Easy preparation, no wet stuff, no long prep necessary and depending on colours it can blow out of the paper. Aaaand it is a very chilling way to paint IMHO :) - I always layer up my values before I even work with any colour. (depends on the type). It is always (in my experience) an advantage to start layering with darks and get up until the lights. It gives the layering a intense depths even if it is not burnished :) -- I tried it with school colour pencils and it worked LoL
I loved that you used five colors and it was such a beautiful end result. I have a the 72 set of prismacolors that I’ve had for quite a while but honestly just the sheer amount of colors overwhelms me. Instead of choosing a few good colors that I can get to work, I feel like I’m always on the search for that more perfect shade. And that’s really made me shy away from even trying. My take away from this is to chose my few colors and to just go for it! I’m not improving if I’m not even trying. The sooner I get the bad pieces of art out of the way, the sooner the good ones can come out :)
I also have quite a large set to start but I didn't let it over well me I just got a few colours and started I take whatever I need first instead of picking out a different one everytime
This is so helpful! I've struggled using colored pencils in the past but now, I'm comfortable with them despite I still look up tutorials from time to time. I still enjoy learning to use them. Thanks for the video. Your artwork is beautiful!
@@rashone2879 oh dear, I can't really be bothered to even justify it. I know who I am, kirsty knows who I am and to be honest that is all I care about, not some random person putting in there two pennies worth. I'm sorry if you find the term sweetheart offensive but I say it to her all the time. I'm not going to say anything more about it
@@donnawalter3061 Actually, you are not "sorry". I don't "find" the term offensive when it's used as a term of endearment appropriately. It is widely understood that one adult addressing another as "sweetheart", someone you don't know, is inappropriate. Have you not ever heard jokes about the proverbial waitress asking, "what'll ya' have, hon?" Sounds like you and Kirsty (you should capitalize your friend's name) are good friends. You could have said that right off the bat, like, "Kirsty and I are friends and I call her sweetheart all the time..." and I would have said, "Oh, OK, that's different." LOL...I'm having fun with you, you know...
I have been watching your videos, quarantine has me drawing EVERYTHING! I was in the pool, and the sun was shining on the pool, making really pretty highlights in the pool. And I thought “maybe I should draw that!” Your videos are so helpful! Please make more!🤩🥰
This video should have wayyy more likes! Love your videos Kirsty. Very informative and simple to understand :) thankyou for sharing your skills and techniques with us 🙏🏻
Excellent tutorial! I mainly work in pen and ink, often using ball point pens, and the techniques you show here are also applicable to them as well as colored or graphite pencils. With ball point pens, you must work very slowly using soft circular strokes to build up tone. I watch all kinds of art videos, even if the medium is not what I use because techniques or principles can be generalized. What a lovely portrait you've done there.
You are absolutely amazing in every medium! Do you have a course on drawing basics and perspective? I would love to see you looking at the reference and how you are able to transfer it onto your paper.
OMG!!! thank you so much, not only does leaving white space make the drawing look better, but it saves the amount of colored pencil you have left as well.
Loved the video! A tip I picked up and started using in all my portraits was using an alcohol marker (usually copic) to put a flesh tone layer down and then build my prismacolours on top of that. It helps get rid of patchiness and makes the end result look 100 times better!
Thank you so much for this lesson, it has really been a huge help to me. I was struggling with portraits and when to add the various colours. You explain it so clearly and it’s easy to follow.
I have an art Channel were I draw realistic portraits in graphite. I've really been wanting to draw realistically in colored pencils, but I didn't know how. Kirsty Partridge Art has really helped me out.
It is a valid technique to use tracing or graphite paper to get your outlines sorted accurately, I use a ruler to draw a line down the middle of the paper then measure key points from there, time consuming but very good for accuracy!
Kirsty ! Oh ! I love the baby! I gotta try just like you do.but I know I will not be realistic at this drawing just like you .but this video is very very useful!
Great pace, very informative and easy to understand. Never heard about using a knife for pencil highlights - that is so cool and makes a lot of sense. Also the mixed media approach is interesting. So cool to see a professional artist being pragmatic about the colouring process ( less stress on the wrists ). Thanks for all the great tips and smooth delivery 💗
Watching you from Africa ,Zambia. Am thinking ready to do a colored pencil drawing with this 5 step method for colored pencil . Thank you a lot Kirsty.
