Colored Pencil Hydrangea Tutorial with Jennifer Morrison

Artist Jennifer Morrison produces gorgeous, hyper-realistic colored pencil drawings. Abide by alongside to Jennifer’s video tutorial as she shares her process for drawing a hyper-practical hydrangea making use of Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils.

Provides:

• Strathmore 400 Series Printmaking Paper, 280gsm, medium textured delicate floor
• Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils in
  • Delft Blue
  • Violet
  • Light-weight Violet
  • Deep Cobalt
  • Blue Violet
  • Darkish Violet
  • Sky Blue
  • Magenta
  • White
  • Dim Grey
• Princeton Choose Artiste Flat Shader Brush, Measurement 2
• Coloured Pencil Solvent
• Mini eraser & electrical eraser

Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils are oil-centered, waterproof, light-weight-resistant, and come in 72 vivid shades. They mix and dissolve superbly with solvents, which is an crucial factor of Jennifer’s colored pencil work.

Strathmore 400 Collection Printmaking Paper is heavy body weight at 280gsm and has a medium textured surface that is fantastic for building up levels and mixing colored pencils.

Colored Pencil Tests and Swatching

Any time Jennifer is hoping out new pencils she swatches them on the very same paper she will be accomplishing her drawing on for precise coloration illustration since hues can search various in between paper styles. To exam the pencils, she separates them into color groups and results in tiny swatches with the pencil coloration identify next to it.

Look at Jennifer’s approach for testing and swatching her pencils in this article:

Coloured Pencil Hydrangea Tutorial

Stick to alongside as Jennifer shares her strategies for drawing this stunning purple and blue hydrangea. Jennifer acknowledges this reference image may well surface genuinely daunting and like there is a ton going on, but this indicates you can make a blunder and it will not be pretty recognizable.  If a person petal is slightly off or the incorrect shade, no 1 will at any time know.  If you break this down like a puzzle and attract just one petal at a time, even a novice will have a breathtaking drawing in the conclusion.

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Adhere to alongside to the video tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/view?v=Py3d1ZiI1rg

Suggestions from Jennifer:

Follow your hues on a individual sheet of drawing paper until eventually you locate the blends that you are satisfied with. The pencils mix beautifully, so you really should be equipped to generate countless combos. Jennifer employed a lot of deep cobalt for the brightest blue and magenta to brighten up the purples.

To make just about every petal standout unique and stay away from a significant purple blob, Jennifer outlined each and every petal with a sharp pencil. The Polycolor pencils keep a stage pretty nicely, making it possible for for effortless sharp edges. Second, Jennifer manufactured just about every petal a slightly unique coloration than the one particular subsequent to it, even if it went against the reference impression. Previous, Jennifer ensured the shadows have been dim plenty of and the highlight vibrant ample to build distinction.

Jennifer layered black and dark gray on best of the blue and purples in some of the petals to boost the values of individuals colors and create far more delicate shadows on the petals by themselves.

Jennifer made use of the white Polycolor pencil to protect the paper where by she needed the brightest highlights. You can use an electric powered erase to brighten the highlights even even more.