Recently I have been drawing many images of lips with all sorts of colors, shapes, and shading. Drawing these lips have really helped me learn how to better shade and blend colors using colored pencils. For during school I was only drawing in black and white using different levels of graphite pencils. Colored pencils have proven to be quite different from using a regular graphite pencil that is easy to erase if I make a mistake as well as knowing what colors compliment each other and how to blend them together to create a new color that I don't already have in the form of a pencil. Because colored pencils also don't come in different shades of a single color, such as a 2H vs a 6B graphite pencil, I have realized how much patience it takes to build up on a certain color and how much pressure should be applied on the pencil to the page. I have also realized when blending colors, it is much better to start light and gradually make the colors darker by not applying pressure but merely going over the same area over and over until the specific color is desired.
