Title: Love Bears, colored pencil
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Techniques shown:
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blending colors
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blending with a white pencil
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highlights
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shadows
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background/vs foreground
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photo reference
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Tips
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Use more colors than you initially want to. The brown bear's face had many shades of brown, plus black, two oranges for the highlights, and white to blend. ​The grass had many shades of green, plus yellow, brown, and black. Going over colors with other colors makes it richer.
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The white colored pencil is your friend. However, you can also use other light pencils to do the job without washing out the color. For example, I used light tan for the white bear and light green to blend the large bush in the back.
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Sketch everything out with a pencil. Then, when you start drawing, erase the pencil because it often doesn't erase under light colored pencils and might look sloppy later.
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The whole background doesn't have to be detailed. Adding just a few carefully placed details and highlights gives the illusion that the general area is detailed.