I really enjoy when artists talk about what they are doing as they do it. It helps me learn and understand. So I don't mind the art talk.

@qitsune8326

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah exactly, I feel the same way

@treasurespastnpresen

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely, you learn so much, especially the thought process, why, when and how.

@pjbarnett5756

4 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@codghost9301

4 жыл бұрын

What coloring style is this

@quintessential8361

3 жыл бұрын

Olivia Davis I wanna know too lol

"Do you ever have times in your life when you wish time could stop and you could just figure things out?" Yes, yes. Every day of my life. I am glad I am not the only one who feels that way. I think you are doing great though. Your work is very inspirational to me

@jennya9163

4 жыл бұрын

Anthony Butler me right now

Would like to see a video where you talk about the artists you like and how they inspire you, what you've learned from them and where the influence comes from.

@IvnaLinsIllustration

4 жыл бұрын

that would be a beautiful video to watch!! :)

"ALRIGHT. thats IT. step awaaay from the page!" *keeps drawing and picking at it* okay but same

You don't need to press hard with coloured pencils to get dark values, build up the layers slowly until you get the value you want

@irisgonzalez5028

4 жыл бұрын

Yes that's one way of doing it, pencil colors certainly do take alot of time T.T I tend to use the burnishing technique through most of drawings which usually means pressing down hard on the pencil, but I do cause I dont like the texture of the paper XD

@hanjun1828

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much 😢 I'm so lost on how to use color pencils, I really want the texture to pop, but I don't know how. But hopefully! This will help me, my lines are so sloppy 😅

@signesartandanimation

4 жыл бұрын

@@hanjun1828 If you want texture then paying attention to the direction your drawing in certainly helps as well. Texture in color pencils is really just a mix of paper, preasure and direction if that makes sense. It does depend somewhat of the pencils your using as well, but i would worry about those other points first.

@dimsummomoidkwhattopost6715

3 жыл бұрын

True

@nootnootimaboot8798

3 жыл бұрын

@@hanjun1828 i'm sure you've progressed a lot since you made this comment! but a tip for those lines, is pay attention to whether you should be moving your wrist, or your whole arm! sometimes it's easier to make clean lines by keeping your wrist locked and moving your whole arm!

Chris: "Does it matter at this point? Probably not." Also Chris: "Will I still lose sleep over it? Probably." I relate so much to this 😅

This is so beautiful. Now i'll try to study looking at tones in bigger shapes than tiny bits

@vakaresurvylaite1029

4 жыл бұрын

Yeee do it! It does wonders to your work and u can always bring the details back when u are finished with the blocking and stuff

I always find it so interesting to watch how you analyse and tackle colours in your work. The way you treated this piece still reminds me very much of your painting technique, which I guess makes sense. I'm just surprised considering how different the mediums are! It turned out so beautiful though. You managed to capture such a softness in her expression, but the colours are so strong. It's amazing! Can I ask where you find all these portrait refs? I'm gonna guess Pinterest? Gorgeous work as usual!

@ChrisHongArt

4 жыл бұрын

thank you so much, I'm glad that my style still comes through! and yes I use Pinterest most of the time to find refs for these studies, I just find a photo I like then click into them and fall down the rabbit hole and pin any photos I think would work well ^^

@french-teapot

4 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisHongArt Thanks for the reply! 😊

@inkypunk

4 жыл бұрын

This was exactly what I thought. It looks strangely like watercolour and I guess it's because she approaches the technique the same way. It's like the best of both worlds 😍

Me: "I can't believe people use Green in self portraits" Me after this video: YOU ABSOLUTE GOD. THE QUEEN OF PORTRAITS. THE MISAYA OF THE COLOR GREEN ITS SELF.

i just adore watching you work with colours, how you managed to use that many without making it seem muddled or too brown -the way i always do when i attempt coloured pencils- is so so oddly magical to me. love final piece so much, especially (weirdly enough,) her nose!

