Intro
This week we are using coloured pencils to produce a colour wheel. We will practice colour shading techniques and then richly colour the pen outlined frames you produced for exercise 10.3.5 last week using colour pencils.
Before you come to the tutorial, check out some of the resources in the panel at left to discover fundamental techniques in shading and blending coloured pencils to create hues of diferent value.
Exercise 11.1: Make a colour wheel using only 3 coloured pencils
Objectives:
- To explore the nature of colour pencil pigments.
- To become visually and conceptually familiar with the notion of primary, secondary and tertiary colours.
- To become visually and conceptually familiar with the notion of complimentary colours.
- To experiment with blending coloured pencil pigments to mix secondary and tertiary colours from three primary colours.
- To experiment with achieving different values of hue by varying the pressure applied.
What you’ll need:
- A set of coloured pencils (24)
- Sketch book or paper
- At least 60 minutes
Instructions
Refer to these online written tutorial instructions by Carrie Lewis linked here:
Making a Color Wheel with Colored Pencil
- Use a circular grid divided into 12 slices and three concentric rings.
- The three (subtractive) primary colours, red, yellow and blue are coloured into segements with three segements left inbetween for secondary and tertiary colours.
- It is a challenge to blend the secondary colours using layering techniques to achieve the secondary colours: orange, green and violet. These go in the middle segments between the primaries.
- It is even more of a challenge to layer and blend the primaries to establish the tertiary colours.
- Use the second ring segments to demonstrate achievent of lighter values of the hue established in the outer ring segments.
- In the centre ring you apply the hue and its complementary in layers to achieve a chromatic grey.
Be sure to also check out the video demonstration by Emmy Kalia (linked in the tutorial resoures panel at left). She draws hers without the circles. She uses leaf shapes arranged in a circle and makes it look so easy.
You will see from the last section of Carrie's tute that it is also possible to make a colour wheel using stock colours. If the three-pencil method is too tedious for you, do try to produce a colour wheel of some sort.
Exercise 11.2: Practice layered colour shading techniques with coloured pencils
Objectives:
- Experiment using colour penci to portray hues and values and define 3D objects.
- Practice the perception and portrayal of edges and spaces.
- Practice observing and recording the relationships of angles and proportions.
- Practice observing and rendering the logic of light.
What you’ll need:
- A set of coloured pencils (24)
- Sketch book or paper
- At least 15 minutes
Instructions
Refer back to exercise 7.2 where you produced drawings of 3D objects using hatching. What is required now is to repeat the exercise using coloured pencil techniques such as those in the Week 11 resources for the tutorial.
Exercise 11.3: Produce a colour pencil version of your exercise 10.3.5
Objectives:
- Experiment with working in limited colour on a coloured ground .
- Practice the perception and portrayal of edges and spaces.
- Practice observing and recording the relationships of angles and proportions.
- Practice observing and rendering the logic of light.
What you’ll need:
- A set of coloured pencils (24)
- Sketch book or paper
- Around 45 minutes
Instructions
Begin with your completed version of the three key frames outlined in pen that you produced for exercise 10.3.5 last week. If you drew them too small or did not complete them redraw them now to about A5 size each frame.
Use layered and blending techniques to model the 3D dream frames and flat colours for the 2D frame.
Upload your finished exercise to the discussion forum for feedback.
Next week: There is no tutorial lesson in week 12. Use your time to work on yourassessment item 3.