Welcome to CP Magic November 2025, featuring pet portrait artist Vanessa Pollen, and whole lot more.
About CP Magic November 2025
Featured Artist: Vanessa Pollen, Interview & Tutorial
Color Swatch Charts
Miniature Art & Colored Pencils: The Perfect Combination
Reader Gallery
40 pages
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Featured Artist: Vanessa Pollen
Interview
Vanessa joins CP Magic from New Zealand to talk about her art journey and her love of drawing pet portraits. Her passion is capturing the soul and spirit of animals through realistic, lifelike drawings. As you can see from the cover image above, she’s very successful. She shares a few tips and suggestions for creating this kind of work in the interview.
Tutorial
She continues sharing how-to tips in her tutorial, which is a full-color, full-of-life portrait of a cat. Vanessa shows you how to draw realistic cat hair, life-like eyes, and whites in full light and in shadow.
Also in CP Magic November 2025
Color Swatch Charts
Kim Vlahovich
Kim describes some of the benefits of creating and keeping color charts, no matter what brand of pencil you prefer or how many you have. He also shares a few tips on creating your own color charts.
For those who prefer using ready-made color charts, Kim has been kind enough to provide blank templates in a variety of sizes that you can download for free.
Miniature Artwork & Colored Pencils: The Perfect Combination
Carrie L. Lewis
In this article, Carrie talks about the perfect combination of colored pencils and miniature artwork. What is miniature art? Anything 25 square inches or less (5×5). If you’re looking for something new or fun (or both) to do with your colored pencils, this article will be of interest.
This issue also includes the Reader Gallery selections and The Final Pencil Stroke, so get your copy today.
Don’t forget that if you buy 10 or more issues mix and match,
you save 20% off the cover price with the discount code cpmagicdiscount2 at checkout.
