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Colored Pencil Painting Portraits by Alyona Nickelsen

Colored Pencil Painting Portraits

Master a Revolutionary Method for Rendering Depth and Imitating Life

Alyona Nickelsen

Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed · Print & ebook · June 20, 2017

Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture.

PortraitsFigure Drawing & Human FormPencil Drawingcoloring
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Who it’s for
Explore how colored pencil can render lifelike portraits through attention to color, texture, shadow, and light.
Themes
Realistic portraiture, Color, light, and human form, Colored-pencil techniques
Genres
Pencil Drawing, Portraits, Figure Drawing & Human Form

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Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture. Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as they interplay with the human form.

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In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working from photo references versus live models; provides guidance on posing and lighting, as well as planning and composing a work; discusses tools, materials, and revolutionary layering techniques; and offers lessons on capturing gesture and expression and on rendering facial and body features of people of all age groups and skin tones.

Portraits in Color

Explore how colored pencil can render lifelike portraits through attention to color, texture, shadow, and light.

Come here for

  • Practical guidance on posing, lighting, planning, and composition
  • Step-by-step demonstrations of layering and rendering features

Expect

  • A close look at gesture, expression, and the human form
  • Considerations for photo references, live models, and varied skin tones

Where it sits

Portraits81%
Pencil Drawing46%
Figure Drawing & Human Form44%

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Publisher categories

  • Painting Techniques
  • Pencil Drawing
  • Portraits
Authors
Alyona Nickelsen
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Published
June 20, 2017
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Realistic portraiture · Color, light, and human form · Colored-pencil techniques
Reading lane
Painting Techniques