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Published: 2011-01-10 20:39:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1015; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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12x9" Wasp illustrationColored pencil 'painting'* 2010
I like drawing bugs, I dont know why I don't do it more often.
People keep correcting me when I refer to my colored pencil work as a drawing. I guess if you cover the entire page with wax its technically a painting (?).
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Really nice! I love the composition and the soft yellow tones. Beautifully drawn.
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Hey, thank you so much! I sometimes miss doing work like this. Maybe Ill find some time.
Thanks again!
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Very nicely done! I like that it is balanced even though it's not entirely symmetrical.
Could you tell me more about this wax/colored pencil method?
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Its pretty simple once you get the hang of it.
I drew the deeper shades in the background and wasp in two shades of cool gray marker. Then I added color over that with Prismacolor colored pencils. Instead of using solvents to blend the colors together, this time I just very slowly layered colors over one another until the tooth of the paper was saturated with the pencil wax. I really only used 5 colors and a few shades of warm gray. (Yellow ochre, burnt sienna, burnt umber, sepia & cream I think)
The end result looks almost like an oil painting its pretty cool. I have found that the more 'white' that is in the pencil color, the more it is going to dull layers of color beneath it, so I put one or two very gentile, even layers of all the lighter colors first then slowly build over them with deeper, more pure colors. So here, Cream and Y. Ochre and the lightest gray went down for the first few layers.
Almost all the color work on my DA page (that isnt straight watercolor) is done in colored pencil. There are a few different methods I employ, but this has one of the most painterly results. Its time consuming and not very practical on large scale work though.
let me know if this makes any sense at all...
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Yeah, that makes perfect sense! I might have to try it - I stopped using colored pencils a few years back because I hated the way I could always tell it was colored pencil. Since I do a lot of scientific illustrations/ realistic work, I need near photographic accuracy - having it look like I did a piece with colored pencil means it doesn't look as perfect as it needs to, if you know what I mean? But this method is very smooth and more real - I like it!
Anyway, thanks for taking the time to explain! Cheers!
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