101 Textures in Colored Pencil: Practical step-by-step drawing techniques for rendering a variety of surfaces & textures

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Get a feel for your art—literally! 101 Textures in Colored Pencil teaches you every technique you’ll need to give your colored-pencil drawings realistic, palpable texture.

*Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority*

There has never been a better opportunity to master textures. Knowing how to make your surfaces and textures look real is one of the most challenging aspects of creating art in colored pencil, even for experienced artists. 101 Textures in Colored Pencil provides artists with step-by-step instructions for drawing a wide variety of the most common textures and surfaces, including sand, water, metals, foliage, wood, fabrics, stone, grass, hair, and many more.

To get you started, this comprehensive guide opens with a review of tools and materials as well as basic skills, such as strokes, effects, and color mixing. Each page of instruction is a comprehensive resource on how to create a specific texture, complete with two to three easy-to-follow steps and a final, detailed image of the finished artwork. Plus, the book is organized into sections based on subject matter, so you can easily find the specific texture you’re looking for. An artist’s gallery in the back of the book provides examples of the textures in completed works of art.

Just a sample of the textures you will learn to render:People: smooth skin; aged skin; straight, curly, and wavy hair; lipsAnimals & Insects: smooth, curly, and course canine fur; elephant skin; feather; fish scalesFabrics & Textiles: burlap, tweed, silk, velvet, leather, lace, sequinsGlass, Stone, Ceramics, Wood & Metal: porcelain, polished silver, hammered brass, peeling paintFood & Beverage: red wine, cut citrus fruit, coconut, peach, dark chocolateNature: smooth and rough bark, moss, river pebbles, still and rippled lake, clouds101 Textures in Colored Pencil includes all the textures you need to create realistic masterpieces in colored pencil.

From the Publisher

Learn a variety of strokes and effects

Strokes

Above are five different stroke techniques you’ll use throughout the book: hatching, crosshatching, tapering, circular/scumbling, and blurring.

Blending

Each strip is identical layers of crimson lake and indanthrone blue, applied more heavily at the left and transitioning to a thin wash at the right. Note the increase in color saturation when either a colorless blender (line 2) or solvent (line 3) is used, but also note that they can’t work as well when the pigment is thin.

Impressed Lines

Impressing lines into your paper with a stylus before you begin drawing puts the indentations out of reach of pencil points. As you draw over them, they remain white. This is useful for depicting whiskers, single-hair highlights, distant twigs, and more.

Exercise: Aged Wood

Step 1

Begin with somewhat dull mineral orange and medium pressure to plan the areas of the knots and newer wood. Bring some streaks into the old wood area.

Step 2

Use somewhat dull French gray 30% and medium pressure to fill the areas of the old wood. Overlap into the mineral orange a little, and bring some streaks into the new wood area; they will be hard to see.

Step 3

With sharp French gray 70% and medium pressure, add long, uneven, jagged lines in the direction of the wood grain in the old wood area. Do the same with Tuscan red in the newer wood area, and start to indicate streaks and the inside perimeter of the knots.

Step 4

Use a colorless blender to somewhat smooth the newer wood. Then, with very sharp dark umber and heavy pressure, create large cracks and nail holes throughout. Keep the pencil very sharp and use medium pressure to make tapered strokes for the lesser cracks, including the cracks in the knots and grain lines throughout. Flow lines and cracks around the knots. With very sharp Tuscan red and heavy pressure, draw some grain lines in the newer wood. Finish by adding a few strokes of both Tuscan red and mineral orange with medium pressure in the old wood to suggest that it’s splintering off, and make a few little marks across the grain with dark umber.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Walter Foster Publishing; Illustrated edition (December 12, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 163322340X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1633223400
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.63 x 0.38 x 9.5 inches