ColPen Rach

Photo reference is from Pixabay I have decided to call this done. I've been working on this one for about a month now and honestly getting a little bit tired of the purple. Overall though I'm pleased with how this turned out. This was created with Faber Castill Polychromos and Caren D'Ache Neo Color II on Canson Mixed Media paper. I added the Neo Color because frankly I didn't want to waste my black colored pencil on the background and decided to add it to some of the petals and liked it. Overall I'm pleased with how this turned out. I do have a few more photos coming over the next week or two. Then I will be focusing on some other projects.

The photo reference is from Pixabay And some photos  The colored pencils are Polychromos and the paper is in my Canson Mixed Media sketchbook. The texture that you see on the final photo is from when the page got screnched up. Not sure how that exactly happened, but that is the only thing that is wrong. As for the drawing itself, I actually used my iPad mini as a lightbox and traced the image directly from the screen (instead of a piece of paper). Bad idea as the screen moved around, but still got a decent image. Overall I'm enjoying working on this drawing even though it is a little bit of a PITA sometimes. However, I have to remind myself that colored pencils are slower then I'm used to. Still having fun with them.

This is the first post on the ColPen Rach blog! Every post here will have at least 1 photo on it which will be what I'm currently working on in my sketchbook (which is currently a Canson Mixed Media book). In addition, I will be talking about how my life is going from time to time, but that won't be the main factor of this blog. I hope that you do enjoy reading the blog and seeing how I progress throughout this colored pencil journey! On the left is the first thing that I drew which was just a generic flower. It was drawn with Durwent sketch pencils and Faber Castill Polycromos colored pencils. Below is the final product. I'm actually pretty pleased with how it turned out. I should have any project soon