers did this with my art classes as a kid, we were marked down for using colour until we understood how to create light and dark tones with graphite or charcoal
Mam i found our channel after I mastered grey scale and this is great for me
i just found your videos, and i love them already!, thanks for the advice !
Hi kirsty could you please teach the colour theory too ? Would be a lot of help
Thanks !
ur talent is amazing kirsty
Love your videos and tips are always great, very helpful. I finally found the strathmore´s paper on the store I use to buy art supplies. Thanks a lot! Cheers!
So good I had to watch it twice. Hope the family is well.
Is it bad to convert the reference image to greyscale?
i love ur skills kirsty
Yay first!
Kristy you are such an amazing artist
Uhuhhhhh🤧 I love how you do it and keeping it up💖
Hey Kristy ,
I just found your channel and booked all the classes that were free . But the most useful to me were there . I don't think the solvent for blending coloured pencils is available here . Is there something that can help to get those results without using solvent or burnishing? Even a tip will work.
Thanks.....
Please help
Couldnt remember where I left you the message. I wan to start to draw. Do I start to learn sketching first？
your drawing is so cool!!!
Hi Kristy,
What type of prismacolor do you use for skin ???
Your such a great Artist for me!
How do you choose color in drawings?
u r very talented god bless u my friend
I am 13 and i started my art journey and yet im going very Good i started using color pencil and lot more
I'm glad to know this information. Thank you
Kistly even if I had the right supplies I cannot draw realistically . What should I do?
I can't download the file, is there something wrong with it...? It says something about it not being a legitimate file to download... I really needed that guide....
When drawing in black and white as a begginer, do you recommend looking at a colored reference for the drawing in black and white or the opposite?
of course edit the reference into b/w
@@Chris.P.Bacon7 yheaa, I believe your right. I will start with a black and white reference and then I will draw with a colored reference . Thanks🙂👍
ruclips.net/video/sSh8kV-ZJ1w/видео.html ❤️
Dude, I wish I found your channel a year ago. Your videos are all so helpful and entertaining:D
I love how you talk sis😍💕😘
Eres muy hermosa me encantan todas tus obras de arte, gracias por los tips y recomendaciones. Eres mi artista favorita 😍💐😘🎊
I agree with you.
I’d like to download the free color theory information,but don’t see the link. Thanks
All links are in the description.
Very helpfull video love it 👍
Tq
Great advice sweetheart, good video once again xxx
I knew someone at my high school who was good at art. Her name was Kirsty as well👀
Wow your videos really help me 💕
Me: working with colours ever since i began and been working with it for 2 years (watercolours and colour pencils)
Kirsty: posts this video
Me: oop-
By watching her videos you can be a good artist🤙🏻
My fvrt tutor you r
Wow amazing
Thank for giving nyc tips
Very helpful video. Thx for sharing! :)
Very good