I cant seem to grasp using them. Ive seen some drawings done with them that look amazing, but it always seems to make mine worse.

You might want to check out Ann Kullberg's website, she is mainly a portrait artist but she has lots of stuff related to colored pencil. do a search for Ann Kullberg

Thx for the help

Try looking through this thread. Its a class I did for coloured pencil here.

Also can you be more specific about what areas you don't feel comfortable with? If you post something here, it would be easier to guide you.

Jeanett that was a great class ... i did my thumb tacks for that class and learned soooo much ....maybe another class is in the future ??? lol

I learned in that class that if you see yellow .. look farther .. cause your probably seeing many other colors ...nore then one colored pencil is used to draw a yellow thumb tack I think i use like 8 lol .