Modern Colored Pencil: A playful and contemporary exploration of colored pencil drawing - Includes 75+ Projects and Techniques (Modern Series)

I just received this wonderful book on working with colored pencils last night and I am excited to read and use it just thumbing through it. It’s perfect for beginners with excellent advice, suggestions and care of your products and what you’ll need, how to draw form and gestures correctly, an introduction to drawing architecture and landscaps and livening them up with color and understanding how color works and how to use it with inspiration and ideas on drawing with color and hone your skills as an artist all around. I have to say that this is a great book for intermediate artists too and has great things for old timers as well.“Modern Colored Pencils” also helps you to become a better artist by showing how to see shapes inside the objects you are drawing, how to “see” and more. It’a fun way to learn and become a better artist.This is a wonderful buy and is a book you will want to hold onto and keep for referring back to.Great gift for upcoming artist and anyone who just wants to get the best results and the most out of your drawings with colored pencils without breaking the bank.

As someone who doesn't dabble in colored pencils that often, I was happy to find this book. It's thoughtful and encouraging throughout the instruction and I thought the color swatches were very helpful! Especially since there's so many brands of colored pencils, it's nice to just look through my pack and find the color closest to it rather than hunting down the exact color and brand. Saves me money and time! The color wheel explanations were helpful too. Since my personal pencil set is a bit limited, it's great to have some guidance in which colors to blend to make the most of my current set of pencils. Overall I'm really excited to work my way through this book and challenge myself to draw the more difficult exercises!

The amount of details, projects and wisdom filled inside this book is incredible! Chelsea has different sections explaining all the steps to draw patterns, fruits, animals and so much more! I'm excited to finish all the projects! This book is great if you are looking for something fun, new and different! It's a must-have!

It was very easy to pair with my alexa echo.

This is a great book! It's easy to learn from and has a bunch of creative ideas for colored pencil art!

good beginner book

So far just a few pages in and I've already lost interest knowing the author can't even get their knowledge of wax vs oil based pencils correct... it's a bit silly. ><

First off, I thought this book was about learning how to use colored pencils. And I do have some experience. This book spent a lot of pages on how to draw the objects which takes away from colored pencil techniques. And her techniques are awful. A true colored pencil artist has lifelike drawing, not scribbling. She doesn’t explain the correct way to make colored pencil marks and her amateurish drawings reflect this fact. You should be making tiny marks close together, layer lightly in initial layers, etc. Look elsewhere if you truly want to learn colored pencil techniques.

A great book that teaches different techniques with coloured pencils, perfect for anyone who wants to learn to use them. It assumes you can already draw at a basic level, but the projects aren't difficult to follow, and it's useful for any level. Recommend.

FIRST PART HAS SOME USEFUL MATERIAL . MOST OF THE BOOK IS USELESS

Great book - easy to follow examples , great for beginners .Very well written ,Well explained pencil drawing techniques.

Good book for coloured pencil artist

Un libro fantastico che insegna un modo graduale un uso moderno ed illustrativo della matita colorata. Non ha quello stile iperrealista che non amo; lo stile è moderno e pittorico. Stupendo!! Tantissimi esempi. Consigliatissimo!