If anyone is curious about beginning colored pencil art I’d recommend the 36 pack of the prismacolor premier. It has a really nice variety of warm and cool tones and is less intimating when selecting a color palette. Be sure to also at least have a small metal hand sharpener if you can’t find a hand crank sharpener.

@cutebutdangerous1095

4 жыл бұрын

Polychromos are the best

@jessiebunnie

4 жыл бұрын

cute but dangerous they are pretty good, but have an oil base and serve different purposes. They are also harder to find in store, and are more expensive

@magoogam2

4 жыл бұрын

Polychromos

@cutebutdangerous1095

4 жыл бұрын

@@magoogam2 what was your point of repeating what I said....

@magoogam2

4 жыл бұрын

@@cutebutdangerous1095 Polychromos are the best.

Interesting use of colored pencils. I like the way you use so many colors. I also like watching Kirsty Partridge on you tube. She has great tips for color pencils also! Great job! I love the finished product. 😁

I'm really happy that it is a full time video than time-lapse cause most of the artist show time-lapse video cause of which we can't understand everything

If it bothers you to have the grain, use a white pencil to burnish between layers. The more expensive pencils won't make much difference.

I can't art and talk at the same time either lol.. It's why I do so many speed paints! Lol I listen to kpop and watch kdramas to fill my time when I'm not filming or it would be in the background of my videos, I can pick out some phrases now in Korean but I would love to speak it fluently 😊 You and Kim JungGi are my favorite artists! 💖 Thank you for being you!

@tarabooartarmy3654

4 жыл бұрын

Another KPOP and Kim Jung Gi fan here! Hiiiii!

@AurorasArtWorld

4 жыл бұрын

@@tarabooartarmy3654 sweeeeeeeeeeet! Hi there!! 👋💕🤟

I like your videos because you talk about the art during the process which helps me to learn.. Thanks a lot for that :)

you are actually one of the really few artists i found on youtube who actually show what they are talking about in the video at normal speed... thanks

This was such a great video and so fun to watch! I’ve used colored penciled a lot throughout art school and beyond, it’s one of my favorite mediums, especially used on top of watercolor. When you were talking about not being able to see yourself using them for a finished illustration because of the scratchy texture, a couple things came to mind that I thought might be helpful: I sharpen my pencils a LOT to keep the tips really pointed so I can do light even “washes” of color. Once they get dull it starts skipping across the paper texture more and you get that scratchy feel (which can be cool looking if that’s what you’re intending). I also use smoother textured surfaces to work on, like hot press watercolor paper, Bristol board, and when I was in school the standard class requirement was Strathmore 100% cotton rag illustration board (super thick and versatile surface for almost any medium). Love watching you experiment and have fun making art! This came out absolutely gorgeous. 😊

Thank you so much for keeping the reference photo up while you completed this piece. It helps me understand why you are using the colors you choose. Very helpful! 👏🙌👍

I loooooove thisss. Your style really comes out in this

Your use of colour is amazing!! I love how you incorporate many shades with a simple ref 💖

I adore how you fill your portraits with color! So vibrant and pretty!

I love this and that you talk about the art! I have seen live streams where they don't talk too and I like them as well! Drawholic doesn't speak English and his streams are still really nice to watch just to see different techniques. It's also nice to see someone on the screen in real time when alone.

I can’t stop saying it, your use of color is so amazing, i love it 😍 Also i love your work so much, i think you are so good like a master or genious in what you do, but hearing you saying that sometimes you make things that you don’t like or that you “mess up” that makes me feel so related and, even when you make things look so easy doesn’t mean they are actually easy for you. So i just wanted to say that I love to get to know both sides of you, the great artist and the actual human beeing that isn’t always satisfied with her work, Thank you for showing you the way you are and your feelings.. You are so fresh and true and authentic 💖 and very very talented 💖

