How to Draw a Pansy in Colored Pencils

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jay French, and Jay French Studios.com. Today I'm going to show you how to draw a pansy in colored pencils, and we're going to be using Prisma colored pencils. All right. Pansies come in all shapes and sizes, or least they come in all colors. We're going to do the white and purple style. This one is....essentially they are just big, curved leaves, or petals, and they are four of them. We're just going to do an outline, because these are white. There's a little dividing there. You get kind of a squiggliness to the outside lines. Curve in. Don't have to worry about being too straight or regular. This is nature. So there are essentially four leaves there, and then there are two darkly colored leaves, in this case purple, on the outside. Now that we've got the outline, we're going to use a medium purple to just shade the outer edge, because there is a purplish tint to the outer edge of these white petals. If you want to, you can blend with either a blending pencil, or my preference, with a white pencil, to get a softer, especially in this case you probably want to use a white pencil, to get a softer fade on that hint of color. I'll just show you that on this one petal. So, you get the rest of the hint of color on these petals. And if you're going to wide shade, you can be a little coarser with your shading, not as precise, because they're going to...you're going to blend it with the white shading. And it's not necessarily around the whole thing, it's..around the whole edge. It's stronger in some areas. Also depends on your light source. Now we have some strong purple strands that come out of the center, radiate out. And, again they're rather random. No regularity to their length. And we have a very strong golden shade that comes from the center, specifically on this white and purple pansy. We also have a very strong dark purple shade right here, at the base of these two petals. And that will look even better with the white shading lightening it up. Now we'll go back to the medium purple for these guys. And they're almost a fuchsia if you want to blend, I say almost, so they're not quite. But if you want to blend a fuchsia and a purple, you'd probably make it look even more accurate to how they look in nature. Now you're not just filling, you want to lighten in some areas, go back to darken again, lighten, darken the edges more. You definitely want to darken this edge where it overlaps the second one. So start light here. Or you can do that the other way around, depending on where your lighting is. If your lighting's from this direction, or I mean this direction, then this would be the shadow, this would be the highlight. A little more dark over here. And there you essentially have your upper petals done. And that's how you get started drawing a pansy in colored pencils."