1: This bible is no Bible
Even for a beginner this "bible" falls short. Save your money and time. I've been painting in colored pencil for 2 years and my hope was for this greatly anticipated "bible" to consolidate all styles and techniques for me. This book does not deliver in presentation and detail. Most examples appeared flat with no emotion or drama. Overall the examples were weak, amateurish representations that were of no help. Too many pages were committed to mixed media treatment of backgrounds and too little to execution of subject matter. Photographs of subject matter were used as examples but few examples of artwork were represented. There were very few step-by-step demonstrations included. This book might be helpful for beginning colored pencil artists, however, the best colored pencil refernece books I've found are by Kullberg, Gildow, Kutch, Steinberg and Borgeson. For techniques and how-to's, I refer often to Borgeson, Gildow, and Kullberg. Consider using a book by one of these colored pencil artists.
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