Colored Pencil Drawing on Canson Colorline drawing paper – Veronica Winters Painting

In this limited put up, I’d like to share what drawing paper I use most of the time to develop my colorful colored pencil drawings. I seldom draw on white paper because I come across that coloured pencils “react” to brilliant surfaces a ton much more and I’m equipped to generate vivid drawings with extremely several coloured pencils.

I utilised to draw on Canson Mi-Teintes pastel paper, making use of different paper colours they have (violet paper at the top left corner of the graphic). Their paper arrives in both multi pads and substantial sheets. I utilized to draw on Violet hue a large amount. I cherished the paper’s coloration and the coloration improve it gave to my colored pencil drawings. What I don’t like about this paper is how textural it is, even the “smooth” side has far too much texture for my liking. It will become very disheartening to fill it in. A time sucker of all sorts… SO I was thrilled to stumble on a distinct variety of paper also manufactured by Canson.

Canson Colorline arrives in many dazzling hues and at minimum two thicknesses I have been making use of so considerably. Possibly, they have extra selection in paper thickness. I never know. What I do know is that 184lb. is a very thick paper which I like because it’s not flimsy and is capable to stand up to a good deal of layering and spraying with a fixative. It has a good deal much less texture than the pastel paper but can nonetheless current do the job for some artists to fill in the grooves.

Canson Colorline dark grey, 92lb. is a a great deal thinner paper (gray paper in the image over). So I’m extra very careful with my option of a fixative for it or how I layer shades. Nevertheless, I think it is a ideal floor for colored pencil drawing!! It is sleek but not far too clean. Also this grey is a mid.tone gray. It signifies that it is best to mark the highlights with white, mark the shadows with a dark coloured pencil and then build a selection of values in between the two poles.