Coloured pencil

Add colour to your drawings and discover the versatility of coloured pencils.

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pencils
Your essential guide to drawing tools

Each drawing tool has unique differences so it’s important to understand which is best suited to your needs. Here’s a guide to the main types of drawing tools and how they can shape your artistic experience.

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Drawing: Let's get started!

Helen Carter looks at the materials and tools you’ll need to begin your journey with coloured pencils and drawing.

A good high street stationery shop will stock a folding ruler. Here’s one way  of using it
5 common drawing problems and how to overcome them

Help is at hand with these five common problems and how to overcome them.

Rosa, a tutorial in Ignite
Inside Bonny Snowdon’s coloured pencil art courses

Bonny Snowdon teaches people how to see differently in her coloured pencil art courses.

1A How to hold the pencil - HARD
How to apply & mix pencil colours

With your materials to hand, learn basic techniques and colour mixing with Helen Carter

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How to draw a cat in coloured pencil

John Stansfield shows how to draw a portrait of Poppy the cat using a variety of coloured pencil techniques.

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