Colored Pencil Course

Join a real-time narrated drawing session that teaches building a smooth red gradient on a ladybug using Prismacolor Premier pencils, blending, highlights, shadows, and subtle cast shading.

Master grid-based sketch transfer and build value with cool gray pencils from 90% to 10%, blending to reflective light, and using white and black pencils to create a wet-water gradient.

Apply a light aqua background with careful strokes to preserve the fish edge. Use masking tape for clean borders and wax-based pencils for smooth texture, with alternatives such as Polychromos.

Learn to color a fish with colored pencils in real time, layering Tuscan red, Crimson alizarin hue, and Sunburst yellow, blending tones, and adding highlights with white.

Learn step-by-step real-time colored pencil techniques to build detailed scale textures with layered reds, yellows, and browns, blending edges, and crafting bright highlights.

Color the upper part of a frog using oil-based and wax-based colored pencils, layering dark cadmium yellow, oranges, sepia, and white highlights to build depth and texture.

Students learn to render the lower part of the pencil frog using colored pencils, blending blues and greens with cool gray tones, white highlights, and eraser textures for depth.

Develop realistic neck feathers by layering warm and cool gray pencils, blending with a colorless blender, varying pressure for hair-like lines, and adding highlights with white gel pen.

Color and blend fur and eyes with layered browns, ochres, grays, and blues; emphasize hair direction, light reflections, and soft edges using colorless blender and careful shading.

Paint leopard nose using brown ochre and burnt ochre with wax-based pencils, layering dark umber and black spots, shading along hair growth for lifelike texture.

Learn to render a leopard muzzle with layered browns, ochres, and grays using colored pencils, blending edges, creating spots and whisker roots, and using erasers for highlights.

Master blending browns and ochres to create leopard fur with 3d depth, using burnt ochre, dark brown, dark umber, and cool gray for spots, muzzle, and whiskers.

Learn to render an eye with colored pencils by layering hues like goldenrod and pumpkin orange, blending edges, adding hairs, shadows, and highlights with a colorless blender and electric eraser.

Blend brown ochre and dark browns to create hair detail, shadows, and highlights in this part of the colored pencil course, using blending and the electric eraser.

Color a cheetah area with brown ochre and black spots following the hair growth direction, blend edges with dark brown and cool grays, then add dark and white whiskers.