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Achieving Skin Tones With Coloured Pencils

Mo Awkati


Introduction

In this first tutorial on achieving skin tones using colour pencil, I am introducing the basic palette and also the basic techniques for

blending coloured pencil.


The Basic Coloured Pencils Palette

● White

● Cadmium Red

● Crimson ( or Scarlet ) Red

● Cadmium Yellow

● Yellow Ochre

● Burnt Umber ( Earth Colour)

● Ultramarine (Complementary to Orange)

● Violet (Complementary to Yellow)

Manufacturers label their pencils with different names, above is the standard names for pigments, find the closest you can in your preferred range of pencils

Copyright The Art Shed - Mo Awkati 4This is a quick sketch of my left hand, feel free to print, copy on a transfer sheet of paper and then use to practice


When working on a drawing or a painting with coloured pencils use a sheet of transfer paper under your hand to avoid smudging the drawing or getting the paper dirty from your hand.


First lay a thin wash of yellow using the side of the pencil and making the texture of the paper do some of the work for you.


The usual technique of mixing CP is by optical mixing, i.e. the colours are over laid but not obliterate each other. Using the same technique, lay a thin wash of the red colour


Make sure you the pencils are well sharpened – a dull point means a dull drawing!!


Use the white in your pencil collection as the next wash over the yellow and the red, but don't press hard as it will make it impossible to add further colour washes. The purpose of the white is to add a wash to lighten the first washes.


Using the red start to add another wash to the shadow areas, this will strengthen the tone for more working up later


Using the purple colour pencil, add a few dark areas such as the skin creases on the fingersThe areas by the nails and the start the shadow areas under the fingers


Use the white colour pencil to blend and lighten the previous pencil washes to as lighter skin tone.


Using the purple and the Yellow Ochre (Remember they are complementaries!)lay overlapping washes of each colour until you get the tone you're looking for. Remember, light washes each time!


You can use a blender pencil ( used to blend pencil pigments on the surface of the support you are using. They do tend to darken the tone a little bit but it does allow you to achieve blended tone.


If you wish you can use a burnisher pencil ( a pencil without colour) and is to'fuse' the pencil layers down through pressure. It is particularly good on the nailsas it adds a nice sheen .


Use the blender pencil to achieve good tones all over and especially the shadow areas


Zest-It is a pencil solvent which dissolves the pigment binder such as wax or oil to enable you The pigments to be blended together. BUT only use very sparingly with a small brush, too much Would dull and the pigments which will lose colour.


These are examples of colours you can use to create shadows, start with the first two colours, overlay a few washes to get the tone you are looking for and then layer with thin washes of the last colour


Useful Links

● Derwent Pencils http://www.pencils.co.uk/

● Zest-It http://www.zest-it.com/● Faber-Castell

http://www.faber-castell.co.uk/40789/Products/Art-Graphic/Art-Graphic-product-line/fcv2_index.aspx

http://www.pencils.co.uk/

http://www.zest-it.com/





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