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Beginning Colored Pencil lets you master the art of drawing with colored pencils.
*Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority*
What medium is as immediately relatable as the colored pencil? Vibrant, versatile, and familiar, the simple colored pencil is the proverbial first step on your journey to becoming an artist. Beginning Colored Pencil is an inviting and approachable guide loaded with everything an aspiring artist needs to know about colored pencil, including tools, materials, composition, and color theory.
Walter Foster Publishing’s Portfolio series takes a technique-driven approach, emphasizing topics like blending, shading, and creating form and texture to provide a well-rounded approach that allows readers to master key concepts. Try step-by-step demonstrations with a fresh, contemporary design to keep lessons vibrant, so you can practice your fresh, new skills. Get in touch with your inner creativity, and dive into colored pencils today!
The Portfolio series covers essential art techniques, core concepts, and media with an approach and format that’s perfect for aspiring, beginning, and intermediate artists.
Also available from the series:Beginning Acrylic, Beginning Drawing, Beginning Watercolor, Beginning Pastel, Beginning Color Mixing, Expressive Painting, Beginning Color Mixing, Beginning Pen & Ink, and Beginning Composition.
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Layering Tips
When layering, use light pressure, work with a sharp pencil, and apply each layer smoothly. If you use a steady and even amount of pressure as you work, it doesn’t matter which colors you lay down first. But if you want one color to stand out, apply it on top of the others, or apply two layers of the same color.
Layering
When drawing with colored pencils, layering is hugely important for achieving your desired color. Lightly apply your layers so that they remain transparent and allow the previous layers to show through. Using too much pressure can drown out the previous layers and create a muddy color.
How many layers you will need to apply depends on the depth of color you seek. Dark, shadowed areas may require many layers, while a lighter drawing will need one or two.
Portraits
When drawing a portrait, pay close attention to the value changes across the skin’s surface. People’s faces rarely have hard lines but rather soft edges. Gradual transitions from one color to the next and knowing how to evenly taper a layer and letting it fade are essential.
Flowers
A still life like this one gives you the opportunity to practice tapering, blending, and using hard and soft edges, and it shows the important of working with the grain of your paper to build the structure of a subject.
Dogs
By concentrating on soft layers, tapering your edges for smooth transitions, and using soft and hard edges to depict a subject, you can achieve the softness necessary to successfully convey a dog’s fur.
Landscapes
When drawing a landscape, start with the most distant areas, and work your way forward. This helps maintain a sense of space and depth.
Publisher : Walter Foster Publishing (September 12, 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 163322354X
ISBN-13 : 978-1633223547
Item Weight : 1.28 pounds
Dimensions : 8.55 x 0.7 x 10.95 inches
