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“The Colored Pencil Course” is designed to guide absolute beginners and intermediate artists to a level of producing professional quality colored pencil drawings through concise and “easy to digest” modules that include HD videos and Ebooks.
Description: A look at creating the illusion of texture through the use of value and directional lines. Part 1.
Suggested Materials: Bristol paper, Prismacolor colored pencils, photo reference, paper clip, tape.
Next Module: Creating Texture Part 2
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What is best pencil brand that I could as a beginner?
What kind of pencil brand that I could use as a beginner?
Hi Marilyn. I would start with a quality brand. I suggest using Prismacolor. If the Premier line is too pricey, you can start with the Prismacolor Scholar line.
hi
can I use the watercolour pencils (dry) from faber castell? am about to buy the 120 set.
Hi Juliana,
The watercolor pencils have a different binder than colored pencils and will not behave in the same manner. Watercolor pencils are meant to be activated with water and will not layer and mix like colored pencils. I hope this helps.
Hi, where would I submit a drawing for critique?
matt,
1.have you heard of “Blind impressing”,do you use it, or teach it? this is lines made by drawing or scribbling on the paper with a point,leaving the
surface white when shaded over with a colored pencil.
this is supposibly used to create texture of a wall on the side of old building.
thanks,raquel
Hi Raquel,
Yes, this technique can be used for a variety of effects. It’s simply indenting the surface of the paper, producing small grooves that cannot be filled with the medium.
Could you do a live lesson sometimes on drawing a cat or kitten in graphite and/or colored pencil and focus on showing how to add white whiskers?
I agree!
Ditto on agreeing
I am drawing a Golden for a friend who was quite old. Most of her face it completely white. I am using tan Stonehenge paper. Would I do some sort of underpainting before I put in the white hairs? Any suggestions?
Hi Pat, It’s hard to say exactly without the reference, but most likely, you won’t need to create an underpainting. An underpainting would help if you have a broad range of values and you want to establish those first. If the face is mostly made up of lighter values, then the underpainting may be irrelevant. You can always darken values even if you have lighter values in place.
Hi, Matt Should I always use the local color of an animal drawing to burnish my colors? Thanks
Hi Matt
My son just ruined my drawing by putting colour lines in it. It’s not coming out from the kneaded eraser nor the other one. Can I save it.
Hi, Matt on my drawing the fur isn’t coming out like yours. This is first drawing fur my husband says it look good but don’t thank so. I go too Heavy on the dark colors, if you have any suggestions please know.
I try to avoid any tracing of photos so I did not do the exercise above this one, tracing the photo. I will however try to draw this from scratch and do the exercise. Great series!
I waited too long to listen to the part where you said to be careful so as not to make the layers too dark and butchered your dog’s poor ear. So I started again from scratch out of respect for your dog. Picking up more the second time.