Draw Clouds from Life Tutorial
Announcing the release of a new drawing tutorial, Draw Clouds from Life. Includes tips on choosing your first subject, and reference photos.
Tips for Drawing Clouds in Colored Pencil
Today, I’d like to share a few tips for drawing clouds. Clouds can be majestic and towering, thin and wispy. Peaceful. Threatening. Calm. Stormy. They are almost always intimidating to draw, and drawing them accurately takes time and patience. But it is possible to draw any type of cloud realistically …
Two Ways to Get Smooth Color with Colored Pencils
Learn two ways to get smooth color with colored pencils tools and materials you already have. No smelly solvents; no complicated techniques.
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.
Colored Pencil Plein Air Drawing Week 3 Report
The sky was my theme again this week. The drawing from last week revealed my need to find better ways to put color on paper quickly and draw smooth color. One of the ways I thought of to do that was woodless pencils. When Sue Schuetz mentioned using Koh-I-Nor Progresso …
Colored Pencil Plein Air Drawing Week 2 Report
This was the first full week of the Autumn Plein Air Drawing challenge, so I had time to do more than one drawing. However, steady sometimes heavy rain from Wednesday through Saturday kept me indoors the rest of the week. I seriously considered trying my hand a water soluble colored …
How to Draw a Stormy Sky in Colored Pencil
Step-by-step demonstration showing how to draw a stormy sky in colored pencil. Illustrations and commentary by Carrie L. Lewis.