" can you mix colored pencils with your finger like graphite?" A) you can use a paper towel (that's dry, obv) to slightly mix, if I'm remembering correctly- but only with wax heavy colored pencils. You will, however, want to use paper town to "lift" up some of the extra shine (wax) to keep mixing the pigments easily. B ) Different Prisma color pencil types have different wax consistency, i.e, making blending easier or not i.e x2 the more pigmented ones tend to have more wax because it can glide more easily onto the paper (most your pencils are of the lighter wax variety- the Prisma's with sharp sides have less wax in them, the round ones are waxier!) C ) I was taught, when learning colored pencils, to draw with them in tight circles (for my BFA illustration classes), this allows a smooth application of the pigmented wax and for easier blending with other pigments. In the end, it looks like a painting (of sorts) because the pigments are perfectly blended (which isn't really your style, but, alas!). When using them like this it is more like mixing pigments, add white to wash out an area, blend colored pencils ontop of one another for a new pigment, etc- sorta like paint (: But always remember, you can always go darker, but you can't bring back a pure white! Always start with your darks. I love your style and approach to pencils- prettier and leaves more to the imagination, looks so effortless. These are just some tips I had to pay over 50K for at an art school for, Maybe they'll benefit someone just starting with Prisma colored pencils.

@santiagogomezcardona7249

4 жыл бұрын

Hello. I wonder if you could tell me what type of papers are better when using colored pencils, please

Your use of color has really helped me, I would have never thought to use them the way you did.

I don’t know why but when she calls them “pencil crayons” I feel small tinges of anger 😂😂😂😂

@jengoodwyn2715

4 жыл бұрын

I grew up hearing them called them pencil crayons so calling them coloured pencils is a change.

@tarabooartarmy3654

4 жыл бұрын

I think “pencil crayons” is what they are typically called in Canada, and maybe in Britain and some other places, while colored pencils is mainly an American thing.

@ktb.creates5701

4 жыл бұрын

@@tarabooartarmy3654 in the UK they're coloured pencils too

@tarabooartarmy3654

4 жыл бұрын

ktb. creates Ah, ok. I think I heard at least one other country sometimes says pencil crayons, but I can’t remember which one. So I guess “colored pencil” or “coloured pencil” is more common than I realized. Maybe it just stands out more when someone says pencil crayon, so I notice it more.

@ktb.creates5701

4 жыл бұрын

@@tarabooartarmy3654 I mean, technically, they are called pencil crayons so we're wrong 😂

That's sooo beautiful, Chris! It's so fresh. The brightness in her hair is just amazing. I really think that this media (coloured pencils, I mean) suits you a lot. This drawing is so strong. So, I can only encourage you to do a whole "painting" with coloured pencils 😍

its really cool how you kind of build the drawing up from a certain point (the nose here) its very satifying

You should definitely do more of these, perhaps starting with a faint watercolor under painting to model shapes, color temperatures. It might make feeling your way through the drawing go faster so that the sensation of slogging through the beginning phases doesn’t feel so tortuous. Chris, I absolutely love how you resolved all the issues presented by the lack of information in the reference photo, and ended up with a drawing glowing with color and life. When you said, “I don’t hate it.”, I had to chuckle. It’s so typical of you, an artist brimming with innate abilities and instincts, to hand wring and second guess right to the end. But you just keep getting better and better. I’m often so astonished by your work, and spend several minutes caressing it with eyes of admiration.

I love how you build the image piece by piece, trying out shades and lines until it's just right! I will try and do the same next time! It's a very striking and beautiful image you chose.

This is a great, relaxing video! I'm an aspiring artist myself who struggles with sketching and using color in general, so this video was really insightful for me.

Lovely, delicate. Love the shadow colors!

Beautiful colours. I love the jazz music in the background, very relaxing and not distracting.

Love this!! It’s just so beautiful and soft on the eyes while being interesting

Color variations are just so fun though!!!! I’m the same with not focusing on value right away and having to double check myself to make sure the piece makes sense 😅

@ChrisHongArt

4 жыл бұрын

probably means we are both very motivated by colour! :D 😘

i am the same when watching korean youtubers, i feel like its good to just surround urself with the sound every now and then if you know the language or are learning it

I love this colored pencil technique. Beautiful

So beautiful you art is so mesmerizing, and your hard work to get to where you are at now shows through immensely. Super well done!

