How To Shade Smooth Values With Coloured Pencils

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Materials
  • Light Peach
  • Pink
  • Crimson Red
  • Sky Blue
  • Grass Green
  • Orange
  • Lemon Yellow
  • Permanent Blue
  • Light Peach
  • Black
  • Indigo Blue
  • Orchid
  • Yellow
  • Orange
  • Pink
  • Violet
Drawing Process
  • Introduction

    Shading Techniques using Colored Pencils. This tutorial allows beginners to learn how to shade smooth tonal values with colored pencils. How to shade from feather shading to a heavy shade using various pressures. How to burnish two colours together, shade a gradient bar using one colour and multiple colours. Shade a dark, rich black tonal value by adding this one colour. Smoothly blend and combine colours in a gradient bar to create smooth tonal values.

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