You can also use erasable colored pencils like Berol Col-Erase. The lighter you draw, the less the graphite will show through your finished colored pencil drawing. Keep a kneaded eraser and hard white vinyl eraser handy to remove incorrect lines. I’d suggest using a hard or medium-grade graphite pencil, but barely touch the paper with it, especially if you’re working on your final surface. Start by using a ruler to draw a border around your picture area, leaving enough room around your composition for matting at the end. Whatever method you use, when you do a contour drawing, the goal is to clearly show where the value and hue changes are inside the objects that you’re drawing. And you can combine different objects seen at different times, or include objects from your own imagination.
Of course, if you’re able to draw your contour outlines from life, freehand, then all of these methods are unnecessary.ĭrawing freehand has several advantages. The grid method really does make drawing a lot easier, and it’s also the cheapest way to copy, or enlarge an image. Instead of struggling to draw the lines of your entire composition all at once, you can focus on the lines within each square of your grid. Create the same grid on your drawing paper. To use the grid method, draw a grid of squares over your photo reference. Mechanical copying has been done for centuries-the oldest mechanical copying method is the grid, and it’s still useful today if you don’t like to mess with projectors or light tables. You can also use a light-box or light-table to trace your composition, or set up an opaque projector to project your image onto the wall. Then it’s simple to use tracing paper or vellum to copy the outline and contour lines of your subjects. The easiest ways are through mechanical means.įor example, you can take a good digital photo reference of your subject matter and print it out, very large.
There are several ways to draw perfect contour lines. but coming up with super-realistic colored pencil drawings takes a different skill.įor realistic drawings, you should first be able to make a detailed contour outline.
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These techniques are great for learning how to “paint” with the medium. By Robert Sloan in Art Tutorials > Drawing TipsĪlmost all colored pencil instructional books cover topics like varying pressure, burnishing, blending, edging, lifting, and etc.
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