How do I color night scenes with colored pencils?

Question

I have an idea for an art piece and I can't get it out of my mind, however it is a night scene/dark lighting heavy shadows.

I use colored pencils for all of my art (Prisma Color) and I think I'm fairly decent.

My main question is; is there a tutorial out there on the web (I've searched with the tags night scenes, heavy shadow, dark scenes and colored pencil, tutorial) with not so good results.

Can anyone help me out?

Answer 1

There are a lot of tutorials out there, but not many on the specific topic of dark/night scenes. I found one person who has a lot of different tutorials and has a night scene showing in their gallery. My recommendation is to look through the tutorials and if you still have questions send the artist a note. Almost every artist will be happy to talk to you and explain how things are done. Here's the link:



http://robertsloan2.deviantart.com/



Also you can browse the site for other colored pencil tutorials as there are many, but this one person just seemed to have a TON on one page so I thought it your best first choice.



As for what I do for colored backgrounds at night, I use very dark purples and very dark blues using heavy pressure, with an occasional brown mixed in, rarely do I actually use black. The reason is an artist I admire who drew super heroes some of which wore black costumes, never used black to make the costumes just dark other colors and the images were so much richer because of it. And layering the colors is very important.



I hope that helps!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

Color pencils- night scene help!!?

Answer 5

Start by drawing on a dark surface, like dark poster or mat board. In other words, bring the light out of the dark like it happens in real life. It is the opposite of how a well lit, or daylight subject is drawn by making the shadows bring objects to life. At night, it is the lights and highlights that make subjects come out of the night.



Good quality color pencils can cover dark surfaces very well.

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