Colored Pencil Painting Portraits Master a Revolutionary Method for Rendering Depth and Imitating Life

Colored Pencil Painting Portraits : Master a Revolutionary Method for Rendering Depth and Imitating Life
ISBN: 9780385346276
Publication Date: 20 June 2017

Top-selling Colored Pencil Painting Bible author Alyona Nickelsen applies her expert instruction in colored pencil painting to the ever-popular portrait genre-teaching beginner and intermediate artists how to create lifelike and personal works.

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.

About the Author

ALYONA NICKELSEN is a contributing writer for Colored Pencil magazine and the author of Colored Pencil Painting Bible. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including American Artist, The Artist's Magazine, and American Art Collector. Nickelsen's paintings have been exhibited and won awards in prestigious national and international juried shows, such as Salmagundi Club, the American Artist Professional League, Audubon Artists, and the Colored Pencil Society of America. She is the creator and instructor of the Colored Pencil Painting Learning Center hosted on her website,