Benefits of using colored pencils

Posted by pooja late on January 17th, 2022

An image is made attractive and realistic by using color pencils. There are different variety of colors made available to make a drawing more attractive and eye catching. The color pencils are safe to handle by all ages of people. Even small and young children can use color pencil to develop their talent in art and crafts. It is a simple art tool in which a person can carry easily to any place and at any time whenever he wants. Usually a best and attractive image is colored by using the best colored pencil by the person who wants to draw and color his masterpiece drawing.

Coloring and drawing improves the creativity of children and help them to have a quality time spend on their activities during this lockdown period.  Small and miniature images can be made colorful and attractive by using color pencils which is easily colored in small volume of space that looks eye catchy to the person who is viewing the image. The main benefit of using a color pencil is one can maintain cleanliness while drawing without being spilled as in case of paintings. Color pencil drawings are widely used for drawing designs of costumes, miniature comics, etc which makes the image occurs unique and attractive for others. The various types of techniques are used while using color pencil drawings.

Types of color pencils:

There are three different types of color pencils used while coloring an image. They are wax-based color pencils, oil-based color pencils and water color pencils. The wax-based color pencils are softer and easily erasable which is widely used by school students. The oil-based color pencils are harder which is not easily breakable and lasts for a longer period of time which is widely used by artists and for masterpiece drawings. The water colored pencils has the dual qualities of both color pencils and water paintings which is colored as normal color pencil and a wet brush is used to make the pencil colored image to dissolved and have a image of water painting vie.

Price of color pencils:

The color pencils are made available even in small retail and stationery shops nearby the house and schools and even by placing order through online. It is easily affordable by all types of people. A set of ten color pencils is cheaper which is affordable by school children for their art words. The wide collections of colors is little costlier than the small collection pencils which is widely use by artist and for masterpiece drawings. The color pencil is cost efficient than in case of oil painting and glass paintings.

Like colored pencils, mechanical pencil are also widely used and are attracted by many people across the world which is used to draw borders for the colored pictures to make it more attractive as it has a good quality of a sharpen pencil which save a person spending time on sharpening of pencils. The use of mechanical color pencils has rapidly increased now a day, among people to have clear and neat images of their drawings. 

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