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Colored Pencils
Sharpen Your Skills
Colored pencils aren’t just for kids and coloring books. They’re a powerful medium for sophisticated, expressive art making — once you know how to use them. Four professionals will teach you techniques for mixing colors, creating light and volume, photo-realism, and capturing skin tone. We’ll explore blending, solvents, surfaces, hatching, color theory, even ways to hold a pencil and keep it sharp. Packed (37 demos!) full of insights and tips.
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What’s in this course
Dozens of step-by-step demonstrations; from photorealistic drawing to illustration
Learn to blend vivid colors and subtle gradations
Get magical effects with water-soluble pencils
Create bright and bold colors
Sample Lessons
Meet Our Instructors
- Getting to know your Pencils
- Color Theory
- Layering, Blending, and Burnishing
- Hatching
- Mixing Colors
- Using a Blending Stick
- Drawing Realistically 9
- Creating a Sense of Depth
- Making Color Decisions and Taking Risks
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More details
- 37 step-by-step demonstrations
- Photorealism to whimsical illustration
- Learn to blend vivid colors and subtle gradations
- Light and shadow
- Watercolor pencils
- Skin tones
- Urban sketching
- Solvents
- Building layers
- Mixed media
- Portraits
- Still life
- Book illustration
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What students say
“I had no experience with colored pencils and now I feel childish joy exploring the materials, longing for discovering all the possibilities in this course. It really is great fun.”
Irah F, Bergen, Netherlands
“This course gave me some coloured pencil revelations! I never knew that I’d love them so much. I had no idea that they would become one of my favorite mediums!”
Aleesha S, Chiangmai, Thailand
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