4 WAYS TO BLEND COLOURED PENCILS | Blending Coloured Pencils for Smooth Shading

hello everybody welcome back to my channel so today's episode is episode 3 of my color pencil series and these videos that every Tuesday and so today's video I'm going to be showing you how I like to blend my color pencils and so for this video I'm going to be demonstrating four different methods of how I like to blend my close pencils so the first method that I'm showing you guys is layering and burnishing and layering is where you apply the pencil really smoothly and with very little pressure and just keep building up the layers until you get really smooth coverage and the key to do this is to make sure that you have a really sharp pencil all the time because when you have a really fine point it means that you can get into all the crevices of the paper so that you have very little of that white graininess showing through and the more you layer the left of that white graininess that you're going to have peering through so when I apply the color pencils I'm using really fine circular motions and I'm making sure that when I'm doing the circles that I'm overlapping the circles so that there's not such harsh stop and start points because when you do lots and lots of circles and overlap them it's impossible to see where the lines have started and stopped because you're not creating harsh scribbly lines so why recommend is that you start a certain area and create circles that overlap and expand from that area until you cover the whole is the area that you want to apply the color to and you can really avoid creating scribbles by making sure that all of your pencil lines are going in the same direction and that you're not applying a lot of pressure when you're applying the color pencil so the first thing that I did was I applied the lighter blue color and then I'm applying the darker blue color so to do this tutorial I'm using the prismacolor premier color pencils and I'm using a dark blue and a lighter blue and then a dark purple and a light purple and this is so if you show you how to transition between different colors as I build of the layers I slowly apply more and more pressure and this is to help blend the colors together layering is really useful no matter what technique you're using because you need to have enough of the pencil onto the paper to blend in the first place so when you're layering it's really important that you do really smooth layering because it's going to be hard to blend something if you've got really hard lines that you've pushed into the paper and really scrub early and all your lines going in all different directions it's going to be really hard to try and blend that out get really really smooth so I advise that you make sure that you're going in all of the same directions and that you're using really small circular motions and make sure that you keep your pencil really fine and sharp and then make sure that you're just applying very little pressure at all until you get some of the final layers where you can apply a bit more pressure so with each of these four methods I'm going to be first showing you how this method works using a sphere so I'm just coloring in the circle and then I'm going to show you how you can apply this technique to coloring in a flower as a layering burnishing is really good if you want to get a really smooth creamy finish the only problem is when you burnish you damage the tooth to the paper which means it's really hard to apply lots and lots of additional layers over that and fix it if you have any problem because once you damage the to to the paper the paper won't take any more additional layers so I'm showing you how to and fear a lot slower just so I can show you how to do each method and then I'm going to speed up going through the flowers because this is just to show you the kinds of results you can get from each technique and so that you can compare the results at the end the main things that I like about the burnishing technique is that it should get really smooth finishes and really vibrant colors and that it's really easy to blend them into each other especially with wax colored pencils with oil coloured pencils it's a bit trickier because they don't have such creamy tendency and then the couple of cons of this technique is that certainly it means that you have to damage the tooth to the paper which means it's hard to fix any mistakes and secondly because when you burnish you have to apply quite a bit of pressure if you want to do this a lot then that means that you might get a bit of an eighty wrist form and this means that you might not be able to sit for such long periods of time during okay so now I'm moving onto blending the flower and the first thing that I do is I apply a light layer of that light blue color and then I start building up the shadows and students I'm using a darker blue color on the inner side of the petal and so I'm just using this lightly and then I'll blend it out in a minute and what I'm going to be doing is applying a bit of the darker purple to the tip of the petal and a bit of the lighter purple where I'm going to transition into the blue and then once of them now I blend it out the whole thing with the lighter blue color and add is a bit more of the darker blue and the purple [Music] okay so move analysis second method and this is blending with the solvent so you can use paint thinner or gamsol or like I'm using today I'm using the zested pencil blend and this method is the method that I use a lot and it's really good because it means you can blend the color pencil without damaging the tip of the paper which is really useful because it means you can apply lots and lots of layers on top so when you use them solvent you don't have to worry so much that your layering is perfect of course train getting not scribbly and don't press down hard at all because if you have lines press down into your paper then it's not going to be able to blend out those lines smoothly but you don't have to worry so much about getting a light grainy bits because when you blend out with the solvent it will get rid of all that anyway so I'm just applying all the colors like I did before so I'm using the same layering process and then I'm using a bit of disaster pencil blend on a paintbrush and I'm just using that to blend out this first layer and once I've completely dry you can go over it again with multiple layers and as long as you apply the paint thinner and let it dry then you can apply more and more layers on top if you try to apply the color pencil whilst the paper still wet then you could run into the risk of damaging the paper as you apply more and more layers it's really important that you use less and less painting at each time because if you apply too emerges and it'll wreck all the layers underneath that you created so what I love about the solvent is that it means that you can blend the color pencils really really quickly and it really speeds up the process and it also means that you don't hurt your wrist because you don't have to apply any pressure at all when you're blending with the solvent [Music] okay so now moving on to the third method and this is where I'm using a pencil blender to how blender color pencil so each brand normally does that own type of pencil blender and for this tutorial I'm using the Karen - pencil colorless blender because I don't have any prismacolor blenders on me but it should work the same seems as they are both wax based pencils so I am applying the layers just the same and the key thing to remember is that the pencil blender is only going to do a really good job if there's enough color pencil on the paper for it to blend and also only going to blend it smoothly if that pencil was applied really smoothly and not scribbly and there's not a lot of pressure applied to the pencil so again I layered the pencils just like I did the first time and then I go in with a current - blender and first I use it on the sides however when I want to fill in the bits of white graininess I go to the tip of the blender and use it with a bit more pressure and again I do this in circular motion the pencil blender isn't my favorite method to use I don't use it that much I use the pencil blender in conjunction with the burnishing and layering process so I usually do it at the end once of burnish just to give a final smoothing over but I don't use it on its own as a method it tends to be that I tend to use all four of these methods at some point but I usually use them in conjunction with each other because one method might suit something that you'll draw in better than another method so for example I love using the solvent on the landscape and on animal firm but I definitely using it on the skin because I think it's hard to get it perfectly flawless whereas I think burnishing is easier because you have more control over the smoothness that you can create [Music] okay so now I'm moving on to the last color pencil method and this is where I am using the white color pencil as a blender and you can use any other color pencil for this but I'm using the white color pencil and that's color pencils that I usually use and selector this method I'm applying the color pencils as usual and just layer in those color pencils but then instead of when you burnish where you just use the colors individually and apply a lot of pressure for each one and then ease the colors into each other I'm just going to layer all the colors and then go over the whole thing with the white color pencil and use that as the burnisher to blend out the whole thing and this will write in the colors a bit but then once you blended it out and got that first smooth layer then you can glaze all the other colors over it with the sides of the pencils and this is really good because it doesn't ruin the smoothness that you created there helps replenish some of those colors otherwise it'll be a bit too pale overall I do love all of these ways to blend color pencils but my two favorites are probably using the white color pencil to blend and using the solvent to blend and those are the two that are commonly used together [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] anyway guys off into today's video if you'll need to my channel make sure you subscribe so you don't miss out on my future color pencil tutorial videos I also have fan art drawings and original drawings on a Friday as always I'll leave my social media links in the description below thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you in my next video bye [Music] you

Channel: Kirsty Partridge Art

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Id: GIQc9dfgrTU

Length: 12min 55sec (775 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 14 2017