"People keep asking me: "How do you do it?" Especially beginning artists are often floundering, struggling with how and where to begin.Colored pencil seems like an easy medium to use, but to achieve any kind of mastery, it can become exceedingly difficult and unforgiving.
There is only so much erasing you can do before the board or paper no longer yields the pigments without damage, and blending and layering can easily result in "mud.""
This tutorial will show you how to draw a pet portrait from scratch using a colored pencil. It also describes the techniques you can use to add more detail and realism to your pencil drawings.