Beginning Colored Pencil: Layering and Blending

A mid-process colored pencil drawing of a red and yellow pear. The photograph shows Macedo's hand holding a yellow colored pencil.

Once you have mastered a few basic techniques, colored pencils can be used to produce intricate, textured pictures.

Take the simple colored pencil, for example. This workhorse of the art supply industry is sometimes overlooked even though it is neither as bold as a marker nor as solemn as charcoal.

But color pencil value is something that artist Matheus Macedo is here to ensure you are aware of. Join him as he explores the possibilities that colored pencils give the aspiring artist, including layering and blending, conveying texture, and producing world maps that are as accurate as possible.

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