Portrait Drawing with Colored Pencil
RESCHEULED
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...