Books and Media - Colored Pencils - Books

Top instructors have contributed to this comprehensive, step-by-step beginner's guide to this incredibly expressive yet inexpensive medium. Tips and techniques include how to use layering, burnishing, lifting color, and other basic techniques.

Learn the key concepts for handling the colored pencil medium. The book is filled with examples and demonstrations of beautiful work, along with updated ways to preserve finished artwork. This is a revised edition of a favorite text on the medium.

Learn the basic techniques of colored pencil drawing, such as layering, blending, burnishing, and sgraffito. Discover impressed line techniques, and combine colored pencils with graphite pencils in "grisaille" techniques.

This book reveals the limitless creative possibilities of colored pencils when blended with mixed media, including pastel, watercolor, acrylic, ink, and more. Includes 243 color and 17 black and white illustrations. Author — Janie Gildow. Hardcover.

Capture the personality that goes with the face. Just follow two thorough demonstrations and see how complete portraits come together. Then tackle 17 mini-demos and learn to paint features, hair, and clothing. Contains more than 200 color illustrations.

Explore a range of styles and techniques for creating works of art in colored pencil. This Walter Foster "Artist Library Series" guide is packed with information to help beginning and advanced artists learn more about drawing with colored pencils.

This book explains the fundamentals of drawing with colored pencils, with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions. It outlines techniques for achieving various textures. Start with basic shapes, then develop a style for rendering a variety of subjects.

Learn the techniques for developing fully rendered drawings from simple colored pencils sketches.

The book begins with a primer on the basic properties of colored pencils, as well as dozens of exercises to get artists comfortable with using them on a variety of surfaces and with other mediums and methods.

If you love working with colored pencils, this book is a must-have. Author Kristy Kutch is an accomplished artist and teacher who has written one of the first books that covers in-depth techniques for traditional colored pencils and watercolor pencils.

This is a great book to get you started drawing with colored pencils. It utilizes 16 step-by-step demonstrations divided into still life, landscape, people, and animals with comprehensive instructions on the tools and materials available.

Create an astonishing range of hues, tins, and textures using colored pencils. This book demonstrates how to fully explore the potential of this remarkable medium. Covers the characteristics of various kinds of pencils and assorted techniques.

Find your way by trying 10 methods of working with colored pencils. There's expert guidance for combining the pencil with other media. Each chapter includes exercises for artists at the beginner, intermediate, or advanced levels.

The Pencil Artist's Handbook covers pencil sketching of virtually everything from portraits to landscapes. It's a perfect introduction for beginners and a source of inspiration for seasoned artists.