#1 I used white colored pencil and medium pencil pressure to lighten up the geometric shape. In the following closeups you can see 3 colored pencil blending techniques used. This colored pencil drawing was done on a white matboard with various pencil pressure to blend some areas and to create contrast. Wait for it to dry and shade over it again. However, if you feel like you want to add even more color to that area, spray it lightly with a fixative.
When you work on your colored pencil shading using heavy pencil pressure, the area becomes very waxy and so filled with the pigment that you can’t layer more color over it. It lightened up and blended the area.Ĭheck out available video courses here: Colored pencil techniques: colored pencil shading in white and off-white colors #4 I used a very light grey colored pencil to shade over the purple with heavy pencil pressure. #3 I shaded with a light pencil pressure to create that purple circle so that some previous layers still show through it. White colored pencil sits on top of all other light colors I shaded with there. #2 I did a lot of shading with colored pencils on the light side of her face using a very heavy pencil pressure to raise the lights as much as possible. While some dark is showing through, I applied the white colored pencil with medium pencil pressure. #1 I shaded with white colored pencil over the dark area using a unique stroke to create the texture I wanted. This colored pencil drawing closeup shows several colored pencil shading techniques at once. or when you work on textured paper and have to do lots of filling of a paper’s tooth.you want to build up contrast in progression.you blend the areas around the highlights.you try to blend some areas with light pencils shading over the dark layers.You do need to increase your pencil pressure in colored pencil drawing when: I wanted to preserve this sketchy feeling in this colored pencil portrait.
I could of used a solvent to do colored pencil blending to achieve a different effect but I left it untouched. This was true for both black and white colored pencils. My pencil pressure played a big role in it because I had to increase my pencil pressure a lot shading with a very sharp colored pencil. I had to do lots of paper’s tooth filling doing colored pencil shading. Paper’s texture is the number one enemy of every colored pencil artist. This is my colored pencil drawing done on pastel paper, which has a lot of texture. So it’s all about finding that perfect balance in colored pencil shading. At the same time if you’re heavy-handed, your drawing may become too muddy or overworked quickly. Whatever subject you draw in colored pencil, it’s important to control your pencil pressure to achieve realistic result.įor instance, when you press on your pencil very lightly, you won’t be able to achieve rich darks or create enough contrast in colored pencil drawing.
If your aim is to create photorealistic colored pencil drawings, you need to master the very basic drawing concepts, which includes colored pencil shading.
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