| | | | | blade or pin to let the lower layer show through. |
| Are you a novice in the art? Do you want to learn | | | | Burnishing: It is simply layers of colored pencil overlaid |
| how to get started? Following are some basic color | | | | with strong pressure so that the tooth of the paper |
| pencil strokes that will be helpful in your drawing. It is | | | | is filled and smooth surface results. This image shows |
| a good idea to spend some time exploring the color | | | | a burnished surface compared with a basic overlay of |
| pencil medium with small pieces before attempting a | | | | color. With some colors, especially with waxier pencils |
| major drawing. | | | | than the watercolor pencils used for this example, a |
| As with graphite pencil, there are a range of | | | | quite translucent and jewel-like effect can be |
| techniques which you can employ when drawing with | | | | obtained with careful burnishing. |
| colored pencil. Which one you choose will depend on | | | | After the basics of colour pencils, its time for learning |
| the final effect you are aiming for. The techniques | | | | how to use water colour pencils. Using watercolor |
| are: | | | | pencils is very similar to using a 'normal' pencil or a |
| Shading: Using a straightforward side-to-side shading | | | | color pencil. You should hold them the same way, |
| motion, a smooth even layer of color is built up. A | | | | sharpen them the same way, and moreover you can |
| very light touch can be used to deposit the faintest | | | | always erase them! |
| amount of pigment for graduated shading. | | | | It's when you add water into the equation that their |
| Hatching: Rapid, regular, evenly spaced lines are | | | | uniqueness appears. There are different ways to do |
| drawn, leaving a little white paper or underlying colour | | | | this. For starters, you can do by painting with clean |
| showing. | | | | water over your drawing. Or you can lift the paint |
| Cross-Hatching: Hatching overlaid at right-angles. This | | | | off the pencil with a brush then apply it to your |
| can be done with different colors, or carried through | | | | paper, wet the pencil then draw with it, or wet the |
| multiple layers, to create a textured effect. | | | | support you're working on. |
| Scumbling: This refers to the 'brillo pad' method, tiny | | | | By painting over the watercolor pencil with a brush |
| overlapping circles rapidly drawn. Again, it can be used | | | | that has been loaded with clean water the pencil lines |
| to build up a single color or different colors. | | | | dissolves into the watercolor paint. The intensity of |
| Directional Marks: Short directional lines which follow a | | | | the wash produced depends on the amount of pencil |
| contour, or the direction of hair or grass or other | | | | that had been applied to paper. The more pencil lead, |
| surfaces. These can be densely overlaid to form a | | | | the more intense the color. Be selective in which |
| rich textural effect. | | | | areas you turn into washes to make the most of the |
| Incised Marks: Two thick layers of color are overlaid, | | | | unique properties of watercolor pencils. |
| then the top colour gently scratched into with a | | | | |