Love love love this video !! It’s so nice to see someone willing to try something out rather than coming out with something «“perfect”! Ur art is amazing ,remember it’s alright to not feel happy with drawings.make sure u take breaks!! We r all hère for u ❤️

There's something lovely and ASMR-y about the sound of pencils being shuffled around 😊

magical! i could watch this stuff all day, every day! loved the music too.

So much talent. This video led me to her SkillShare lessons on drawing portraits. They are so well presented, comprehensive, detailed and well organized. Seems she reads the minds of beginning students and addresses their questions and fears. Thank you!

The color is so good!🧡

I really like how "rainbowy" you made her hair. It makes the drawing more unique

I love watching these type of videos its really therapeutic for me cause i have anxiety and the music is soo calming. 😍and I learn a lot from it also

i am absolutely mesmerized by the colors of every single artwork you create. Is this love?

She is absolutely gorgeous, i love your use of colour 💜

You are so talented cause you know that u will use which color and also you are so brave so you use purple blue or green at the shadows and it looks awesome.I love your art😍🌼🌾💛

Love it, "I just can't stop..." Then "Yas, yas"....I say the same thing in front of my sixth graders when I'm teaching a directed drawing session. They start laughing...I tell them, I'm always trying to get better too! Beautiful study!

This is such a great way to work. Thank's for sharing your art. Also keep it coming.

Watching your creative process and listen to your chat and draw is a real good moment everytime. Thank you for making video like this :D

Absolutely loving the accompanying background music as I am a Jazz music lover.

I love the mix of colors ❤

Definitely do more colored pencil work! This was fun to watch! :)

Look at 20:00. Beautiful, right? There’s still 15 mins left. insane.

@codghost9301

4 жыл бұрын

What coloring style is this

looks amazing! 🖤 i’m feeling inspired now

So many colours! 😍 this turned out so amazing, it was pretty cool before you added the eyes...but they brought so much life to the piece. You really captured the expression. I used coloured pencils for the first time “properly” last week to draw some mushrooms and I was surprised by how much I loved them. And this has inspired me even more 😀

I love your drawings, they look simple but complicated at the same time

I love your work and the fact that you watch SuriNoel as well just elevated my love for you🌸💕

@ChrisHongArt

4 жыл бұрын

haha I knew I couldn't be the only one who watches them here!😆😘

This was one of my favorite pieces of yours on Instagram :) watching this come to life in “real” time was mesmerizing & informative. Thanks!

I love working with colored pencils. Your drawing turned out perfect. 😍😍 I actually tried doing a (sort of) portrait-study/more-like-a-screencap-redraw-thing the other day, and I like how it turned out. I kinda wish I could post a pic, but alas~ You are so good at capturing the different saturations and hues in the pictures!.. I'm just a "use a bunch of skin colors for the face" person, I never think of using blue, and green and purple...

Normally the art looks hideous in the beginning stages and then when it's finished I am like "who. nice!". With you... After you sketched the face I was already amazed and it was getting better and better. Loved it.

I am so trying this out! Nice seeing you use a different medium. Wowww 🧡

i truly love your style! you are so talented, your portraits are really great, i really enjoy watching your studies, i hope we get to see them more often!

Wow, that's great. I recently painted this girl with pencils too. Red hair and bright blue eyes always inspire me.

i usually draw cartoon-ish stuff and character art but its videos like these that make me wanna try realism

Heya Chris! Ahhhh I love your work so so so much! Seeing your style translated in coloured pencils is such a treat - I hope you feel like making more coloured pencil pieces in the future :D I totally relate to wanting time to pause though - I wish for that on a daily basis aha. Btw, I‘m a SuriNoel fan too! definitely one of my fave cute channels, all their adorable personalities are so fun to watch and the storytelling is so sweet. While I’m working though I actually binge-watch a lot of horror let’s-players videos (SuperGreatFriend, CJUGames, John Wolfe), sometimes mixed in with other random topics in my recommends (mostly game lets-plays overall though). Recently I’ve also started going through some of Polygon’s gaming stuff and that’s been fun.

