Smooth Gradients: Pressure, Direction, and the Two-Pencil Method

How to Color Smooth Gradients with Colored Pencils: Pressure, Direction, and the Two-Pencil Method

Flat color killed more of my early pages than wrong paper ever did. You pick the right blues for a sky, lay them down with patient strokes — and the result is a flat, plasticky band of color that looks like it came out of a marker, not a pencil. The problem is never the … Read more