At age 79, yes, &79(!!!!!!!!!!), as I prepare to engage some local art classes with the goal of maybe capturing my grand children in my hand, I luckily, no, make that blessedly, stumbled upon this brilliant, articulate, details laden, demonstration that casually mentioned every query concern that I have. I think this is one of the most succinct and impressive art video / discussion I have ever seen - even imagined. I wish more than the best for the brilliant demonstrator? instructor?
I love how you give all sorts of extremely helpful advices that I would have never thought of. Like what you said about not drawing every single hair? I used to do exactly that but now I get what to do thanks to you which saved me a lot of time and effort!!
Wonderful instruction and narration, beautiful work. i really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I also appreciate your professional manner of presentation.
These are absolutely fantastic tutorials. I love that you keep the whole color palette on the side and explain how your using them step by step. You have also explained that hair line technique which I've only seen done in time lapses. Your layering video was also very helpful and comprehensive. Thank you, you're a great teacher.
I forgot to thank you for having the pencil numbers sit on the screen for a while so we can write them down: if not it would be difficult for us to try to understand the content of the tutorial and remember the color numbers. You are very smart and talented. Thanks.
Also, your narration is just perfect with a clear voice with no heavy accent because in many narration videos I either have to concentrate a lot in hearing or rewinding because English is my second language
I was always afraid to do portraits because you have to add so much to it and this made me actually want to try doing it thanks for making these videos they are helping me a ton !
Your voice is so very relaxing. I've caught myself closing my eyes and just listening to your voice. I then startle myself and have to rewind it so I could watch your artwork just come to life. You explained everything so beautifully, and I thank you. I hope to put your wisdom to good use and work on skin tones in the next week or so.
He has such good looking hands - what? Also, his drawing style is similar to mine (just a lot better obviously), and I appreciate this tutorial, I can learn a lot by watching this. He's so detailed 👏
I'm afraid that without the music I would have fallen asleep. Your voice is very soothing. There was one moment that the music didn't go well with the subject, but for the most part, I thought it was helpful. I have that problem with a few other artists long tutorials on youtube when there isn't anything to help me stay engaged. For me, this video was very nice to watch.
Thank you for sharing the knowledge. You have no idea how much this has helped me. I do portraits in graphite and for me it has been somewhat difficult to use color pencils. You are a good teacher. I have a better understanding now. Thank you, again.
veeeeery interesting, quite the challenging border and it looks great. I definitely learned quite a bit from this tutorial. Your voice is relaxing! You've done a great job and thanks for sharing.
Thank you very much for a well organized presentation. Although I am a non-speaker of English, it's a miracle that I didn't miss any word thanks to your diction and speed of your speech. Do you do this kind of presentation often for the public - I mean not for your Patreon audience? Thank you for not presenting a time-lapse show, something that makes me feel like pulling my hair out. I agree that it's better with no music. But still it's a excellent presentation. Thank you.
Wow this is one of the best portrait Colored pencil tutorials I've ever seen. I am worse than terrible at portraiture, but I think I will try again now that I've found this amazingly comprehensive and informative tutorial. Absolutely fantastic thank you so much.
This is amazing. I wish I could draw like that in order to color it in. I love your calm voice. I love the fact that you bother speaking at all. I've seen too many videos in which the person doesn't bother speaking. Love your technique. It's gorgeous. I don't have those pencils but I hope to be able to recreate the look with the ones I have.
This tutorial is such a pleasure in every way! The gorgeous music you chose is one of my favorite aspects. And your steady voice, the beautiful image and your excellent explanations make it a real treat and a great asset. I hope to be able to draw as well as you one day. Thank you so much for sharing your gift!
Great video! Thank you so much for the amount of information you've put into this, I've just bought some of these pencils and im totally clueless! The chapter marks are super helpful to navigate too.
Thanks so much for sharing this video, I learned so much just from watching you and listening to your explanations of your technique. I can really see where I can change what I'm doing to get the results that I didn't know how to get before. Thank you! Really beautiful work
Wow! What a wonderfully rendered portrait using what I, and many colored pencil artists, think to be the worlds best colored pencils in Luminance by Caran D'ache. But for the worlds best pencils to work the way they should, they need an amazing artist such as yourself. It was a wonderful time watching and listening to your process. Such beautiful work and love the traditional Chinese signature style that u use for your signature. Keep up the great work and love listening to your videos. Lastly, You do a very good voice over in explaining your process. :)
I really liked this tutorial. very informative, and well done! I've mainly done portraits in graphite, but want to try colored pencils. This gave me a lot of good info.
I was wondering if someone could make a video explaining how to draw portrait with only faber castel polychromos! I love your channel and this tutorial! Love you!
