Blending Backgrounds with Powder Blender
Blending backgrounds with powder blender can be faster and easier than drawing blurred backgrounds with traditional drawing methods.
Blending backgrounds with powder blender can be faster and easier than drawing blurred backgrounds with traditional drawing methods.
Read about four ways of drawing rich black backgrounds with colored pencils and start drawing better backgrounds for your next project.
When you use colored pencils, is there a benefit to starting with the subject of each drawing, instead of starting with the background?
Do you want to draw dark backgrounds with colored pencils or for your colored pencil art? CP artist Carrie Lewis shares a few ideas.
Colored pencil and portrait artist Carrie L. Lewis shares tips to help you decide background colors for colored pencil portraits.
During December’s question and answer session, a reader asked how to draw a blurred background. I gave a general answer and a few tips, but didn’t have more specific information. Today’s post is a step-by-step showing how I drew a blurred background. Although quite long, this tutorial covers only the …
Today’s subject is how to draw a blurry background. Here is the reader question. I would like to know how muted backgrounds are done. It’s where all the background looks like it’s melted. No specific item is clear. Please help. I am understanding the question to refer to soft focus, …
Let’s talk about one of the easier ways I know to draw dark backgrounds with colored pencils. You’ve heard me talk about emphasizing your subject by creating contrast between the subject and the things around it. The sample for that article was a yellow flag, which I showed against a …
Looking for fast and easy backgrounds for colored pencil drawings? Carrie shares three methods for creating unique backgrounds with watercolor pencils.
This post continues a series on making dark backgrounds for colored pencil work. We’ve already looked at simply drawing the background or drawing on black or dark papers. The most recent post on the subject was about using India ink to under paint a dark background. So it’s time to …