Colored Pencil Quick Tips

Here are some quick and easy tips to help you get the most out of your colored pencil drawing. Find out how to keep your drawings clean, get the most out of your materials and deal with wax bloom. Just use your browser's 'back' button to get back to this page.

Wax Bloom
Wax bloom is a white haze that appears across heavily worked colored pencil drawings as a layer of the wax medium forms on the surface. Find out how to stop it from spoiling your colored pencil artwork.
Experimenting with Materials
Develop your colored pencil drawing by experimenting with materials. Here are some tips on how to explore this exciting medium.
Colored Pencil Intensity
Lacklustre lights? Darks looking washed out? Improve the intensity of areas of color in your coloured pencil images with these tips.
Blending and Smudging
Find out some better ways to manipulate your colored pencil with these tips on different methods of blending and smudging areas of pencil.