Colored Pencils Drawing Techniques with Melanie Übleis
This topic will show you just how much colored pencils have to offer. Alongside graphite pencils, colored pencils are a basic drawing utensil. Despite being typically associated with children; this drawing medium actually offers many interesting techniques to add colour and depth to your artwork and create both simple drawings and realistic works of art. In this Design Journey Art class topic, Melanie covers various colored pencil techniques whilst also placing particular focus on the topic of creating watercolor effects using watercolor pencils.
ONLINE ART CLASS: COLERED PENCILS DRAWING TECHNIQUES
Focal Points of the Course:
- Color theory and the color wheel
- Techniques for combining colored pencils and watercolor pencils
- Composition of simple drawings
- Landscape drawings
- Discovering and trying out new mediums
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Session 1: About Melanie and Introduction to Color
Get to know our drawing expert Melanie! In this first session, Mel gives you an introduction about them as well as an introduction to colour. Follow along and create a simple yet beautiful colour wheel and play around with the effects of watercolor pencils.
Session 2: Combining Permanent Colored and Watercolor Pencils
Session two is all about the combination of permanent-colored pencils and watercolor pencils. Melanie will show you how to combine both mediums and will introduce you to their advantages. Mel will create a magical flower forest and will guide you along creating this easy but pretty drawing.
Session 3: Blending Watercolor Pencils
Learn how to draw an apple using watercolor pencils. Melanie will show you how much fun it is to create this simple piece by adding different layers of colours and a good amount of water.
Session 4: Composing a Drawing With Watercolor Pencils
Learn how to compose a drawing and how to nicely fill up your page. In this session, Melanie will show you how you can adapt different forms to improve their fit on the page. Especially natural, organic forms, like this cute example; mushrooms!
Session 5: Landscape Drawing
Discover how to draw a landscape in the sixth session with Melanie. Mel will show you how to create shadow areas and mid-tones to create depth which is fundamental for landscape drawings.
Session 6: Drawing Animals
Watch Melanie draw a cute squirrel with watercolor pencils. Going layer for layer in this drawing, you will find it is not as difficult as you may think. Start out with easy basic shapes and from there, take it even further. And always remember; practice makes perfect.
Session 7: Landscapes With Different Mediums
Experimenting with different mediums is an important step in every creative journey. Discover three extraordinary mediums and watch Melanie create simple landscapes with each of them. Get your creative juices flowing with tinted watercolour pencils, full watercolor pencils and pastel pencils!
PRODUCTS TO GET YOU STARTED TO YOUR DESIGN JOURNEY
Cardboard box containing 24 watercolor pencils in assorted colours
Metal case containing 12 tinted watercolor pencils in assorted colors
Coloring Expert Melanie Übleis
My name’s Melanie, I’m from Austria and my pronouns are they/them. I’ve been uploading art videos for over three years now and have learned so much along the way. Therefore, I want to inspire others to create something as well. I always listen to my intuition when it comes to ideas. I might be inspired by basic everyday life, by what others are doing or the shows I’m currently watching. The most important thing is that I actually use my ideas without judging them too quickly. I’ve found that everyone has a lot of ideas, it’s just a matter of actually having the guts to follow them even if they might be weird or might have been done before. I want to inspire people to create without letting their fear and self-doubt stop them. Absolutely everyone can be an artist and so can you!
