Portrait Drawing with Colored Pencil
Sarah Bixler
$408
Learn a painterly approach to drawing the portrait in color. You will learn techniques to quickly identify and block-in major shapes and color relationships from the portrait. Limited palettes will help you think in terms of color relationships that will enable you to use color more effectively in your work. Color pencils are a low stakes, approachable way to see the practical principles of color theory at work. You will learn a logical system that will improve your painting and drawing regardless of medium.
Required Supplies
Paper:
9x12 or 14x17 Smooth Bristol
Pencils:
My preferred brand: Faber Castell Pencils
One each of:
Cadmium Yellow
Orange glaze
Scarlet red
Middle purple pink
Light Ultramarine
Helio Turquoise,
Emerald Green
Manganese violet
Venetian Red
Raw Umber
Indigo
Optional
any pencil which catches your eye
Cold Grey V
Vandyke brown
cinnamon
magenta
Earth green
Earth green yellowish
Olive green yellowish
Dark chrome yellow
Misc. Other Supplies:
A small retractable eraser,
Pink pearl eraser
kneaded eraser
Metal pencil sharpener
regular hb pencil or any color col-erase pencil
Drafting Tape
Scissors
Clear ruler/straight edge
Scissors
An index card/cereal box/chip board/cardboard to make viewfinders
Sarah Bixler
Sarah Bixler is an observational artist living and working in Seattle Washington. She studied analytical figure drawing and sculpting...