This was such a fun video!! I definitely need to do a video answering these questions too! Thank you so much for the shout out 🥰 I've really enjoyed watching your colouring journey - there's something so fun and special about the first 6 months of colouring where you have a limited amount of books and can spend lots of time giving each of them some love - although I love my collection now sometimes it's nice to think back to when I only had 5 or 6 to choose from! 😆

Awesome video Kyra 🤍! I'm loving seeing the resurgent of this tag on KZfaq, so much fun to see everyone's answers. I might just have to join in haha. Your pages are beautiful, love the bright, vibrant colours. So fun and playful 🤗

Great video! This is such a fun tag! I'm a huge Lulu Mayo fan and I love her baby animals book. Highly recommend! 💕

Great video - loved seeing your favourite pages! ❤

I love coloring in small victories. I definitely want to buy a second copy when I finish it. So many pages I have multiple ideas for, and it would be fun seeing my progression from the first time coloring it too 😄

Such a fun video! I’d love to see a coloring bujo set up. By the way, as someone currently in a coloring slump you’ve inspired me to try small victories 😅

On your Amazon book. I use alcohol markers then I shade over the markers with colored pencil. Or I even use all pencil. So I don't mind the paper as much. I still prefer the good paper but I learned to use Amazon paper so I didn't miss out on such lovely books that are not printed on the good paper.

Instead of an extender for your pencil, I suggest getting short pencils (like Ikea pencils) and superglue the color pencil to it. The problem with extenders is that it can't fit into a sharpener, so even though it can hold the pencil, it can't sharpen it nicely. Thought I"d share the tip :)

YES YES YES to showing us how you set up a coloring bullet journal!!! That would be so fun to see! Personally, I am very interested to see your color combos if/when you start that! I absolutely love how bright and cheerful your pictures are because of the colors you use! I don’t tend you be able to pick those color combos myself as I tend to stick to coloring things more like they are in real life. But I really want to learn how to be more experimental and creative with my colors - so to see some of your color combos would be awesome! Thanks for another great video! This was a fun one to watch!

Fun! I adore this concept. Thanks for picking it up again after Sassy Colouring! I think I’ll follow suit for my next video next week. Good luck with the new Johanna books! For a future video idea, I’d love to see your advice on coloring her leaves. They always confuse me with that extra outline/

I’d be interested in seeing a video about starting a colouring bullet journal! 😊

To avoid having to buy an entire new set of pencils to just replace the one, buy a similar color from an open stock brand like prismacolor, faber castel, or derwent. As your pencils run out in the set you have, replacing them one at a time is so much cheaper in the long run. Gesso really helps give the paper the tooth that soft pastels need. Mixing some acrylic paint into the gesso gives you a vibrant ground and "waters down" the gesso, so it's not too textured that it just eats through the pastels. The color from the paint makes it so the gaps have color and prevents the pastels from looking washed out. I've used this method to do pastel paintings in my really cheap sketchbooks that have Amazon quality paper with pretty good success. If you don't want the pastel to fall out fixitive is a must, but it will darken your painting, I tend to work a bit in the mid and dark tones, then add fixitive, then add my highlights and only use very a very light layer of fixitive to keep it from darkening too much. Fun fact! You can dip a paintbrush in alcohol and then run it over pastel on the paper it turns the pastel into paint! It's is great for doing under paintings without filling up too much of the tooth of the paper! Keeping journals for hobbies is so fun! Mine is digital. I take pictures of everything I finish and add it my Samsung notes file for this year's hobbies. I have so many hobbies its stupid! 😂 The part where you spoke about random shopping sprees... I feel that! For each of my hobbies I have to set up purchase rules for myself. For example I have to finish 3 times the number of coloring books I have worth of pages before I allow myself to buy a new one. Or for other hobbies I'll alot a specific amount of space to it and can only purchase what I can fit in it. For example I like embroidery, so I can only have as many kits as I have project bags to keep them in. Gotta finish something before I can buy more. If I didn't I'd never finish anything! 😂 Thanks for the fun video! Loved the prompts!

Love these mid year check ins ☺️ It great to see our progress and figure out how we want the rest of the year to go. I love my chalk pastels! Keep playing, don’t give up on them. Also, glossy accents is very fun, however it adds quite a bit of dimension to the page. Sometimes it makes a bit difficult to color the opposite side of the page when you use it. Where the glaze pens are a sheen with a tiny bit of dimension. Thanks for mentioning my channel ❤️ You are definitely a new fav of mine, too. Take care!

I think you will do great in the Lulu mayo books. I also just recently got the million baby animals and it's so much fun to color in these books. Her style is just so cute and positive.

Just found you - fun video! I would love to see the coloring journal set up!

'Glossy accents' is the best! Leave it for the end, you cant go wrong w it! Def better than the pens.

Really enjoyed this video!! Thanks for sharing….and hang in there with the soft pastels! Great (but very messy) supply to work with 🤗💗

Fun to hear all your answers!

I just did my first Lulu Mayo page and it's so cute. Now I want all the books. 😂 And yes to a coloring bujo, I use mine for reading but thinking of starting a section just for my coloring.

