You can start and stop at any time.Ĭolored pencil offers the pleasures and rewards of both drawing and painting. You can walk away from the work and come back and pick up right where you left off. Because colored pencil is primarily a dry medium, there’s no drying time to worry about.
You can use colored pencil to tint a drawing with light strokes that let the color of the paper show through, or you can use colored pencil to create a solid deposit of many layers of color. You can do loose work, tight work or anything in between. Along with hard and soft colored pencils, watercolor pencils and oil-based colored pencils offer more options for beginning artists.Īside from their convenience and versatility, much of the appeal of colored pencils is the control they offer. The medium is permanent, and colored pencil drawings do not require elaborate care or storage. At the same time, colored pencil drawing lends itself to highly refined and exquisite works of art that rival those created with any other medium.Ĭolored pencils are relatively inexpensive, and the palette is extensive. Prep time and cleanup are practically non-issues, the materials are light and portable, and you don’t need messy or toxic solvents.
They’re utterly convenient-a handful of colored pencils and a pad of paper are all you really need to start creating. There’s a lot to like about drawing with colored pencils.
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