SKETCHBOOK
RE-DRAWING THE LINES
Coloured pencils are an underappreciated medium – here are four artistic ways to utilise their strengths
1 Exercise a light touch. Pressing down hard on the paper makes it hard to work over and even trickier to erase unwanted colour.
2 Keep a can of compressed air to hand – the stuff sold in office supply shops to dust keyboards and such like. Use it to blast away unwanted pencil dust from your page. Rubbing that same dust away with your hand can cause streaks.
For delicate, contrasting
