Coloured Pencil Assignment #2, Face Lesson

Day 1

1. Use dark purple or dark brown with average pressure, (or dark blue with light pressure in a pinch).		2. Use a light brown with average pressure. Blend over top of layer 1.
3. Use peach colour, or whatever colour you want the flesh to look like. Blend over top of layer 2.		4. Use a light peach, or a regular peach with light pressure, over remaining areas.

Try to blend the edges of the layers so that there is no obvious jump from one colour to the next. Push down each layer with a lighter colour. Use white to push down the peach, peach to push down the brown, and brown to push down the purple.

Day 2

5. Mouth: use light red on the left and top of the lips. Eyes: use a dark colour on the tops of the eyes, leaving the bottom white.		6. Mouth: Use pink to push down the red. Colour around the edge of the white area, but leave some white. Eyes: with the lighter colour, cover the bottom and push down the darker colour. Go over the upper eyelid and pupil in black if necessary.
7. Use black or dark brown and average pressure for this layer. Make pencil strokes that follow the direction of the hair.		8. If your face has a dark complexion, use either black with light pressure or dark brown. For a light complexion, use light brown. Blend into layer 7.
9. Choose a lighter colour, either dark brown, light brown, or pale yellow, depending on what you used in the last two layers. Use average pressure and blend over layer 8.		10. Pick a lighter colour than the last step to push down layer 9. Orange, peach and white are all possibilities. Then use the colour from step 9 to push down step 8, and the colour from step 8 to push down step 7. When finished, add in a couple extra black lines following the direction of the hair, colour the shirt, and you're done!