How to Color on Black Paper with Colored Pencils: A Practical Guide

Your first attempt at coloring on black paper goes something like this: you pick a bright yellow, lay down what feels like plenty of pigment, and stare at a scratchy, grayish smudge that looks nothing like the glowing artwork in the sample photos. Black paper does something strange to your color instincts — every color … Read more

Best Skin Tone Colored Pencils for Portraits and Faces: 4 Picks That Layer Clean

You bought the big 120-pencil tin because the swatch page looked like a candy store. Then you sat down to color a portrait and discovered the problem: forty different browns, and you have no idea which one is the shadow on a cheekbone and which one is the shadow under a jaw. A huge palette … Read more

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