Hello. You can use warm colors to indicate shadows and highlights as well. If you want to increase the contrast, you may choose use complements in the highlights and shadows. In this case one color would warm and the other cool, ex. blue and orange. (I usually do use blue when creating shadow, but I didn't in this video)
You make drawing a rose look so easy. I'm taking a 6 day trip to GA & am thinking of bringing watercolor pencils to draw landscape paintings. Your videos are really great using this painting media. Thank you.
I have been drawing flowers for a while...but never thought of the nature of line as I applied the color! Thank you. It will help me achieve a more believable image.
I've never drawn with color before. I always felt the way I did it ruined the art. Stuck to black and white for years. But I just ordered a full set of colored pencils. You've inspired me.
One last point of fact...I am a disabled Veteran and am trying to get back into pastels and color abstractions based on Fractals, and Color theory techniques. I was awarded employee of the quarter at Boeing, from among 110 other illustrators, for my improvement of the 737 Maintenance Program Graphics. I received letters from around the world thanking me for this project and it's improvement I have over 10,000 hours in art, and as a Teacher have taught 18k students how to do Calligraphy
Your rose looks almost to good to be real. It looks like one of those things in a dream that you know is fake, but want it so badly to be real. Great job.
I have the 150 pack and do have a small amount of breakage. I read somewhere a tip about putting the broken pencil in the microwave for only 5 seconds. Only do one pencil at a time also. I tried it and it works. Not always on the top broken piece though. If you microwave it longer than 5 seconds, bad things happen to your pencils. The microwave warms the wax just enough to allow the wax in the leads to reseal themselves together.
In this drawing, I'm using brown textured paper. The greater the tooth (texture) of the paper, the more the texture will play into the finished drawing.
The Highlights are usually a lighter color of the base. So in this case it would probably be more of a lighter red or pink for the highlights or just go white if you want to.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you want "cool" highlights and shadows because the main color of the rose is "warm?" I'm still working on my understanding of color theory....
Have you tried baking your prismas? I've read on several blogs that pencil artists have used an oven to fuse the cores back together. They are wax-based....
Hi. I really love you're drawing and can you please tell me what kind of papaer do you use and what coloredbpencil do you uses? I just wanna know because i really love to draw but my colors made my drawing worse..... so thank you 😊
Thank You for this art tutorial site! I am 63 and a retired Illustrator from the Boeing Airplane Co. in Seattle, WA. I am subscribed, but don't know how to get to the actual site where I can use the pull-downs and get to work. Also, I am not a computer Geek, and do not have a Blog, a Blackberry, or and I-Pad. As a matter of fact, I don't even know how to make and send a video to save my life! I would like to send you or the site, stills of my work! Do you have a way I can do this?
hello I am not totally sure on this I have been working on colored pencil technics for a while but when I do it I burnish very hard but before I do my final color I like to put all the other colors needed in it like black brown are what ever you are using, I am not to sure on how to answer your question for his video but I thought I would try to help a small portion.
I'm sorry I know this is an older video, but I'm extremely curious how hard you're pressing your pencils. I tend to draw too hard. Are you drawing really lightly over every layer? Is the end result smooth as if a lot of layers, or still sort of transparent?
how do you know what colors to do. For example to use a brown instead of a dark red for the shadows? What should I use if I want to create a shadow if the main color is blue.
I'm a little nervous about using colored pencils after reading that they break easily by some of your viewers. How can I sharpen them without a lot of breakage?
+Astra Maez tip number 1 : charcoal is awesome . better then colors . tip number 2 : charcoal is cooler . black and white . that is all there is . no need for colors .
Does anyone know where to buy Prisms colored pencils a little bit cheaper? Or a similar less expensive alternative? I would really appreciate any input. Thank you!
Kevin Ristie You can buy Prismacolor color pencils at Michaels Craft Store, online or in store. You can also get them at any art store that sells name brands. This brand of pencils can be sold individuallly or in sets.
How do you keep your prismas from breaking? I have a 72 pack but every time I try to sharpen them the lead breaks easily, or i get a nice point, please help?
So many people teach so much different... this is DARK to LIGHT... whereas most artist do LIGHT to DARK.. I have no clue which is better??? Im scared to do DARK to LIGHT because you mess up you can't get rid of the dark.. you can always go over the light parts.
