Colored Pencil Hydrangea Tutorial with Jennifer Morrison

Artist Jennifer Morrison generates wonderful, hyper-real looking coloured pencil drawings. Stick to alongside to Jennifer’s movie tutorial as she shares her course of action for drawing a hyper-reasonable hydrangea working with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils.

Supplies:

• Strathmore 400 Series Printmaking Paper, 280gsm, medium textured gentle floor
• Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils in
  • Delft Blue
  • Violet
  • Mild Violet
  • Deep Cobalt
  • Blue Violet
  • Dark Violet
  • Sky Blue
  • Magenta
  • White
  • Dark Grey
• Princeton Choose Artiste Flat Shader Brush, Sizing 2
• Colored Pencil Solvent
• Mini eraser & electric powered eraser

Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor pencils are oil-primarily based, watertight, mild-resistant, and come in 72 vibrant hues. They blend and dissolve wonderfully with solvents, which is an crucial factor of Jennifer’s colored pencil perform.

Strathmore 400 Series Printmaking Paper is significant weight at 280gsm and has a medium textured surface which is great for developing up levels and blending colored pencils.

Colored Pencil Testing and Swatching

Any time Jennifer is making an attempt out new pencils she swatches them on the exact paper she will be carrying out her drawing on for correct colour representation given that hues can seem distinctive in between paper sorts. To exam the pencils, she separates them into colour groups and results in smaller swatches with the pencil colour identify future to it.

Watch Jennifer’s approach for tests and swatching her pencils below:

Colored Pencil Hydrangea Tutorial

Adhere to together as Jennifer shares her recommendations for drawing this beautiful purple and blue hydrangea. Jennifer acknowledges this reference impression may seem seriously daunting and like there is a good deal going on, but this means you can make a mistake and it won’t be extremely visible.  If one petal is a bit off or the mistaken color, no a person will ever know.  If you break this down like a puzzle and attract 1 petal at a time, even a rookie will have a amazing drawing in the conclusion.

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Strategies from Jennifer:

Apply your colours on a separate sheet of drawing paper until you come across the blends that you are happy with. The pencils mix beautifully, so you should really be equipped to develop endless combinations. Jennifer used a ton of deep cobalt for the brightest blue and magenta to brighten up the purples.

To make every single petal standout individual and prevent a large purple blob, Jennifer outlined each petal with a sharp pencil. The Polycolor pencils maintain a stage pretty effectively, allowing for for simple sharp edges. Second, Jennifer produced each and every petal a a little bit diverse coloration than the a person future to it, even if it went versus the reference image. Final, Jennifer ensured the shadows ended up dim ample and the highlight vibrant plenty of to build distinction.

Jennifer layered black and darkish gray on top rated of the blue and purples in some of the petals to boost the values of those people hues and generate much more delicate shadows on the petals by themselves.

Jennifer used the white Polycolor pencil to safeguard the paper the place she wanted the brightest highlights. You can use an electrical erase to brighten the highlights even even more.