Drawing: Colored Pencil Basics (How to Draw & Paint)

by Cynthia Knox

Drawing: Colored Pencil Basics contains everything aspiring artists need to learn about drawing with coloured pencil. This colourful, comprehensive guidebook explores blending and layering colours, plus a range of styles and techniques for creating your own works of art in coloured pencil. Step-by-step lessons demonstrate how to draw strikingly realistic animals, landscapes, still lifes, and more. Whether you're a novice or an accomplished artist who has never experimented with coloured pencil, this book will provide the instruction and inspiration you need to master this versatile medium.

• ISBN13: 9781600582738
• Publish Date: 1 April 2012
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Out of Print: 20 April 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Walter Foster Publishing
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 32
• Language: English
• URL: https://murdochbooks.com.au/browse/books/9781600582738

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

Drawing: Colored Pencil Basics is a tutorial and style guide by Cynthia Knox. Due out 3rd March 2020 from Quarto on their Walter Foster imprint, it's 40 pages and will be available in paperback format.
The layout follows the familiar Walter Foster tutorial format. An introduction covers tools and supplies and is followed by a short and easily accessible general drawing tutorial and an introduction to color theory. There's a good subchapter on blending, burnishing, and pencil techniques as well as a short intro on how to choose the right pencils.There's a good bit on grid drawing as well as drawing from reference photos. The book ends (quite abruptly) with a short tutorial on drawing animal fur.

Each of the chapters includes a start to finish project illustrating the concepts and techniques from the chapter.

This is a very basic book but full of intermediate techniques and will provide some useful takeaways for the majority of readers/artists. This entire series is worthwhile and will be a valuable addition to the artist's home library.

Four stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.