Robin in coloured pencil (Recorded from a live workshop)

Draw a festive Robin in coloured pencil. Working over two sessions you will draw a realistic European Robin and learn how to create fluffy feather textures, with guidance from Tutor Bethany Y Milam.  There will be a step-by-step drawing demonstration, starting with a quick warm up and then looking at coloured pencil techniques such as shading, indenting, blending, feathering, scumbling and layering colours plus lots of drawing tips along the way.

 4 hours of workshop recordings split into 2 parts and PDF

Materials

Reference photo(s) (Printed out).

H or HB pencil for initial drawing

Coloured pencils (I use Polychromos by Faber-Castell)

Drawing paper: white (A4) Suitable papers include: Strathmore coloured pencil paper, other mixed media papers, heavy weight cartridge paper or Pastelmat.

Paper blending stump / tortillon

Erasers (putty rubber, fine tip eraser etc.)

Pencil sharpener

Derwent blender and burnisher pencils (optional)

Indenting or embossing tool