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Here’s a drawing completed after doing the exercises and applying the instructions from Janie Gildow’s “Colored Pencil Solutions Book’. Do as the teacher says, and then you can apply this to your own individual artwork later on.
#COLOR PENCIL DRAWING FOR BEGINNERS HOW TO#
If you want to find out how to do something, you need to just do it. That’s the purpose of learning and using books. After a while, I just needed to implement my own creative input into my artwork.
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As your drawing improves, there are only so many exercises that you can do using someone else’s instructions. after a while, I found that it was dull to follow someone else’s instructions. Patience is a virtueīut beware – it gets boring – quickly…. By reading books, I learnt many techniques in a short period of time by following exactly what is advised by the authors. I learnt the art of coloured pencil drawing by reading books. Most of the exercises in the book used about 20 or so pencils in each exercise. While the exercises in the ‘Colored Pencil Solution Book’ created images with less than 10 pencils and about 5 layers of colour, this book’s exercises seemed quite advanced. While providing information that a beginner could use to learn coloured pencil drawing, the exercises are quite intricate. The cover image of Arlene Steinberg’s book ‘ Masterful Color’. Here you’ll see some examples of pictures I drew from exercises in the book. Exercise examples from ‘Colored Pencil Solution Book’ I couldn’t have imagined that I could have produced the pictures that I did by following the instructions to a tee. I bought the pencils read the book traced the drawing examples onto paper and drew the pictures just as described in the book. Application and technique, colour and light reflection and transparency, texture, and problem subjects and fixing mistakes follows. The ‘Colored Pencil Solution’ book shows users how to start with a good set up then to design your composition. It includes trace drawings, and then instructions on what coloured pencils to use – and where to place the colour. I would do as Janie and Barbara instructed in the book. This wasn’t going to be a book that would sit on the shelf, but one that I would use to teach myself how to handle coloured pencils, use the tools associated with coloured pencils, etc. I promised myself that I would follow each step in the book as the authors advised, and do the exercises. This was my level at that time, as I hadn’t drawn with coloured pencils for many, many years. This book covers a range of issues suitable for anyone wanting to start at the beginning with coloured pencils. The cover of the ‘Colored Pencil Solution Book’ by Janie Gildow and Barbara Benedetti Newton