Colored Pencil Hydrangea Tutorial with Jennifer Morrison

Artist Jennifer Morrison creates lovely, hyper-sensible coloured pencil drawings. Follow together to Jennifer’s video tutorial as she shares her procedure for drawing a hyper-real looking hydrangea utilizing Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils.

Provides:

• Strathmore 400 Series Printmaking Paper, 280gsm, medium textured soft surface area
• Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils in
  • Delft Blue
  • Violet
  • Light-weight Violet
  • Deep Cobalt
  • Blue Violet
  • Darkish Violet
  • Sky Blue
  • Magenta
  • White
  • Dim Grey
• Princeton Select Artiste Flat Shader Brush, Sizing 2
• Coloured Pencil Solvent
• Mini eraser & electric eraser

Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils are oil-dependent, water-proof, light-resistant, and appear in 72 vivid shades. They mix and dissolve fantastically with solvents, which is an significant aspect of Jennifer’s colored pencil work.

Strathmore 400 Collection Printmaking Paper is major excess weight at 280gsm and has a medium textured surface which is excellent for setting up up layers and mixing coloured pencils.

Coloured Pencil Screening and Swatching

Any time Jennifer is making an attempt out new pencils she swatches them on the very same paper she will be executing her drawing on for exact shade representation considering that colours can search distinctive between paper styles. To take a look at the pencils, she separates them into coloration teams and creates modest swatches with the pencil colour identify following to it.

Observe Jennifer’s process for testing and swatching her pencils listed here:

https://www.youtube.com/look at?v=vieR_iuFn44

Coloured Pencil Hydrangea Tutorial

Adhere to along as Jennifer shares her ideas for drawing this wonderful purple and blue hydrangea. Jennifer acknowledges this reference impression may well show up really overwhelming and like there is a good deal going on, but this means you can make a slip-up and it will not be quite visible.  If just one petal is a bit off or the wrong colour, no a person will ever know.  If you break this down like a puzzle and draw a single petal at a time, even a newbie will have a amazing drawing in the end.

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Follow along to the video tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/look at?v=Py3d1ZiI1rg

Strategies from Jennifer:

Apply your hues on a independent sheet of drawing paper until eventually you obtain the blends that you are pleased with. The pencils mix wonderfully, so you really should be ready to build infinite combos. Jennifer employed a good deal of deep cobalt for the brightest blue and magenta to brighten up the purples.

To make each petal standout particular person and steer clear of a large purple blob, Jennifer outlined every petal with a sharp pencil. The Polycolor pencils maintain a point quite well, letting for simple sharp edges. 2nd, Jennifer created each petal a marginally distinct color than the just one following to it, even if it went towards the reference image. Very last, Jennifer ensured the shadows had been dim enough and the emphasize vibrant plenty of to produce distinction.

Jennifer layered black and dark gray on top of the blue and purples in some of the petals to boost the values of individuals colors and build extra delicate shadows on the petals by themselves.

Jennifer used the white Polycolor pencil to guard the paper exactly where she preferred the brightest highlights. You can use an electric powered erase to brighten the highlights even even further.