Do you take breaks when working on art like this?? If so, how often, and how long for? I am a Young artist and am trying to better my art, but I have lots of unfinished artwork because after doing it for a while, I lose focus and interest, and start rushing it, and trying to get it done quickly. I think that your art is really inspiring to young artists and you are very talented!
I'm in the same situation as you, young artist loosing interest in my pieces and them rushing it. It helps me to know that I don't have to finish those pieces now and that I can take breaks whenever I feel like it. It also helps me to work on other pieces I haven't finished when I am not motivated to draw anything new or continue my recent piece. I hope I could help you😊💞
This is almost the same as my technique! I use toned paper so I can add a shadow underpainting and then also block in the highlights before moving on to the midtones.
My main take away from this the was the dark colour you outlined / created the base of the drawing. I'd be shy and tentative doing the same in a light timid "I can fix this is it all goes wrong" shade. I learnt from this, be bold ... just do it. (Kirsty gets it wrong at times and fixes it ... so can you)
Hi Kirsty, I love your videos and I watch them everyday. Your video on how to make an art career has honestly helped a bunch. I’m on the fence if I should make a website, or if I should wait a couple of months until I am absolutely sure I’m happy with my art and improve in every medium. Any suggestions? 🧐
Wow that is amazing I dont know how you always get the perfect references and here's a suggestion . You can also please send the link in description of the image please that is a suggestion and also new subscriber here I love your channel
Wow! What a great drawing. It makes me completely absent. That's great! Just looking at it makes me happy. I'm an artist, too. You are so great!! very good!!
Hy Kristy this piece is really amazing.I think to do your potraite like these five steps. I hope to upload it soon.This tutorial is really helpfull and i am working on doing a potraite in just five steps.Again thanks for this very,very beautiful potraite.
Hey, I enjoy your tutorials a lot. Thanks for that. You talk a lot about shading and layering. One thing I am really interested in would be finding shapes, linework... can you do something about that?
Hi Ms. Kirsty, does the cutter can be use if i dont have a xacto knife? Hope you can answer me. Thank you so much! Your videos are so great and really a big help! More tutorial to come.☺️
*Feel you!* I put on The Witcher in my own space and any other ruckus I took as cheering or call to arms challenge to press in to my passion (art). You know, how adversity sometimes draws out the best in you? You stop fighting yourself and getting in your own way cause it's outside you... and you agree with it beating you down until something clicks inside and you rise in spite of everything and do what you thought was impossible. Like the hero in all those stories who suddenly don't care about the pain, the impossible odds, the laughter and belief that he/she can't and have already lost. In the midst of all that, the REAL you rises cause you no longer fear... Anything! Choose that now and deny the adversity so you don't have to wait to be at the end of your rope before you choose to live instead of just surviving, which is not living but death.
Kirsty, which paper do prefer the most with polychromos and luminance ? And do the pencils work together? I mean, can i go over a wax pencil with a oil colorpencil? And the other way around? What is your experience ?
As a person just beginning to try any naturalistic skin ty for this video as I can see have too heavy pressure way to quickly. Paper kind (lbs & gsm) as finding different paper changes the outcome 💚.
Quick question. I am keen to learn portraits but with pastel pencils rather than coloured pencils. Would your techniques with coloured pencils transfer across to pastels?
Thank u Kirsty for sharing so much of knowledge about pencil colors techniques. Love your beautiful work always. This medium is new to me but I like it because it ready to use medium and without any mess.
QOTD: What do you love most about using coloured pencils?
I love how beautifully I can use them as I want.. They are so beautiful, smooth and so vibrant.. 😍❤️ Also it gives more life to my Artwork ☺️
They are alot easier to shade with.
easy to control when it comes to details
The detail I can get with them 😁💖
Easy preparation, no wet stuff, no long prep necessary and depending on colours it can blow out of the paper. Aaaand it is a very chilling way to paint IMHO :) - I always layer up my values before I even work with any colour. (depends on the type). It is always (in my experience) an advantage to start layering with darks and get up until the lights. It gives the layering a intense depths even if it is not burnished :) -- I tried it with school colour pencils and it worked LoL
I loved that you used five colors and it was such a beautiful end result. I have a the 72 set of prismacolors that I’ve had for quite a while but honestly just the sheer amount of colors overwhelms me. Instead of choosing a few good colors that I can get to work, I feel like I’m always on the search for that more perfect shade. And that’s really made me shy away from even trying.
