Pressure Variations
Change drawing pressure to lighten or darken the color by pressing light or hard with colored pencils.
Stippling
Use Crayola® Colored Pencils to make a pattern with dots of color (stipple). Combine dots of different colors to mix colors visually.
Cross Hatching
To create the cross hatching effect, fill in an area with closely-spaced parallel lines. Draw lines across each other. Experiment with line size and style: try thick, thin, jagged, wavy, and bumpy lines.
Layering
Layer one colored pencil color over another to create a mixed hue.
Color Changer
Overlay color with white, black, gray or a complementary color and Draw lines with the side of the colored pencil tip to make wide lines.
Impressed Line
Cover drawing paper with a sheet of tracing paper and place on top of a thick layer of newspaper. Draw on the tracing paper, pressing firmly to indent lines. Remove the tracing paper. Apply color on drawing paper across these impressed lines and they reappear.
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