Soft pastels are such a great medium once you get the hang of it. Don’t give up! 😄 I just bought my first Lulu Mayo book after 3,5 years and it’s so much fun. I regret that I didn’t purchased it sooner. I wanna start a journal too for 2y but I have no idea how or where to start. Maybe your channel will give me some inspiration. Thanks for sharing ✏️🤓

You won me over once again. Please do a journal ❤

Amazon paper really isn't as bad as some people make it out to be. I'd much rather color on it than some others. Of the books I've purchased for myself, my least favorite paper is in Lulu Mayo's A Million books. So many regular colored pencil brands are miserable on it. The fact that it can take tiny amounts of water fairly well is the thing that has kept me from ripping them to shreds. Gives me an excuse to play with watercolor pencils, if nothing else. And, yet, there's still worse. In 2018, someone gave me a few Kappa Publishing books (probably from the dollar store). The paper was so smooth (and even reflected a tiny bit of light), I couldn't get much pencil on it, but all I had at the time was the pack of 50 Crayola pencils (Crayola pencils were still pretty good pencils back them, I could sharpen them, without breaking the sharpener). The easiest "trick" to coloring on Amazon paper is something Alyce Keegan's Kit and Clowder coloring classes reminded me of. Small pencil strokes are the key to filling in the valleys in paper tooth. When you color using long strokes, the pencil tip skips over a lot of valleys, and pigment is mostly added to the hills. So you're left with lots of white speckles of paper tooth showing through. Additionally, if you try to burnish (fill in the rest of the tooth) with "heavy pressure," the surface of the paper turns sort of fuzzy looking. You may be able to temporarily get a little more pigment down, but it will fade and fuzzy up again. So, in order to work around that, you need to use small strokes, in lots of light layers. In the end, burnishing with "heavy pressure," as so many KZfaqrs advocate, is bad for your hand. Over time, you'll create repetitive stress injuries. I have long-term problems from other repetitive stress that couldn't be helped. Believe me, you don't want that kind of pain in ten or twenty years, just because of something as trivial as coloring. If you can't have, or don't want, a lot tools in your coloring process, your next simplest solution is probably a solvent of some sort. Something as simple as an inexpensive alcohol colorless blender marker can help break down pencil pigments down a little bit, so it fills the paper tooth. Various brands make liquid blender pens now (Derwent and Speedball all are the ones that come to mind). I've never tried the Derwent. I wasn't very impressed with the Speedball one, because the nib frayed with pretty light use. Many household solvent can be used: petroleum jelly, rubbing alcohol, and various oils. Some leave residues. Colouring Chemist has a couple of comparison videos. Then, there's the more professional blending solvent. Odorless mineral spirits is often used to blend colored pencils. However, it's both flammable and toxic, so it's not for everyone. There's also Zest It. It's hard to obtain here in the US, so I've never tried it. I don't know if it's a form of OMS. Then, there's something you've already discovered: basing. Some people base with alcohol or water based markers, some use soft pastels, some use acrylic paint pens, and some use watercolor pencils (or regular watercolor paint). When it comes to water soluble pencils, one can activate them with: water in a water brush (using very little water), an alcohol colorless blender marker, A Tombow (water based) colorless blender, 91% isopropyl rubbing alcohol. I had been experimenting with something for quite a while, before Colouring Chemist discovered it, and let the cat out of the bag. Using Holbein Meltz to activate watercolor pencils. I put some in an empty Copic marker. It works really well. However, the price of the Meltz went back to $12 USD on Amazon, pretty quickly after that comparison video, where she tried it. Not that $10 is much cheaper. Lol. It works really well, I'm just not certain how long I'll be able to excuse the price, if it continues to increase. Although, when using it in the Copic marker, instead of with a brush, or in a water brush, makes it go a lot farther. Amazon paper is just like everything else: you have to try different things. Figure out what works best for you. It could be worse... In the 80s, some coloring book paper was very gray and newspaper like paper. And sometimes there were large areas with lumps, due to flaws in the pulp. Impossible for everyone to color on really well.

Officeworks has the Sakura Jelly pens and have even started keeping open stock!!! ❤❤❤

If you are looking for inspiration to color in Worlds of Wonder, go to Karen's KZfaq page at My Colorful Country Life. My favorite page in that book is one called "Moving Day" (named by Karen). It is a double page spread. I did her color a long for that page and it turned out beautifully. My sister in-law loved it so much, she has it hanging on her wall. So of course I had to purchase another book and color the page again because I love it so much. BTW , I do hope you get the full set of Prismacolors. Make it your nextpurchase. You will not be disappointed.

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Pan pastels

Awesome Tag I May Do This Tag ❤

My Crayola pencils work pretty well on Amazon paper since they are a harder pencil.

How did you do the rainshower? I love you coloring. When you say it's inspired by, do you mean she has also done it the same colors or similar, or? I love her channel too and watching videos from her as well.

I can’t see coffee on the page

Just discovered you, what a great video and hope to 😊do a similar video! Subbed; have a fab week