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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 cocktailsFlowers & plants such as hydrangeas, succulents, roses and carnationsHousehold items like silverware, bottles, toys, handkerchiefs, gemstones and dollsA 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!
From the Publisher
An all-in-one guide to using colored pencils—drawing lines, adding colors, drawing shapes and creating gradation—with base sketches provided!
Lines, Shades and Shapes: Technique Basics
Cover the basics of colored pencils first, including drawing lines, adding color, and a variety of methods for smooth gradations. There are guided lessons for practicing simple shapes and shading 2D and 3D objects. Plentiful space is left for you to practice within the book!
From Simple to Complex Subjects
14 different lessons range from drawing a realistic apple, to refreshing beverages, plants, pets and flower arrangements. Each lesson includes step-by-step guidance, identifies which colors are used, and offers a base sketch of the subject so you can jump right into practicing your coloring techniques!
Focus on Coloring Techniques with Tear-Out Practice Sheets!
At the end of the book there is a tear-out practice sheet for each of the 14 lessons, plus two more featuring simple shapes to practice shading. The practice sheets have base-sketches of each subject already printed, so you can continue to focus on coloring before you try it out on your own.
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing; Illustrated edition (June 20, 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 0804856249
ISBN-13 : 978-0804856249
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.5 x 10.75 inches
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Customers find the book has wonderful exercises and great things to learn. They also appreciate the pictures and beautiful examples.
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