I would not recommend exclusively using polychromos. But you can order Luminance pencils individually, The absolute must have Luminance pencils for portraits are: 832, 872, 842, 862, 836 and 876. Those 6 colors do not exist in polychromos at all, I would also get the luminance 801 and colorless blender.
You are amazing! An excellent tutor, love your voice over sharing each step, almost each stroke...its wonderful to be able to follow along. This is beautiful. Are you drawing this from a live siting? Or from a photo? Or from memory? tyfs
Hi, you may not see this since this video in old, and it is a great tutorial. The problem I have is that I don't use the same brand of pencils that you did. So it is hard to know what colors your using just by the numbers. Enjoyed you process though.
Awesome work my friend. I don't know if it's an age thing here (74) but I find it really irritating and unnecessary for tutorials and documentaries in general to include background music, when all I want to do is concentrate on the voice over. And your voice, like others who have commented here, is very nice and soothing. Sorry about the negative part here, but music on documentaries is a pet hate of mine. Your voice and art is powerful enough to stand alone..Thanks you very much.
Excellent tutorial. You are an very talented artist and I really enjoyed watching you work. I'm just starting out with colored pencils and am trying to figure out which ones to purchase as they are quite expensive. I. have to tell you that most videos people ramble on and on and are really irritating but your voice and instructions are very soothing and insightful!!!
Thank you very much I really appreciate it. If you are just starting out I recommend 72 pack of Prismacolor Premier, or you could get the full 150 pack instead because it not much more.
A very good tutorial on using colored pencil on this portrait. The colored pencils that you are using are they wax based or oil based? I have use Prismacolor made by Berol in the 1980's and early 1990's before blenders. The new Prismacolor made by Sanford are not the same quality and I am looking into using another brand. My Mule Deer buck avatar was done in Prismacolor in the early 1990's on archival illustration board. Thanks again for a wonderful video. I did not have such luxury as the internet for sources and education when I was illustration 30 years ago. Keep up the excellent work.
Great to have the colors there on the side, but itemized for clarity. "Skin, Lips,ect, love his work I am new at colored pencil: I have worked for 20 years in watercolor. I love him and his work and style.
Wow, great tutorial and finished piece! And it's a very cool effect you got with that negative space border! I love how you explain your technique and thought process on every aspect of the piece. I'm getting ready to experiment with mixed media, using watercolor, ink and colored pencils, and this has giving me some insight on how to do the colored pencil portion. Oh, going a little off topic here, but your review of the Ugee 2150 pen monitor is what helped make me decide to get one! Have really enjoyed it for the past 7 months I've had it! So thank you for all the insightful videos you've shared on here! They really do help us struggling artist get a clearer grasp on areas we need to improve on imop :-)
You are amazing this is a beautiful portrait❤I'm going to be studying your work on how to color pencils I'm a new subscriber❤taker care & Thank you for sharing!!!!
Hi , l am loving your process , are you using a tortilla for blending ? or is your pencil in a pencil holder ? l wish l was one eighth as good as you are , so beautiful.
When did you really incorporate Burnishing on this portrait, at the 2 layer or at the very last layer? And would you recommend using a colorless blender at ANY point of a piece for burnishing?
I have to say, this is, by far, the best colored pencil portrait tutorial I've found on RUclips. You explain what you're doing and why extremely well. One question, what is the black and white tool you're using? I didn't quite catch the name.
Glad you figured it out. Thank you for the lovely compliment i really appreciate it. I'm planning on doing an advanced skin tone tutorial later this month also. :)
thank you so much for telling us your process. you have a wonderful voice and I really appreciate the talking
You're welcome, glad you like my voice sometimes I feel a bit self conscious about it so it's nice to hear others enjoy it. ^_^
Please keep talking. Your voice is so relaxing. And you are so wonderful at teaching. Thank you so much.
At age 79, yes, &79(!!!!!!!!!!), as I prepare to engage some local art classes with the goal of maybe capturing my grand children in my hand, I luckily, no, make that blessedly, stumbled upon this brilliant, articulate, details laden, demonstration that casually mentioned every query concern that I have. I think this is one of the most succinct and impressive art video / discussion I have ever seen - even imagined. I wish more than the best for the brilliant demonstrator? instructor?
Thank you very much, I am glad you enjoyed the tutorial. My name is Will by the way.
I just started drawing with color pencils and this tutorial helps a lot. This video has made me a better artist.
I love how you give all sorts of extremely helpful advices that I would have never thought of. Like what you said about not drawing every single hair? I used to do exactly that but now I get what to do thanks to you which saved me a lot of time and effort!!
