Easy drawings with colored pencils step by step. How to draw with colored pencils

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In this lesson I will show you how to draw Sasha Brauz, as well as how to color the resulting drawing using a simple technique (from light to dark). Start by tidying up your work area and sharpening your pencils.
To work you will need:

• simple pencil (HB)
• soft eraser (preferably Milan triangular)
• compass
• gel pen
• colour pencils
• white gouache

How to draw Sasha Brauz with colored pencils step by step

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• Step 1

  We outline the frame of the girl’s figure with a simple pencil. Using a compass we draw a circle for the head, which we then divide in half with a line extending beyond it. Outline the lower part of the face.

  
  
• Step 2

  We draw the body with basic geometric shapes. We show the depth of the waist with ellipses; in the future this will help to draw the belt. The girl’s hands go behind her back, there won’t be any special problems with them. Let's prepare the basis for drawing the face.

  
  
• Step 3

  Using smooth lines we draw the contours of the figure. We outline facial features, hair and clothes. Don't forget about belts.

  
  
• Step 4

  We schematically sketch out the spatial maneuvering drive (SMP), taking into account only a few basic details. At the same time, we erase the production lines.

  
  
• Step 5

  Let's start detailing. (PPM) has a rather complex design, so start with it. Try to take into account as many details as possible. The girl’s right hand goes behind her back, in it she squeezes a handle with a replaceable blade. The second handle without a blade is located behind the bosom.

  
  
• Step 6

  This is what the whole drawing looks like in detail.

  
  
• Step 7

  We trace with a gel pen. Erase soft pencil lines, leaving only folds on the clothing.

  
  
• Step 8

  Let's start painting. We don't put pressure on the pencils, now we just need to lay a solid color foundation. We paint the hair red, the loincloth dark brown, the shadows on the blouse pale pink, the jacket light brown, the belts regular brown, and the drive gray.

  
  
• Step 9

  Now go over the whole picture with light brown, but only lightly.

  
  
• Step 10

  Add gray throughout the entire drawing.

  
  
• Step 11

  Working with dark brown, we dial in the tone. Repeat Step 8 pressing harder on the pencils. Add a little blue to the drive for a steely shine.

  
  
• Step 12

  Now, working only with black, add depth to the drawing. Strengthen the shadows. To create shimmer on the legs, stroke by laying the pencil lead flat. To top it off, use white gouache to highlight the eyes. That's all, the drawing is ready.

Drawing with colored pencils is in many ways similar to using a black lead pencil.

But there are several specific features.

1. Has color transparency.

2. Complexity and subtlety of color is achieved by overlaying several colors.

3. Experience in drawing with a simple pencil is required.

4. Colored pencil is difficult to erase with an eraser.

The techniques used are also largely similar, let's look at them.

1) Shadows and toning
When creating shadows and tones, make linear movements from side to side. And don't forget to change the pressure on the pencil to create different color saturations.

2) Hatching
Do the shading with quick, repeating lines, leaving small gaps between them. When cross-hatching, apply the lines at the desired angle. You can use different colors or shading in several layers to give the desired structure.

3) Curls
The required surface or shade can also be created using circular repeating lines applied with one or more pencils.

4) Directional lines
Short lines directed along the contour or in the direction of the hair (grass, fire), located close to each other, can create quite interesting effects.

5) Layers
Layer layers of color on top of each other. The line left with a colored pencil is transparent, this will help us achieve an interesting effect.

6) Engraving
Engraving - two large layers are placed on top of each other, after which the top layer is carefully thinned out with a blade or pin so that the bottom layer appears.

7) Polishing
Polishing is created by densely overlapping several color layers, so that there are no bright spots left, i.e. the surface of the paper was completely filled with color.

Experiment with different techniques, learning their essence and achieving maximum results.

For color drawings, you need good quality paper with a fairly rough surface. Again, experiment with paper types to learn the properties of each. You also need high-quality pencils, with bright, clean and even color. An excellent example of such pencils is the STABILO All line. With these pencils you will get real pleasure from drawing.

Many people know how to draw with lines. This lesson proposes to learn methods of toning and painting in several layers, which certainly complicates the drawing and makes it deep and rich.

Colored pencils are so versatile and easy to use that you can use any drawing technique that suits your temperament and your needs. However, most artists use a technique called multi-layer toning.

Toning

When toning, pencil strokes are superimposed tightly, forming solid areas of color. Multilayer - implies the overlay of several translucent layers of tone on top of each other.
For example:

Section A - painted over with a blunt pencil

Area B - painted over with a sharp pencil, which reduced the gaps in the paper and increased the saturation of the tone

Section B - the tone is applied so as to create the impression of surface unevenness - the texture gives the drawing credibility and vitality.

