Hi, and welcome to Colorful Crafting with me, Dee, a.k.a. The Messy Perfectionist! Why that name? Well, sometimes art (and life for that matter) can get a bit messy before it becomes beautiful. This is a channel for learning together. Come along to see my DIY projects and artsy crafty fun stuff! If you love all things color and are looking for some inspiration for your next craft project, please consider subscribing. I'll be sharing some of my painting, adult coloring, sewing, cricut maker, stencil making, ornaments, adult coloring book flip through projects, and more! Hope to see you there and thanks for the support.
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Thank you!!
Thank you for this video, I have this set of coloured pencils and I am learning about coloring and blending as a retired lady.
Wonderful!
Love the pallet for the seahorses and turtle!
Thank you!
The hidden image completely ruined the whales for me. Right in the middle of that flower for no reason. I can’t understand the reason to do this. I’m trying to get into these books, but why is there a 6 of diamonds sticking out of the tree limb. Really,really ,wish they would stop that.
I know! Really not a fan of the hidden images things.
I ordered the Shuttle Art 136 pencils, instead of the "polychromos", and MAN!!! These are shoooo ghooooddd!!!! I'm glad I did!!! I only paid 24 euros on amazon!!! What a "bargain", for such good quality!!! I'm gonna make "good botanical arts" with these!!! Thank You Amazon, and Shuttle Art!!!!
these look amazing but im gutted they are not available for me to get. im a sucker for pastels
Aww bummer!! I really love my Black Widow Monarch set-maybe check that set out? I also have a review for them somewhere on my channel if you want to see them in action. 😊
@d_themessyperfectionist oh I have Alltwen black widows too 😂 but I'm totally checking your video out
Jennifer stay rated these number one in her latest showdown of cheap pencils
Glad they work good for some. Everyone’s different. Shuttle Art were a much better budget pencil for me. Highly pigmented without all the crumbling
I bought those pencils too. I don't like the way the blend on any paper! I keep trying them in hopes I'm wrong but so far I haven't found any paper I like using them on.
At least it’s not just me. I have never returned pencils before but these were just awful to use.
@@d_themessyperfectionist I've returned Uni Colored Pencils . I just couldn't get a good color from them no matter what I tried. I even had someone else test them out for me and they felt they same way. The inexpensive pencils that I don't care for usually go to my granddaughter or friends.
Thanks for Sharing . I have been using a planner for things like hoovering and day to day things this year. I am thinking about getting the 2025 Planner if Sarah dose one. Thanks again xxxx
You are so welcome! It’s been fun using for sure
These are one of my favorite pencils!! Love them ❤
They’re fun!
Thank you.
You're welcome! Thank you for watching!
New Sub UK .I am also a cros crafter . Happy coloring lovely xxxx
Thanks for subbing!
Looks like you had a lot of fun! ❤ I also am a content creator so I totally get it!❤
Thanks for watching!! It is fun!
I would love ❤️ to see a review on the Shuttle Art set of 60 Pastel Colored Pencils sets 🙏. Thank you in advance 😊.
Great suggestion! I probably wouldn’t be purchasing those any time soon though as I have the Indra set of pastels (did do a review for them if interested) & my black widow sets have a good range of them too 😊
I have Shuttle Art Colored Pencils 180 Just waiting for the Shuttle Art Pastel 60 Pencils 😊😅😁😃😄
Nice!
@@d_themessyperfectionist Thanks 😁
This book should have been larger and with thicker paper to accommodate wet media.
How do these compare to the oil pastels?
Hi there, you know, honestly I’m not sure as I’ve not had much experience with oil pastels. Sorry I couldn’t be more help in that department. I’d say there is more comparison to NeoColor2 water soluble crayons if anything though.
Very pretty pictures
Thank you!
I just got this book, what did you color them with? I want to try my illustration markers but not sure
I’ve used my alcohol market and pencil overlay on them. I suggest just testing with alcohol marker in one I’d the tear out corners to make sure they don’t bleed through but mine held up so far! Hope that helps and happy Coloring!
Lovely work Dee. Your Kerby pics are really excellent. I always find that Kerbys pics come out stunning once done.
Many thanks!
I’ve just found your channel n I must say I’m impressed with your colouring,Thankyou for sharing❤
Thanks so much 😊
Hi Dee, just found your channel. You've done some lovely work on these pages! ❤
Welcome & Thank you so much!
Hi Dee, Enjoying your completed coloring pages. Since you asked for some feedback, I’ve noticed that your colored pages do not have much contrast. Every color is used at basically the same value. Value is the relative darkness or lightness of a color. The way I was taught to evaluate for value is the take a photo of your coloring page and switch it to a black and white image using your phone’s editing filter. An interesting, well-balanced colored page or painting or photowill have a range of white to black with gray values between them. For example for your page in The Ink House with the books and orange, blue and wall tiles, it might look better if you did add a dark colored grout around the tiles. Something to consider.
