PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

Now you’re ready to combine all of the techniques and concepts you’ve learned to create stunning, realistic animal portraits in colored pencil! In the following step-by-step projects, I’ll show you how to go from initial sketch to fully developed final art.

At the beginning of each project, you’ll find a list of all of the colored pencils I used to complete the piece, organized by brand. The step-by-step instructions in each project list the colors of colored pencils to use, but not the brand name. Please make sure to refer back to the list of colored pencils at the beginning of the project for brand names and numbers of the colored pencils. Remember that you don’t need to use the exact same palette as me—feel free to ...

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