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1. Introduction: Hello all my dear students. Welcome back to
another new course. I am parna Chaudhuri, and you are going to learn how to draw Colored Pencil Portrait. In this course, I discuss
all the steps you need to know to draw Realistic
Colored Pencil Portrait. I also explain all the
materials you need. And I also explain every step that you need to know to draw Realistic Colored
Pencil Portraits. I explain the shading
Curie and you can also learn how to Shade
from this course. In this course, I explain
Face shading process, like how to shade Face, how to make Skin colors. And other than these methods, I also explain Face
shading and blending. I explain here and
Cloths shading methods. So let's learn how to draw Realistic Colored
Pencil Portraits
2. Art Materials : Hey everyone, welcome to
this part of the course. So let's talk about which Art Materials you'll need
for this course. So the first thing you need is, of course, a set of
colored pencils. Because this is a course about how to Shade using
colored pencils. How to draw Colored
Pencil Portrait, right? So the first thing you
need is colored pencils. I'll use the 48 set. You can use a 24 sets set. That's enough, I would say. But I think if you set up 12, that is a little bit
less color options. So I suggest that at
least use a set of 24. Now about the brand. You can use, like the
expensive and good ones, which is like I have a Prismacolor favorite
basketball It for most current dash for
colored pencil drawings. I feel Prismacolor
and spatially, current dash is much better than the favorite
castle polychrome was one. And if you don't have these big like artist
grade Pencils, you can use like the kid, so on. But at least try, tried to find something
that is good in your area and the quality of the Pencil is
at least better. Okay? So you can also use
Crayola if you want to. The next thing you need
is a sketchbook or paper. Like you can use a single
paper or sketchbook. Of course, the GSE can be 122-50 because I am drawing
using colored pencils. So I feel for Colored Pencils. One-to-two to crypto
GSM paper is great. Now you can use smooth or
medium green or rough paper. So students, I don't
suggest you to use the rough textured paper because I don't think
if you're a beginner, you can handle it properly. And I personally don't like rough papers for
colored pencils. I always like
medium green paper. Smooth paper is
also like a no-no. Use a medium green paper or, or any paper with
a little grainy, you can use cheap paper also. But I suggest that the DSM is at least 120 DSM because you're gonna leave
that Drawing Guide layer. You need to shade
with colored pencils so you need more thickness. So at least use one-twenty GSM. So the next thing I use
is a graphite pencil. So graphite pencil is
for like outlining. And I wanted to say one
thing that I don't show, I didn't show the
outline process because it's free hand. Okay. So I would say that you
can use grid method. That's a very good method
to draw accurate outline. And other than that, you can use the normal
freehand method. That was good for practice. And the last thing you
maybe need a black micron. So it depends on knew that if
you want to use it or not. So I did I did do
a black micron. And if you have, then you can use a white
gel pen for detailing. I didn't use that in this class, but you can use that tool. So that's all, that's
all the thing you need. So let's start the course and let's learn how to Shade using colored pencil and how to draw Portrait using
Colored minus
3. How to Shade and Blend Skin Tone : Hello students. Welcome to this
part of the course. So in this specific part, you're going to learn
how to color Skin, like how to Shade Skin, how to blend the colors. This is actually
tough for everyone. I would say. Like blending
the colors is not that easy. But you're going to
learn this in this part. And this is actually
not that difficult. Also, I'm going to teach you two methods that you can use in your drawings to blend the color pencil and to live
basically shade the Skin. Okay, so let's start. I have this Colored Pencils. There are different shade, but I'm going to
teach you with this stays, this, this Shade. I'm going to use this for shade. For this part. I'm going to teach you. So you need to learn
and then you can apply this method
in every drawing. Here. First swatch this colors, okay? Okay, so first, this
is a dark black Tone. This is the lightest tone. And this is actually media. This Tone is kind of weird, so I'm not going to do this. Okay, so we're going to
learn how to use the dark to light shading method and light to dark
shading with it. So there are two types
of shading method. So first, I'm going to
teach you how to shade the Skin using dark to
light shedding method. First, I'm using that
dark guest color that I use for the reference. So here I'm using this kind of a brown color and you can see that I'm
using current arche, current dash colored pencils. They are actually good. I am using this color,
this dark color, slowly and slowly shading
it and building the values. So when you add
shading this Skin, I would say don't apply
pressure too much. In the first layer. Apply the pressure to Blend
but not too much pressure. So then we're going
to use a mid tone. On top of that. After you completed
with mid-tone, you need to use the lightest tone according
to the reference. So here I'm using a light flesh tone and I'm
slowly building everything, like the dark area and
the mid area together. So slowly, this is
the last step you to slowly blend them
and shade with them. So after you complete this step, you may see that
it looks so good, Really blended and
nice and smooth. So this is the, I feel this is really easy. Like the basic thing, you need to use a dark
tone first and then Shade. Then use the mid-tone, and then blend everything
with the light Tone. And after, use
applying this method, if you feel that you may
need a little darker value, then you can apply
the dark tone or mid tone on top of that
and then blend them. Blend the edges. Okay? So that's it. You can
do the, this thing. And now we're going
to learn how to use that light to dark method. I normally don't use
it or to go off ten, but it can also use this method. So at first, I draw this circle to teach you how to
use this method. So fast in to fill every
area with this light color, the lightest color according
to the reference. Okay? So after you done
with this process, you need to use the meat, like the middle
color, the midtone. So here I applied the
mid tone on top of this. And we're going to slowly build a value and slowly
shade the area. And then at last, I'm going to use
the darker tone. Here. I use the mid tone, but now we're gonna use the
darkest tone that I have. I don't enjoy this
method actually. But if you feel that this method is work for you,
you can use that. So after you like done shading, like leering everything,
you need to use the light color again
and slowly bring them. Okay. So as you can see, I'm blending them
