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Lifestyle Arts & Crafts Colored Pencil Drawing

Colored Pencil Character Drawing Secrets with Cindy Wider

Learn Professional Colored Pencil Drawing Techniques Suitable for Children's Characters, Coloring Books and Illustration
Rating: 4.9 out of 54.9 (124 ratings)
964 students
Created by Cindy Wider
Last updated 1/2019
English
English [Auto]
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What you'll learn

  • My special 'one pencil tip - three ways' technique (this will save you time and money!)
  • Confidently prepare and use your colored pencils for professional looking results
  • Create a fully rendered drawing of a children's picture book character
  • Draw an inked outline ready for coloring
  • Create the illusion of depth and form with vibrant gradations
  • Easy to apply fur techniques
  • Burnishing to add a wonderful finishing touch to your drawings

Requirements

  • No prior experience necessary (Just bring your sense of fun and child-like wonder!)
  • Colored pencil drawing materials (see the drawing supplies preview video)

Description

Welcome to the wonderful world of Colored Pencil Drawing!

In this course I reveal my professional colored pencil drawing secrets with a super fun project - a fully rendered illustration of my children's picture book character "Mr Andy Snufflewood".

Afterwards you'll be able to apply these same techniques to your own colored pencil illustrations, characters or colouring books.

Spend a few hours with me in the studio

Grab yourself a cuppa and relax. I'll take you through this step-by-step. It's like you're spending a few hours with me in the studio as I personally show you my professional techniques. Don't worry though. I've spent years figuring out the quickest and easiest ways to do things so that you don't have to. Follow along. This is going to be a breeze.

Here are just a few of the pro tips I'll be sharing with you...

One Pencil Tip - Three Ways!

Have you ever used colored pencils and been frustrated as you constantly sharpen them?  Your beautiful colored pencils very quickly shave down to tiny stumps before you know it. How sad! But it doesn't have to be this way!

In this course I'll show you how to get outstanding results without having to constantly sharpen your pencils.

Less sharpening means your precious pencils will last longer and you can color faster. It makes a massive amount of difference (plus if you are using expensive professional-grade pencils it can save you a huge amount of money!)

(Interesting fact - while shooting this entire course I used a pencil sharpener just three times!)

Vibrant Color, Depth and Form with Awesome Gradations

Do you want to create coloured pencil drawings that almost pop off the page with vibrant color, depth and form? I'll show you how to do that with gradations in just one color and also in multiple colours. You'll see the effect in Mr Andy Snufflewood's golden yellow overalls.

Learn how to really impress!

And when I say 'impress' I mean I'll be showing you how to use the impressing technique to create a wonderful easy fur texture you can use again and again in your own characters.

Inking your characters outline

I'll show you how to outline your character with accents to add interest and depth to your outlines, ready for the really fun bit... coloring.

Give it all a bit of a burnish!

Have you ever heard of  'burnishing' and wondered what that's all about? Well...you're in for a treat. I'll be showing you (in a very practical way) how to use burnishing to add that final touch of gorgeousness to your coloured pencil drawings.

Plus loads of other tips and techniques sprinkled liberally throughout the course...

This course was filmed in almost real time. As I'm drawing I chat about little nuggets of coloured pencil wisdom all throughout. No boring bits I promise!

Works with cheap pencils and professional brands too

The great news is that for this course it's up to you what pencils you choose to use. The techniques I'm revealing will work with cheap supermarket brand-name pencils as well as the more expensive professional brands. Tip: avoid buying the super-cheap no-name brands. Either way, whichever pencils you choose for this course, you'll be saving time and money just by using my super-duper '1 pencil tip - 3 ways' method which minimises the amount of sharpening you'll do.

You'll feel so supported

You're never alone with my courses. My students describe my Facebook community as "the most welcoming and supportive group on the internet". You're going to love it.

You've got absolutely nothing to lose. Udemy offers a 30 day money back guarantee!

So come on then! Bring your sense of childlike wonder and fun (plus your pencils and paper of course) and let's get started.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants use colored pencils in their illustrations, characters or coloring books
  • Beginners who want to move beyond pencil or ink
  • Experienced artists who would like add colored pencils to their current drawing skills

Course content

10 sections • 60 lectures • 3h 34m total length

  • Preview01:55
  • Preview03:05
  • Facebook Group
    00:19

  • Introduction and Supplies to Use in This Section
    00:58
  • How to Prepare Your Pencil Tip
    02:23
  • How to Create a Gradation in One Color
    03:58
  • How to Create a Golden Yellow Gradation with Three Colours
    09:07