As an artist, I love watching other techniques. Love your work, techniques, your calming voice and you beautiful hands. Bravo!
Thank you very much.
Outstanding tutorial! Very thorough in your explanations. First time watching one of your videos, but certainly not the last!
Thank you very much, glad to hear that.
Wonderful instruction and narration, beautiful work. i really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. I also appreciate your professional manner of presentation.
You are very welcome, glad you found it so informative.
These are absolutely fantastic tutorials. I love that you keep the whole color palette on the side and explain how your using them step by step. You have also explained that hair line technique which I've only seen done in time lapses. Your layering video was also very helpful and comprehensive. Thank you, you're a great teacher.
I forgot to thank you for having the pencil numbers sit on the screen for a while so we can write them down: if not it would be difficult for us to try to understand the content of the tutorial and remember the color numbers. You are very smart and talented. Thanks.
Wowwww... I sat through the entire video...normally which I don't do...😊 very informative and a stupendous artist with an amazing voice...❤
I'm learning so much by watching this video.
Also, your narration is just perfect with a clear voice with no heavy accent because in many narration videos I either have to concentrate a lot in hearing or rewinding because English is my second language
Well I am very glad I could be helpful :)
This was always a great favorite of mine !......As good as portrait work gets!...so expressive !
I was always afraid to do portraits because you have to add so much to it and this made me actually want to try doing it thanks for making these videos they are helping me a ton !
That's great!
Just AWESOME...... THIS IS A TALENT....
Wow Will! I hadn't seen this video until today! Simply stunning!
Best tutorial I’ve ever seen for color pencil portraits. Thank you!!
I wish I knew more words for STUNNING!!!!!!!
Thank you very much.
Your voice is so very relaxing. I've caught myself closing my eyes and just listening to your voice. I then startle myself and have to rewind it so I could watch your artwork just come to life. You explained everything so beautifully, and I thank you. I hope to put your wisdom to good use and work on skin tones in the next week or so.
Wow, thank you so much that is very kind of you. I appreciate the compliment and I hope my tips benefit your work. :)
You're welcome, and thank you. They will help me immensely. :)
He has such good looking hands - what? Also, his drawing style is similar to mine (just a lot better obviously), and I appreciate this tutorial, I can learn a lot by watching this. He's so detailed 👏
I'm afraid that without the music I would have fallen asleep. Your voice is very soothing. There was one moment that the music didn't go well with the subject, but for the most part, I thought it was helpful. I have that problem with a few other artists long tutorials on youtube when there isn't anything to help me stay engaged. For me, this video was very nice to watch.
Your directions were quite clear! I look forward to you teaching more colored pencil portraits.
Art work is beautiful n with complete explanation very helpful thanks a lot
Thank you for sharing the knowledge. You have no idea how much this has helped me. I do portraits in graphite and for me it has been somewhat difficult to use color pencils. You are a good teacher. I have a better understanding now. Thank you, again.
You're so welcome, I'm glad you found it so helpful.
veeeeery interesting, quite the challenging border and it looks great. I definitely learned quite a bit from this tutorial. Your voice is relaxing! You've done a great job and thanks for sharing.
I'm so happy that you enjoyed it so much.
I love your work you are amazing and a wonderful teacher thanks
Thank you very much, I greatly appreciate it!
Oh I need so much practice with color. Fantastic tutorials, best I've ever found on RUclips
Thank you for answering a lot of questions I had. I have learned a lot, you're not only a great artist but a great teacher as well, thank you! :-)
You are very welcome :)
Beautiful work! Great tutorial, one of the best! You've got my vote!
Thank you very much for a well organized presentation. Although I am a non-speaker of English, it's a miracle that I didn't miss any word thanks to your diction and speed of your speech. Do you do this kind of presentation often for the public - I mean not for your Patreon audience? Thank you for not presenting a time-lapse show, something that makes me feel like pulling my hair out. I agree that it's better with no music. But still it's a excellent presentation. Thank you.
Wow this is one of the best portrait Colored pencil tutorials I've ever seen. I am worse than terrible at portraiture, but I think I will try again now that I've found this amazingly comprehensive and informative tutorial. Absolutely fantastic thank you so much.
Thank you so much, I'm very glad you found it inspiring and helpful.
she's beautiful!! love this tutorial!! thank you for sharing!
This is amazing. I wish I could draw like that in order to color it in. I love your calm voice. I love the fact that you bother speaking at all. I've seen too many videos in which the person doesn't bother speaking. Love your technique. It's gorgeous. I don't have those pencils but I hope to be able to recreate the look with the ones I have.
Thank you so much. These techniques can be done with Prismacolor pencils also. not sure what kind you're using though.
