Colored Pencil: Do You Have Time & Patience for Slow Coloring? (plus Tips for Efficient Coloring)
Colored pencil is slow!
The sharp point on a colored pencil is teeny-tiny. If that’s not bad enough, colored pencil painting requires many layers for vibrancy. It takes forever to complete even a small pencil project!
Do you have the time for colored pencil? Do you have the patience?
I picked up my first artist grade colored pencil in the fall of 1984 and I’m still working with them today. That’s decades of working at a turtle’s pace.
How have I survived this long without going crazy?
Hmmmm… How about if I share some efficiency tips that I’ve picked up over the years?
Details in Focus: Find the Perfect Balance of Copic Marker & Colored Pencil
Do you struggle to balance Copic Markers and colored pencils?
You love the look of colored pencils over Copic Marker but when you’re coloring on your own with independent, non-tutorial projects, do you start to question “how much pencil should I add?”
How much is too much?
Or is it enough?
Tips for Coloring Realistic Glass (Lemonade tutorial; Colored Pencil Magazine)
Do You Struggle with capturing realistic glass?
You’ve tried it a few times and man, glass is just not your thing!
You’re pretty good with colored pencils, Copic Markers, or even watercolor. You can breeze through any tutorial. If someone’s guiding you, everything’s easy-breezy.
But coloring glass on your own? What a headache! It looks flat. It looks fake.
Feeling hopeless?
Hold on, there’s help!
Tools On My Desk: Color Wheels and Useful Color Tools (Copic Marker, Colored Pencil)
You have a color wheel, right?
Yeah, we all have one or two of they lying around… somewhere.
We all have a couple of color wheels or tools because we think we’re supposed to use them. But we don’t actually ever use them and to be honest, we don’t understand why anyone would.
Pssstttt…