MOST IMPORTANT TIP FOR BLENDING COLORED PENCIL Video Lecture - Complete

lots of people find that blending color
pencil is a real real challenge and it
can be difficult to get really smooth
results with color pencil but in this
video I want to go through an easy trick
to ensure that you guys get really
smooth shading with your color pencils
let's go through what this trick is okay
so the question is how do you blend
smoothly with colored pencils to show
you this trick I've gone and added a
layer of skin tone values to my paper
going with vertical lines with circular
motions as well but going vertically now
the trick is when you blend out the
color pencil and you add your final
burnishing layer go in the opposite
direction to the direction you initially
added your first layers so when you add
your final blending layer and you want
to blend out the color pencil go in the
opposite direction and as you can see
you get a really nice smooth look
compared to the first layers of color
pencil when you want to glaze colors
after that so if you blend out the color
pencils but you want to add a bit more
color to it make sure you're using the
side of the pencil so that you don't
ruin all of that beautiful smooth
blending we already did and so I like to
glaze Pink's for blusher and stuff like
that so why blend in the opposite
direction does it really matter well as
you can see I've added some streaky
lines again my base layer and I'm
firstly blending it in the opposite
direction and then I'm going to go and
blend it out vertically so in the same
direction I applied the initial layer
and as you will see the top layer where
I go in the same direction really
doesn't blend out that streaky initial
lines that we created as much as the
opposite direction does so when you
blend in the opposite direction
it really does soften everything else
here is another example of when I did
the same thing on the left
I have blended using the opposite
direction and on the right I've gone in
the same direction as my initial layers
our color pencil and the one where I go
in the opposite direction is so much
smoother so here's some tips for shading
when you add your initial layers
obviously I did mine very streaky then
so you could see a lot of the difference
between them but when I apply my initial
layers a colored pencil to the paper I
don't actually apply that much pressure
and I'm not that streaky with it you
want to be very light handed with your
pencil
you want to go in light layers and build
it up don't go and just do it in one
layer keep your pencils really really
sharp that is so important what you
don't want to do is vary the pressure so
that you have some really dark lines as
you can see here you want to keep
everything very constant and consistent
and I'm going to be going through more
tips on that later also you don't want
to hold your pencil right near the front
because it's hard to then maintain a
constant pressure you're more likely to
get those streaky lines what you do want
to do is hold your pencil a lot further
back so that it helps you have less
pressure on the pencil now this
technique works really well with smooth
paper
I love the bristol Strathmore fringes
series paper it's so smooth and it
allows you to get really nice blending
without having to deal with all of that
white grainy look that you can get with
some of the more textured color pencils
but all of the materials that I'm going
to be using now are linked in the
description all the colored pencils and
all of that sort of stuff
now that we've gone through the basics
of this technique I want to go in a lot
more depth on my techniques for blending
out color pencils for my portraits
because I do my blending for portraits a
lot differently than I do
blending for say animal portraits so
these blending techniques that I'm
talking about are great for portraits
and anything that you want to get really
smoothly if you do love creating
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and you will be drawing realistically in
no time now let's move on to an example
of actually me using my techniques in an
actual drawing so here I am doing
and I study of baby size and as you can
see on the left hand side the skin for
the baby's eye around the baby's eye is
really really smooth and I use this
technique that I'm going to be talking
about for this study the technique we're
using is basically burnishing and
burnishing is a technique that a lot of
people know about a lot of people use
it's a very common color pencil
technique but the important trick that
I'm talking about here is blending in
the opposite direction because a lot of
people burnish and few guys that are
unsure burnishing basically means you
apply a lot of pressure to your pencil
and applying the pressure to the pencil
will help to blend and get really nice
smooth colors but also it gets rid of
all of the white grain of the paper and
the main issue with it sometimes that
people can find very difficult is that
when you're applying a lot of pressure
to the paper you're flattening out the
tooth of the paper so that texture and
that makes it very difficult to apply
laser color pencil on top once you've
blended your final layer of colored
pencil because you've got rid of all of
the tooth of the paper so there's
nothing that the paper can grip onto for
the new laser pencil you want to add and
this means that if you make mistakes
it's very hard to go and maybe darken up
an area and anything like that so you
really need to think about the colors
that you want to apply first and this
brings me on to my first tip which is to
build up the layers slowly and also
start off with your initial layers
having hardly any pressure on the pencil
and then as you build it more and more
layers you can apply more and more
pressure as you're sure that you're
getting to your final layers so don't go
in on your first layer and burnish and
apply maximum pressure to the actual
paper unless you're sure that you want
to get a block color for example when I
did the pupil of the eye I went in with
just black and I burnished that out
straight away because I knew I didn't
need to apply loads and loads of colors
to that area but for example with the
skin you know that you've got lots of
different shades got your pink tones
more orangey tones golden brown tones so
you've got a lot of different colors
that you need to get in there so it's
important to build up those layers
slowly and very lightly to start with
until you're happy with the colors and
then you
add that final layer over the top to
blend it all together and the main
reason that I wanna do this video is to
talk about going in the opposite
direction because that is some things
that I think is a big makes a big
difference to your final result lots of
people can use the burnishing technique
where you add a lot of pressure but you
can get completely different results if
you go in the same direction as you did
with your initial layers then you're
gonna get more of a streaky look whereas
if you go in the opposite direction then
if you think about it you've got lines
and streaky lines that you want to try
and smooth out if you're going with that
direction then you're not really gonna
blend and get rid of them you're just
going in the same direction is amiss
still going to be visible whereas if you
blend in the opposite direction you're
smudging them out you're smudging those
lines as you go in the opposite
direction and so they're gonna get less
and less visible and also when you're
burnishing even though you are blending
in the opposite direction still go in
circular motions with your pencil that
will really help get a smooth look this
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