Luckily for me, I just got a 48 pencil set of the Prismacolor Premier pencils. Now I just have to find a sketch to practice on.
Yep, check out my How to Color Everything video too so you can make an effective color palette. It will make your life much easier. Have fun!
Really awesome commentary of your processes, look forward to more of your work
Thank you very much.
Thank you for your time and devotion to your work! Very informative video I love the portrait!
You are very welcome, I hope it's beneficial to your work.
You did such a wonderful job. Thank you so much for sharing your techniques. Especially with the blending. I enjoyed the tutorial very much.
It's a great tutorial and a great art. I like your work and It's so much inspiration. thank you very much.
You are most welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
This tutorial is such a pleasure in every way! The gorgeous music you chose is one of my favorite aspects. And your steady voice, the beautiful image and your excellent explanations make it a real treat and a great asset. I hope to be able to draw as well as you one day. Thank you so much for sharing your gift!
I am go glad you enjoyed it so much. I appreciate your well thought out comment too. I do my best to read them all and respond to as many as I can.
Thank you - you put so much care and thought into your videos, guidelines and replies.
Great video! Thank you so much for the amount of information you've put into this, I've just bought some of these pencils and im totally clueless! The chapter marks are super helpful to navigate too.
Thank you, really glad you enjoy the video and I hope it helps ^_^
Thanks so much for sharing this video, I learned so much just from watching you and listening to your explanations of your technique. I can really see where I can change what I'm doing to get the results that I didn't know how to get before. Thank you! Really beautiful work
Thank you so much, I'm so glad it was helpful!
Wow! What a wonderfully rendered portrait using what I, and many colored pencil artists, think to be the worlds best colored pencils in Luminance by Caran D'ache. But for the worlds best pencils to work the way they should, they need an amazing artist such as yourself. It was a wonderful time watching and listening to your process. Such beautiful work and love the traditional Chinese signature style that u use for your signature. Keep up the great work and love listening to your videos. Lastly, You do a very good voice over in explaining your process. :)
Thank you so much for your kindness. I really enjoy making videos and it's nice to know that people enjoy them.
Great tutorial and lovely end product
Great tutorial video, Thank you very much.
I really liked this tutorial. very informative, and well done! I've mainly done portraits in
graphite, but want to try colored pencils. This gave me a lot of good info.
Great video! I learned a lot. Thank you for sharing your talent. Outstanding work!
You are most welcome!
Great video. liked that you explained details as you went along.
If you slow down to 1/2 of the speed, you can really appreciate the technique.
Thanks, I'll have another tutorial like this soon also.
From one artist to another your work is fantastic. Great job. I enjoy the same medium using colored pencils with thinner. =)
I was wondering if someone could make a video explaining how to draw portrait with only faber castel polychromos! I love your channel and this tutorial! Love you!
I would not recommend exclusively using polychromos. But you can order Luminance pencils individually, The absolute must have Luminance pencils for portraits are: 832, 872, 842, 862, 836 and 876. Those 6 colors do not exist in polychromos at all, I would also get the luminance 801 and colorless blender.
A joy to watch.....thank you for sharing....😊😊😊😊😊😊
You are very welcome, glad you enjoyed it.
You are amazing! An excellent tutor, love your voice over sharing each step, almost each stroke...its wonderful to be able to follow along. This is beautiful. Are you drawing this from a live siting? Or from a photo? Or from memory? tyfs
Thank you very much, I used a reference photo for the girl but designed the entire piece in photoshop.
Could you do a tutorial on how you use Photoshop please?
Hi, you may not see this since this video in old, and it is a great tutorial. The problem I have is that I don't use the same brand of pencils that you did. So it is hard to know what colors your using just by the numbers. Enjoyed you process though.
Awesome work my friend. I don't know if it's an age thing here (74) but I find it really irritating and unnecessary for tutorials and documentaries in general to include background music, when all I want to do is concentrate on the voice over. And your voice, like others who have commented here, is very nice and soothing. Sorry about the negative part here, but music on documentaries is a pet hate of mine. Your voice and art is powerful enough to stand alone..Thanks you very much.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
I agree though, the music in this was a bad decision on my part.
I really enjoyed watching your process. Well done!
Thank you very much.
Unmask Art
WOW, another beauty!!!! Your work is fantastic!!!!
Beautiful portrait, enjoyed watching your tutorial. Heaps of great tips. Thanks 😆
Thank you, I'm happy that you found some good tips in there.
Magnificent. U just earned a subscriber. Thanks for the tips. I'm still trying to get used to colored pencil.
thanks a lot for the video....would love to try it...and will do
I hope I get to see the finished product.
