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

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.

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.

HAS SOME GOOD INSIGHTS. WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO SEE MORE STEP BY STEP PICTURES.

I have recently started using colored pencils not just for adult coloring books, but also in my mixed media work. This book has been a game changer! It is laid out very nicely with tools and tricks for artists in the front, and then by section for animal fur, skin, plants etc. Each texture detail spells out in 4 basic steps how to achieve realism, and the colored pictures and pencil color suggestions are great!And just like that- Bammm! I’m a better artist!! For someone like me that cannot afford to take multiple art classes, this book is perfect. It’s a great course bundled up in one easy to follow reference book. I have had it only a short time, but find myself using it a lot. One nice thing about this book is the refresher course on color theory, and how something like obtaining a deeper red color is not necessarily done by just layering on more red.I think this book is a very valuable tool for anyone that likes working with colored pencils and thanks to Denise for sharing her knowledge with the rest of us!

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.

The media could not be loaded. This book are a medium size, I compare the size of this book with the Colored Pencil Bible by Alyona Nickelson, and you can see the difference between both. It's convenient for travel, I really like it, because it goes to the point, and it gives you many examples to give textures with colored pencils! It has many practical tips and also shows a brief introduction to the materials, and other interesting things. I recomended at 100%!

Nicely described and illustrated. I wanted more details on birds, but there’s lots of examples of a variety of things.

I bought this book to use with my adult coloring books, and I am so glad I did. It briefly talks about supplies that are readily available and cheap, most of which I had never heard of in relation to coloring. I'm excited to try some. But my favorite part is this books simplicity. She teaches an effect on two to give steps, using Prismacolor Premier colored pencils, AND the sharpness of the pencil to be used. There are many techniques that depend on a dull pencil. She teaches in steps, with pictures. These are not crazy complicated, and the results are outstanding. The first one I tried was copper, and after practicing in my "practice coloring book", I began doing it successfully. I bout this book in the Kindle format, which is perfect for me, as I can easily go to th table of contents and find the effect that I am looking for. This is truly one of the best books of coloring techniques that I own.