Starting from Scratch: Completely Self-Taught Colored Pencil Drawing

It is actually a very interesting thing to record all the beautiful things around you with colored pencils! Many people like colored lead painting because the painting tools are simple, portable and easy to control. However, in fact, drawing good colored lead works requires solid sketching skills, basic color skills, and professional colored lead drawing techniques. Beginners without training and guidance can easily fall into the dilemma of "painting". This book is tailor-made for the learning difficulties faced by beginners. This introductory tutorial on colored lead painting is tailor-made. Even students with zero knowledge can open a new door with this book! The book is divided into 7 chapters: Chapter 1 is an introduction to colored pencil drawing tools, including explanations of commonly used tools such as colored pencils, paper, pencil sharpeners, erasers, correction fluids, highlight pens, and paper erasers; Chapter 2 explains the techniques for using colored pencils and drawing techniques for colored pencil drawings. Methods, such as pen holding posture, line drawing, flat painting, gradient, overlapping color, etc.; Chapter 3 explains the related skills of sketching in order to better use colored pencils for painting, including using geometry to summarize shapes, light and shade expression, composition rules, perspective principles, five major tones, Lightening line drawings, etc.; Chapters 4 to 7 are detailed explanations of 40 cases. The painting objects include flowers, succulents, transparent objects, metal objects, fruits and vegetables, nuts, desserts and small animals. Each case is carefully selected, and each case corresponds to a technique point, striving to help beginners solve the difficulties encountered in the learning process. In addition to the necessary step explanations, there are also summary of drawing points, technique tips and teaching videos that can be viewed by scanning the QR code to help beginners learn colored lead painting efficiently. This book is not only suitable for beginners of colored pencil drawing and painting enthusiasts to learn from, but can also be used as a training material for relevant colleges and art education institutions.