Product Description: "*Provides more than 70 specialized answers for common colored pencil dilemmas *Step-by-step mini-demos illustrate techniques and help artists apply what they’ve learned
Few mediums can rival the range of effects achieved with colored pencils. This guide offers sound instruction from two highly respected artists. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience they provide answers to the most frequently asked questions. Chapters feature an easy-to-refence format covering crucial topics including setup, application, technique, color theory, texture and light."
Easy to follow instructions and helpful tips I have had this book for over a month now and am familiar enough to place a review of the merits and flaws. Having done well over half of the given projects, including: color wheel, color chart, layering techniques, transferring and drawing, I am more than impressed with the results. I enjoy looking at the photos to see what is ultimately possible to do with colored pencils. This book has been a great help in familiarizing me with this medium that is totally new to me. I am still working through the projects and some of them I have done more than once to see if I could improve. My only gripe is that the names of the colors are sometimes different or obsolete with Prisma's newer color charts, so I have had to work pretty hard to find solutions. I hope the authors fix that if they do another edition. It is a good idea to get the spray fixative as the book suggests. The fixative can change the colors especially if you spray on too much. Working with fixative on your practice drawings will get you familiar with which colors are more susceptible to changing when sprayed. My plums looked great until I spayed them with the workable fixative and they turned neon purple. It is definitely a great workbook as well as a text. Don't expect too much too soon. I advise lots of reading, working, and more reading and working. I highly recommend it.
Fantastic, covers most topics I found the sections covering different types of paper very useful. Thankfully I didn't already order rough paper since they chew up pencils like crazy. It explains other supplies that you might need which I found helpful. I found the section about glass especially helpful among many other topics this book covers. I found this at my local library so check your before going out to buy books. Highly recommended color pencil book by many professionals.
Colored Pencil Solution Book This is an excellent book for artists starting to use colored pencil as a medium. From shading to burnishing and using different techiques, this book tells you all how to do it. This is a definte plus to any artists collection.
Not nearly wonderful While this is a great book it has some serious shortcomings. This is definitely a beginners book. Although I am not a beginning artist, I am new to colored pencils. I have always taught my students to begin with the basics and that is why I bought this book. Almost half the book is devoted to the basics of color and design which is what I expected. That part is beautifully written. I will not repeat the caveats that have already been written, but will cover the portion I did not like. Each lesson uses a different kind of paper and some lessons incorporate another brand of pencil. Even not as a beginning artist, I do not have all these materials on hand nor do I want to invest in them not knowing whether I will embrace the medium or not. The reason I even gave it four stars is that the techniques are so well done.
Great Basic Colored Pencil Book This book has absolutely gorgeous drawings, something lacking in most of the other colored pencil books. It contains all the basics one would need to learn before picking up a colored pencil; everything from A to Z. The book is easy to read and fun. There are no lenghy discussions on the theories of the colored pencil medium: it gets right to the point. The second half of the book has detailed instructions on how to achieve certain textures, which I haven't seen in other books, such as glass, copper, silver, lace... all with absolutely jaw dropping examples. I bought it along with "Drawing for Right Side of the Brain", which makes a fantastic course on the mechanics of drawing itself. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
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