Adults colouring

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indigocat said:
New to this thread 👋

I'm a colouring supplies collector who wants to colour but is long term crippled by my fear of not being as good as my favourite colouring people on YT and Instagram. 🤭😆 I'm laughing but it's been preventing me from colouring at all since 2020. I don't want to flat colour but to be able to create beautiful gradients with accurate light and shade sources. The paradox is that this won't happen without practice and making mistakes.

My favourite artists are Johanna Basford, Rita Berman, Hanna Karlzon and I've very luckily been able to collect many of their books and others like Kirby Rosanes, Millie Marotta (all uncoloured) along with beautiful materials like Polychromos, Prismacolors, Albrecht Durer watercolours, Derwent Inktense (all swatched out but otherwise unused).

To get me over the perfectionism issue, I've got some Ohuhu alcohol markers and bought Gabi Wolf's Flowers and Fuzzy Hygge. I'm very proud that I followed a Gabi Wolf YT short today and coloured my first picture in Flowers after matching her Ohuhu Pastel colours as best I could. I quite like the outcome even if it's not perfect.

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Love that, I should do the same as we have similar tastes in artists but I also feel I can’t do them justice
 
anniemouse said:
Love that, I should do the same as we have similar tastes in artists but I also feel I can’t do them justice
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We might be twins. I google diagnosed myself with adult colouring atelophobia 😆 so this is my attempt at a solution.

I've literally just spotted a petal I forgot to 'simple shade' but it's made me smile rather than kick myself or be too hard. Have decided to purposefully leave it unshaded as a lesson to future me that mistakes can lead to smiles instead of feelings of total inadequacy.

Can really recommend Gabi Wolf's work as it's very cute and the Flowers book works v well with alcohol markers even being cheap Amazon paper. Also helpful psychologically if my colouring attempts in an inexpensive book like that goes wrong; it's no great loss to my precious collection.

How long have you been curating your colouring book collection and supplies? Have you tried flat colouring in mandala books? That's going to be my step 2 to adult colouring perfectionism recovery! 🤣

What are your fav YT colourists? I love Shelscolouringjourney, Mycolourfulcountrylife, ColouringwithClare, ColouringwithK, Pamelaspassionforcoloring and a recent new one, Apicturedpurpose. Love bright vibrant styles
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rivermonster said:
I have started to follow her on Insta and there are some amazing pictures on there. Never in a month of Sundays could I get anywhere near those but enjoy looking at them.
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Perhaps have a look at this video below, it shows how to achieve a Rita Berman colouring effect. Hope it's OK to post this here.

 
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indigocat said:
We might be twins. I google diagnosed myself with adult colouring atelophobia 😆 so this is my attempt at a solution.

I've literally just spotted a petal I forgot to 'simple shade' but it's made me smile rather than kick myself or be too hard. Have decided to purposefully leave it unshaded as a lesson to future me that mistakes can lead to smiles instead of feelings of total inadequacy.

Can really recommend Gabi Wolf's work as it's very cute and the Flowers book works v well with alcohol markers even being cheap Amazon paper. Also helpful psychologically if my colouring attempts in an inexpensive book like that goes wrong; it's no great loss to my precious collection.

How long have you been curating your colouring book collection and supplies? Have you tried flat colouring in mandala books? That's going to be my step 2 to adult colouring perfectionism recovery! 🤣

What are your fav YT colourists? I love Shelscolouringjourney, Mycolourfulcountrylife, ColouringwithClare, ColouringwithK, Pamelaspassionforcoloring and a recent new one, Apicturedpurpose. Love bright vibrant styles
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I think we must be twins. I’ve been collecting the books since 2015. I also love those colourists, I’ve not heard of Apicturedpurpose though.
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I should add, I have coloured a lot of pictures but usually something goes wrong to make me not happy with what I’ve done. Or I abandon pages
 
anniemouse said:
I think we must be twins. I’ve been collecting the books since 2015. I also love those colourists, I’ve not heard of Apicturedpurpose though.
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I should add, I have coloured a lot of pictures but usually something goes wrong to make me not happy with what I’ve done. Or I abandon pages
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She's only had her colouring chanel since early this year. I adore her zingy acid colour choices and it's lovely to have some younger blood in the community - I don't have/do Tiktok so my YT faves are mostly my age.

I think you're very brave attempting your books and sure you have learnt from your efforts even if your inner critic is harsh. I can only advise that you keep on trying. Know how dispiriting it can be though - I tried a simple roughly hand drawn shaded flower with Polychromos this morning and I hate it! The next one might be better though. 😆
 
indigocat said:
She's only had her colouring chanel since early this year. I adore her zingy acid colour choices and it's lovely to have some younger blood in the community - I don't have/do Tiktok so my YT faves are mostly my age.