  • Introduction to Beautiful Gradation Form
    01:05
  • Resources Section: Practice Shapes
    00:04
  • Gradation Shapes - Step 1
    06:01
  • Gradation Shapes - Step 2
    05:11
  • Gradation Shapes - Step 3
    04:55
  • Gradation Shapes - Step 4
    03:26
  • Gradation Shapes - Step 5
    02:23
  • Gradation Shapes - Summary
    00:38

  • Transferring the Outline
    03:17
  • Resources Section: Andy Snufflewood Outlines
    00:03
  • Introduction to Inking the Outline
    01:37
  • Inking the Fur Outline
    06:41
  • Inking the Overalls Outline
    11:38

  • Introduction to the Shadow Map
    01:20
  • Resources Section: Shadow Map
    00:03

  • Resources Section: Reference Image
    00:04
  • Golden Overalls - Step 1: Brown
    08:55
  • Golden Overalls - Step 2: Shadow Edge
    10:30
  • Golden Overalls - Step 3: Orange
    08:06
  • Preview09:09
  • Golden Overalls - Step 5: Burnishing
    04:53

  • Preview01:05
  • Hairy Fur Ball Supplies
    00:38
  • Resources Section: Hairy Fur Ball Outlines
    00:03
  • Hairy Fur Ball Impressing Introduction
    01:32
  • Hairy Fur Ball - Step 1: Pencil
    02:18
  • Hairy Fur Ball - Step 2: Pen
    01:26
  • Hairy Fur Ball - Step 3: Impressing
    05:05
  • Hairy Fur Ball - Step 4: Black
    03:20
  • Hairy Fur Ball - Step 5: Shadow Edge
    02:39
  • Hairy Fur Ball - Step 6: Grey
    01:05
  • Preview02:18
  • Hairy Fur Ball - Step 8: Warm Colors and White Burnishing
    05:28

  • Andy's Fur Direction Map
    02:04
  • Resources Section: Impressing Andy
    00:05
  • Introduction to Impressing Andy
    00:27
  • Impressing Andy - Step 1
    07:50
  • Impressing Andy - Step 2
    06:33

  • Coloring Andy - Introduction
    01:09
  • Resources Section: Reference Image
    00:04
  • Coloring Andy's Head - Part 1
    03:26
  • Coloring Andy's Head - Part 2
    07:40
  • Coloring Andy's Head - Part 3
    02:48
  • Coloring Andy's Head - Part 4
    02:33
  • Coloring Andy's Head - Part 5
    04:57
  • Coloring Andy's Fur - Part 1
    04:54
  • Coloring Andy's Fur - Part 2
    02:17
  • Coloring Andy's Fur - Part 3
    04:21
  • Coloring Andy's Fur - Part 4
    09:09
  • Coloring Andy's Fur - Part 5
    07:40
  • Coloring Andy's Tools - Part 6
    06:52

  • Where to go from here
    00:29
  • Congratulations! You Did It!
    00:51

Instructor

Cindy Wider
Art Educator, Artist and Co-Founder of DrawPj.com
Cindy Wider
  • 4.6 Instructor Rating
  • 1,737 Reviews
  • 10,778 Students
  • 3 Courses

    Hi, I've been a full time professional award winning artist, author and art educator for more than 25 years. During that time I've helped thousands of people learn to draw and paint both in live settings and through my online courses. 

    I'm the Co-Founder of DrawPj, an online art school which I founded in 2009 along with my husband Stuart Wider. At DrawPj we present my "Complete Online Drawing Course" and I also privately mentor students 1:1 online with video feedback through email. Prior to that we co-founded StuartCindy Art which became the largest privately owned live art tuition school on the Queensland Sunshine Coast, Australia.

    I'm also the author of the soft cover books 'Paint In Your Pyjamas!', 'Six Pencil Techniques' and '12 Coloured Pencil Techniques'. I am currently writing and illustrating my children's picture book series 'The Cuddleecat Family and Friends.' I am a licensed Artist represented by Art Licensing International in the USA and my artworks are sold all around the world.

My artwork and tutorials have been included in many highly respected international drawing and painting magazines.

I'm also an official ambassador for the leading drawing pencil brand Derwent and St Cuthbert Mills fine art papers. I've appeared on the National UK Television station Hochanda for Derwent Products.

    As a professional artist I've sold hundreds of original paintings, prints and drawings through galleries and art shows to both private and corporate collectors. I've been commissioned by major corporations including Microsoft Australia. My art has been shown in solo and touring exhibitions throughout Australia. 

    I have discovered that motivated students using my course curriculum over the internet will often equal or surpass the standard of work created in a live tuition setting. I find this exciting and rewarding, as time and again I hear course participants before they begin confess to me that they 'can't even draw a straight line' but with hard work and dedication they are able to improve their drawing skills in a very short space of time and often with dramatic results. 

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