Grayscale Coloring
Techniques BLOG
TIPS, TECHNIQUES & TUTORIALS
In this two part video tutorial series Jones Flores walks you through the key techniques for coloring both long and short fur with colored pencils.
Last week we focused on how to color long fur with colored pencils while coloring the monkey from Beautiful Creatures. This week we will be showing you how to color short fur with the Basenji from Beautiful Creatures. A practice coloring page is provided to support both parts of this video tutorial series and to give you an opportunity to color along with Jones. A full color list is also provided. Let's get started...
In this two part video tutorial series Jones Flores walks you through the key techniques for coloring both long and short fur with colored pencils.
This week we are focusing on long fur while coloring the monkey from Beautiful Creatures. Next week we will be showing you how to color short fur with the Basenji from Beautiful Creatures. A practice coloring page is provided to support both parts of this video tutorial series and to give you an opportunity to color along with Jones. A full color list is also provided. Let's get started... We have amassed a wonderful collection of grayscale coloring tips, video tutorials and practice pages. Therefore, I thought it would be helpful to put together a post that would provide you with quick and organized access to everything so you don't have to dig through all the previous blog posts. Below you will find:
The Grayscale Coloring Guide - Free 100+ Page E-Book Over 100 pages of grayscale coloring tips, techniques, tutorials and practice coloring pages from my blog organized in a logical order that is easy to find your way through. If grayscale coloring is new to you, this guide will give you the information and tools you need to tackle and enjoy grayscale coloring. If you are a seasoned grayscale colorist then it will enable you to take your grayscale coloring (or painting!) to the next level. Full length coloring tutorials and color-alongs These tutorials walk you through the coloring of a picture from start to finish with the video at normal speed. These videos vary in length from 30 minutes to 2+ hours.
Speed coloring tutorials These tutorials include instructions to go along with the speed coloring. These videos vary in length from 1 minute to 20 minutes. Pages from Beautiful Nature
Pages from Beautiful Creatures
Written Coloring Tips:
Step-by-Step Grayscale Coloring Process of Four Incredible Colorists
Downloadable Coloring Guides Downloadable Grayscale Coloring Pages: Here are some grayscale pages for you to download and print so you can practice some of the techniques listed above. These come from Beautiful Creatures and Beautiful Nature. Some are full pages and some are practice pages containing parts of images for practice.
I hope this collection of resources is helpful. Happy Coloring! I started this blog over two years ago! Over the past two years I have built quite a robust collection of grayscale coloring guidance. Due to the nature of a blog, it isn't always the easiest to find what you are looking for or to progress through the techniques and tutorials in a logical order. That is why I created the Grayscale Coloring Guide. The Grayscale Coloring Guide is over 100 pages of grayscale coloring tips, techniques, tutorials and practice coloring pages from my blog organized in a logical order that is easy to find your way through. If grayscale coloring is new to you, this guide will give you the information and tools you need to tackle and enjoy grayscale coloring. If you are a seasoned grayscale colorist then it will enable you to take your grayscale coloring (or painting!) to the next level. To give you a sense of what you'll find in the Grayscale Coloring Guide, here is the Table of ContentsIntroduction What is Grayscale Coloring? How to Color Over Grayscale What Coloring Medium Should I Use? 5 Essential Steps for Grayscale Coloring Success
Grayscale Coloring in Action 14 Unique Grayscale Coloring Tips
Step-by-Step: How to Color Water Drops Step-by-Step: How to Color Eyes & Feathers How to Paint Grayscale
Grayscale Coloring Tutorials with Free Practice Coloring Pages
Additional Grayscale Coloring Tutorials I hope you find this guide really helpful! Happy Coloring! :-) Learn the key techniques for achieving realism when painting grayscale. In this post you will find:
Colorist: Julie Flores Coloring Book: Beautiful Nature WIP of the leaf from Beautiful Nature Colorist: Jones Flores In this post you will find:
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 I'm excited to bring you our first grayscale PAINTING video tutorial! I hope to have several more for you in the future. In this grayscale coloring tutorial the talented artist Julie Flores (Jones Flores' sister!) shows us how to paint the peony buds from "Beautiful Nature" using acrylics. Julie takes us step-by-step through the painting process to achieve the gorgeous result above! This video tutorial is based on the painting techniques provided by Julie and outlined in a previous blog post. If you wish to paint along then here is what you'll need:
Click the video below to start watching. I hope you find it helpful! *Note: if the video is too "speedy" then just enter the video link (https://youtu.be/FevWkVlAPMU) at www.youtubeslow.com and you can slow the video down to the best speed for you. Happy Coloring (and Painting)!
Colorist: Julie Ann Flores Coloring Book: Beautiful Nature Who Wants to Learn How to PAINT Grayscale? I Do! I Do!In this post we will learn all about painting grayscale from an amazing self-taught artist, Julie Ann Flores. You might recognize her last name because she is the sister of the extremely talented Jones Flores who I did a post about a little while ago! I feel so fortunate to have gotten to know them through their art. They are wonderful and talented women that are excited to share their techniques and knowledge with all that are interested. Let's get started... Below, Julie outlines the 6 key techniques she uses when painting grayscale. She provides an explanation and visual for each technique to paint the tulip field picture below from Beautiful Nature. In addition, Julie provides two slideshows showcasing the 6 techniques. The slideshows provide step-by-step guidance so that you can follow along! One is the Gerbera Daisy (showcased above) and the other is a Lotus Flower. Colorist: Julie Ann Flores Coloring Book: Beautiful Nature Materials Needed
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