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| Introduction | |
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| Start with a good setup | |
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| How Should I Arrange my Workspace? | |
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| What Should I Look for When Buying Colored Pencils? | |
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| Colored Pencil Chart of Characteristics | |
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| What Kinds of Pencil Sharpeners Work Best? | |
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| What Should I Use to Remove Color? | |
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| What Should I Know About Paper? | |
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| What Other Tools Will Come in Handy? | |
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| How Can I Make Drawing Easier? | |
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| How Do I Store My Pencils and Paper? | |
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| How Can I Keep My Work and Supplies Clean? | |
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| Design your composition | |
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| What Is Proximity? | |
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| What Is Repetition? | |
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| What Is Continuation? | |
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| What Is Balance? | |
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| How Do I Develop a Center of Interest? | |
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| How Can I Make My Composition Distinctive? | |
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| How Do I Judge a Composition? | |
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| Application and technique | |
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| Once I Choose My Subject, What Do I Do? | |
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| How Do I Transfer My Sketch to My Drawing Surface? | |
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| Should I Mix Colors? | |
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| How Do I Apply the Pencil Evenly? | |
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| How Can I Make Gradual Changes in Value and Color? | |
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| How Do I Make the Color Look Really Smooth? | |
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| Can I Liquefy the Pigment of "Dry" Colored Pencils? | |
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| Can I Establish a Tonal Foundation Before Adding Color? | |
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| How Do I Keep Colors Bright on a Black Ground? | |
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| How Can I Make a Light Line on a Dark Background? | |
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| Can I Remove a Slight Amount of Color? | |
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| Are There Techniques That Excite the Eye? | |
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| Color and light solutions | |
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| What Can I Learn From the Color Wheel? | |
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| What Is the Importance of Value? | |
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| How Is Intensity Different From Value? | |
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| What Is Color Temperature? | |
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| How Can I Make Complementary Colors Work for Me? | |
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| What Happens When I Mix Complements? | |
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| How Do I Get to Know My Pencils? | |
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| Why Are Light and Shadow so Important? | |
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| How Can I Create Impact in My Work? | |
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| Reflection and transparency solutions | |
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| How Do I Create the Look of Brass? | |
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| How Do I Create the Look of Copper? | |
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| How Can I Portray "Colorless" Metal? | |
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| How Do I Create the Look of Metallic Glaze? | |
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| What Techniques Will Help Me Create Colored Glass? | |
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| Can I "Draw" Glass on a White Ground? | |
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| How Do I "Draw" Glass on a Colored Surface? | |
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| How Do I Deal With the Fractured View Water Creates? | |
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| How Can I Create Interesting Reflections in Water? | |
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| How Do I Make Objects Distort in Water? | |
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| What Happens When Transparent Colors Overlap? | |
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| What Happens in a Mirror Reflection? | |
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| How Can I Create a Realistic Drop of Water? | |
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| Texture solutions | |
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| How Do I Make Shiny Satin Fabric? | |
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| What Creates the Look of Coarse Linen? | |
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| How Do I Create the Bumpy Surface of Indian Corn? | |
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| How Do I Create the Smooth, Waxy Surface of Peppers? | |
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| How Can I Make the Smooth, Shiny Surface of a Plum? | |
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| How Do I Portray the Fuzzy Texture of a Peach? | |
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| What Creates the Look of a Velvety Rose? | |
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| How Do I Make Clustered Flowers? | |
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| How Do I Portray the Warmth of a Daylily? | |
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| Problem subjects and fixing mistakes | |
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| How Do I Punch Up Color? | |
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| How Do I Make an Area Less Prominent? | |
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| How Do I Straighten an Edge? | |
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| How Do I Repair Paper Damage? | |
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| How Do I Deal With a Tiny Area That Gets Too Dark? | |
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| What Do I Do When Little Blobs of Pigment Develop? | |
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| What Do I Do When No More Pigment Will Stick? | |
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| Can I Alter the Surface of the Paper? | |
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| How Do I Remove a Stain? | |
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| How Do I Hide a Stain? | |
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| How Do I Make Lace? | |
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| How Do I Create the Intricacy of a Basket? | |
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| What Helps Striped Fabric Look Believable? | |
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| How Do I Make Fringe? | |
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| Line drawings for demonstrations | |
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| Index | |