Art Supplies. Materials list for drawing botanicals in colored pencil. Wendy demonstrates how to hold a pencil, toning, and talks about the benefits of repetitive drawing. Follow along with this portrait drawing tutorial to create your own lifelike portrait in colored pencil. Step 1: Studying and sketching the subject. For this project, you can work from a photograph. Before you even start drawing, sit and study the subject. Big Book on How to Draw Animals with Colored Pencils: Drawing tutorials, How to draw [Jasmina Susak] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A beautiful and inspirational guide to making your animal portraits and artworks leap to life. In this book you will find 39 step-by-step tutorials on how to draw domestic and wild animals with colored pencils in a realistic style. Another detail of the colored pencil portrait. (Click on image to see full portrait.) This illustration shows a detail of the edge of the chin, and the start of the neck. This is a good example of color mixing and layering using the colored pencil. By Carrie Lewis in Art Tutorials > Drawing Tips. Colored pencil artists are always looking for ways to speed up their creative process. Most often, that means finding faster ways to apply and blend color (we've all been there, haven't we?) and sometimes, it means using other media for part of the drawing. When it comes to coloring or drawing gems, Amanda Rose Rambo is the biggest gem-aholic I know. She creates tutorials and guides for how to draw all kinds of beautiful gemstones - from basic button gems to intricate, faceted gemstones. So I asked her to write a tutorial for us on how she draws gemstones with colored pencils. Grab your Pencils and lets do this Fox Drawing together. I will show you in 10 easy Steps how to get from a the reference to a beautiful Colored Pencil Drawing. I use Faber Castell Polychromos * for this drawing, but you can use whatever pencils you have. the beginning: Step 1: In thi