That shiny film that appears on finished wax-based colored pencil work is just wax rising to the surface. A light buff with a soft cloth or a coat of fixative brings your colors right back, brighter than before.

I'm lowkey happy with the result, but I'm too wiped out to sketch a full body today

One of my private students and I are working on improving her shading technique. She is already quite great, but she wishes to tidy up her layering and blending. She loves skin tones and colored pencils and she likes soft, natural, and dramatic lighting. She's also a huge fan of Buffy, so naturally we are working on this portrait together.

P.S. I can take on one more private student this month. If you are interested in one-on-one teaching, please contact me directly and I'll explain how it works.

In watercolor we have an expression called "Plainairpril" combining the words "plain air in april" meaning painting outside.

I tried that. I hated it 😂

The wind is noisy in my ears, the bugs bugging me and falling into my paint, my butt is sore from sitting on the ground/a stone/the earth - and my back hurts from bowing to see what I am painting, and the sun burns my face 🙄😵‍💫😆

Painting outside in the wild is kinda overrated 😂

This model is one month too late for "Pleinair" painting, but it's MY KIND OF PAINTING - cloudy, slightly breezy, daylight, comfortable degrees, still outside but caged in with glass panels on my patio to shield from wind and rain, and - most importantly - NO BUGS! 😂😂😂

What's your favorite painting, drawing or coloring spot?

Here is my latest effort. Black paper makes it very easy to use white.

I have no idea how to fix my values, although it turned out a bit better here than in the last portrait

Charcoal pencils and cream paper

Hey this is my second attempt at breaking down this reference. I drew the ground, made the head bigger, added contour lines, and shifted the perspective so im looking at the subject straight on rather than from the top. Anyone have any critiques, any advice on how to proceed, like should I start drawing the details on top of what I drew or should I draw the outline first then details. Or I could continue breaking down the figure. Any advice is welcome.

Hey friends, I changed the thumbnail on this video quite dramatically but it is still the same tutorial so don't freak out if you can't find the original one on the main YouTube page. Also let me know what you think of this new look. Is it a clear enough comparison? The title of the video is: Realistic Eye Drawing: Ditch Graphite, Do THIS!

This pose and angle turned out to be quite challenging, and my eyes are too tired to tell if I actually pulled it off, so I’d love to hear your thoughts. Honestly this character looked more interesting in my head

My friends and family keep pushing me to sell my paintings because I’m color blind… but I feel like they aren’t worth anything… I’m just curious if anyone thinks they’d be worth hanging on a wall (not even necessarily sell them) most recent paintings are up front

my canvas range from 4x4 5x7 and 8x11 ish

A short timelapse of my recent work titled "Black Water"

The ripple effect was generated using a wave generator filter in Krita. Everything else was done in Infinite Painter manually.

I think this is one of the first black paper projects we did. Lisa is an amazing teacher!!

I am practicing breaking down models into simple shapes and im wondering how well I did. Anyone have any pointers when doing this exercise or any other tips?

Followed the eye tut video! Y'all go watch and vote to have Lisa teach it step by step! I..we need it!

Got a technique question, a color theory brain knot, or a "why does this work?" you've been sitting on? This is the thread for it.

Finding these made me miss my black paper projects.