Colored Pencil Drawing
December 7, 2009 | Art Works
Colored pencil drawings
This article introduces some basic techniques and tips for colored pencil drawings which will be useful in your drawing. It is a good idea to spend some time exploring the colored pencil drawings medium with small pieces before attempting a major drawing, isn’t it?
To start with you will need some good quality drawing paper, and a few sharp colored pencils, including a colorless blender if you have one.
Color pencil drawing
One of the most fundamental color pencil drawing is the one you already know: simple side-to-side shading, you know it right? But do practice keeping the marks straight, this will let your fingers adjust the direction of the pencil or rotation from the elbow. Many beginners accidentally curve their lines (I had done it), rotating the hand from the wrist, so that the surface they are shading looks rounded rather than flat.
Practice adjusting the amount of pressure that you apply to the pencil as you shade to precisely control the amount of color you lay down.
Here are some tips about color pencil drawings that offer some ideas to help solve some problems faced while doing color pencil drawings. Do check out these fast and simple colored pencil tips and techniques and get the most out of your colored pencil drawing.
- Wax bloom is a white haze that appears across heavily worked colored pencil drawings as a layer of the wax medium forms on the surface. This tip explains out how to stop it from spoiling your colored pencil artwork.
- Develop your colored pencil drawing by experimenting with materials. Here are some tips on how to explore colored pencil techniques.
- Find out some better ways to manipulate your colored pencil with these tips on different methods of blending and smudging areas of colored pencil.
That is it for today; we will come up with more tips and techniques in the next session!
