If you’ve never tried grayscale coloring, here’s the frustration that sends most beginners back to regular books: you pick up a colored pencil, start filling in a section, and the result looks flat. The shadow you tried to create is wrong. The highlight you added doesn’t line up with where the light actually falls. The … Read more
You sharpen a pencil, and somewhere in the twist a faint tick travels up the barrel — that is the sound of a colored pencil core starting to crack. You will not see the damage until three layers deep, when the core drops out of the wood casing mid-stroke and your page gets a scar … Read more
Flowers are where most colorists get humbled. They look simple — petals, a center, done — and then your first rose comes out looking like a pink paper plate. I did that more than once before I understood what was going on: flowers are not about coloring petals. They’re about coloring the gaps between petals. … Read more