Customer Reviews

Colored Pencil: A Complete Drawing Kit for Beginners

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The hard "dry" pencils provided with this book are enough to discourage the person new to color pencil from ever getting started. But I am accustomed to using Prismacolor and Koh-i-noor pencils...both are very richly pigmented.

I like the instruction in that it shows how to create a full color painting using a very limited palette.

Sadly they took the gimmick approach...if they had maybe fattened up the actual learning content and forgot about providing "all you need" it would have been a better product.

I liked the kit in general, it's serious hard-work practice, it's not all just fun. The drawings are not really for beginers, so I recommend to transfer instead of copying if you are not that experienced in drawing, and what you want is to practice your CP painting skills. I also recommend to follow the instructions provided for each step, but taking into consideration a good observation of the reference photos, which I find complementing, not just repetitive of what is written.
I liked the fact that the kit included everything needed, including the colored pencils, sharpener, kneeded eraser, and so on. It's very useful to take with you and practice even when not at home (I completed my first project while out of home with the kids).
I can't completely agree with the previous review regarding the quality of the pencils, maybe because I'm used to a harder lead than the author (I use polychromos, which are also Faber Castel as the ones provided, btw). I found the quality of the pencils was good.
Big challenge, and fulfilling, no doubt.

I have been painting for three years and just started getting into colored pencils.....I was very impressed that I learned a new trick when layering with colored pencils from this book. When creating light I kept trying to layer white over yellow and it never dawned on me to put the white pencil down first and then layer over the white with yellow. (Much better!) The kit contains everything you need......pencils, etc. The pencils are not top quality but this is a "starter kit" not a "I'm going to draw and sell this" kit. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to learn more about color theory and drawing well with colored pencils. Very happy with purchase.