LAYERING | How to get the most out of your coloured pencils | #johannabasford

Unleash your artistic potential with these tips, to help master layering coloured pencils. In this beginner tutorial I'll show you How to get the most out of your coloured pencils by using light layers. Layering is one of those skills that will really help elevate your artwork. It will transform your pictures by adding depth and dimension, while having different colours shine through one another. There are so many ways you can use layering, like shading, adding texture, mixing different colours, smoothing out the surface by removing visible pencil lines and more. Today I will be using Derwent Lightfast. This is a new set in my coloured pencil collection, and I have yet to use these for a picture, so I thought it would be interesting to check them out. We are going to colour in Small Victories and Adult Colouring Book by Johanna Basford. I want to use complimentary colours, so if you have a colour wheel, they can be quite helpful for this. I’m going to be using yellow orange, with blue violet as the complimentary colour. Then you can change this for the other dinosaurs. I’ve picked out a few pencils for each colour. Champage Mustard Amber Gold Flame Natural Brown Wild Lavender Violet Blue Violet Nightshade Foilage Forest Mars Black All music by Epidemic sound, unless otherwise stated. http://www.epidemicsound.com/referral... Tools commonly used: Pentel water brush set https://amzn.to/3D8h0NT Faber Castell Polychromos https://amzn.to/3wpsn0h Faber Castell Classic 60 set https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B01FDKQG... Prismacolor Premier set. https://amzn.to/3R00ViU Staedtler Double hole pencil sharpener https://amzn.to/3H2DcdB Staedtler Tabletop sharpener https://amzn.to/3D6kqki Derwent Blender Pencil set. https://amzn.to/3Hn6Onb Microphone: Røde NT-USB https://amzn.to/3Hnha6A Camera: Canon EOS M50. https://amzn.to/3WsuUBu Rooms of Wonder https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/15291483... Worlds of Wonder https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/15291073... World of Flowers https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/07535531... Lost Ocean https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/07535571... Magical Jungle https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/07535571... Ivy and the inky butterfly https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/07535456... Secret Garden https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/17806710... How to draw inky wonderlands https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/07535531... Enchanted Forest https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/17806748... 30 days of Creativity https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/15291482... Island Escape https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/18499477... Outlander https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/17808966... Harry Potter https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/17437981... Mein Winter Spaziergang https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/34046091... Johanna Basford's Worlds of Wonder https://amzn.to/3dn2Gor Johanna Basford's Ivy and The Inky Butterfly https://amzn.to/3agBUfs Johanna Basford's Secret Garden https://amzn.to/3ttoO64 Johanna Basford's How To Draw Inky Wonderlands https://amzn.to/3wY1iQT Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest https://amzn.to/3aimWpj You can also follow my other channel Holistic Living Downunder    / holisticlivingdownunder   My Amazon Wish List https://www.amazon.com.au/hz/wishlist... **Some links may be Affiliate links which earns me a small commission at no extra cost to you