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CP Magic! October 2026
CP Magic E-Zine
CP Magic! is the magazine for colored pencil artists who enjoy reading about artists, as well as following their tutorials. Each month features an artist interview, followed by a tutorial by the featured artist.
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Tutorials
Start your next colored pencil tutorial here, with an ever expanding selection of tutorials specializing in dogs, cats, horses, and other animals. You’ll also find subject study tutorials, which are ideal for improving skills with a specific study.
Tutorials for Your Enjoyment and Edification
Old Red Barn Tutorial
Are you looking for a landscape tutorial with a little bit extra? The Old Red Barn Tutorial is here. You’ll draw a dark and stormy landscape with a weathered barn and a flash of lightning.
Pasture Patriarch Tutorial
Draw a sleek and shiny horse with blowing mane and forelock with The Pasture Patriarch Tutorial. Two versions available to meet every need.
Faithful Lucy Tutorial and Artist’s Journal
Walk step by step through the process of creating this lovely Corgi portrait from client photographs to finishing touches. Polychromos and Prismacolor on Pastelmat. Artist’s journal.
The Red Chair Tutorial
Combine graphite and colored pencils for striking, mixed media artwork with graphite specialist Jana Botkin. Intermediate.
Thoughtful Tiger Tutorial
Draw realistic stripped fur using Prismacolor pencils on toned paper with Peggy Osborne’s Thoughtful Tiger Tutorial. Intermediate.
Ginger the Guinea Pig
Oksana Burr shows you one way to speed up the drawing process with water soluble pastels with this adorable guinea pig! Intermediate.
See the complete collection of tutorials.
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If you’re looking for a tutorial subject we don’t currently have, let us know. We’re always looking for new ideas.