It looks so cool, so rainbowlike, but in any way stylish and magical 💛

Very lovely piece.

I love the way you used color!

So gorgeous. You are so calming to watch and listen to. You are an amazing KZreadr!

Absolutely lovely Chris! Please let up on yourself...you are an amazing artist!!

I like how you use color! It's really pretty.

i love how you talk in your videos already! dont have to change anything XD you just sound really genuine and your art is awesome!

This is amazing! I've never enjoyed real-time drawing processes, and the artist's talking in the background, and could never make myself sit through the whole video if it's 10+ minutes long (it's just not my cup of tea). But I came across your watercolor study a couple days ago, now this one, and I'm genuinely enjoying watching you. Like, REALLY enjoying. You taught me some important stuff, especially being bolder with colors, haha. I really hope this bad streak in your life will be over soon and you'll stop feeling all these terrible things about your art. It should make you feel free and pleased, not frustrated. Good luck, thank you for sharing your art!

@treasurespastnpresen

4 жыл бұрын

I love realtime videos with the artist explaining their thought processes. You learn so much through both seeing and hearing. Loved this one.

@chaikajpeg2842

4 жыл бұрын

@@treasurespastnpresen exactly!

I love this so much!! I would LOVE to see more pencil crayon work from you!

I love these type of videos!!

Love it! This turned out absolutely beautiful. I also enjoy very much this kind of video!

Really love the look of the final drawing, the commentary was also super nice to have on in the background. glad I stumbled across this channel, keep up the awesome work, it's inspiring. :)

when you said “step away from the page!” but you still kept coloring reminded me how i take tests in school, which then made me think “can Chris even do timed drawing challenges?”

I'm a beginner in color pencil drawing and I'm having a hard time identifying the color that I should use. Thanks for this. Enjoyed watching it. 👍

Well done! You captured her very nicely.

Ahhh this is such a burst of inspiration!! I have colored pencils I've been really wanting to use, but limited space + frustration of sharpening them (prisma colors :''() makes it hard to wanna break them out. Definitely going to have to give them another try on my next days off 💪🏾✨ I love watching your progression of the colors ;;

@ChrisHongArt

4 жыл бұрын

I really hate having to sharpen them myself, really breaks the flow!! So I actually took all the duller pencils and sharpened them before the video so I won't have to do it as much in the middle of it, and it worked out well for me! :D thanks for watching!🧡

Leyendecker meets colorpencils. Master ejecution and the color combination is something I only could dream but not put in practice.

YOU ARE REALLY GOOD AND YOU HAVE THE FEELING OF COLORING!A MAZING JOB WITHOUT EVEN BLENDING THEM,

Your videos are so soothing

This is magic??... how??... amazing!! this is soooo inspiring. also a proof that, if you enjoy doing something, it will bring joy to others!

Perfect , Yours paint is fantastic!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I love when you do art and you are talking .

Wow your class helped me soooooooo much I was way off at first it’s so amazing now

Very nice. I’m digging the Rockwell quality of the drawing.

This is Awesome. Great work!!

OMG i enjoyed every second of the videos, thank you i love it

It came out so pretty! This is super inspirational thanks dude!

it's nice to see the phase that would make me give up or get really frustrated come and go

beautiful! love it 💘

love your painting

Hi I also love the statelet colour pencils they are the best

@hopefull_artlifehope3480

4 жыл бұрын

Stadler sorry auto correct

Prismacolour Premier are one of the softest pencils. My favorite. They blend very well. They are high wax based though so you can get a wax bloom but there are ways to avoid/fix that. Oil based pencils are harder but build up easily in more layers without wax bloom but are much harder pencil cores and take more pressure. Have you tried pastel pencils? They are one of my favorite mediums and I find them very forgiving and very soft. You did a fantastic job here on your coloured pencil portrait. I love the glow and realism you achieved with student grade pencils.