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Isnin, 30 April 2018

World of Arts: Coloured Pencils Drawing

There are limitless of result you can achieve with coloured pencil technique. - Photo by: Morgan Davidson

Time to move on to the next stage of our drawing exercises. Here you can choose the colouring techniques that you like. Anyway, since the coloured pencils technique has been the basic in colour – you should at least try it, even if you don’t want to make it your professional fields. With coloured pencils technique, it will be easier for you to understand any other colouring techniques such as watercolour, oil, acrylic and etc.

Here I only can show you the basic things you need to know with this technique, it’s either you can follow the free tutorial courses from the YouTube or you can enrol in any online courses to get greater results. There are countless result, you can achieve with any techniques as long as you keep on learning. In fact, you can also try the mix media techniques using colour pencil.

Tools

To start this technique all you need to have is the colour pencil sets. There are few sets of colour pencil that consist of 12, 24, 36, 48, 72, 132, and 150 (the amount of colour pencils also can be different with different brands).

For the start you can have the smaller sets of colours on 12 or 24. At the earlier stage what you need to know is the techniques instead of the result of your painting. The other reason is, you want to know which brand is good for you. You don’t want to buy a complete set and after that found that the other brand in much better.

You can start with basic coloured pencils set. - Photo by: mymodernmet.com 

Colouring Techniques

There are similarity of colour technique with colour pencils and the shading process with a regular pencil. That’s why, starting with colour pencil will be the easy step to start for the colouring process before your shift into any other colouring techniques.

There are some strokes you need to learn when using the colour pencils. Strokes will give different textures to your result. Other important skills with coloured pencils is the colour blending. The colour blending will give you extra shades of colours instead the total colour that you have on your colour set. The other thing is mixing colours with coloured pencils is different with the mixing colour with watercolour and oil paintings.

In order to master this technique you need to get enough exercise to get a good result. Then you also need to know that different brand of coloured pencils going to give you different effects. In order to speed up your learning, it is better if you are following any classes so you can get a proper guide and discussion.

Here we are going to see some samples of colouring techniques with coloured pencils. What you need to remember, you need to first master the basic techniques before you can come out with a very good result. Keep on practicing, keep on exploring different techniques in order to produce a better result.



You can keep on searching relevant tutorial videos or even follows the related channels to make sure that you always learning something new.


You need to keep on exercising in order to get stunning results like this painting by Néstor Canavarro. – Photo by: Néstor Canavarro

Online Classes

Or you can simple follow an online classes. With online classes you will be able to interact with others or your trainer in more details about your works. Plan properly, so you can dedicate enough time if you decide to invest in online courses.

You can also have your painting group where you can work together in order to improve your paintings result. For example, you can follow an online classes through this website drawpj.com, but there are many other online classes you can find all over the internet.


Look how beautiful is the result of coloured pencil techniques. - Photo from: drawpj.com

Keep on practicing in order to get a better result. - Photo by: Morgan Davidson

Coloured pencil is the most basic technique. Even though it’s not popular as watercolour, oils or acrylic, coloured pencils can provide you with better ideas of other colouring techniques. You also will find many good paintings produced with coloured pencil techniques. Keep on exploring and always keep on learning.



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Jumaat, 27 April 2018

World of Arts: Drawing Tools

The basic drawing tools are very easy. You can start almost anytime. - Photo by: easy-drawings-and-sketches.com


We talked about the drawing exercises yesterday, and today we are going to talk about the tools. To start your drawing lessons, you don’t need to have too many tools actually. These tools anyway, will grows together with your skills. So, don’t rush to get all the tools at the same time, but buy it only when you are ready to use it.

The Basic Tools

These three things are the only things you need as a start. For the first few exercises you don’t have to use too many tools. Once you realize that you need to move on to the next stage, then you can add your tools (such as for details shading exercises).

Pencil (you can start with one - better if you have H, HB, and 2B)

You don’t have to use too many pencils for basic exercises. - Photo by: vickerey.com 
You can also use the mechanical pencils, but the best start is with regular pencils. - Photo by: cassart.co.uk



Paper (for basic practice you can do it on any paper - regular A4 paper is cheaper for practice)

The regular A4 paper will save you lots of money. - Photo by: malaysia.exportersindia.com

Eraser (make sure you have a nice clean rubber eraser).

The good quality eraser will leave you a clean surface. - Photo by: skout.com.au

Ruler (this is to draw the guidelines when you do the perspective exercises)

The transparent ruler will enable you to see what’s underneath it. - Photo by: hobbycraft.co.uk

For the first few lessons such as drawing basic shapes, lines, perspectives, and basic human & animal shapes and also composition all the tools above are enough. Focus on the result you want to achieve on the exercises (at this stage, the shapes and quality of lines are more important than the shading). So, don’t worry about your tools.

Other additional tools such as storage case or files to keep your drawing – to see your progress. You need to make sure your progress to understand the different between all the exercises. It’s also important for you to check on your progress (make sure there’s improvement in your exercises.

Always get something to get you inspires to keep on drawing. - Photo by: milestonetoma.blogspot.my

Now you know that to start your drawing exercises, you don’t have to spend too much on tools, and it’s more about your own passion to try something new. Always get yourself inspired with new drawing you want to try, but don’t get too hard on yourself as you’re just beginning your lesson. Give yourself enough time. So, get advice from someone who you know how to draw.




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