How to Draw Landscapes with Colored Pencil
Landscape drawing month begins with the debunking a few myths about drawing landscapes and tips on how to draw landscapes in colored pencil.
Basic drawing methods, under drawings, layering and blending, starting drawings, finishing drawings, correcting mistakes. If you need help with any part of the drawing process, find help in Basic Drawing Methods.
How to Adapt the Flemish Painting Method to Colored Pencil
Today’s topic covers one of my favorite subjects: How to adapt the Flemish painting method to colored pencil. I spent several years experimenting with and learning the Flemish painting method in oils. There were more than a few missteps along the way, but there were also some great results. I …
How to Layer Color and Get Soft Colors
In this reader question article, Carrie shows how to layer color and get soft colors using colored pencils.
How to Draw Vibrant Color with Colored Pencil
Learning how to draw vibrant color with colored pencil be a challenge. Equine artist Carrie Lewis shares a few tips to help you draw better color.
Color Theory Drawing Exercise
This fun and easy color theory drawing exercise will help you grasp how color theory works. All you need is an adult coloring page & your favorite pencils!
The Most Important Thing to Get Right with Colored Pencils
What is the most important thing to get right with colored pencils (or any other medium?) Most new artists think it’s color. Are they right?
How Color Theory Influences Art
Last week, we talked a little bit about basic color theory. This week, we’ll take a look at how color theory influences art in general and how it can help you with your art in particular. Let’s look at a few ways color theory influences art; yes, even your art! …
What are the Disadvantages of Drawing?
I don’t spend a lot of time checking blog statistics. Those kinds of numbers can be an addictive habit for me, and not a very productive one. But I do track things like search engine terms (the words and phrases people use that lead them to the blog), and the …
Understanding the Basics of Color Theory
If you’re like me, the very thought of color theory evokes all kinds of complicated definitions, higher levels of learning, and intimidation. But every artist needs to understand the basics of color theory, and how it affects their art. Fortunately, it’s not really all that complicated. In short, color theory …
Unusual Blending Methods for Colored Pencil
This is our final post in on the theme of blending colored pencils. We’ve barely scratched the surface of this topic, but I hope the posts have been helpful. To close the series, I’d like to talk briefly—and perhaps a little light-heartedly—about some unusual blending methods for colored pencil. Most …
