Learn to create vividly realistic colored pencil drawings in just a few lessons!
A Beginner's Guide to Colored Pencil Drawing provides instructions for creating brilliantly realistic drawings featuring rich shadows, bright highlights, smooth gradients, and glowing colors. Learn at your own pace over the course of 14 easy-to-follow lessons!
This complete all-in-one guide starts with the basics--drawing lines, adding colors, drawing shapes and creating gradations. Then, it provides a series of detailed lessons teaching you how to draw colorful, everyday objects, such as:
- Food items like burgers, breakfasts, cookies, pickles, tarts, melons, apples, asparagus and cocktails
- Flowers & plants such as hydrangeas, succulents, roses and carnations
- Household items like silverware, bottles, toys, handkerchiefs, gemstones and dolls
- A variety of animals including parakeets, kittens and dogs
Each lesson includes blank sketch of the subject so you can focus on coloring techniques, and Faber-Castell color codes are provided so you can faithfully reproduce the example illustrations. Each lesson also includes a tear-out practice sheet with the full sketch so you can dive right in and try your hand at rendering these objects yourself! The practice template sheets are also available online to download and print at home.
This book has everything you need to master a dynamic art that is affordable and satisfying. Take the 14 lessons in 14 days, like a crash course in colored pencil mastery--or take your time. Colored pencils are a favorite medium of hobbyists and increasingly embraced by fine artists as well!
Author(s): Yoshiko Watanabe
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 135
Frontcover
Title Page
Contents
Essential Tools
Why I Wrote This Book
Part 1: The Basics
Lesson 1: Basic Practice
Practice Drawing Lines
Practice Adding Color Evenly
Practice Drawing in Various Shades
Practice Different Coloring Methods
Try Drawing Various Shapes
Create a Flower-shaped Color Chart
Learn to Combine Colors
Practice Creating Color Gradations
Creating Complex Colors Using Gradations
Yoshiko Watanabe’s Colored Pencil Picture Gallery #1: Beautiful Flowers
Part 2: Advanced Practice
Lesson 2: Expressing 3D Forms
Drawing Spheres
Drawing Cuboids and Cylinders
Drawing an Apple
Drawing Candy-coated Chocolate Drops
Lesson 3: Smooth Surfaces
Expressing Differences in Texture—Part 1
Drawing a Metal Fork and Spoon
Drawing a Glass Bottle
Drawing a Wooden Toy Car
Lesson 4: Rough Surfaces
Expressing Differences in Texture—Part 2
Drawing Chocolate Chip Cookies
Drawing Asparagus
Drawing a Cocktail with Ice
Yoshiko Watanabe’s Colored Pencil Picture Gallery #2: Delicious Desserts
Part 3: Practical Lessons
Lesson 5: Foods
Drawing a Slice of Melon
Drawing a Berry Tart
Lesson 6: Plants
Drawing a Hydrangea
Drawing an Arrangement of Succulents
Lesson 7: Household Items
Drawing an Antique Handkerchief
Drawing Jars of Pickles
Lesson 8: Animals
Drawing a Parakeet
Drawing a Kitten
Yoshiko Watanabe’s Colored Pencil Picture Gallery #3: Cute Animals
Part 4: Challenge Yourself
Lesson 9: Flowers
Drawing a Bouquet of Flowers
Lesson 10: Gemstones
Drawing Five Types of Gems
Lesson 11: Breakfast
Drawing a Platter of Breakfast Foods
Lesson 12: Lunch
Drawing a Croquette Sandwich
Lesson 13: Dog
Drawing a Pomeranian
Lesson 14: Doll
Drawing an Antique Doll
In Closing
Tear-out Practice Sheets
