Colored Pencil Techniques and How to Choose it

What are colored pencils?

Color pencils comprises of a wooden shaft, which is loaded with pigment that is colored.This pigment is bonded by a blinder, which when it is spread via a surface, transmits color. As a medium, they are the perfect pen pencil for most artists. This is relative because they are relatively inexpensive, available widely and portable. If they are used properly or correctly, these colored, pencils can be loaded with color and be an image of a particular painting.

How to Use Colored Pencils

The use of colored pencils can be in several ways. If they are used correctly, they produce an effect of a fully colored painting. The following tips of the techniques should help you out.

Techniques of Colored Pencils

Color Heavy: Your color should be built gradually to make them complex and intense. You should not rely on the value of the paper to make them shades and tints or at least build up your color gradually so that the colors are intense and complex. Don't rely on the value of your paper to make your tints and shades.

Layer Your Colors: Many layers of your color should be built. The application of one color does not bring success. The layering and building up of your colors will make your colors look realistic and complex.

Mix Your Colors: When any colored medium is used, the color should always be mixed. Colored pencils should not be different too. For example, when drawing grass, use yellow, blue, and green instead of the manufactured green.

Outline Last: The outline of any work should be kept until the drawing has been finished. Colored pencils can easily overlap themselves. This enables you to do the outlining of the object last.

    

Take Your Time: Time is needed when using Colored Pencils.You must work deliberately.  It takes time to construct a well-drawn colored pencil image.

Surfaces for Colored Pencils

Colored pencils can be used on any surface. Traditional surfaces such as colored papers, drawing papers, tag board, rag paper, cardboard, watercolor paper and illustration board. Attention should be paid to the tooth or texture of the paper, when you are choosing your surface. How the colored pencils appear on the surface will be determined on the texture of the paper.

 

Variety of Quality among Brands of Colored Pencils

Colored pencils are of different brands. Some are better that the others. Perhaps you are a novice in using colored pencils; I would recommend you buy a cheaper brand such as Crayola. Therefore, as you progress, you can go for higher quality brands such as Prismacolor. They are the best in colored pencils. The pigment is concentrated and soft.

 

Author’s Bio

Mark Earl in this wonderful piece looks at what colored pencils is all about and tips at which articles use pen pencils in drawing wonderful images.