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So here is my first proper coloured pencil piece - my parents gave me a box of Karismacolours years ago, but I never learned to use them to their full potential. Recently, however, I've been inspired by Lachri Fine Art and the Sharpened Artist podcasts and really wanted to give them a proper try.

This was really interesting to do, and so therapeutic! It took a lot longer hours-wise than painting, but because it was so easy to pick it up, do a bit and then put it down again, I found I could work on it a little bit during the week after my studying. I did it on Crawford & Black watercolour paper because I did the initial base in watercolour pencils to try and eliminate the grainy look of the pencils as I wasn't planning on using solvents or blenders. I did the initial base too light, so it was a tad pointless, but it gave me an ok starting point for the rest of my layers Also, it was a cheap pack of paper which turned out to be pretty bad for coloured pencils - too many layers and the paper started to fluff up and tear! It wasn't unusable, but I'd like to try a different paper next time.

I learnt so much from doing this piece (as well as from the many SA podcasts I listened to while drawing :giggle) and it was really interesting blending the colours right there on the page as opposed to in a palette, separate from the artwork. I'm sure I will do another coloured pencil piece in the future, but I'm looking forward to doing some looser work in the meantime to get over the minute detail and time-consuming work in this piece!

I'm also looking forward to doing a full piece which isn't of a sleeping animal

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Red Panda
Painted from my own reference
10.5" x 7.5"
Coloured pencil

Description
So here is my first proper coloured pencil piece - my parents gave me a box of Karismacolours years ago, but I never learned to use them to their full potential. Recently, however, I've been inspired by Lachri Fine Art and the Sharpened Artist podcasts and really wanted to give them a proper try.

This was really interesting to do, and so therapeutic! It took a lot longer hours-wise than painting, but because it was so easy to pick it up, do a bit and then put it down again, I found I could work on it a little bit during the week after my studying. I did it on Crawford & Black watercolour paper because I did the initial base in watercolour pencils to try and eliminate the grainy look of the pencils as I wasn't planning on using solvents or blenders. I did the initial base too light, so it was a tad pointless, but it gave me an ok starting point for the rest of my layers Also, it was a cheap pack of paper which turned out to be pretty bad for coloured pencils - too many layers and the paper started to fluff up and tear! It wasn't unusable, but I'd like to try a different paper next time.

I learnt so much from doing this piece (as well as from the many SA podcasts I listened to while drawing :giggle) and it was really interesting blending the colours right there on the page as opposed to in a palette, separate from the artwork. I'm sure I will do another coloured pencil piece in the future, but I'm looking forward to doing some looser work in the meantime to get over the minute detail and time-consuming work in this piece!

I'm also looking forward to doing a full piece which isn't of a sleeping animal

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Red Panda
Painted from my own reference
10.5" x 7.5"
Coloured pencil