Color Drawing
Pencil drawing is a base for color drawing. It's hard to produce an excellent color drawing without a sound base layer.
You must pay attention to the highlights of your sketches. After some time, this becomes a habit, and you'll know where to place highlights naturally. Highlights are reflection of light, so you need at least some basic understanding of light. Drawing details can be a little time consuming but it forces you to be more observant of the subjects that you are drawing. An observant person makes an excellent artist. Working with color pencils can be very similar to working with pencils. The techniques that you apply with pencils can also be applied using color pencils. The only difference is that you'll now be working with colors instead of just black and white, which makes the drawing process more fun, wonderful and exciting. Some artists prefer to work with black and white only. When in the hands of a skilled artist, black and white pencil drawings can be very beautiful. An advice to you is to move on to color pencils, then to watercolors. Work with various coloring mediums and keep your mind open. You can always make your choice and stick with your favourite medium later on. It is a good idea to spend some time exploring the color pencil medium with small pieces before attempting a major drawing. You can't blend color pencils like the way you blend pencils. That means the tortillion or the paper stump will not work on color pencils. That's because color pencils have a hard and waxy nature. As a result, if you try to blend using a stump, you'll find that you can't easily spread the color around.
As with graphite pencil, there are a various techniques which you can employ when drawing with colored pencil. Using a straightforward side-to-side shading motion, a smooth even layer of color is built up. A very light touch can be used to deposit the faintest amount of pigment for graduated shading. Rapid, regular, evenly spaced lines are drawn, leaving a little white paper or underlying colour showing. This process is known as hatching.
Color Drawing features:
* A complete body of illustrated instruction that demonstrates the development of design ideas from initial concept through presentation drawing
* Finely honed explanations of each technique and process
* Faster and easier ways to create design drawings
* Methods for combining hand-drawn and computer-generated drawing techniques