Tips & Tricks For Coloring With Polychromos Pencils

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You can use a small brush with a bit of baby oil on, and go over the colors very lightly. This blends the colors more and brightens the color.

Thank you so much for this video! I’ve had my polychromos pencils for months now, and every tutorial is geared more towards drawings or towards artist’s level of use! This was perfect! Now I better start sharpening!! TFS!

Thanks Emily, this card is stunning! I love coloring in colored pencil, it’s soothing to zone out a bit. So happy to hear that it took 2 hours to color, it takes me about that long too. Thanks so much for sharing your time and creativity, hugs!!!

You have done a fantastic job on creating this card.

Beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing!!

I have been resisting buying this stamp and die but after I saw your card I POUNCED! I have also been resisting really diving in to using my Polychromos....but with your video and with the In The Weeds set...I am READY! Thanks so much Emily! Not only is your card just beautiful but the video was SO helpful!

Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and coloring techniques. Great video! 💜 ps... love this new stamp set.

Thank you so much for the great video! By the way your wedding ring set is gorgeous!!!

Thank you for all your helpful tips

Love using colored pencils! It is a labor of love and looks so different! Thanks for the tutorial!

Great video

Love the lead size on your pencils. Can you share what pencil sharpener you use? Thank you for sharing this beautiful coloring.

I just tried doing Yana Smakula’s pink cardstock with another company’s daffodils background step. You going into how you layer color helps tremendously. I’m a watercolor person… I’ve had an entire set of polycromos for years. I definitely need to slow down and remember that I didn’t learn to watercolor over night!! This was huge help!!! I have a lot of Ellen’s sets including this one… I definitely need to follow more. Any tips for sharpening pencils??

Dear Emily Thanks a bunch. i really enjoyed and learnt a lot. for a new bee like me is it bettter to use polychromos or prismacolors which are wax based. I love to color and improving in baby steps and i will keep on practicing my colorfing. I even bk marjed this so that i can come back to it later. Blessings to you and your family and Ellen too.

Sorry what white pencil do you use? Is it also a Poly?

I think it's best for the learning process especially in a tutorial to use the "name" of the color and NOT a number! The process of learning and understanding colors... tones etc. Is in my opinion very important for technique, blending, mapping out a piece etc. No1. Can do the work for you. Also, the chart offered here (not free) also encourages the same practice of numbering the colors. If someone referenced phathalo blue you wouldn't really know what that color looked like! 😂 kinda a no brainer why the number system just seems like cheating oneself.

The plural of medium is media.

Im sorry, but the bling bling of that Cascade of BLING on that finger kept pulling the attention away from the video. lol Shine Bright Like a ..... nice job on the detail