This 20-step colored pencil drawing tutorial teaches you how to approach drawing shiny and reflective surfaces with accuracy needed to convey realism.

In this demonstration you’ll learn to draw on colored paper (or toned drawing paper). While I worked on Canson paper for pastel drawing, I recently came across a much better choice – Canson Colorline papers. They are vibrant and sell in large sheets that you can subdivide into various sizes for your colored pencil drawings. 

Because I draw each bow one by one, you can choose what color/bow you’d like to draw first. Draw just one Christmas bow or complete drawing them all! The choice is yours. This demonstration is for art students who have some experience drawing in graphite and colored pencil, and want to step up their game in realistic colored pencil drawing.

I suggest printing a large photo to work from and then follow the steps on the screen.

What you get in this digital, step-by-step demonstration:

How to shade on colored paper (Please use the SMOOTHEST SIDE of your colored paper using Canson Colorline or Mi-Teintes pastel paper).

How to pick the right colors for the job. This demonstration includes a color chart of the colors used, so you can match them with your colored pencils.

How to make good outlines to transfer them onto your colored paper.

Tips on where to begin shading and how to eliminate the pencil strokes.

This step by step drawing tutorial is available as a digital download only. It’s compressed into a pdf file that you can save to and open on your computer. You receive the digital demonstration via auto-response e-mail. Please check your spam folders as many of my emails go there. If you don’t get my auto-response email with a prompt to download the file, please email me. I’m happy to help and send the file manually within a day.

If you have a question, shoot me an e-mail at nika@veronicasart.com

Useful art supplies for this demonstration:

1. Spray varnish for drawings: https://amzn.to/2X0GEzL | DON’T buy krylon spray!
2. Blender: https://amzn.to/2ZMvgsW
3. Drawing paper: Colored paper. You must pick the SMOOTH SIDE to draw on this one: https://amzn.to/2yr59wf  and https://amzn.to/2Xn0pAr | Canson colorline, clementine hue: https://amzn.to/3bUkUJP , Canson colorline on Amazon, turquoise: https://amzn.to/3d0MQwU
4.  The Colored Pencil Manual covers the basics of colored pencil drawing.  here: https://amzn.to/3fRpoEb |How to Color like an Artist https://amzn.to/2LtH0Iq