My take away from this is to chose my few colors and to just go for it! I’m not improving if I’m not even trying. The sooner I get the bad pieces of art out of the way, the sooner the good ones can come out :)
I also have quite a large set to start but I didn't let it over well me I just got a few colours and started I take whatever I need first instead of picking out a different one everytime
You inspire me to do better art videos when I feel down ❤️🌹🤙
This vid is so helpful, before all my portraits were really liny 😂 no I know, circular motions
Megan Worthington glad it helped you 💕
This is so helpful! I've struggled using colored pencils in the past but now, I'm comfortable with them despite I still look up tutorials from time to time. I still enjoy learning to use them. Thanks for the video. Your artwork is beautiful!
Beautiful drawing kirsty, that baby looks so cute, great tutorial sweetheart 🥰😘👍
Sweetheart? Not respectful to refer to a grown woman as "sweetheart".
@@rashone2879 you can when you are saying it to your daughter
@@donnawalter3061 Of course. Are you her mother? I don't think so. I get sick and tired of saleswomen calling me sweetie, dear, hon'...it's obnoxious.
@@rashone2879 oh dear, I can't really be bothered to even justify it. I know who I am, kirsty knows who I am and to be honest that is all I care about, not some random person putting in there two pennies worth. I'm sorry if you find the term sweetheart offensive but I say it to her all the time. I'm not going to say anything more about it
@@donnawalter3061 Actually, you are not "sorry". I don't "find" the term offensive when it's used as a term of endearment appropriately. It is widely understood that one adult addressing another as "sweetheart", someone you don't know, is inappropriate. Have you not ever heard jokes about the proverbial waitress asking, "what'll ya' have, hon?" Sounds like you and Kirsty (you should capitalize your friend's name) are good friends. You could have said that right off the bat, like, "Kirsty and I are friends and I call her sweetheart all the time..." and I would have said, "Oh, OK, that's different." LOL...I'm having fun with you, you know...
I have been watching your videos, quarantine has me drawing EVERYTHING! I was in the pool, and the sun was shining on the pool, making really pretty highlights in the pool. And I thought “maybe I should draw that!” Your videos are so helpful! Please make more!🤩🥰
Thanks Kirsty for all the tips! You always help me grow my art and my RUclips channel❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
Yehoshua Shellim what is your RUclips channel called
sLaPpY mInEcRaFt hi it’s this one I’m using right now... (Yehoshua shellim) go check it out if you like 😄🤞🤞😇
This video should have wayyy more likes! Love your videos Kirsty. Very informative and simple to understand :) thankyou for sharing your skills and techniques with us 🙏🏻
Excellent tutorial! I mainly work in pen and ink, often using ball point pens, and the techniques you show here are also applicable to them as well as colored or graphite pencils. With ball point pens, you must work very slowly using soft circular strokes to build up tone. I watch all kinds of art videos, even if the medium is not what I use because techniques or principles can be generalized. What a lovely portrait you've done there.
You are absolutely amazing in every medium! Do you have a course on drawing basics and perspective? I would love to see you looking at the reference and how you are able to transfer it onto your paper.
OMG!!! thank you so much, not only does leaving white space make the drawing look better, but it saves the amount of colored pencil you have left as well.
This the only channel i am able understand how to use colour pencils
Amazing video! Very precise and easy to understand! Thankyou thankyou thankyou! ❤ can’t wait to try!
You’re insanely good at art , I’m try to Pursue art and I’ll be more then proud if I ever get close to your level 🤯
Loved the video! A tip I picked up and started using in all my portraits was using an alcohol marker (usually copic) to put a flesh tone layer down and then build my prismacolours on top of that. It helps get rid of patchiness and makes the end result look 100 times better!
Will try this! Was wondering if it was a water base or alcohol base later so I'm definitely trying this
I watched you and I still cannot believe it.....you are fabulous a truly great artist....I watch in amazement.....
I have this set....it literally has all the skin tones u need....its awesome
I’ve always loved and enjoyed doing color pencil drawings 😍 they are my Favorite, so I enjoyed seeing this tutorial. I did such an amazing job‼️ 👍🏼
Thanks Kirsty this method really helped me!
I absolutely love this picture! Your art is very inspiring. Now I want to find a picture of one of my babies and try this out!
