What's Wrong With Colored Pencils ?

[JSparrow]

OK, that's good info. I tried burnishing with white last night, and you are right about that. Maybe my white pencil is old and hardened or something, but I can't tell that it imparts any white pigment, but burnishing it does well.

I'm glad it helped. I was just refreshing myself on method for colored pencil to finish a project that I left off of too long ago. So I went back to a tutorial by Kirsty Partridge where she uses white pencil for bringing out detail in feathers. (Kingfisher). I believe she was using Caran D'ache Luminance white. Check it out if you wish. I started with this tutorial when I first was learning and was very pleased with my results.

 

[JSparrow]

Great picture of the heron. I like how you've created a kind of bokeh effect in the background, an out-of-focus effect that happens in photography.

Yes, bokeh was what I was going for. I've seen some acrylic artists paint it in.

 

[laika]

JS, that's easily the best colored pencil viddy I've ever seen! Thx for sharing the link. Her advice on when to use the solvent is very good to know. I noticed that she is using Polychromos pencils throughout, with the Caran'dache white pencil exclusively for white.
BTW, I sharpened my white Polychromos way back, and much of my complaint about white was indeed due to the tip being dry and hardened; the store sold me a very old pencil, apparently.

 

[JSparrow]

JS, that's easily the best colored pencil viddy I've ever seen! Thx for sharing the link. Her advice on when to use the solvent is very good to know. I noticed that she is using Polychromos pencils throughout, with the Caran'dache white pencil exclusively for white.
BTW, I sharpened my white Polychromos way back, and much of my complaint about white was indeed due to the tip being dry and hardened; the store sold me a very old pencil, apparently.

Yes, I learned a lot in a very short time watching her videos. Another I like watching is Amie Howard.
Regarding our discussion of white, go see my new thread on it.