| Prismacolor Pencils provides information and product | | | | experiment by layering lighter values of a color over |
| resources, such as Prismacolor Colored Pencils, for | | | | a dark background. Value can also be adjusted |
| creative artists of all levels. Because drawing is the | | | | depending upon the amount of pressure put on the |
| foundation for building visual art expression and skill, | | | | pencil. Putting more pressure on a pencil will result in a |
| students in particular will benefit from tips and guides | | | | darker value of a color as opposed to using less |
| offered on this website. | | | | pressure. However, when drawing, it is best to use |
| The process of drawing develops a student's ability | | | | layering techniques, such as coloring over an area |
| to transfer what they see in three dimensions to the | | | | several times, using a loose grip. Applying too much |
| two-dimensional drawing plane. Student artists usually | | | | pressure on a pencil can lead to paper tearing. In |
| begin to learn how to draw using pencils, charcoal, | | | | addition, when too much pressure is put on pencils, it |
| and pastels to copy still life. Beginner drawing classes | | | | also leaves an impression in the paper, which makes |
| use simple objects such as bottles, boxes, cylinders, | | | | it nearly impossible to correct. However, applying |
| and round objects such as balls to get the student | | | | heavier pressure on a pencil is good way of accenting |
| artist familiar with how draw what they see - not | | | | a drawing. This technique works best when a drawing |
| what they think they see. Inexperienced drawing | | | | is nearing completion. |
| students sometimes get very frustrated while | | | | The great appeal to having a palette of 132 |
| getting used to seeing the world in a different | | | | prismacolor colored pencils is the opportunity to |
| perspective, especially how objects relate to their | | | | experiment with blending complimentary, secondary, |
| surroundings and positioning. For instance, a square | | | | and tertiary colors. Blending color exercises accomplish |
| box placed directly at an artist's eyelevel will look | | | | two objects; first, it facilitates the learning of color |
| different from the same box placed in either a higher | | | | theory and secondly, it helps a beginning artist get |
| or lower position. Rather than draw what they see, | | | | used to handling a pencil as art instrument, rather |
| the beginner artist draws what their mind knows - | | | | than a writing utensil. An artist's grip on a pencil is |
| that a square has all equal sides. When they look at | | | | looser, and usually more angled to the side than a |
| their drawing, they often become frustrated because | | | | writer's grip. A writer grips a pencil tighter and applies |
| their rendering does not look like the still life. Most | | | | deliberate and even pressure to paper. An artist grip |
| beginning art students need lessons on perspective, | | | | is the opposite - almost to the point where it can |
| proportion, and foreshortening. | | | | easily fall away from the hand. A good exercise for |
| In addition to learning perspective, proportion, and | | | | the student artist to do is to loosely wave the wrist |
| foreshortening, students should be taught color | | | | and allow the pencil to waiver back and forth. This |
| theory, and how varying values of one color can help | | | | can be done in the air, without the need to put pencil |
| bring dimension to a drawing. Prismacolor pencils are | | | | to paper. Once the student feels comfortable, the |
| excellent media to begin learning the properties of | | | | same exercise can be performed on paper, using a |
| color. Primacolor colored pencils come in 132 different | | | | light grip of the fingers. This will help the student |
| colors, with a soft texture that make them ideal for | | | | become more comfortable and gain better control of |
| blending colors and values. Art students can | | | | the pencil. |