Thank you so much for this lesson, it has really been a huge help to me. I was struggling with portraits and when to add the various colours. You explain it so clearly and it’s easy to follow.
I have an art Channel were I draw realistic portraits in graphite. I've really been wanting to draw realistically in colored pencils, but I didn't know how. Kirsty Partridge Art has really helped me out.
Is there an under sketch or do you just eyeball it? I have trouble free handing specific faces.
It is a valid technique to use tracing or graphite paper to get your outlines sorted accurately, I use a ruler to draw a line down the middle of the paper then measure key points from there, time consuming but very good for accuracy!
RichardM8422 Thank for the replies! I’ll go ahead and trace with out feeling like a cheat, since like you said, other artists do the same.
@@camerokid78 There is no "wrong" way to get your desired results, and if you ever find a way to trace shading and colour, let me know! :)
RichardM8422 Haha, well yes I’ll for sure pass that discovery along should I make it. What. Miracle that would be!
When she does the first layer on the mouth, you can see a very light pencil drawing. I was thinking the same 😃
Kirsty ! Oh ! I love the baby! I gotta try just like you do.but I know I will not be realistic at this drawing just like you .but this video is very very useful!
Wow what a gorgeous picture of the baby, beautiful xxx
Great pace, very informative and easy to understand. Never heard about using a knife for pencil highlights - that is so cool and makes a lot of sense. Also the mixed media approach is interesting. So cool to see a professional artist being pragmatic about the colouring process ( less stress on the wrists ). Thanks for all the great tips and smooth delivery 💗
God's of pencil art .I like your advice.
It’s so clearly explained and I’m new to this medium but ur tutorial really helps ..thank you so much
Watching you from Africa ,Zambia. Am thinking ready to do a colored pencil drawing with this 5 step method for colored pencil .
Thank you a lot Kirsty.
Wow, amazing work !!
❤️❤️❤️
I love your videos they are soo helpful😍
Wow. Just wow.
U r my favourite art you tuber, u r so inspiring and even when I feel my art isn’t good, u make me feel so much better after watching your videos 🥰💞💞
Do you take breaks when working on art like this?? If so, how often, and how long for? I am a Young artist and am trying to better my art, but I have lots of unfinished artwork because after doing it for a while, I lose focus and interest, and start rushing it, and trying to get it done quickly. I think that your art is really inspiring to young artists and you are very talented!
I'm in the same situation as you, young artist loosing interest in my pieces and them rushing it. It helps me to know that I don't have to finish those pieces now and that I can take breaks whenever I feel like it. It also helps me to work on other pieces I haven't finished when I am not motivated to draw anything new or continue my recent piece. I hope I could help you😊💞
Yoongistan 34 Thankyou! That really helps🤗
This gives me the motivation I need to start a new portrait
This is almost the same as my technique! I use toned paper so I can add a shadow underpainting and then also block in the highlights before moving on to the midtones.
You are amazingly talented and inspirational! Thanks for sharing your videos!
My main take away from this the was the dark colour you outlined / created the base of the drawing. I'd be shy and tentative doing the same in a light timid "I can fix this is it all goes wrong" shade. I learnt from this, be bold ... just do it. (Kirsty gets it wrong at times and fixes it ... so can you)
Oh, wow, that’s just adorably beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing.
You are so beautiful artist.
Hi Kirsty, I love your videos and I watch them everyday. Your video on how to make an art career has honestly helped a bunch. I’m on the fence if I should make a website, or if I should wait a couple of months until I am absolutely sure I’m happy with my art and improve in every medium. Any suggestions? 🧐
when burnishing gradually increase pressure thus gives you even smoother look..... give it a try once
It's a beautiful drawing.
This is the most helpful tutorial I’ve seen! Thank you
Wow! That is an amazing colour pencil drawing!
Gosh so adorable. In love with this!
Wow that is amazing I dont know how you always get the perfect references and here's a suggestion . You can also please send the link in description of the image please that is a suggestion and also new subscriber here I love your channel
Wow! What a great drawing. It makes me completely absent. That's great! Just looking at it makes me happy. I'm an artist, too. You are so great!! very good!!
Hy Kristy this piece is really amazing.I think to do your potraite like these five steps. I hope to upload it soon.This tutorial is really helpfull and i am working on doing a potraite in just five steps.Again thanks for this very,very beautiful potraite.
