Colored Pencil Hydrangea Tutorial with Jennifer Morrison

Artist Jennifer Morrison produces gorgeous, hyper-sensible colored pencil drawings. Adhere to together to Jennifer’s movie tutorial as she shares her approach for drawing a hyper-real looking hydrangea making use of Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils.

Supplies:

• Strathmore 400 Sequence Printmaking Paper, 280gsm, medium textured tender surface area
• Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils in
  • Delft Blue
  • Violet
  • Light-weight Violet
  • Deep Cobalt
  • Blue Violet
  • Dim Violet
  • Sky Blue
  • Magenta
  • White
  • Dim Grey
• Princeton Decide on Artiste Flat Shader Brush, Dimensions 2
• Coloured Pencil Solvent
• Mini eraser & electric eraser

Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils are oil-centered, water-proof, gentle-resistant, and arrive in 72 lively shades. They blend and dissolve wonderfully with solvents, which is an essential ingredient of Jennifer’s colored pencil work.

Strathmore 400 Collection Printmaking Paper is weighty fat at 280gsm and has a medium textured floor that is good for constructing up levels and blending coloured pencils.

Colored Pencil Screening and Swatching

Any time Jennifer is striving out new pencils she swatches them on the same paper she will be carrying out her drawing on for precise colour illustration because colours can glance distinct involving paper forms. To check the pencils, she separates them into colour groups and produces tiny swatches with the pencil colour name following to it.

Watch Jennifer’s approach for testing and swatching her pencils right here:

https://www.youtube.com/check out?v=vieR_iuFn44

Coloured Pencil Hydrangea Tutorial

Follow together as Jennifer shares her recommendations for drawing this attractive purple and blue hydrangea. Jennifer acknowledges this reference impression may well surface seriously intimidating and like there is a lot likely on, but this means you can make a blunder and it will not be pretty apparent.  If one particular petal is slightly off or the wrong coloration, no one particular will at any time know.  If you crack this down like a puzzle and draw a person petal at a time, even a starter will have a breathtaking drawing in the conclude.

Reference Impression:

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Follow alongside to the movie tutorial:

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

Recommendations from Jennifer:

Follow your hues on a different sheet of drawing paper till you locate the blends that you are pleased with. The pencils blend superbly, so you really should be able to develop limitless combos. Jennifer utilised a good deal of deep cobalt for the brightest blue and magenta to brighten up the purples.

To make each and every petal standout personal and avoid a major purple blob, Jennifer outlined each individual petal with a sharp pencil. The Polycolor pencils keep a level extremely effectively, letting for straightforward sharp edges. 2nd, Jennifer designed every single petal a slightly distinctive shade than the one following to it, even if it went from the reference impression. Very last, Jennifer ensured the shadows were dark enough and the highlight dazzling adequate to make distinction.

Jennifer layered black and dim gray on leading of the blue and purples in some of the petals to maximize the values of individuals hues and produce more delicate shadows on the petals them selves.

Jennifer utilized the white Polycolor pencil to safeguard the paper where by she wished the brightest highlights. You can use an electric erase to brighten the highlights even even further.