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Colored Pencils Shading Tutorial
Published: 2013-08-20 06:56:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 45686; Favourites: 1143; Downloads: 365
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This is a tutorial of how I make gradients blending colors, and since asked for some tutorial like this and later more people asked for a tutorial, I've made this, hope this gets useful to you and every suggestion is very welcome, since this is my first tutorial here
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Thanks for the Daily Deviation and for all the favs, There are a lot to thank each one, but I'll answer all the comments, maybe it will take some time, but I'll answer.
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This is gonna be really helpful for me! Thank you!
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You're welcome, I'm glad you find the tutorial useful Β
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Thank you so much for this Tutorial!!! <3 I have a bit of a hard time with shading, but your tutorial made it very easy. My drawing looks great thanks to you.
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You're welcome 
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Oh my god, I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR INSTRUCTIONS THIS SIMPLE FOR WEEKS! FINALLY DAMMIT!Β Β
Now I can make my drawings how they should be! Thank you so freaking much!
Seriously, the previous instructions I have found and read were very complicated - Too much chit-chat.
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Thanks, I hope you find this tutorial helpful
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Yes ! I am gonna get some color pencils and try this Β
Thanks for the amazing tutorial !
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You're welcome, I hope you find it useful
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This tutorial was a big help
P.S. I see you use Prismacolor pencils, how recent is that set? Because I hear that their newer ones are awful due to their extremely fragile cores.
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I'm glad it was helpful to you and that's just the way I use them, maybe it's not the best, but is the best way I've found to do it.
These colors were bought almost 2 years ago, I haven't tried a new set yet, so I don't know if that's trueΒ
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Well, in all fairness that only applies to their box of 150 pencils. Its no surprise that a number of them would shatter in transport and such but for Β£113 ($120 or so) a box you expect a little care as well as bang for your buck.
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I think it also depends of where were they made, I have a set of 12 made in MΓ©xico, and a set of 72 made in USA, and the ones made on USA have better quality, they blend together more easily, so maybe also where you buy them makes a big difference
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Huh, it turns out they use wax in their cores and that the pencils can be easily toughened up by microwaving them for a few seconds till you're happy with the hardness. ^.^ There is a way to fix everything I guess.
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If that's the case I don't think that would be a problem at all ^^
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You're welcome, I hope you find it useful
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It's funny I found this tutorial to color a picture of Link too XD awesome job btw!!
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Thanks
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Thank you for this awesome tutorial! I'm a newbie at this, and I used it hereΒ :thumb441489374:
Thanks
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So yeah, wrong paste lol. Here:Β fav.me/d7aundq
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Don't worry, I'm very glad it was useful to you
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You're welcome, hope you find it useful
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I had to comment again! Im trying this process right now. ^^ the circular strokes are so helpful. I'll link the practice picture in the comments when ive finished it! XD
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I'm glad you're finding Helpful this
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sta.sh/03ezrl25w7n ignore the last link the picture was sideways! XD
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^^ ok... scanned -->Β sta.sh/07sp82riy4b
at Β first i wanst sure what to do with the white color pencil on the purple part.
Β so when one colors with the white color and blends, is it the same way as the shading sections? i get the circling as you color part. but is it like slowly blending each section until it is smooth? sorry if im confusing you.
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the red part, i went through it slowly and slowly blended it. it turned out good.
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Yes, it's the same as the shaded section, and it's getting good
And finally, the white color helps blend, but also depends on how your colors blends together, some of them blend easily, and so the white blends, some doesn't blend, so the white color does it harder to blend.
Hope I helped you
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The colored pencils im using are crayola kind, pro-art water color pencils (i assume they are. they have this paintbrush symbol on the side) and some other brand i dont know the name of.
The paper quality is sketchbook paper but its "lightly textured". Maybe thats why theres all these white spaces.
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I remembre using Crayola colored pencils, but I'm not sure if they were Mexican version or if they were a specific version of them, but they didn't blended together very well. But for what you say about the paper, it seems that's the problem, I reccomend you to try on a different paper
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thank you! i shall try buying the opaline one or at least a paper made for color penicls and blending. im sure i can find something in the art n crafts store.
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You're welcome, and hope you find it
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thanks! i'll let you know if it works out well.
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You're welcome, hope you find it useful
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Thanks, very helpful tutorial
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You're welcome, hope you find it useful
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I appreciate you taking the time to make this tutorial. This will definitely help me a lot.
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You're welcome, I'm glad you liked the turorial
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