Grayscale Coloring
Techniques BLOG
TIPS, TECHNIQUES & TUTORIALS
Colorist: Jones Flores Coloring Book: Beautiful Creatures In this post you will find:
Colorist: Jones Flores
Coloring Book: Beautiful Creatures
Grayscale coloring pages provide you with a wonderful template for achieving an incredibly realistic result. In this tutorial, Jones Flores will show us step-by-step how she achieves such a truly realistic result. Below you will find two versions of the video tutorial:
In addition, you will find the steps written out in this blog post as well as provided as a downloadable document so that you can print it out and have it handy as you follow along with the tutorial. That way you don't have to keep pausing the video to write down color numbers!
Colorist: Jones Flores
Coloring Book: Beautiful Creatures
Recently we did our fourth live stream video tutorial & color-along with Jones Flores as our teacher. This time we colored the flamingos from Beautiful Creatures. I was on audio to moderate and ask Jones questions.
During this tutorial we covered five key areas:
Colorist: Jones Flores
Coloring Book: Beautiful Nature
Recently we did our third live stream video tutorial & color-along with Jones Flores as our teacher. This time we colored the lotus flower buds from Beautiful Nature. I was on audio to moderate and ask Jones questions. During this tutorial we learned five key things:
In case you missed it, below you will find the recorded version of the tutorial. You will also find the lotus flower buds page for you to download and print, as well as a list of the supplies you will need, so you can color along with Jones.
Colorist: Jones Flores
Coloring Book: Beautiful Nature
Recently we did our second live stream video tutorial & color-along with Jones Flores as our teacher. I was on audio to moderate and ask Jones questions. During this tutorial we learned four key things:
In case you missed it, below you will find the recorded version of the tutorial. You will also find the landscape page for you to download and print, as well as a list of the supplies you will need, so you can color along with Jones. Colorist: Jones Flores Coloring Book: Beautiful Creatures Recently we did a live stream video tutorial & color-along with Jones Flores as our teacher. I was on audio to moderate and ask Jones questions. It was a wonderful tutorial (aside from some unforeseen technical interruptions and challenges!!) where we all learned lots.
In case you missed it, below you will find the recorded version of the tutorial. You will also find the cat page for you to download and print, as well as a list of the supplies you will need, so you can color along with Jones.
Each time I color I attempt to do something new or different in terms of either the medium I use or the colors I choose. The two examples below are about my color choices. I attempted to incorporate colors that I wouldn't normally have used either in relation to the subject or in combination with the other colors used for the picture. I learned that getting creative with color can create some wonderful results.
I was inspired to do this by Christine Kowbuz (read an interview with her here) who uses color to set off other colors so beautifully! I still have lots to learn but I hope to keep experimenting and to learn more about color so I can achieve better and more exciting results!
Below you will find a wonderful collection of truly useful grayscale coloring tips. All of these tips can apply to line art coloring as well but the visual examples use grayscale coloring pages.
These tips come from the talented artist, Jones Flores. She has very kindly shared her coloring tips with many colorists over the past several months via the Facebook coloring groups. When I asked her if I could gather them all together into one blog post to share with all of you, she very generously sent all her tips my way! In some cases, I have enhanced the tips with additional information that I think you will find helpful. The tips you will find below are:
TIP 1: Making Your Subject Stand Out
Colorist: Jones Flores
Coloring Book: Beautiful Nature Medium Used: Prismacolor Premier colored pencils Below you will find a collection of over 20 grayscale coloring video tutorials from a variety of creators. I thought it would be helpful to have them all in one place as a reference when learning how to color grayscale. I will make a point of continually updating this post when I find or create more grayscale coloring tutorials. If I've missed any, please let me know and I'll add them! I've grouped the video tutorials into three categories: Coloring Grayscale with Colored Pencils
TOPIC: Coloring Grayscale with Faber Castell Polychromos: A Butterfly & Flowers Speed Coloring Video Creator: Peta Hewitt Duration: 13:40 Synopsis: In this beautiful speed coloring tutorial, we learn some wonderful techniques that Peta uses when coloring grayscale. Techniques include: selecting your colors, using black over grayscale, creating a soft out of focus effect vs. a sharp in focus effect, using the grayscale to guide us in terms of where light and shadows should be, and more! Colorist: Ann Reid Coloring Book: Beautiful Creatures Today I will be providing you with a step-by-step grayscale coloring tutorial done by a very talented colorist, Ann Reid.
There is a wonderful Facebook coloring group that is focused on coloring pages from the Beautiful Creatures coloring book. It is full of amazing colorists from around the world (join us!) that range from novice to expert colorists. We all share our work and provide each other with tips, tricks and encouragement. Ann is part of this group. She inspires all of us because of (among many other wonderful qualities) her incredible talent. Every person in the group looks forward to seeing her next creation. She is able to capture every single detail with such amazing precision. She achieves that hyper realistic result that so many of us are striving for when coloring grayscale. The dog above and the four stages below were all completed by Ann. As you can see, she truly brings the image to life! Amazing! |