Using Derwent Inktense pencils to color over grayscale

Coloring Book: Beautiful Creatures
Colorist: Nicole Stocker

​When coloring over grayscale you are using the gray as your guide. Where there are dark grays you use dark colors, where there are light grays you use your light colors. Then seamlessly blend your lights and darks together with medium colors. Derwent Inktense pencils work nicely for this style of coloring (provided the paper can handle it) because you can apply your color and then blend it all so nicely together when you activate the pencils with your watercolor brush.
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Specific techniques used in the following time-lapse video:

• Using Derwent Inktense colored pencils for coloring over grayscale
• Activating the Inktense pencils with a watercolor brush
• Completing the more precise details with regular colored pencils
• Using soft chalk pastels for the background

​Mediums used in the following time-lapse video: 

• Derwent Inktense colored pencils
• Pentel watercolor brush
• Prismacolor Premier colored pencils
• Staedtler soft chalk pastels

Another example of watercolor pencils used to color grayscale

Coloring Book: Beautiful Creatures
Colorist: Nicole Stocker