Colored Pencil Lessons & Techniques
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Colored Pencil Lessons
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King Cheetah Colored Pencil Tutorial
This is a tutorial on my technique for using colored pencils. The subject is a King Cheetah which is a color variation on the Cheetah's normally spotted coat. The King Cheetah's coat includes stripes as well as spots. The materials used in this demo are, an 8X10 piece of cresent matboard in a beige color and prismacolor colored pencils with a bit of white gouach on the lightest parts of the coat and the highlights of the eyes.
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Coral Poppy - Colored Pencil Demonstration
With a color photocopy of a reference photo, I rearranged and cropped elements of the poppy composition. Using an HB pencil and light pressure, I drew my composition onto four-ply, 100% cotton museum board (frequently found among framing supplies.)
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Blessed Event
The first step in creating a new painting is a line drawing that shows placement of objects. A line drawing can be simple outlines of shapes or can be detailed rendering of objects. Then the lines are transferred to paper or board for the final painting. To keep my paper clean, I usually transfer only one area at a time--whichever area I plan to work on next.
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Step by Step - Skin Tone Demo
You'll notice in this lesson that I start the portrait by first filling in the darkest area of the portrait...her dress. Once complete, I work on the tree trunk & limbs...
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Step by Step - Hair Demo
Smooth, relatively straight hair like this is a snap in colored pencil, as you'll see. It's just a matter of finding the darks, leaving the highlights, and building/dividing the mid-tones!