How to Draw Glass with Colored Pencils: Erasing to Add Detail

By Derrick Bruno-Rathgeber

http://Derrick-TheArtist.com

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Thank you for visiting. In this lesson I will teach you how to draw a believable glass texture. Our subject will be a light bulb so we will be using grey colors for this lesson. You’ll even have a small bonus lesson for the metal texture at the base of the bulb. What you will be learning today is how to use your pencils to color smoothly, and how to take away from your drawing to add more depth and detail. Are you ready to get started?

Twisted Fate: Dumb Luck

By Derrick Bruno-Rathgeber

http://Derrick-TheArtist.com

This comic strip is one of my favorites. It makes you wonder how much is going on around us that we don’t know. It also makes you look back and say “How in the Hell did that just happen?!!, and holy crap I am still alive?” 

How to Draw an Autumn Tree with Colored Pencils

By Derrick Bruno-Rathgeber

Http://Derrick-theArtist.com

Welcome to a new Free art lesson by Derrick the Artist. In this lesson I will be teaching you how to draw a tree with minimal foliage. The purpose of this lesson is to train your brain how to see lines flowing together to create an image from imagination. We will not use any references, unless you count the examples, and everyone’s tree will look unique. Also I am going to show you some short cuts to give the illusion of a lot of detail with less effort. Pick up your pencils and let us get started.

How to Draw a Feather With Colored Pencils

By Derrick Bruno-Rathgeber

Derrick-TheArtist.com

Welcome back to my free art lessons page. In this lesson I will teach you a fun way to create feathers with character and color. I had many suggestions on what colors to use and I got an overwhelming amount of purples and blues, but you may choose any combination of colors that you like. We will focus on our strokes, directional shading, and color blending in this lesson this time around. So shall we begin?

Twisted Fate: Original Assassins

By: Derrick Bruno-Rathgeber

http://Derrick-TheArtist.com

This Special Edition Twisted Fate Comic Strip features the most best Assassin of them all. Unfortunately he was too good, The Fates have a job to do.

This comic strip features Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad of the Assassin’s Creed Franchise by Ubisoft. I want to give a big thank you to Ubisoft for their support and letting me borrow their character for some laughs.

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The Flight of the Macaw

By Derrick Bruno-Rathgeber

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The Flight of the Macaw was one of my greatest pictures as an artist. I not only completed this piece in a good time-frame but I used over 40+ colored pencils. Composing this image was no easy feat at all either. The reference shot I had was small and blurry, but the pose fit what I was going for. I used other references such as encyclopedias, and zoology books to get the bone structure, and muscle movements down. In this blog I will be giving you a day by day play into the creation of this piece.

Twisted Fate: Show Off

By Derrick Bruno-Rathgeber

Our Fate decides to create an elaborate pulley system with the threads of life. This can’t be good…Awesome maybe.

How to Draw a Red Rose with Colored Pencils

by Derrick Rathgeber

http://Derrick-theArtist.com

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In this lesson I will be teaching you how to create a lovely red rose using some different techniques. We will focus on using colors to add depth and layers into your work to give your artwork that look that has them coming off the page. Another focus we will work on is overlaying colors, and texture shading. 

Don’t Bet On Fate

Fate…Or in this case get in the middle of Fate betting on you. The Fates visit the ponies and it’s not a fair bet.

How to Color a Delicious Pink Lady Apple with Colored Pencils

 

By Derrick Bruno-Rathgeber

http://Derrick-theArtist.com

Welcome to the great drawing lessons here on Derrick the Artist. Today I will be teaching you how to color your very own delicious pink lady apple. In this exercise I will give you tips on how to over lay colors, blend them to create lights and shadows, as well as textures. So let’s get started shall we.