101 Textures in Colored Pencil: Practical step-by-step drawing techniques for rendering a variety of surfaces & textures Paperback – Illustrated, December 12, 2017

Highly recommended reading for learning about techniques used with colored pencil.

I have many books on this subject and this is by far the best 5that I've ever come across, it covers all of the subjects that I'll ever need and wish that I'd found it sooner. The instructions are clear, precise and easy to follow, highly recommended.

What a great book for those wanting to learn to draw with colored pencils. The steps were pretty precise but I would’ve liked to have seen a few more detailed steps for some of the more difficult techniques. Overall it’s a great book for the budding artist or even for the adult coloring book enthusiast. I learned a lot from it.

As an art educator, I have a ton of art books and I did not have anything like this one. This book has a great variety and can be used kind of like a dictionary of how to create different textures realistically.I also love that there several photos showing different stages of building and layering the color and there are explanations of the supplies you need including colors and even how sharp or dull the pencil should be for the technique. I can’t wait to use it in practice.

The media could not be loaded. I am an adult colorist. I have no desire to be a world class pencil artist going for photo-realistic images, I just wanted my pages to look more real. This is the book for that. It's not a full course on how to be an artist, you simply look up what you're trying to color and there are the steps and colors to use and how to go about it. I'm a beginner with pencils and the results are not foolproof, some will take practice before you get them right. But I saw an improvement in what I was doing from the very first one I tried. I have tried long cat fur, terracotta, cat eyes, flower petals, wrought iron and palm fronds. All made my work look better than it had though none of my first attempts were as good as the authors.The author uses Prismacolor Premier pencils by name and color, not number. I use these pencils so it was no problem for me, but if you're using any other brand you will have an issue. The book offers no color chart to compare Prismacolors to any other brand so you'll be left googling color shades. It seems to me they could have added a color chart or a comparison chart to make the book more accessible to others.There are some items in the book that I don't like and have found better tutorials on You Tube, such as bubbles, which are brown in this book...? Soft bark seems a bit off as well. Some things that I would consider important are not covered at all, such as green leaves (red fall leaves are). The only skin color covered is white. But there is enough here to greatly improve my coloring skills with practice.

I'm an adult coloring book junkie, always on the hunt for a way to improve my skill set...no pressure, just like seeing my pages get "better."This book is fabulous for creating depth, dimension and texture with your color pencils. And you don't have to use Prismas or Polys to get good results. I've been stepping outside my "P" box and using some other brands of less expensive pencils: Castle, Kalour, Black Widows, Goldfarber and my favorite, Arteza. And my results have been pretty darn good.Each technique is fully explained and illustrated (in color) and there is everything from fur to glass included.This book has helped me add interest (and more fun) to those coloring pages with large, kind of "empty" objects and blah backgrounds without having to use markers, which I have not mastered on coloring book paper...yet!Very happy with this purchase.

This is a great little book, but it could have been better. The main reason I gave it five stars is because most of the books out there do not have a how to do page by subjects. The pictures are great but would have liked to see drawings ( step by step), especially on eyes and lips etc. on all ethic people besides white people. After all there are a lot of people out there in the world : Black, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, etc. What you use to color a white person in coloring wouldn't be the same on a black person.It was just what I was looking for in the other three books I bought. My only dilemma is that I wish it had more pages on the subject. The topics are on how to color: people, smooth skin, aged skin, straight, wavy, curly hair etc. Basically only one page per topic. And you know it takes more than one page perhaps that's why the book is small in size as well. There are many topics broken down by sections like animals and insects, fabric and textiles , glass,stone, ceramics, wood and metal, food and beverage, and nature.Sometimes a drawing is better than a picture when your trying to learn how to color; especially in a coloring book.

Pros:*great resource for coloring or drawing different items*can be used as a reference when you need ideas on to color sonething*organized well - easy to flip through and find what you're looking for*some of the metals and woods are pretty cool.* The Nature stuff, like stones and water, will come in handy*nice artwork at the end of the book*decent valueCons:*some items could use more than 4 steps to illustrate, like hair which can be hard to color. *Wish there were more and larger illustrations.*wish there were more facial parts done at different angles. *also wish there were complete portraits at the end of the section so we could see what a finish face looks like*wish there were finished examples of clothing on people to see how the fabric drapes on the human form.*some items I doubt I'll ever color, like the baguette or stained glass*adheres to the format rigidly, sometimes sacrificing understanding*Needs more and different flowers instead of just one (seriously, get rid of the baguette stuff and add more flowers or faces!)