Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium
to push the limits of realistic portraiture.
Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions
to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will
prime readers on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as
they interplay with the human form. In this truly comprehensive guide
packed with step-by-step demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working
from photo references versus live models; provides guidance on posing
and lighting, as well as planning and composing a work; discusses tools,
materials, and revolutionary layering techniques; and offers lessons on
capturing gesture and expression and on rendering facial and body
features of people of all age groups and skin tones.