I didn’t want to go too much off the subject of blogging but as this is my journey of getting through the clutter to make my blog work for me I thought it would be a good idea to start adding some of my talents and begin to start thinking about exactly how I can use them for my blogging.
To document my drawing skills this is one of my colour pencil sketches that I did a long time ago. Before I get into what pencils used and the book I learned the skills from I would also like to point out that this was my very first colour pencil shading attempt. I enjoyed doing it at the time but here’s the problem. I don’t think I could sit here and colour all day long without feeling like I’m about to lose my marbles. Here goes this post anyway.
The colouring pencils I use are called ‘Prismalo’. I tried to look for them on Amazon.co.uk
The pencils are water colour which means that it is possible to even roughy sketch in the colours and then use just water to blend the colours into one another. However I chose not to use water at all for this drawing. Instead I chose to use my own little technique accompanied by a few techniques picked up from a book called The Colored Pencil by Bet Borgeson.
When using colour pencils to create the effect of depth through shading I mostly start by using the black pencil. This allows me to give the underlying depth that I need at a later stage. I then sketch over the black with many other colours to give the effect of a dark version of a colour.
So for example if I wanted to create a shade of dark blue to light blue I would start by the black, then shade over it using blue and then us a much lighter blue to shade over the whole area again. I use this method for any area I want to shade for any picture as it works well on a small or large scale.
The whole shaded image of the robin.
Close up of detail of head.
Two detailed close ups of the feathers.
This is the book that I learned quite alot of the shading techniques from. It’s called The Colored Pencil by Bet Borgeson
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