Multi-layering

There can be 4 main reasons for laying flowers in several layers:

1. To dull the natural brightness or sharpness of individual pigments

2. To mix and get new colors

3. To modulate color, vary shades and, with their help, color areas have volume, complexity and richness

4. To create and change the texture of depicted surfaces.

In most cases, the expressive effect is achieved using two or three layers.

The blackness of the cat in this tonal drawing was achieved not with a black pencil, but with the successive application of three other colors: red, blue and dark purple.

Laying layers with strong pressure.

Demonstration of methods for depicting smooth, textureless objects.

1 method - traditional

1.Apply different tones with light or medium pressure on the pencil. The whiteness of the paper remains very noticeable.

The entire surface of the drawing is painted over with a white pencil with strong pressure. This mutes the previously applied tones and significantly reduces the gaps in the paper.

3. New color layers are applied to the smoothly bleached surface of the paper.

4. To polish the remaining paper texture over the entire surface, use a white pencil again. Now the surface of the drawing looks like a painting.

5. At the end of the work, colors are again applied to the waxed surface of the drawing, restoring the tonal saturation and eliminating the last gaps and roughness of the paper.

Method 2 - fast.

1. Use soft paper. The background and table surface are painted in dense layers with strong pressure on the pencil. The tones on the apple are applied with lighter movements, since they will almost imperceptibly connect with the next layer. Compare this method to the white pencil polishing method.

Wherever necessary, additional colors are tightly applied. White color was used very limitedly. The picturesque effect of the drawing is achieved only by applying strong pressure to the pencil when mixing colors. The colors themselves look more saturated, since smoothing the surface with a white pencil was not required.

Two-layer tinting

A surefire way to save time when layering is to use fewer layers. Try the two-layer method. Remember that the main reasons for using multiple layers are to mute too bright colors, create new shades, tonal transitions and create surface texture.

Overlapping layers of two bright, close colors on top of each other results in a slight decrease in brightness.

2.Bright, complementary colors layered on top of each other create an almost neutral tone.

3. When two low-saturated colors are superimposed, it seems that a much larger number of shades were mixed.

Spot Toning Technique

The idea of ​​this toning is to layer colors in small fragments or spots for better color modulation and smoother shade transitions.

Accented spot toning

Detailed drawing

Spot toning can be pronounced, accentuated, or more subtle, unnoticeable, muted - depending on your style and the work itself. In this Strelitzia painting, color is applied quickly and boldly, highlighting the natural expressiveness of the flower.

First, a composition is created with a graphite pencil. Then the negative space is painted over with a warm pink color, strokes are applied in all directions. Next, using spot tinting, the following are applied to the flower: sunny yellow, orange, as well as blue on the “tongues”, and grassy green on the “boat”. The tips of the leaves are painted sunny yellow. Several spots of purple tone are added on top of the pink background.

The “boat” of the plant is modeled in olive green. A little lavender and blue bring the flower closer to the original. The blue “tongues” are finished with ultramarine and green. A purple tone is superimposed on top of the pink tone, so that pink is visible here and there. Red is added in some places in the background.

The “tongues” are finished off with alternating specks of orange, scarlet, warm pink and red. We return the original grassy green color to the “boat” and leaves. The edges of red spots in negative space are softened. The picture is ready.

Interaction of colors

The tone set with one colored pencil looks raw and rustic. You can create a more complex layer of interlocking colors that interact with each other.

Similar colors

They are similar to each other, these are neighboring tones on the color wheel.

Complementary colors

They are located opposite each other on the color wheel. In the picture, the field is colored blue, and the flowers are depicted in different shades of orange and yellow.

All bright colors

The whiteness of the paper itself participates in the “bright colors” scheme

All dull colors

We are talking about dim colors.

Colors of contrasting “temperatures”

The “temperature” of the same color can change depending on the environment.

Using lines in tonal drawing

Pure line drawing is the fastest technique for working with colored pencil, but when drawing, all the expressiveness of colors is provided by mixing colors and, as a rule, lines alone are not enough.

Some of the possible uses of line in tonal drawing:

• A - A careless line arbitrarily crossing the tone
• B - Purposeful shading. The color of the strokes can be changed as needed.
• B - Eccentric calligraphic lines forming an intricate pattern.
• G - Tone laid over the lines
• D - A line created by two separate colors and delimiting the tonal area.

Flowers on a white background

In this drawing, lines were used in two ways. The most obvious way is linear drawing on the petals. The color here was set by a simple combination of close red and orange tones. Adding lines helps emphasize contours and texture.

Removing color - two methods

1.Using masking tape

Small pieces of tape are glued to the areas from which the tone will be removed. Due to the strong adhesive nature of the masking tape, it must be applied very carefully. In this case, grinding is done with a wide wooden spatula.

