Draw a Rose - Learn How to Draw a Rose in Colored Pencil
By Helen South, About.com
Objects are rarely a solid color, even if their actual surface is painted a single color. Shadows, and direct, indirect and reflected light all create variations on a surface. I'm seeing a blueish violet undertone in many areas of this rose, so I'm shading an underlayer of this now. I'm using Prismacolor PC932 Violet. It's darker and bluer than it appears in the scan.
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- A Red Rose to Draw - Choose a Good Rose Photo
- Rose Values - Create a Grayscale Rose Value Reference
- Draw the Outline of the Rose
- Laying a Foundation - Shading the Base Color
- Shading the Rose - Shading Undertones
- Darker Values - Shading Darks and Shadows
- Layering Color - Building Layers of Color
- Colored Pencil Layering - Adding More Undertones
- Final Layers of Colored Pencil
- The Finished Rose Drawing
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