Colored Pencil: Discover your “inner artist” as you learn to draw a range of popular subjects in colored pencil (Drawing Made Easy)
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Anyone who has always wanted to draw in colored pencil but finds all those colors intimidating can breathe a sigh of relief after opening this book. Drawing Made Easy: Colored Pencil shows readers how to draw almost anything in colored pencil with ease!
*Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority*
After introducing readers to the tools and materials needed to get started, award-winning artist Eileen Sorg demonstrates how to draw flowers, still lifes, animals, and a variety of other objects by building up color and form in simple layers. By the last page, readers will be able to draw a horse, a bowl of fruit, a tree frog, a puppy, and even a garden gnome with beautiful, vibrant color. The book also includes in-depth information on tracing and transferring images, so aspiring artists don’t even need to know how to draw to master the art of colored pencil!
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153 reviews for Colored Pencil: Discover your “inner artist” as you learn to draw a range of popular subjects in colored pencil (Drawing Made Easy)
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Daisy Dog –
I use this book to teach a colored pencil class. The students love it and get amazing results by copying her examples. The step-by-step instructions are easy for a beginner to follow. My students are usually very pleased with the book and with their ability to use this medium after only a short period of time. I highly recommend it!
Mary –
Have a couple of other colored pencil ‘how-to’ books but this one has the most useful information. Better examples of materials, pencil strokes and color schemes; even different ways to hold your pencils. Lots of animal examples: guinea pig, tree frog, puppy, kitten, horse & more; several man-made objects such as shoes, glassware and a classic car which are very helpful to learn transparency & shine of surfaces; a daisy flower plus the cover example of assorted fruit provide a wide assortment of practice to build your skills. Although written for those with drawing aspirations I find it’s wonderful for getting realistic renditions in coloring books. I will be looking for more of the author’s books.
Laura Evans –
The pages are large and easy to view but there aren’t very many of them. I was disappointed. I’d like to see a book like this with at least 30 pages of instruction.
Judy A. Jolly –
Good book and great tips
Love To Read Tee –
This is the book you want, if you want to learn. This book gets to the point. It has the sketches, the colors, and instructions. It’s over 15 projects. This has everything you need.
E. Simon –
I do have an art background but knew nothing about colored pencils and their potential. So this book is a reall eye-opener for me. Did you know that colored pencils use the same pigments as are found in oil paints? Only the binder is different. I learned that in a class I’m taking where we’re using this book.
Don’t worry about “copying”. It’s how you learn the basics. You can branch off from there. But this book will give you a good foundation. I’m delighted with it. My only wish: I wish it came in a LARGER version. For we “senior types”, that type is a little small, and I would just appreciate a larger format. For everyone else though, it’s fine as is. I’ll have to see if it’s available on Kindle.
John Morgan –
Many colored pencil books share two features: involved exercises copying full fledged works by the author, and interminable layers of color, often provided without explanation. This book does neither, and benefits from the omissions. Inside are short projects, usually consisting of a single figure on a white background. The figures are often adorable–a tree frog, a kitten, a turtle, and so on. The layering used to produce the colors is also stripped down, rarely consisting of more than three colors. This approach has the twin advantage of offering easily digestible chunks that can be produced in a single sitting, a big advantage for those of us who are extremely busy but like to unwind with art, and simple enough color schemes that the underlying idea becomes transferable to other projects.
I take this book on airplanes with me, along with a colored pencil roll and a small sketchbook. It’s a wonderful way to pass the time on a flight and I’ve even managed to trade some of the resulting drawings for things like fishing lessons while in flight.
Ms. K. F. Clifton –
When I ordered this book I didn’t realise how much content there is inside. It’s a full seven weeks drawing course which is very Informative. It came well packaged and in good condition. Would recommend this to any one who is considering taking up coloured pencil drawing.
LibzownArt –
For beginners, lots of information on setting up and some really nice tutorials, with original drawing to copy and list of colours to use.
TheWhistler –
What a great little book for my purpose! I donate art supplies to kids in the upper age limit at Christmas. Got started early this year, may as well fill in the time. I have really been looking for an informative but inexpensive book for kids to whom I give colour pencils and colouring books. I stumbled upon this, not only is it a colourful book, attractive, informative, but it is also a project book, at a reasonable price. I purchased four then realised I need one more, then I forgot I wanted to order one for myself. Most book that are about the use of colour pencils are heading to the $30 range. For the teen age kids I bought the book ‘Colour Workshop,’ also a project book, usually within the same price range as other but I got a deal on it and ordered three at $20 each. ‘Colored Pencil: Discover your “inner artist” as you learn to DRAW🤔 a range of popular subjects in colored pencil’ is suitable for any one wanting introductory information on colour pencils. REMEMBERING THE SUBTITLE IS A FRAUD, the book is not a DRAWING BOOK🤨😡! This is a TRACING/COLOURING BOOK. The information given at the beginning, available in all colour pencil art books, is for anyone that wants to learn about the use of colour pencils in colouring books. If you want to learn to DRAW with colour pencils this is not for you!
Bonny –
If you are just starting to work with colored pencils or are thinking about working with them, this is the perfect book for an introduction on how to work with the medium. It doesn’t cover basic drawing principles so it’s not the right book to learn to draw but I would recommend it if you are hoping to learn how to work colored pencils for the results you want to get from them. Nice techniques, good instruction.
Catherine –
Pour grands débutants c’est un euphémisme. Disons pour grands débutants très maladroits et si c’est le cas alors autant acheter le bouquin de Gary Greene. Vous ferez des pogrés!
Mayer –
obviamente es culpa mía que, sabiendo que está en inglés y….que no conozco el idioma ….aun así las ilustraciones son muy claras