Ha ha. History repeats itself - again! I love the look of shading in coloring pictures, and I'm comfortable with the techniques. But wow - when it comes to shading stamina it's like I always run out of steam, and then run out of interest after shading just a few spaces. I was actually prepared [...]
Sometimes it's nice to relax with a very easy coloring session. Coloring the background of a drawing using a gentle progression of related colors can start you out with a nice strong foundation - and that can help your colors play nicely together when you reach the later stages of coloring. I started out with [...]
As I was finishing yesterday's coloring, I had some thoughts about colored pencils that I wanted to share with you. These are the pencils that I used to color my Fresh Clean Greens picture. As you can tell, I did branch out into a couple of different color groups. I also used both Faber-Castell Polychromos [...]
Today I'm back to coloring from the wide tipped edition of Balance. I usually jump between books much more often than it would seem from looking at my blog posts so far. But when Balance Wide Tipped came out, I wanted to join a number of our Facebook group members in coloring the entire book [...]
Yesterday I talked a bit about graphite pencil shading and my post turned into a step by step demonstration showing you one of the ways I like to color. Most the time, though, my coloring is just coloring. I don't think a lot about color schemes or about various tools or techniques. Most of my coloring [...]
Today I'd like to give you a close-up look at how I do some simple shading using a soft graphite pencil and a blending stump. I really like Mitsubishi Uni graphite pencils. They feel nice in the hand and are extremely glidey when you apply them to paper. I've got an assortment set that I [...]