Jumpstart Portrait Profile & White Kitten Tutorial: Easy Colored Pencil Lessons for Beginners

Portraits don’t have to scare you, even if you’re a beginner. You will gain skills and confidence with this lovely Jumpstart tutorial in just 10 easy steps that are fully illustrated. Learn Ann’s method for combining yellows, pinks and oranges to create soft believable skin tones, highlights and shadows. Only 16 Prismacolor colored pencils needed for this tutorial on Stonehenge white drawing paper.

What You’ll Learn:

• Which colors to combine to create glowing skin tones
• How to build shadows and leave highlights
• How to create dark values quickly
• How to create whisper-light layers
• How to draw realistic eyes that have depth

Skills you acquire with this Jumpstart will easily translate to your next portrait drawing. If you want to draw faces, this tutorial will give you the methods and confidence to move forward on your own in no time.

Drawing your first cat in colored pencil can feel intimating at first, but with Sherry Goeben's approachable techniques, you'll be creating soft, white fur, embossed whiskers and crystal blue cat eyes in no time.

Capture the soul of this beautiful Ragdoll kitten by learning to look for subtle details, color and value change in your subject, and take your colored pencil skills to the next level! You'll use more than just white to create realistic fur, but Sherry will show you how to speed up the process.

Sherry's clear step by step instructions are complete with large images that point out exactly where to apply each color. This tutorial is perfect for artists who are newer to colored pencil but ready to take the next step learning how to use a variety of strokes and layers to build textures and color depth.

Just 14 Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils needed.

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ABOUT JUMPSTART TUTORIALS: Created by master colored pencil artists, each Jumpstart tutorial features 8-10 steps and focuses on teaching you why and not just how the artist applies their technique. Our Jumpstart tutorials for beginers and beyond truly show you exactly how the artist works, making it easy to learn new colored pencil techniques to apply to your own projects. Easy, fun and a great way to learn!