Tips and Techniques on using colored pencils.

How to Draw a Geranium in Colored Pencils (10 views)
By Robert Sloan
Colored pencils are a clean, convenient medium that can get very detailed, realistic results. Geraniums are a bit tricky because the flowers are a cluster and some of the blossoms are at different angles. Draw what you see, not what you think you see, and your geranium drawings will be powerfully realistic! By using a colorless blender, we'll create light colors from dark without getting the "tonal layers" look... read more

How to Draw Snowy Pines in Colored Pencil (14 views)
By Robert Sloan
Have you ever wanted to send original art for holiday cards to special people, or seen those attractive blank cards available in art supply shops and card shops? Here's how to create a beautiful winter design in colored pencils that will show your closest loved ones how much you care... read more

How to Draw Smooth Tonal Layers in Colored Pencils (17 views)
By Robert Sloan
Smooth tonal layers are important in pencil drawing and especially colored pencil drawing, where smudging isn't going to help smooth out shading. It's easier to fill an area with hard strokes covering it completely than to fill it with a light shade of a dark color. Since exercises are more fun if they result in cool artwork, this project will make an attractive, graphic looking landscape of mountains receding into the distance... entirely done in smooth tonal layers... read more

How to Shade with Colored Pencils (8 views)
By Robert Sloan
Color shading is a bit like shading in black and white--but it has its own tricks. You can set mood, change lighting, make the world of your picture a prettier place with color shading. Colored pencils can create perfect photorealism, muted harmony or jazzy Impressionist effects, and it all begins with color shading. In ten easy steps you can try colored pencil realism!.. read more

Introduction To Pencil Drawing Supplies And Techniques (235 views)
By Ralph Serpe
Drawing is a wonderful art form in itself, but it is also an excellent exercise for other forms of art, like painting for instance. Learning how to draw will truly open your mind to your surroundings enabling you to.. read more

Tips And Techniques For Colored Pencil Artists (220 views)
By Ralph Serpe
Colored pencils have become a very popular medium for budding new artists. Beginner artists using this medium find it much easier to express their creativity; mainly because of the control and convenience colored pencils offer. Other mediums like oil pain.. read more