Graphite pencil is my comfort zone. I started out there, I feel most comfortable there. But it’s pictures like this one that inspire me to go color. It’s a vibrant source photo (a promo for The Avengers movie) and it just aches to be drawn in color. So I decided to take a break from graphite to do my first official Prismacolor colored pencil portrait.
My only other possible colored pencil portraits in the past were done in college. One was as Jim Carrey as The Mask for a mock Wheaties cereal box cover (don’t ask) and the other was Jim Carrey as The Grinch. Both turned out pretty well, but both weren’t really directly people, and both weren’t done with tenacious detail (arguably). So I feel like this was my first official attempt at a colored pencil portrait. Overall, I’m happy with it — enough so that I’d like to pursue more potential projects in the future.
Hi. Curious to know which colors of the prismacolor, colors you used.
Getting into coloring and I would like to know what used. I just bought a nice set of those exact pencils
Thanks
Hey Stephen! I drew this one about 9 years ago, so I can’t tell you exactly what I used because I don’t remember. But I probably used True Blue, Seashell Pink, black, white, Light Peach, and others like it. These days, I use a lot of Clay Rose and Light Peach – basically all of the pink and flesh colors. Hope that helps some!