Lauren Thornton

Dessin au crayon réaliste : passer de débutant à expert

Good job! I like how you've combined the pencils with the ink, it's very striking. The blue/purple part looks almost metallic, that's cool. Your colouring technique looks good. I can see you've started with a yellow layer and blended orange and red in appropriate places. They're nice smooth gradients. My advice would be to try to make the orange parts more saturated. There's no such thing as too bright in a composition like this. More orange will darken the petals a bit and put them on more equal footing with the green and blue parts. You could also make the orange petals darker by adding a soft layer of brown in places, mainly around the red and black parts. Congrats on taking a leap into colour pencils, I know it's a daunting step, you're doing well.

Thank you so much ma'am for your suggestions!!!

I think I have a problem with my color pencils. I couldn't able to get more color on the paper and it's not getting darker at all.

I thought you might say that, because your technique looks good. 
Do you remember at the start of the equipment video, I showed the difference between cheap and expensive pencils? I used red and orange for that demonstration because I've found that those are often duller in cheaper sets. Unfortunately, there isn't anything you can do to make them brighter (unless you're using water colour pencils, in which case, adding water to the page usually makes them brighter). Those pencils just don't have as much pigment.
It's still good practice. I used dirt cheap pencils for years before I got a decent set of 12 pencils, but it's worth investing in a decent set.

Hi ma'am,
I used to do sketching only in black &amp; white as I normally hesitate to use color pencils but your class helped me a lot to overcome it. Hope it looks good.

My first color pencil sketching

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