How To Draw Stitch And Color With Prismacolor

Mimicking embroidery with colored pencils by Peony and Parakeet

With summer, I accept had more time for manus embroidery. After property a needle in my hand, I got the idea to embroider with the colored pencils too.

Mimicking Embroidery – A Rough Sketch

Sketch drawing by Peony and Parakeet

I began with white eight-past-8 inches sized cardstock. If you lot wait closely, y'all can meet some texture on the surface. I used a white weave textured cardstock turned upside down so that the surface is smooth plenty for colored pencils. Before picking up the colored pencils, I fabricated a rough sketch of the shapes outset.

Mimicking embroidery with colored pencils, by Peony and Parakeet

Coloring the Shapes with Colored Pencils

Remember these when using colored pencils:
1) Go on the direction of the strokes the same. Especially if yous want to mimic embroidery as I have done hither.
two) Control the color intensity with the number of strokes. When coloring, press lightly and create thin layers of color.
three) Mix colors by calculation thin layers of various colors. Mixed colors always expect improve!
iv) Keep your pencils fairly sharp. If you have an electronic pencil sharpener, use information technology to brand your pencils terminal longer.

Coloring with colored pencils, by Peony and Parakeet

I have tried several brands of colored pencils just here are the ones that I like almost at the moment:
1) Garan d'Ache Pablo (soft waxy terminate)
2) Derwent Colorsoft (piece of work not bad on watercolored surface)
3) Derwent Inktense (water soluble)

I have also heard that Prismacolor colored pencils are bully.

Storage your colored pencils in a jar

I shop my pencils in a jar. Whatever brand they are, they all get into the same jar. This style they take very little space and I can keep them visible all the time. When I encounter them, I will use them!

Coloring the Background with Markers

Mimicking embroidery with colored pencils, coloring a background with markers

Afterwards coloring the sketched shapes, the background was colored with black and dark gray markers. To emphasize the fabric look and to brand the background interesting also, I created lined areas for the shades. I aimed for an impression of the calorie-free shining on the fabric textile. Using markers created a contrast between the soft colored shapes. (Copic markers used: 100 blackness and C7 Cool Grayness)

Mimicking embroidery with colored pencils, by Peony and Parakeet

Concealment the Shapes

After creating the background, I began to darken the areas of the shapes that were on the black background. The darkening shows well in this second artwork which I made after the beginning one.

Enemy in the garden by Peony and Parakeet, mimicking embroidery with colored pencils

After finishing this, I realized that my recent activity of picking upwards lily foliage beetles from my garden had lurked into my art. Oh, my! At that place they are, those orangy yellow swirls!

Lilies