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Art question:
Some projects in the colored pencil book I'm working through ask for various shades of gray. My 36-color Prismacolor set doesn't have any grays, just black and white. What should I do? Fake it by varying pressure with the black colored pencil or graphite?
Is the book a set of projects, or is it a set of tutorials.
If tutorials, probably best to find some various shades of grey pencils.
If projects, just use varying pressure, maybe experimenting with varying pressures of black on top of varying pressures of white.
@nyrath Probably closer to tutorials.
Tutorials probably are teaching you things like "in this area you should have 75% black and 25% white".
So I'd look for some gradated grey colored pencils
@peterdrake i’d play around— pencils, conte black and white mixed and rubbed in, light black ball point lines, ink washes, crayons, smudge from a rubber eraser…