I think you're very brave attempting your books and sure you have learnt from your efforts even if your inner critic is harsh. I can only advise that you keep on trying. Know how dispiriting it can be though - I tried a simple roughly hand drawn shaded flower with Polychromos this morning and I hate it! The next one might be better though. 😆
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It’s funny but before colouring really took off I didn’t care so much. Oh also yes I do have a mandala book and markers somewhere. That’s quite nice to do
 
indigocat said:
New to this thread 👋

I'm a colouring supplies collector who wants to colour but is long term crippled by my fear of not being as good as my favourite colouring people on YT and Instagram. 🤭😆 I'm laughing but it's been preventing me from colouring at all since 2020. I don't want to flat colour but to be able to create beautiful gradients with accurate light and shade sources. The paradox is that this won't happen without practice and making mistakes.

My favourite artists are Johanna Basford, Rita Berman, Hanna Karlzon and I've very luckily been able to collect many of their books and others like Kirby Rosanes, Millie Marotta (all uncoloured) along with beautiful materials like Polychromos, Prismacolors, Albrecht Durer watercolours, Derwent Inktense (all swatched out but otherwise unused).

To get me over the perfectionism issue, I've got some Ohuhu alcohol markers and bought Gabi Wolf's Flowers and Fuzzy Hygge. I'm very proud that I followed a Gabi Wolf YT short today and coloured my first picture in Flowers after matching her Ohuhu Pastel colours as best I could. I quite like the outcome even if it's not perfect.

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Welcome, I love the picture, really cute ❤

I was in the same boat as you, was desperate to colour but seen those on yt an just could not bring myself too it because I knew I'd never be like them, so it put me off for years, I have many of the same artists as you as well but realised the only way I was ever going to manage to grow my skills was to jump into it an use each picture as a new lesson

I hope you jump into as well ☺ the best way is to just go for it, if the picture doesn't come out quite as you imagined then take it as you learned something from it an apply that to your next an you will be amazed at what even a year can do an the difference in them

Looking forward to seeing more of your work 😃
 
What are the pencils she was using on the flowers? They are beautiful colours but I couldn't understand what she was saying about them.
 
I've seen a ton of people use brutfuner, I mean the last thing I need is more pencils but am genuinely curious about them 😅 it seems to be the ones most people use
 
anniemouse said:
They’re Brutfuner colouring pencils, a cheaper brand you can get on amazon, aliexpress etc
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Thank you - I will for them
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Snippysnips said:
I've seen a ton of people use brutfuner, I mean the last thing I need is more pencils but am genuinely curious about them 😅 it seems to be the ones most people use
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Like me - me son could not believe I have spent so much on pencils at the beginning - I have zip trays of them, not knowing what I was buying but they are ok but I seem to have bought the wrong ones. Will look but Brutfuner but I need more pencils like a hole in the head. :LOL:
 
rivermonster said:
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Like me - me son could not believe I have spent so much on pencils at the beginning - I have zip trays of them, not knowing what I was buying but they are ok but I seem to have bought the wrong ones. Will look but Brutfuner but I need more pencils like a hole in the head. :LOL:
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Ahh to me there's no such thing as wrong ones, there's just ones I have an ones I don't have 😅 I keep mine in pencil cases, you can get nice ones off amazon that hold up to 300 pencils which is quite nice, I hated all the tins an having to bring them out whenever I wanted them, but I too have spent way too much on them an certainly don't need more, but am away to have a look anyway 😅
 
Snippysnips said:
Ahh to me there's no such thing as wrong ones, there's just ones I have an ones I don't have 😅 I keep mine in pencil cases, you can get nice ones off amazon that hold up to 300 pencils which is quite nice, I hated all the tins an having to bring them out whenever I wanted them, but I too have spent way too much on them an certainly don't need more, but am away to have a look anyway 😅
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I’m like you and I changed all mine to the pencil cases. The tins were too fiddly to use.
 
rivermonster said:
I presumed (wrongly) that they would break easier in a pencil case so have kept them in the tins.
I did put some of them in opened topped pots but take up so much space.
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I think so long as they are kept from being dropped or bashed it's fine if they are tins or pencil cases, I have my prismas in the cases an they have been fine an those are notorious for breaking a ton, depending on your sharpener it's more likely they would break with that than the case
 
I dug out my watercolour pencils and my Brutfuners at the weekend. I have some urgent crafting to finish for a swap but I’m hoping to try some Rita Berman style colouring this week
 
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Was home sick today. So I colored this using colored pencils and alcohol markers.
 
Snippysnips said:
That's really nice, is it from the hocus pocus book?

How do you feel using both marked an pencil, I've never tried it before but am curious as to what it's like
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Thanks. Yes, it's from the Hocus Pocus book.
I had colored the background in pencil but it just didn't look right so I covered it with the markers and it looked better. Usually I would do lighter color markers and then shade with pencil. You should try it, it's fun.
 
But Seriously? said:
Thanks. Yes, it's from the Hocus Pocus book.
I had colored the background in pencil but it just didn't look right so I covered it with the markers and it looked better. Usually I would do lighter color markers and then shade with pencil. You should try it, it's fun.
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Thanks, I might need to give it a go an see how I get on, usually I just stick with pencils but would be nice to try other things

I've been seeing the hocus pocus book in asda, keep meaning to pick it up, totally don't need anymore books lol but can't help myself at times
 
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