together very easily. And after blending, you feel the darker areas
are not that dark. You can layer the dark color. So we are done with the
to shading methods, but I especially like the
dark to light shading method. You can use any one of them. So now we're going
to shade the Face. So let's start the
shading process
4. How to shade Face: Hello students, welcome to
this part of the course. So as you can see
that I start shading the portrait from the eye area because I like to do this step. You can start from
anywhere you want. But I feel little please to
like start from the IRA. It's my kind of thing. Okay. So as you can
see that I use I use some teal colors and then I am darkening it with some blue, darker blue and make Realistic. And here you can see that I'm using different
color because my reference photo have
this kind of colors. So you need to follow
your reference photo. And then you can like do, you can use the shades
according to your reference. Then I'm using
something like drip very dark colors around the eyes because I'm using
dark to light method. Now, what is dark
to light material? I explain it earlier
in earlier parts. I hope you watch that. So Dr. leitmotif is basically
using the dark tones first, then using the mid tones, and then after at
last unit to use the light Tone and then
blend them together. So that's what I'm doing. And I feel it's good. Like this is the best
way to shade the fears. And yeah, I like this
to play this step. But you can also try the
light to dark shading method, which I, I like already
explain that thing. Also, we can try both the steps, dark light meter and
like duck method. And can experience, you need
to experience to methods. And then you can choose
yourself that which methods you like the most, and then use that method. So here you can see
I'm shading the nose and I am using the
same kind of method, the dark to light method. And slowly, slowly I'm
building the values, extending it a
little bit and doing everything that I can
confused about the color, which Colored to select
which colors. Not too slick. So here I'm not like I'm not explaining
what shapes I use. Because in every
different colors set, like if you are buying polychrome most the Shade
names are different. If you are buying a Prismacolor, the shades are, shades
name are different. So you may not get
the exact Shade. And here, I already told you that I'm using
polychrome was a little bit. And mostly I'm using
prismacolor and current dash. But I would say I
use Prismacolor for 80% of the time to
shade the Face atria. And the thing is
that you need to, you'll need to have like
one light flesh color, which can be a really
light skin tone. One is medium brown and brown, hand, one Shade is dark brown. You at least need
this kind of shades to color the whole
areas like these. Light fresh, medium brown, brown and dark brown. These four shades are most, you can buy them
from like loose, loose stocks or any
where you can find, you can buy sets. And then the thing you
can do is another, like when you are shading, like us shedding light Tone. You can use the light tones. And if that person you are
Drawing have like a yellowish, yellowish skin, you can use undisputed rid of
yellow to like, make it look realistic. Or if that person
have like pink tone, then you can use a little bit, little girl pink cheeks
around the nose. So that does Skin Tone matches. So basically the thing is, you need to mix and
match the colors. Now, how to mix the colors? How to make different
colors from 23 colors that you already have is actually a
little bit different. But watch the courses, like my courses or
with a little focus. And you're going to
understand, okay? So you need to follow the process like how
I'm using the Pencils, how I am using the light, how I'm holding the pen, pencils and other things. So we need to watch it closely
and understand it slowly. Hand. I would say
practice a lot. Like at least give
your Art 30 min, minimum time for
everyday practice, the anatomy, that is everything. So you can create
Realistic arts. As you can see that
I'm using this kind of red colors to draw the lips. And at first I use
the darker red tone, and then I use the lighter tone. And now I'm feeling that I
need a little bit darkness. So that's why I use the
another Pencil on the color. So we've almost completed this part just a little
bit like this area. And one thing, news,
Portrait takes time. So always try to
work slowly as much as lowing can do and
use less pressure. Okay. So that's it. We completed the
Face shading process
5. How to Shade Hair: Here's students, so let's
shade the heel part. So now even shade that here. And we're going draw
the here. Very pretty. So let's start cells. You can see I'm using
a black color and I'm drawing all the strands
that I need to draw. Here. I'm using dark
to light method. So first I am, so first I am shading or
diarrhea with black color, and then I'm using a
medium dark brown. And then I'm going to use the light brown and
blend them together. So one thing I follow
here is I did not follow every stand in the
reference photo and just follow the shapes. And I shared the
head on my one way. I tried to maintain
the shapes accurately, but not all, the
thing is similar. Occur like the same
as the reference. You need to work
slowly, take your time, Draw a shade it slowly
and it's gonna look good. So now watch it a little bit. Now students will
complete a black a lot. The darker AVR,
darker colored area. Actually my reference as two
types of, here's the middle. One part is dark and
one part is light. So here I'm drawing the
light here colored area. So first I'm using some
like a yellow color, which is like the dark
brownish yellow color. And then I'm going to use
the light yellow color. And then I'm going to draw the strands
with a darker color. That's the method. It's kinda like a
Dr. life method, but it's kinda like
you need to use a medium tone first and then blend it with
the lighter tone. And then at last unit to add
detail using that dark tone. So that's how I'm
shading the Hair. And pretty much I like the
Drawing, how it's working. One thing is, here, I'm using favor Gaster mostly because I feel favorite
costume or not that Blend it. Like you can blend them, but it's like a hard for them. So it's actually good
for detail work. Like he feared drawing. Here's, if you're
drawing, Here's favor. Gastel works better
than Prismacolor. Yeah, coronas is actually good
for every bus perspective. You're going to draw good years with favorite guests like poor, like current dash and
also we can shade the Skin like beautiful Dutch, but I don't have all the
shapes from current dash. I have Prismacolor 72 shares. And the polychrome
was I had the 60 box. And I think that's 60
shares is enough for me. Just, I bought
another highlight. I tend because that's what
missing in that 60 Shade. And in Prismacolor
I have 70 to Shade, which is enough, which
is more than enough. I would say we completed
the Hair shading process. Let's proceed to the next part.
