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What are colored pencils?
What are colored pencils?
Colored Pencils have a core of colored pigment and a protective casing made of wood. While standard pencils have a core of graphite, the core of a colored pencil is made of wax, pigments, additives, and binding agents.
Tools & Materials
Tools & Materials
Prismacolor Colored Pencils
Best quality colored pencils
Paper
Use different colored and texture paper to create different looks
Rulers
Used for creating straight lines
Shape Stencils
Used to create shapes
Colorless Blenders
Used for blending
Protractor/Compass
Used for making perfect circles
Eraser
Best used for erasing colored pencil
Tortillons
Used for blending
Composition
Composition
The arrangement of objects in an image.
Develop
Develop
Techniques- different ways to use the materials
Techniques- different ways to use the materials
Practice Techniques
Using the technique sheet for colored pencils, practice the techniques to improve your skills.
Blending Tools: Tortillons, Tissues, Q-tips
Techniques:
Flat Color- a solid block of color.
Value- the gradual shading from light to dark. Value can also be created by adding white and black into a color.
Blending- gradually mixing two or more colors together.
Hatching- texture or value created by drawing parallel lines closer together and further apart.
Crosshatching- texture or value created by drawing intersecting lines closer together and further apart.
Stippling- texture or value created by drawing dots closer together and further apart.
Mixing Colors
Tint- any color mixed with white.
Tone- any color mixed with gray.
Shade- any color mixed with black.
Create
Create
How to Start
How to Start
Materials:
Pastel or Drawing Paper
Colored Pencils
Pencil
Sharpie
Blending Materials: tissues, tortillons, q-tips, baby oil
Masking tape
Backboard
Tape all the way around your paper! And put your name and class period on the tape.
Directions:
Tape down your paper to a backboard. Tape it all the way around the paper. Be sure that you have evenly taped your border with the tape halfway on the paper and halfway on the board.
Write your name on the tape in sharpie.
In pencil, lightly sketch out your composition.
Start coloring the background areas first. Be sure to use a variety of techniques!
Then, color the foreground, details areas.
Black should be added VERY LAST because it smears.
Tips:
Color black should be VERY LAST.
Add your details VERY LAST.
Rotate your paper so that you are not leaning your arm into the chalk. You can also use a scrap piece of paper under your arm so that you do not smear it.
Build layers of color by adding different shades.
Do not blend too much or you will lose your details.
You cannot use sharpie or charcoal pencils on top of oil pastels.
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