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.

What's in this Course

• 37 step-by-step demonstrations
• Photorealism to whimsical illustration
• Learn to blend vivid colors and subtle gradations
• Light and shadow
• Watercolor pencils
• Skin tones
• Solvents
• Building layers
• Mixed media
• Portraits
• Still life
• Urban sketching
• Book illustration

and much more