6. How to Shade Cloths and End Part: Hey everyone, So let's
start shading Cloths. So at first as you can see, I'm shading using
light to dark methods. So I am applying a light
layer like a great Tone, add, shading it with
a darker color. So you can use this method. And in this part, because of the reference, I am using the
black color because this part is absolutely
dark in color. So that's why I'm
using a black color. And that doesn't mean that I'm applying too much pressure. I'm slowly building up the color and you can use your
little pressure, but not too much pressure. Okay? So I'm following
the reference and I'm shading it according to
how I want it to be. So I think Cloths part is on of the easiest part because you don't need to
follow everything. It can Shade according
to your choice. And also you can change the color of the
dress if you want to. So here, mostly I'm using
this black and gray tone. This is a dark gray, but I am shading it lightly so it looks light gray Colored. Light, I would say
it's a medium grade Tone because I'm
shading it lightly, but if I use pressure, it's going to look black. Here. I'm using a 3D image of patient and I'm layering it. And then I'm using this white color to
blend it up little bit. So that's how you
shade all the areas. As you can see here. I'm using only this colored
pencil to outline this part. Because it's going
to look more natural and it is easier way to Shade. And I'm feeling the
dark part first. And then I'm going to shade
the light parts as well. Okay, for the Cloths, you don't need to
remember a lot of things. Just first draw the outline and then apply all the colors. That I think this is the
most enjoyable process. I love. Drawing Cloths. Yes, that's true though. Traded up Drawing Cloths. So you're almost done
with this sleep. But if you don't know, this is a Portrait of
crew a lot you David, I don't know how to
pronounce it, but yeah, you can search it and you can
search for the reference. Also, almost done
with this part. And I'm slowly
outlining these areas. And then I'm shading
using the same method. So students, this is going to be the last part of this course. It feel like this course
makes sure to review it. If you have any inquiries, mentioned it in the
discussion section. And I'm going to review all
the things that you asked me. So if you have any problems related
to anything about Art, I can ask me or and also make
sure to you, you my course. And it can all watch
all the courses. So we can see I am
shading it vary. As you can see, I am
shading this part also. And it's looking very
soothing, right? Okay, so here I am
completing the process I mostly use the white
for blending and gray tone or dark gray and black Tone for most of the Part. Because my reference,
I use those colors. So you can use these methods
in any portrait drawings. And for the colored
pencils here you can see that I'm using different,
different Colored Pencils. That doesn't mean you
don't need to use different brands or
something expensive. You can use the normal
Pencils in your area. I don't know if you
are from India, you can use dorms, colored pencils, gambling
colored pencils. And if you are from
another place, you can search for you for something like, like something. Some budget friendly colored
pencils that works great. And I can use Crayola two. They are good. And also the favorite Gastel
colored pencils, like the budget, budget friendly or it's not the
expensive polychrome most. But favorite guest still also
makes the cheaper versions. And they are also good. I like those. They are also good for portrait. And I would say if
you have a set of 38, 30 to maybe 40 or 20 for those that are really
great for your work. And that's how I
think I'm shooting. I almost completed the process. Here. You can see I'm drawing another slave and it
looks really good. I really love this part. I think I shaded
This Part a vector. And yeah, that's all outfile. If you'd like this course, then definitely watch
all the courses you could follow me also. So students, I hope
you liked this course. And you can follow
all the steps for every type of Portrait drawing. And that's all I
finish this work. And it looks great. I would say, though, shade Face shading
is really good. And you can follow
all the steps. You can. Also, I would say that please share your work in
class project section. Thank you.
Parna Chaudhuri, Artist