I love your art
AMAZING PIECE!!!!!!!
Really beautiful work!
WOW!
Beautiful work Will , wonderfully explained as well! Thanks, Peace!
Wow. Amazing.
You are awesome! Thanks so much for this detailed work. I'm heading over to your Patreon page!
Excellent tutorial.
You are an very talented artist and I really enjoyed watching you work.
I'm just starting out with colored pencils and am trying to figure out which ones to purchase as they are quite expensive.
I. have to tell you that most videos people ramble on and on and are really irritating but your voice and instructions are very soothing and insightful!!!
Thank you very much I really appreciate it.
If you are just starting out I recommend 72 pack of Prismacolor Premier, or you could get the full 150 pack instead because it not much more.
A very good tutorial on using colored pencil on this portrait. The colored pencils that you are using are they wax based or oil based? I have use Prismacolor made by Berol in the 1980's and early 1990's before blenders. The new Prismacolor made by Sanford are not the same quality and I am looking into using another brand. My Mule Deer buck avatar was done in Prismacolor in the early 1990's on archival illustration board. Thanks again for a wonderful video. I did not have such luxury as the internet for sources and education when I was illustration 30 years ago. Keep up the excellent work.
Thank you very much, the pencils I'm using are Luminance wax based pencils. They are perhaps the highest quality cp you can get.
AMAZING great detail
Great to have the colors there on the side, but itemized for clarity. "Skin, Lips,ect, love his work I am new at colored pencil: I have worked for 20 years in watercolor. I love him and his work and style.
your very skillful artist nice work
This was very helpful thank you!
You are so welcome, I'll be doing a new one soon but as a livestream.
gorgeous work! thanks for the video
You are very welcome!
where is the love button? this tutorial is amazing.
This is absolutely amazing!!! Thank you!
Wow, great tutorial and finished piece! And it's a very cool effect you got with that negative space border! I love how you explain your technique and thought process on every aspect of the piece. I'm getting ready to experiment with mixed media, using watercolor, ink and colored pencils, and this has giving me some insight on how to do the colored pencil portion. Oh, going a little off topic here, but your review of the Ugee 2150 pen monitor is what helped make me decide to get one! Have really enjoyed it for the past 7 months I've had it! So thank you for all the insightful videos you've shared on here! They really do help us struggling artist get a clearer grasp on areas we need to improve on imop :-)
That is just awesome, thank you so much for taking the time to tell me. Made my day for sure!
fantastic! A pleasure to watch.
Thank you.
Amazing. Thank you so much.
You are very welcome.
looks great! I love that border
Thank you.
Awesome work!!
Fantastic!
Amazing job
Absolutely amazing . I now have the confidence to do a portrait. Many thanks xxx
wonderful work..
Fantastic!! Beautiful.
thanks
You are amazing this is a beautiful portrait❤I'm going to be studying your work on how to color pencils I'm a new subscriber❤taker care & Thank you for sharing!!!!
This is brilliant! Love how you did the skin :D
Thanks Cory.
Awesome !! 😍😍😍😍😍
Very detailed, amazing! excellent tutor,voice like narrator in BBC channel.CAN WE DO FACE COLOR WITH MAPED COLOR PENCILS, 48 SET ?
Woah this is awesome!
Thank you so much for the amazing tutorial :)
Hi , l am loving your process , are you using a tortilla for blending ? or is your pencil in a pencil holder ? l wish l was one eighth as good as you are , so beautiful.
It's a tortilla, homemade.
^_^
very nice tutorial. Thanks for sharing. Can you mention which paper u have used?
Stonehenge Vellum.
is there a link for the paper used?
ive purchased not cold press paper but it is too creamy in colour and rough
wow,great
When did you really incorporate Burnishing on this portrait, at the 2 layer or at the very last layer? And would you recommend using a colorless blender at ANY point of a piece for burnishing?
What tool are you using intermittently with the pencils ? It’s black and doesn’t look like the luminance colorless blender.
Obrigada por compartilhar, mais um inscrito!
Grazie !!!
you rule!
This was the most helpful video I've seen on realistic colored pencil drawing, do you have the reference you used?
I have to say, this is, by far, the best colored pencil portrait tutorial I've found on RUclips. You explain what you're doing and why extremely well. One question, what is the black and white tool you're using? I didn't quite catch the name.
Nevermind, just figured out that it was a colorless blender in a pencil extender. My mistake. Still an amazing tutorial.
Glad you figured it out.
Thank you for the lovely compliment i really appreciate it. I'm planning on doing an advanced skin tone tutorial later this month also. :)
Thanks 🙏🏻