Very beautiful... thank you so much 💖
All the best wishes kirsty
I've learnt so much from you!
Do you ever use grey or tan toned paper?
I assume that would be the mid tones. But would like to see your expert opinion on this.
🗽💜 TYVM!
Very beautiful
Omg I love it what a great job yr....
No words ....I want to my color portarite sketches yr
So helpful!👍
Nice work, I love following you, what kind of paper question and how many grams
I just bought this set! I am excited to try this!
Wow!! That's an interesting technique- moving from dark to light. Would you recommend it for all types of sketches, say sketching objects?
Verrrryyyy nice🥰🥰😘😘😘😘
Stunning. Great video x
Amazing! Your videos really inspire me to try out different things :)
Oh wow. First 😂 btw great video! I will definitely try your tips!
I use the Rosy Beige pencil a lot when I do skin tone. Dark skin and light skin.
You are a realistic artist
I’ve found this easy enough. Thanks.
So so beautiful 😍 wow !
Very beautiful 😍
wow ... that is so precious info ;) you're amazing Kirsty ;)
Fantastic creation,so impressive
Why does this have dislikes this video and the artwork is awesome❤️🥺
Hey, I enjoy your tutorials a lot. Thanks for that. You talk a lot about shading and layering. One thing I am really interested in would be finding shapes, linework... can you do something about that?
You make things so easy.. ❤
I'd really like to know where u get ur references from and ur so tallented
Best tutorial EVER 👏👏👏
wow! its amazing.
i am trying to draw like you.
This video is my best video
Just woooooooowwwwwww 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Loveddd itt
So so helpful 😊❤️ you are so amazing ♥️
I have the same set😍
Hi Ms. Kirsty, does the cutter can be use if i dont have a xacto knife? Hope you can answer me. Thank you so much! Your videos are so great and really a big help! More tutorial to come.☺️
lovely model, lovely pencils technic and great tips to follow,Subscribed and Liked,lets get connected💙💙💙
you’re amazing and inspiring
Lov it 😍😍😍
I really WANT to draw right now, but it's Superbowl Sunday in America, and the shouting is definitely very distracting.
tuscuanilly barticus i feel you my dude.
Get sound cancelling headphones. They work really well. Look up Decibel Defense on Amazon
2D!
@@juliedub4757 also 2D!!
*Feel you!*
I put on The Witcher in my own space and any other ruckus I took as cheering or call to arms challenge to press in to my passion (art). You know, how adversity sometimes draws out the best in you? You stop fighting yourself and getting in your own way cause it's outside you... and you agree with it beating you down until something clicks inside and you rise in spite of everything and do what you thought was impossible. Like the hero in all those stories who suddenly don't care about the pain, the impossible odds, the laughter and belief that he/she can't and have already lost. In the midst of all that, the REAL you rises cause you no longer fear... Anything!
Choose that now and deny the adversity so you don't have to wait to be at the end of your rope before you choose to live instead of just surviving, which is not living but death.
I am using your techniques to attempt a portrait of my great nephew...
What paper did you use for this particular drawing.
Your drawing is really awesome 👌. I will try it with the colour pencils I have. It looks difficult to draw.........
Kirsty, which paper do prefer the most with polychromos and luminance ? And do the pencils work together? I mean, can i go over a wax pencil with a oil colorpencil? And the other way around? What is your experience ?
As a person just beginning to try any naturalistic skin ty for this video as I can see have too heavy pressure way to quickly. Paper kind (lbs & gsm) as finding different paper changes the outcome 💚.
Quick question. I am keen to learn portraits but with pastel pencils rather than coloured pencils. Would your techniques with coloured pencils transfer across to pastels?
Before you start to color, shade and whatever, do you trace down your picture or do you just leave it there for a reference????
Your tips are so helpful cannot believe I've been making crap for years.
Hi Kirsty, I am sure you had the drawing already sketched before you used the darkest color for the underpainting; did you use a pencil?
I learned that Prismacolor is the best set for portrait
What is a good sharpener for colored pencils to get that long sharp ends.
Thank u Kirsty for sharing so much of knowledge about pencil colors techniques. Love your beautiful work always. This medium is new to me but I like it because it ready to use medium and without any mess.
Super. Super
👍🏻👍🏻🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙏🏻🙏🏻