Now we remove both pieces of tape, exposing two stripes cleared of pencil pigment. But they were not cleaned equally: the smooth boundaries of the upper section were ensured by thorough grinding of the masking tape to the very edges; in the lower section the grinding was not so thorough. Remember this difference and use it depending on the result you need.

2.Use of self-adhesive film

After tearing the film away from the protective base, move it slightly before sticking it back onto the base, freeing up some of the sticky surface. Then, with the adhesive side, it is applied to the area that needs to be cleared of pigment or to create a texture on it. Do not press on the film with your fingers to avoid unwanted stains. The result of this process is largely determined by the type of lapping tool. Shown here is a special tool with polished metal balls at the ends, which can be moved over the film to create the desired lines and marks.

Demo drawing

This colored pencil drawing needs significant corrections. It is necessary to add more drama and diversity to the overall color, and also to correct the weakness and isolation of the central parts, the hat and wand, surrounded by too wide empty areas. Before the advent of modern color removal technologies, these problems would have seemed almost insurmountable.

First, use self-adhesive film, masking tape and a medium-width lapping tool to remove the hat and part of the background. Pieces of duct tape on the tablecloth against the background are left for possible reuse. Pay attention to the star outlines in the upper left corner. They were painted "negatively" by removing the corresponding areas of tone using self-adhesive film and a pointed tool.

We bleach the background to a very light tone, which is visible on the stars, and add new, more complex colors. We repaint the tablecloth and cane. Let's remove enough tone from the black hat so that a white rabbit can take its place.

Introduction of color

By introducing color we mean adding it to a previously lightened area of ​​a different tone. This technique is similar to spot tinting, but it is more suitable for large areas that are not complicated by details and is aimed primarily at modulating color rather than shape.

When tinting a large area, you deliberately leave small “gaps”, and then introduce a different color into the light areas. Or, carefully remove the desired area with an eraser without making sharp corners.

Underpainting technique

Underpainting in painting is the preliminary elaboration of a painting in a solid tone, onto which the rest of the colors are then applied.
Along with significant savings in time spent on tinting the background, underpainting has an additional advantage. This tone, involved in all subsequent mixtures, usually helps to unify the overall color scheme of the design.

First, the underpainting was done with a blue pencil with medium pressure. It can have gaps or be applied quite tightly - the choice is yours.

The general coloring is similar to the selected underpainting color. The leaves and grass are painted in various shades of green, with some underpainting showing through. The background is left unchanged.

In this blue underpainting painting, the warm color scheme contrasts with the blue background. Various areas of the underpainting were lightened with a plastic eraser, and purple was introduced there using the method of spot toning.

Good luck!

based on the book by B. Johnson

For a lesson on how to draw a tree step by step with colored pencils, we will need three colored pencils and one simple pencil. Colored pencils are brown and two green pencils (one darker and the other lighter). We will make a sketch with a simple pencil marked 3B or 4B.

How to draw a tree step by step

Let's start the lesson how to draw a tree step by step from a simple pencil sketch “3B” or “4B”. Lines with a simple pencil can always be corrected with an eraser, therefore, despite the fact that the drawing will be done with colored pencils, it is better to make a sketch with a simple pencil.

We draw a tree trunk and indicate the approximate shape of the crown.

Take a brown pencil and draw a tree trunk. Please note that I am trying to give the trunk different shades of brown. To do this, you just need to change the pressure on the pencil. When the tree trunk is ready, we move on to the crown - this is the next stage of the lesson on how to draw a tree.

In order to beautifully draw the crown of a tree, you need two green pencils - one lighter, the other darker. If you don't have two shades of green, you can use one pencil. Again, by changing the pressure on the pencil, you can draw with one green pencil.

So, we erase part of the sketch with an eraser and draw with a colored pencil. As you can see in the picture below, the shade is lighter in the middle and the shade is darker around it. I draw with small strokes in different directions.

Erase the sketch step by step and draw the tree crown in two shades of green.

If you use one green pencil, apply less or more pressure on it.

Thus, in the lesson on how to draw a tree, we drew the crown step by step.

But there is one more action that will help make the tree crown more beautiful.

Take a simple “3B” or “4B” pencil and use it to darken some areas of the crown. You can take not a simple pencil, but a black pencil. Use whatever pencil you have on hand to darken.

That's it, the drawing is ready. All that remains is to correct small details and wipe off excess lines with an eraser.

Thus, we drew the tree with colored pencils in several stages.

I would be grateful for your opinion in the comments to this lesson.

See the next lesson - and the lesson on how to draw a tree step by step with colored pencils is finished.