Photorealistic Colored Pencil Drawing Workbook: Learn Essential Techniques through 16 Projects (Design Originals) How to Draw Hyper-Realistic Eyes, Fur, Shiny Surfaces, and More

Learn how to draw with colored pencils so realistically, your art will cause double takes!

• 16 skill-building projects drawn from photographs including apples, cats, and jewels
• Learn an array of techniques to achieve the proper colors and textures, from bright and shiny surfaces to animal fur
• Over 550 step-by-step photos of instruction, from the basics of drawing with colored pencils to sketching out, the importance of layering, and more
• Projects slowly increase in difficulty, from a simple apple and a bunch of grapes to a complex tree and detailed parakeet

Make anyone look twice, maybe three times, to see if your art is a photo or a colored pencil drawing!

Photorealistic Colored Pencil Drawing Workbook explains step-by-step how to achieve super realistic results with your art. Over 550 photos will guide you through several technique-building projects, teaching you how to achieve great results from colored pencils. Learn how to draw different textures, from the smooth surface of a grape or apple to the super-fine fur texture of a cat and the reflective scales of a snake.

You'll find tips on blending, what paper to use, selecting colors, and a specific focus on how to draw eyes. The instructions for each project include what materials you'll need and how long the project will take. Understand the basics, beginning with an outline sketch, choosing colors, and the important steps to building a finished colored pencil drawing with incredible depth that will create a level of realism only colored pencils can give.

Projects and tutorials include:

• Fruit Tart
• Gem
• Beetle
• Puppy
• Clouds
• Mailbox
• And more!

Take your art to the next level, creating hyper-realistic details that will turn heads, with Photorealistic Colored Pencil Drawing Workbook!

"This comprehensive colored-pencil manual is packed with insightful tips, step-by-step techniques, and tons of photographs that unlock the secrets to creating photorealistic colored-pencil art!"
—Thaneeya McArdle, artist and author of Good Vibes Coloring Book, Woodland Mandalas Coloring Book, and more

Painter Haru Otomi always starts with the eyes when he draws cats. His amazingly life-like pictures rendered with colored pencils include felines with mesmerizing eyes. Otomi, 22, is a college student whose real name is Haruki Kudo (Otomi is his name as an artist). He said his drawings are the product of fear that he could lose his eyesight given his physical condition. Since birth, Otomi has had almost no vision in his right eye because of eye cancer. Cherishing his eyes means he pays special attention to the eyes of cats in his drawings. Otomi draws the eyes first because he pours all his energy into them. Working on cat drawings, Otomi creates their eyes to look as shiny as marbles. He carefully draws the lightly colored eyes on special paper. Otomi relies on colored pencils in as many as 120 hues from the Polychromos line from German stationery maker Faber-Castell. He chose Faber-Castell after trying more than 10 brands from multiple manufacturers. "The pencils' lead is hard but easier to apply to paper," said Otomi. "Color irregularities emerge less often, too." Otomi spends four hours a day on a drawing so that a drawing can be completed in a week. Some drawings, however, can take longer than six months. Otomi has done colored pencil drawings for more than five years while polishing up his sketching techniques at Tohoku Seikatsu Bunka University's faculty of art in Sendai. He graduated in March 2023. He is determined to carve out a livelihood as a freelance artist in Yamagata.