How to Colour Like an Artist: Colour Pencil Techniques

These simple, step-by-step instructions for techniques using coloured pencils offer suggestions and exercises for adult colourists wishing to develop their colouring skills. Full-colour photographs illustrate a wide variety of methods including creating texture, layering, and blending. The guide also features eight practice plates from Dover's bestselling Creative Haven series.

Improve your colouring skills with these simple, step-by-step instructions for techniques using coloured pencils. Intended for beginning artists and colouring book enthusiasts, this guide is ideal for those without formal training but with some experience of colouring with pencils. A wealth of suggestions and exercises will show you how to take your skills to the next level.
Discover how to create volume with such shading techniques as crosshatching, long and short strokes, and colour gradation. Learn how to form unique textures that add detail to images.

Practice blending techniques and layering one colour at a time to control values and colours effectively. Full-colour photographs throughout the book illustrate each method as well as lessons in colour theory. 

 

Features:

  • Includes 10 Chapters, each with illustrated step-by-step instructions

  • 8 x Preprinted practice plates from Dover's bestselling Creative Haven series

  • Learn colouring techniques such as shading, layering, blending, creating highlights and more

  • Published 1st June 2017

  • Softcover

  • Dimensons: 28 x 20 x 0.5 cm

  • 80 Pages

 

About the Author 

Russian-born Veronica Winters received her MFA in painting from Penn State University. Her award-winning work has appeared in art and colored pencil magazines, and she has published several books and fulfilled many commissions.

 

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