Colored Pencil Hydrangea Tutorial with Jennifer Morrison
3 min readArtist Jennifer Morrison generates lovely, hyper-realistic coloured pencil drawings. Adhere to together to Jennifer’s online video tutorial as she shares her procedure for drawing a hyper-realistic hydrangea working with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils.
Supplies:
- Strathmore 400 Series Printmaking Paper, 280gsm, medium textured tender surface
- Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils in
- Delft Blue
- Violet
- Light-weight Violet
- Deep Cobalt
- Blue Violet
- Dark Violet
- Sky Blue
- Magenta
- White
- Darkish Gray
- Princeton Select Artiste Flat Shader Brush, Dimension 2
- Coloured Pencil Solvent
- Mini eraser & electric powered eraser
Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils are oil-based, watertight, mild-resistant, and appear in 72 lively colors. They mix and dissolve beautifully with solvents, which is an essential element of Jennifer’s colored pencil work.
Strathmore 400 Sequence Printmaking Paper is significant body weight at 280gsm and has a medium textured area that’s terrific for constructing up levels and blending coloured pencils.
Colored Pencil Testing and Swatching
Any time Jennifer is trying out new pencils she swatches them on the exact same paper she will be executing her drawing on for exact colour illustration due to the fact colors can appear various among paper styles. To test the pencils, she separates them into colour groups and results in modest swatches with the pencil coloration title up coming to it.
Enjoy Jennifer’s course of action for tests and swatching her pencils right here:
https://www.youtube.com/view?v=vieR_iuFn44
Coloured Pencil Hydrangea Tutorial
Observe alongside as Jennifer shares her suggestions for drawing this wonderful purple and blue hydrangea. Jennifer acknowledges this reference impression may well seem truly overwhelming and like there is a lot heading on, but this means you can make a slip-up and it will not be very recognizable. If 1 petal is a little bit off or the wrong shade, no a person will at any time know. If you split this down like a puzzle and draw a person petal at a time, even a starter will have a spectacular drawing in the finish.
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Abide by along to the video clip tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/view?v=Py3d1ZiI1rg
Strategies from Jennifer:
Exercise your colours on a individual sheet of drawing paper right up until you obtain the blends that you are satisfied with. The pencils mix superbly, so you must be capable to make endless mixtures. Jennifer utilised a good deal of deep cobalt for the brightest blue and magenta to brighten up the purples.
To make each petal standout personal and stay away from a major purple blob, Jennifer outlined each individual petal with a sharp pencil. The Polycolor pencils hold a level really properly, allowing for simple sharp edges. Next, Jennifer built each individual petal a marginally diverse shade than the 1 following to it, even if it went towards the reference picture. Past, Jennifer ensured the shadows were being darkish ample and the highlight vivid plenty of to produce distinction.
Jennifer layered black and dim gray on major of the blue and purples in some of the petals to improve the values of all those shades and make far more subtle shadows on the petals themselves.
Jennifer utilised the white Polycolor pencil to shield the paper the place she wanted the brightest highlights. You can use an electric powered erase to brighten the highlights even further more.
