Yes, exactly, shirts…who would have thought they could be so interesting 
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Wow Sonia, this piece is just fantastic, so lifelike, such incredible detail, I love it 
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It is already wonderful but I guess, because the automatic adjustment of your screen, you will rework it for tone until you are satisfied. Personally, I think it’s beautiful work.
Patricia.
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Hi, having followed this thread from the shadows, I am blown away from your unbelievable art work.
@Maki Maki, thank you so much for all the support and advice. I am now interested in these pens too.
@robichon Terri, I am blown away from your drawing!!! Entirely outstanding. Being far behind your skills, I have spent quite some time enjoying all the details tonight. I do love cats and their unique personality. Yours is special as you are. The shirts are a pleasure to look at.
Just oustanding!!!
@Meme5 Sonia, I was following your lovely hydrangeas. Where did you spill??? My best advice would be to first spray a sec before actually spraying the fixative on your piece. At least, I do so, and I always hold the piece straight.
Your self portrait has been fabulous. I loved looking into your eyes and how cute you have been as a child.
I haven’t done any portraits yet and would shy away.
Everyone, I do like this post most, as it brings such a joy.
Thank you,
Haven’t done any drawing recently,
Buddy
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An apple in color pencils prismacolor and polychromos. A tutorial from another site.
On arches hot pressed 140 lb 9x10 paper cropped to about 8x8
Almost ruined it using solvent you can see the top right green area is rough and the eraser marks are bad around the paper. I think solvents and I don’t make a good team sigh.
At least it looks better in person. Phone camera is so unforgiving lol
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Hi Sonia. @Meme5
That apple looks good enough to eat and it’s pretty hard to see anything wrong with it. Nice job. I like it a lot
Terri with 2 Rs
Hello Buddy, nice to hear from you! Thank you so much for your very kind words! 
Great to have you around, Maki. How is your art work doing?
Buddy
How yummi, Sonia. Very, very yummi.
How did you mix polychromos and prismacolors? Did you first start with polychromos as a base and worked yourselve to the softer prismacolors to fill in the tooth of the paper?
In my experiences, the harder oilbased polychromos are great to blend with solvent, the waxier, the better to blend with a waxed based blending pencil. You might also be able to blend using harder colored pencils.
I love colored pencils and own a lot from different brands.
Buddy
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Wow. Absolutely fantastic. Detail and technique blows me away.
So well done!
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Thanks so much @MichelleB for the kind words of support.
Terri Robichon
Last weekend was devoted to this 8x10 ink painting. I used 300# Canson hot pressed watercolor paper.
Terri Robichon
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Hello Buddy @Buddy!
I’m happy you like my apple! I used solvent and a scrubber watercolor brush to blend the color transitions which also blended the two different pencils just fine regardless of the order they were applied on the paper.
It’s the first time I used arches hot press paper for colored pencils. I think I personally prefer stonehenge as Matt has used in past color pencil lessons.
Sonia
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Beautiful work Terri @robichon!
Down to the “berry” last detail. Is it all done in ink?
Sonia
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Hi Sonia. Yes, totally colored ink.
Terri w 2Rs
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Thx Sonia for your explanations. I am currently working with graphite on Arches drawing paper and like it very much. Having used water color paper for colored pencils in the past when I used polychromos only back then, I am happy to learn, they can be mixed easily using solvent.
Stonehenge is hardly to get at my place.
I am always admired by your increadible art work. Hope to reach your and Terri’s @robichon level by time with years of practice.
I find it very teaching to see your art work,
Buddy
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Dear Terri,
I had to look twice before I noticed, these yummy strawberries are not a reference photo you posted.
Beside the increadible colors, I do love the composition. 8 berries neatly placed with odd numbers for red and green. The stem they are hanging on is highly realistic. The way it proudly presents its berries is stunning.
Love your art work,
Buddy
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Thank you @Buddy for such compliment.
I appreciate you thinking I’m good at my artwork. Especially since you yourself are very talented. I am consistent only with soft pastels, graphite, and colored pencils. You all can do watercolor, oil, acrylic, ink, and all the things. Especially Terri w2r @robichon, who has exceptional control of every media she touches.
I truly enjoy working on any art. Good, bad, or ugly 
Sonia
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@Meme5 @robichon I am blown away ( I don’t know why, by now I know how brilliant your pieces are) by the cat in the closet, the berries and the eye works of art. Just wonderful work, and so inspiring, I can’t even say how much. Thank you for sharing and for your kind support. That cat, Terri!! Breathless from the reality.
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