Creating Landscape Greens with Red
Learn about creating realistic landscape greens with red base layers in this short step-by-step colored pencil tutorial.
Comparing Colored Pencil Methods
Comparing colored pencil methods: Description of basic drawing methods with illustrations for each method and tips on how to use them.
How to Draw a Dark Background
This week’s featured post shows you how to draw a dark background on light colored paper using only colored pencils. You won’t need special tools or techniques to draw your own beautiful, dark background.
Realistic Landscape Greens with Colored Pencils
I’ve been drawing landscapes with colored pencils for almost as long as I’ve been using colored pencils. One of the most difficult things to get right in a landscape are the green colors. So today, I want to show you one way to draw realistic landscape greens.
How to Draw Gold in Three Steps
Today, I want to show you how to draw gold. My subject is the gold cap on a Christmas ornament, but you can draw any type of reflective gold object using this method. In fact, you can draw any reflective object using this method. How to Draw Gold in Three …
Sunset Sky with Watercolor Pencils Tutorial
How to draw a sunset sky with watercolor pencils in five easy steps. Paint the sky with washes of color, then use the watercolor pencils dry.
How to Draw Clouds with Colored Pencil
Step-by-step tutorial showing how to draw clouds in colored pencil. Tips on layering, developing values, solvent blending, and more. Full color illustrations.
How to Sketch a Composition Directly on Paper
Let’s take a look at something that scares the wits out of a lot of us: How to sketch a composition directly on paper. (And no, I don’t mean a preliminary sketch on any old sheet of paper: I mean sketching on good drawing paper!) I know it’s scary, because it …
How to Draw Autumn Grass in Colored Pencil
Today, I want to show you in eight easy steps how to draw autumn grass with colored pencil. It’s winter, you say? That’s okay. The grass is still brown—if you can see it under the snow—so this method works for dried up winter grass, too! And it’s a great exercise …
How to Draw Summer Grass
Learn how to draw summer grass in a meadow. Includes tips for drawing a detailed foreground and blending it into a less detailed background.