Thank you for the info! I’m certainly having challenges with this
Gorgeous pages, thank you for sharing ❤❤❤
Thanks so much!
On the Johanna Basford gingerbread houses I did a day and night background on each page.
Ohh that sounds lovely! Thank you
Beautiful pages ❤❤
Thanks so much!
I enjoyed seeing your completed pages. I actually prefer the white background for the contrast and focus it gives to the main image, so those Basford spreads without backgrounds look finished to me. I think she’s said she prefers that, too.
Thank you! Oh, I didn’t know that about Johanna Basford. That’s what I love about this little community; always learning and sharing 🥰
Really beautiful work! I have to get back to Kirby. Happy New Year.
Happy new year to you!
I love the colour cubes I got them when they first came out hear in beautiful Australia.. they a good idea
I totally agree!
Pretty Coloring pages
Thank you!!
9:07 gorgeous. Love seeing your pages 😊💚
Thank you so much! I’m so happy that folks like you find joy in my shares. 🥰
These are lovely, Dee! I love that you drew in the lights on the Seasons page - it looks like it was meant to be that way! Thanks for sharing!❤
I’m so glad you liked it! Def my favorite for the season. I’m always really nervous when I add illustrations because I’m not fantastic at that either, lol. Thanks for your support.💕
Idk if you have them but dark arts has 2 other books you’d like. 😊 I love you vibes girl keep coloring.
Aww thank you so much and no, I don’t have the other two but I need to check em out!
I am trying to decide whether or not to keep the 72 colored pencil set you are reviewing here. They crumble a lot on smooth paper which then smears and stains if not wiped away immediately with a very soft brush. A harder brush will smear them, and I haven't been able to get the smears to erase very well. If well sharpened, the tips will break on many if burnishing pressure is used. My swatch sheet colors are not coming out the same as the ones shown in the enclosed booklet's colors on its swatch sheet at all. I only had a smooth surface picture to try some pencils on. When reaching 3rd laydown they seemed to push some of the color aside instead of laying over it. I'm glad you showed us a second demo on paper with some tooth to it. They looked a lot better.
Thank you so much for your own detailed review and experience! This is why I do this, hoping to help someone else and possibly save an unwanted purchase. I returned these for all the reasons you mentioned, in the end and I’m so glad to see I wasn’t the only one with this experience. Thank you for your support!!
I have 2 copies of this bought my first one in 2016 it's almost finished, like3 wipes its my favorite book!
I’m having fun Coloring in it!
I just found the Greek edition and love it. It's my first Johanna Basford book . I have only just started colouring during the last two months so a complete newbie. Love your channel.
That’s awesome! Welcome to the world of coloring fellow newbie!! It’s a lot of fun.
Looks really good.
Thank you!
I am new to your channel, and I absolutely love the colors you use they are my faves, thank you so much for sharing ur beautiful talent and pages❤😊
Thank you so much for your support and beautiful comment! I really appreciate that as I’m learning. Welcome aboard!
Great video, thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Your videos bring joy to my day.
wow~ fantastic ~talk to you soon!
Glad it was helpful!
Love the page you did using the pencil I have them to ❤
Thank you!!
😃Very dynamic!😄
Very nice finished pages.
Thanks so much!
For my understanding the king art gel sticks are more similar to Faber Castell than neocolor II. I don't think they are that similar to neocolor II. But probably a good alternative to gelatos if cheaper. You can use it dry or wet, to use dry if you have the Carandach palette or a cutting board with texture you can put them in the palette and use a brush, like the ink brushes, or sponge to spread it in the page, you can even mix colours. Personally I don't have the king art but I have a few gelatos and silky crayons and really enjoy to use them, specially for bigger background, they apply really smooth. To use wet for me it works better to put it in the palette first instead of directly to paper. Give it a few tries and hopefully you can make them work for you.
Oh wow!! Thank you so much for this, this is great info for me and I will definitely be trying these techniques! Appreciate you
Tres joli. Merci de France 😊
Thank you!!
New subscriber here, love your energy. Totally could have used a minute spotlight to get a closer look at your nails, they're beautiful
Aww thank you so much!! I do my own nails so you’ll see them change often! 🥰
Great pages!! Really loved your Kerby pages. Especially the Forest scene from Mythomorphia. It’s turning out just lovely! Thanks for sharing ☺️
Thank you so much!
As a professional artist one of the first things that I learned is to pay attention to values. What that means is that you need to make darkly dark and lightly light and then you can have your mid-tones in between. Your coloring all those very beautiful is all mid-tones. In my opinion you just need to add some more very dark darks and some very light lights and that will make things look more three-dimensional and also make these images really really pop
Thank you so much for your comments and advice! Is there a good source you like where I can learn more on this as I know I struggle with this.
@@d_themessyperfectionist honestly the way that I learned it was from another artist kept saying it and she told me when I think it's dark enough go darker. Of course this applies to your shadows.
Alcohol markers fade. I don't know if that matters to you but the fugitive nature is unacceptable to me❤