Put Alcohol on Colored Pencil & SEE WHAT HAPPENS!💥(pro trick)

I'm a digital artist and I'm always in awe of traditional artists. The patience and precision is incredible.

Decades ago, I discovered that I could go over my Prismacolor colored pencil drawings with a lighter shade of Prismacolor marker to blend colors and to get rid of tiny white dots between strokes of color. Several years later, Prismacolor started selling clear markers for that purpose. They are essentially alcohol in marker form (and much more expensive than using alcohol & a brush.) The markers pick up some of the color, so I used to have one for each basic color. (I added a piece of tape around the barrel of each marker to identity red or blue, etc, so I wasn’t transferring red tones to yellow, for example.) Later Prismacolor made blending pencils that were essentially colorless. One problem with the markers was that, if I hadn’t used them in a while, they tended to dry up. So, I tried putting the markers’ tips in rubbing alcohol so they would soak it up. Later I tried a brush, and voilá, similar results with dollar store alcohol & a bottle cost less than one colorless marker or pencil.

I found this out accidentally. I used an alcohol blender markers. The blenders act like it melts the wax in the media so only pigment is left and if you haven’t burnished you can add more layers on top several more times to add even richer tints, tones, and shades to your work.😊❤

THIS IS AWESOME !!!!! What a great technique and I love the concise way that you explained each step! Thank you.

Kirsty's videos motivate me to get out of my comfort zone. It makes me think to master a different medium and really explore all there is to art.

So vibrant on finished painting!! Absolutely gorgeous. Thank you

I started watching your videos one year ago and you inspired me. Thanks.Color pencils is my relaxing therapy

I am today years old after watching this! I am really excited to try this on a picture I am working on right now! 🥰

Provided you use proper pure ethanol or isopropyl alcohol, rather than Smirnoff which is 50% ethanol with other stuff mixed in possibly staining the art work and rendering it non-archival...

Oh my God, you are a hero! THIS is the kind of thing I've been looking for to help me. I tried using coconut oil which does work really well but this might be better. And yes, I was making that mistake you mentioned of not layering enough first. Thank you for this.

pretty cool trick,i just want to mention that watercolor pencils exist and are super cool too!

Love it that you go straight to the point. I've learn so much.

I haven't seen any of your videos in such a long time, glad you're still doing great tutorials!

I am dying to try this. I just did a color pencil picture yesterday and was disappointed by the graininess of the pencils. So now I'll try this.

That is so cool. It looks like there's a bit of a learning curve, but I'm thinking that it would save any drawing with a lot of sky background.

I’ve been using nail polish remover for years dries fast with no odor also only use sanded paper it’s remarkable to work with.

This is amazing and I am a very new student in watercolor and these pencils have been my inspiration! You have inspired me to try this with my own art! Thank you

Fascinating technique! Thanks for showing us. And You do have an extraordinary gift, giving your painting a 3D impression! Wow!

Damn, Kirsty really stepped up her editing game since last time I was drawing.

Thanks for a fantastic method. I found a cottonbud/Qtip worked really well, and I could just rotate it for a clean spot for working on different colours.