Hello everyone!🎨 I thought I would share a colored pencil drawing that I did. It started as just a sketch of a flower, and then I wanted to color it, and then ended up with a full on drawing. The only bad thing about that is the paper I used. I used light weight sketching paper, and would have had better results with thicker paper.
I used Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils on 5.5''x8.5'' Toned Tan 80lb Strathmore sketching paper. I also used Mona Lisa oderless mineral spirits to blend, which is why a stronger paper would have been more ideal, as well as layering. These pencils are pretty good at layering, thicker paper allows for more layering.
I used a reference that I found on pixaby. Pixabay is a great site to find royalty free images.
Here's the process.
And the finished product 😊 I was able to get in a decent amount of layers. I did this a while ago. Colored pencil "paintings" can look amazing, but it's probably the most time consuming medium of all of them. There has been a product from Brush and Pencil that is a powder blender. It makes colored pencil work more like pastels. I haven't tried it but I might down the road. This kind of inspires me to bust the colored pencils out, we'll see.
Thanks for looking 😁
Sweet, such a lovely image and great technique. Love the shallow depth of field, works really well and hard to do with colour pencil.
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Thank you @niko3d! : ) I would use them more like this but man, even a small drawing like that took forever lol
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wow it's beautiful flower, I like your work my friend @renascence
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Thank you @huslein.slash! I appreciate you stopping by my post : )
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of course my friend @renascence. we much support each other artist.
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Good looking flower! Was this done completely with colored pencils?
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Thank you @stateofthearts, yep, all colored pencil and blended with Mona Lisa odorless mineral spirits, which I used a synthetic paint brush for.
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You are a true creative. Love it. We run a weekly art sharing initiative on steemit. Would love to see some of your artwork shared and your insights for other artists within the community!
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Oh thank you! That would be kewl. I saw some of the stuff on your page, there are some very talented artist there!
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Thank you we are trying our best to create a way to link artists and creatives here on steemit! https://steemit.com/art/@stateofthearts/state-of-the-arts-premier-art-sharing-on-steemit
Explains our initiative and how to participate
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This is almost as beautiful as you! Awesome work!
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Nice work! and great that you put the step by step love seeing those! :)
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Thank you @allangraves! Yea, I mainly started taking photos while I was drawing to help look at my drawing in a different way so that I can fix mistakes, or check the values. And yea, seeing the process from start to finish is pretty neat too : )
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yup, taking photos is a good way of keeping track of it,
have a great weekend :)
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