Colored Pencil Tips

These colored pencil tips offer some ideas to help solve colored pencil problems. Check out these quick and easy colored pencil tips and techniques and get the most out of your colored pencil drawing.

Tip - Wax Bloom
Wax bloom is a white haze that appears across heavily worked colored pencil drawings as a layer of the wax medium forms on the surface. This tip explains out how to stop it from spoiling your colored pencil artwork.
Tip - Experimenting with Materials
Develop your colored pencil drawing by experimenting with materials. Here are some tips on how to explore colored pencil techniques.
Tip - Colored Pencil Intensity
Lacklustre lights? Darks looking washed out? Improve the intensity of areas of color in your colored pencil images with these tips.
Tip - Blending and Smudging
Find out some better ways to manipulate your colored pencil with these tips on different methods of blending and smudging areas of colored pencil.