I Draw Crash Bandicoot: Process - Learn to Draw With Friends

 For this drawing I wanted to try working with color pencils and experiment with some techniques to see what I could come up with.

Materials

Graphite Pencil and Eraser

Assorted Color Pencils

Tape

Onion Skin Transparent Drawing Paper

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The Steps

 I began by drawing a series of circles to represent Crash's joints and features and connected them with lines to create a simple skeleton to draw over.

 Then I did some line work to rough out the image.

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 With the basic line work done I covered the drawing with a second piece of thin "onion skin" paper and taped it in place. The reason I did this was to keep the pencil lead graphite from smearing together with the color pencils I plan to use next.

 Then I filled in the color sections lightly on the new piece of transparent paper with my color pencils.

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I'm using a 24 piece set of artist quality Prismacolor Primier colored pencils.

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 With the colored pencils now defining the image I removed the paper with the original pencil line work.

 Whoops, looks like we don't have any gray pencil in our 24 piece set for the gray on Crash's shoes. We'll just use light purple for now...

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 ...and mix yellow over top of the purple (it's complimentary color) to create a more neutral tone.

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 Finally I picked up my black colored pencil and shaded in some final parts like his eyebrows, hair, and some small shadows here and there.

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That's it! Thanks for taking a look and I hope you enjoyed the process. This drawing and process post was done for the Learn To Draw With Friends contest by @tonyr #ltdwf

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