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Woomer Art Colored Pencils Review
Hello everyone, I’m back again doing what I love the most, testing new pencils! But this time it is different. A while ago, Woomer, a brand I never heard of sent me their 72 colored pencil set to test and review. As a serial pencil-killer and a serious pencil hoarder ...
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Tutorial: Realistic Skin with Colored Pencils vol2
A skin tutorial again! A couple of years ago I did this tutorial for drawing realistic skin with color pencils. Up to this date I still use it as the basis for my drawings. However, it mostly targets beginners, so this time I opted for something slightly more advanced, to ...
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Arrtx Colored Pencils Review
If you are a colored pencil artist (hobbyist or professional, it doesn’t matter), chances are you are familiar with the “big three”, namely Faber-Castell Polychromos, Prismacolor Premier and Caran D’Ache Luminance colored pencils. These are the top three brands that dominate the market. (I’ve reviewed extensively all of them in ...
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Moleskin Watercolor Pencils Review
My husband went on a business trip to Italy and I stayed home with my kids. He brought me a deluxe moleskin set. I decided I might talk to him again, after all! I am generally a Mega moleskin fan, I’ve used up countless sketchbooks over the years. Sometimes I ...
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Caran D’Ache Luminance Review vol2
So, here’s the deal. After a long (1-year long) break from Caran D’Ache Luminance colored pencils and from traditional drawing in general, I decided to give these pencils another chance. Because I initially wasn’t impressed. The most annoying part was that everyone on the internet was raving about them, but ...
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Drawing Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow vol.4
Another Jack Sparrow from me, oh what a surprise! This is basically just a list of tools and materials, but since you … demanded this kind of posts, I am bringing them back. Jack Sparrow (portrayed by the genius Johnny Depp) is my favorite character of all time, so I ...
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Caran D’Ache Luminance Review
… Or Why I cannot love Caran D’Ache Luminance I bet you weren’t expecting this. And I guess many of you will hate me for writing this blog post. But I cannot love caran d’ache luminance as much as I would have liked. And believe me, I tried to like ...
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Tools and materials – part2 (colored pencils)
This is a follow up to my previous blog post where I list all tools and materials I use for my graphite drawings. Here I am talking about what I use for my colored pencil drawings. Like, what I use all the time. Fortunately (for you!) I am the weird ...
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Fast, easy background with colored pencils
Story of my life: I wanna draw a detailed portrait with a background, but I don’t want to spend countless hours on the background itself. Why? Because I cannot afford spending that many hours (time-wise), because drawing a background is boring and it drives me nuts and because the focal ...
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Ioanna Ladopoulou
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