Online-Instructions - Learn to Paint and Draw
Learn to draw with the coloured pencil - Page 4
by Markus Agerer
4) Step-by-step instructions - cubes
In this short step-by-step instructions, I describe will the basic way of drawing a picture with coloured pencils. The exercise will help you learning to draw with coloured pencils. The drawing object will be a simple cube, as it is fast and easy to draw and it will demonstrate the technique of drawing shadows quite good.
a) First, I'm always drawing a very small sketch to get an idea of how the picture will look like later.
b) Then I'm drawing the outlines and edges of the cube with a pencil on the drawingpaper. Don't imprint to strong, otherwise deep wrinkles will remain in the paper. As the outlines should not be visible later, I'm erasing it as far away that they are hardly perceivable.
 
c) Now, I'm drawing the outlines with the coloured pencils, in the color of the cube. I'm drawing the lower edges allready with a black pencil.
 
d) On the left side of the cube I'm drawing with a black pencil a slight shadow. If you want to you can use a eraser pen to make the gray shadow more regular. As the cube will be coloured I'm drawing the shadow only slightly. If the colour is drawn to strong on the paper the area is sealed in a way and the color of an other pencil can barely be drawn over this area.
I even made a video of drawing the cubes shadow. You can find it at Google Video under this link:
Video - Drawing the shadow
e) The shadows on the right side will get darker, but again I'm drawing the color still not to strong on the paper (can tell it from the small white spots in the color space).
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