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Description
This is my first colored pencil tutorial for Prismacolor brand pencils.You will need:
Prismacolor colored pencils ([link] )
Colorless blending pencil
Bristol or heavyweight sketch paper
*light table optional
Intro:
This tutorial is for Prismacolor brand colored pencils created in an attempt
to share my personal technique and use of this media. It is for learning
purposes only and may best benefit those with some experience with using
colored pencils. There are several scans below that were made as I colored
a past badge commission. Each will be arranged below in order with a paragraph
to explain what was being done at that stage.
If you find this tutorial helpful and feel it may be useful to others, please add it
to your favorites. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to add them
via comment below the deviation.
What are Prismacolor pencils?
Prismacolor is a brand name just as Crayola and RoseArt are. I was introduced to Prismacolor
markers and colored pencils during college and prefer to use them over other brands due to
the softness of the pencil and its high blending ability. There are several pros and cons to
Prismacolors; While the colors are very rich and blend best with a colorless blending pencil,
you may be aware that this brand is also very expensive and if too much pressure is applied
the tips can break easily during use. I feel that if taken care of like any variety of art tool,
a set of Prismacolor pencils can last many years under average use.
^^ Enjoy
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Comments: 155
Where might one be able to find a light table like you have? I've heard the help out a bunch even if you ink it instead.
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You should be able to find them at any large art supply/craft store, usually Jo-ann Fabrics or Michael's crafts. If you like shopping online, I find it easier to enter "light table" in to google search engine, then you'll be able to find multiple websites that sell them. They come in various sizes and brands, so you'll have a lot to choose from.
Mine is a "Porta-trace" that I purchased over 4 years ago from my college's on campus supply store, but I'm sure that model is easy to find online.
As for the inking, I find that everyone's results are different based on their technique. Unless you let the ink dry for several hours before touching it again with colored pencils, you run the risk of the ink smearing and getting pulled into your colors. That's why I lightly outline in colored pencil so I don't have to keep the light table on constantly, then ink last as I progress over the image to keep the number of times my hand brushes across the colors as few as possible.
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Aha... I think I'll go browse around. I'm still fairly new to inking but I always let my ink sit overnight.
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Thank you 
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What about derwents pemcils is it still good as Prismacolors?
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I've never used them so I can't offer my opinion on them
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AMAZING! You make it sound so simple! WOW! This is very helpful!
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I have had about four of those types of sketch pads, but that was about three years ago. Mead is a good brand of sketch pad though!
I've found that the colorless blender prismamarkers do wonders for helping to blend prisma pencils, although they do give it a different effect.
And Yes, I agree with your thing about the prismamarkers being odor-ful. They can make you nausius if you work with them for a long period of time indoors.
Awesome tutorial ! It will really help when I need to fully utilize my prisma pencils (and my bunch of rosearts too).
THank you for the awesome tutorial!
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Thank you as well for your feedback
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nice... i should get a porta-trace.....+fav
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So do you use the colorless blenders after you put the colors down? Also, what colors did you use for the hair? (red)
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Yes, I put down a faint layer of colored pencils, then keep increasing the pressure until I am happy with the shading, then I smooth it all with the colorless blender. The hair was done with crimson lake and crimson red, but it's been some time since I colored the badge, so I might have also used burnt ochre to blend the red into the yellows for the blonde parts.
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Is there a big difference if you put the blender down first? =X
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I think by putting down the blender first and then coloring over it would affect how dark you could get the colors to gradually become. It might make the result more harsh or sloppy. I notice this happening for example if I blend peach and brown together after having smoothed the peach with a clear blending pencil. You can try it if you like, but just be warned it may not look good.
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Thats the way ive been doing it >.<
Thanks for the info
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O_o!
You give me the mood for try the coloring with prismacolor... (my english is horrible /o\)
If i find this pencils in my country (it'seems to be hard).....
Thank you for that!
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Gasp. I've been wanting to give prismacolors a try, and here's my excuse! bwaha.
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hehe, be sure to have fun with it! ^^
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Thank you so much for showing us your technique. I believe I'll have to try this method on a few sketches as soon as I get home.
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this tut was -BIG- help 
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You're welcome! I'm happy to hear you enjoy it ^__^
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This was very helpful, thank you!
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Thank you for letting me know
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The blending pencil worked great for all the other colors but not for the colors that I use the most. How do you blend greys and shades of black? Do you recommend a certain technique?
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Alrighty
[link]
In Step 1: The first layer of color put down as the "base color" is Cool grey 50% to achieve smooth blending on the darker colors following.
Step 2: Cool grey 70% is then added onto the cool grey 50% lightly, and is not yet blended in.
Step 3: This step shows the Cool grey 70% blended into the 50%, using cool grey 50% itself instead of a colorless blender.
Step 4: With the 50% and 70% cool greys blended, now add 70% warm grey. 70% warm grey is darker than 70% cool grey, even though they are the same percentage, though not as harsh as black. Blend the 70% warm grey into the previous two colors by using the 50% cool grey pencil.
Step 5: Lastly, lightly add the black then blend using the warm grey 70% pencil. Repeat by adding more black and blending again until the proper darkness is achieved.
Having 50% cool grey as the base color prevents the smoothing results from becoming rough like if you were to put black directly onto the paper and blend with a colorless blender.
I might as well post this as a tutorial as well
I hope this helps! Please let me know if you need anything else ^^
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This is very helpful! Thank you so much!!!
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When shading black and grey, I sometimes use a different method for blending them together. When coloring with black, I'll put down cool grey 50% as the "base color", then shade with warm grey 70% over that, then using the 50% grey again to blend the two together. Then I add black and use the 70% gray to blend the black onto the previous colors. You'll need to keep adding black to darken additionally, but so far this seems to work better than using the colorless blender straight on black. I hope that this helps
I can create a little swatch if you'd prefer a visual example.
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If you don't mind and have the time that would be awesome, thank you so much!
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Just letting you know that I haven't forgotten to do the swatches for you
I'm going to be coloring today so I'll have the little sample for you by this evening.
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That's awesome and you rock!
Thank you so much!
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Hey look *pokes* we use the same inking pen. Isn't that wierd?
I wish I could find something thinner, though. Maybe like a .3mm pen (even though my scanner would completely eat that thin of lineart).
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The "Zig Millennium" brand has really nice, fine tips but I found that using them with Prismacolor pencils ruins the delicate tip easily. I lost two after the ink refused to come out, but they're great for inking only
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Hm. I am planning to get Prismacolour pencils (I'm a pencil artist, and Crayola just... No), so this was quite helpful. I'd honestly never thought of drawing over the original sketch on a new sheet. And I'd never heard of blending pencils either (yeah, I'm new at this) but had had the trouble with the 'gratey' look, so... Hmm...
Thank you. A lot. Time to go play with technique.
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THANKS! thats super helpful X.X a little outta my league but now I have a much better idea of how to use colored pencils..and I had no idea colorless pencils existed o.o Neato! THANKS AGAIN!!!
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This is very helpful. Next time I draw (which will most likely b today) I'll use this and see how well it'll come out.
BTW, u make cool tutorials.
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Thanks for the tutorial. I also use Prismacolored pencils and I've recently used them to color a drawing I did of your character Guyver 47. Check it out!
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