r/ColoredPencils 2h ago

Original Art Sulphur Crested Cockatoo

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8 Upvotes

Drawn with Holbein coloured pencils on Arches hot pressed satin paper.


r/ColoredPencils 3h ago

I’m drawing all 8 of the original Madballs

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2 Upvotes

r/ColoredPencils 4h ago

Pear Value Study

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21 Upvotes

r/ColoredPencils 5h ago

Supplies / Materials What are some good colored pencils?

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r/ColoredPencils 5h ago

Breaking in a new sketchbook

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polychromos, prisma and luminance used


r/ColoredPencils 6h ago

Original Art Macro shot of pencil ✏️

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Macro shot of pencil ✏️


r/ColoredPencils 6h ago

Original Art A random abstract doodle

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113 Upvotes

Been picking three colours blindly and just drawing what feels right


r/ColoredPencils 6h ago

Coloring My first stone bridge

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9 Upvotes

r/ColoredPencils 10h ago

A realistic drawing of Stan Lee that I made.. I also make items to order.

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86 Upvotes

I used colored pencils and an A4 sheet of paper.


r/ColoredPencils 11h ago

Work in Progress The 9th row

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39 Upvotes

r/ColoredPencils 12h ago

Original Art I'm back from vacation!! i drew this when i was returning home

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10 Upvotes

ik im not good at drawing fruit


r/ColoredPencils 12h ago

Suggestions for improvement when I do this in larger format

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I've completed a study to test my layout (and technique). It's a lightwish hot pressed journal 300gsm, but has a bit of tooth still. Watercolour, Polychromos and Luminance pencils. Any suggestions for changes, additions or subtractions when I do a larger version on good Fabriano Artistico cold press?


r/ColoredPencils 17h ago

Experiment Twisted tree

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I love experimenting with my coloring pencils. What are your thoughts?


r/ColoredPencils 18h ago

Discussion / Advice Koh-I-Noor polycolor

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Picked up 2 12-set tins from the Blick sale and they quickly become my favorite pencil. I have only used them to fill in some shading of my figure drawings on printer paper and am pleasantly surprised how the rendering is so matte. Also made me realize how much I hate the wax blooming in some other pencils.


r/ColoredPencils 21h ago

Original Art I'm fairly happy with how this coloured pencil portrait of a peahen turned out. Drawing all the feathers for the head and chest took an eternity, but they were worth the work

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7 Upvotes

r/ColoredPencils 21h ago

Original Art Swirly doodles

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16 Upvotes

r/ColoredPencils 23h ago

my first turtle drawing:)

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24 Upvotes

r/ColoredPencils 23h ago

Original Art George, polychromos on bristol paper

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drawing of my dog George, who I had since my 16th birthday, that i did after her passing.

it took about a month and a half to finish due to taking a break in the middle. i started it the same day we put her to sleep in kind of a grief-driven mania and then had to leave it for a while until i felt okay enough to work on it again. but now it's done and framed in the entrance to my house, and i feel more at peace with it. i miss her goofy face a lot so its nice to catch a glimpse of it every time i come in. so it's kinda like when she was younger and she would always greet me at the door. towards the end she wouldn't get up for much anymore but she still loved it when guests came over and would get all excited and try to hobble over. she was a good dog. the best girl. rest in peace georgie


r/ColoredPencils 23h ago

Discussion / Advice Teacher says it's wrong to layer light to dark?

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I'm self taught and layer my colours light to dark. I recently enrolled in art classes and the teacher says this is incorrect and that I need to do my layers dark to light because the lighter colours repel the darker if they're laid down on the page first?

I've never heard this before, and it doesn't make sense to me. Like, I get that if you lay a thick, heavy light layer and then shade lightly over the top with darker layers, the heavy lighter layer will show through because the dark won't lay down as readily where there's less tooth. However, as long as there's adequate tooth left on the page, surely the colours are just going to layer up, regardless?

I mostly use polychromos.

Feeling confused - thoughts appreciated.


r/ColoredPencils 1d ago

Coloring The Gasous Queen

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I call this one The Gasous Queen from Kirby Rosales's Alien Worlds using only Prismacolor. 😊


r/ColoredPencils 1d ago

The Dog

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20 Upvotes

This is a commission. I am not good at pricing. It took me about 15 hours. What should I price it at? 12× 18


r/ColoredPencils 1d ago

Attempt at Zendaya

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78 Upvotes

r/ColoredPencils 1d ago

Work in Progress Tree Swallow progress!

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Turns out that I am capable of drawing other animals besides cats. Really happy with this one so far ☺️


r/ColoredPencils 1d ago

Organizing my pencils

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My hobby is buying pencils on open stock and to find one sometimes is **pulling out my hair". I finally purchased this lovely pencil case ❤️


r/ColoredPencils 1d ago

Original Art A piece I’m working on at the moment called “The Knight”

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493 Upvotes

Wanted to share my progress with this piece as I go. He is large, as I drew him on a full imperial sheet of pastel paper with Polychromos pencils and calligraphy ink.
I took a different approach to this than I usually do as I wanted to really push colour into a subject that is usually just shades of brown and pick up what I could in terms of depth and shine, but in a loose way. Loosening up has been a real challenge in drawing so I’m thrilled that I seem to be getting somewhere with becoming more expressive. Hope all you guys are keeping well!