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. 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.
CONTENTS FOREWORD • vii
INTRODUCTION • 1
CHAPTER 1 • COLORED PENCIL REVOLUTION • 5 An exploration of new working surfaces, materials, and tools
CHAPTER 2 • THE RULES OF THE GAME • 27 The use of successful oil painting practices with the colored pencil medium
CHAPTER 3 • WORKING THE MEDIUM • 43 Innovative methods and techniques for painting with pencils
CHAPTER 4 • CONTROLLING COLOR • 55 Understanding the nature of color and the properties of pigments
CHAPTER 5 • PORTRAIT FACTS AND FICTION • 73 Ideas and solutions for composing a portrait 
CHAPTER 6 • PRACTICING THE ESSENTIAl“Ê
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