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Masterful Color: Vibrant Colored Pencil Paintings Layer by Layer
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4.26 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Ultimate Guide To Colored Pencil: Over 35 step-by-step demonstrations for both traditional and watercolor pencils
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4.11 avg rating — 198 ratings
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The Colored Pencil: Key Concepts for Handling the Medium
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Drawing the Light from Within: Keys to Awaken Your Creative Power
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Texture in Colored Pencil: Techniques for Capturing Soft Realism
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New Guide to Coloring for Crafts, Adult Coloring Books, and Other Coloristas!
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4.38 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Drawing With Color and Imagination: Studying the Techniques of the Old Masters for Working Methods and a Personal Style (Drawing Course, Vol 3) (English and Italian Edition)
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Color Drawing: A Marker/Colored-Pencil Approach for Architects, Landscape Architects, Interior and Graphic Designers, and Artists
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4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Color Drawing: Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers
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4.23 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Colored Pencil Techniques: A Comprehensive Step-by-step Directory of Key Techniques, with an Inspirational Galley Showing How
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3.83 avg rating — 102 ratings
score: 92,
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Colored Pencil Collage: Nature Drawing and Painting for Mixed Media
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3.81 avg rating — 67 ratings
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CP Surfaces: A Complete Guide to Using Colored Pencils on Black Paper
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score: 90,
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The New Colored Pencil: Create Luminous Works with Innovative Materials and Techniques
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3.97 avg rating — 130 ratings
score: 89,
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Basic Colored Pencil Techniques
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3.85 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Color Drawing Workshop
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4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Colored Pencil Fast Techniques
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3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 86,
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Creative Colored Pencil Workshop: Exercises for Combining Colored Pencils with Your Favorite Mediums
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3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Pencil Magic: Surprisingly Simple Techniques for Color and Graphite Pencils
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3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step
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4.21 avg rating — 130 ratings
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