Chateau de Chenonceau Drawing

I was introduced to Koh-i-noor's "magic" style colored pencils by my life drawing professor at EMU. He used them in his own daily sketchbook drawings, and encouraged us to use them for large scale and small scale sketches. I purchased several back then, and then rarely used them, focusing instead on the standard Prismacolor pencil set I had.

Then, when I was reorganizing my studio lately, I "rediscovered" those pencils. I decided I wanted to play around with them again, and landed on using travel photos as source images - because I also wanted to practice my architecture/perspective drawing skills.

These "magic" pencils have multiple hues blended together into one fat pencil. The color scheme I used for this drawing was the primary color triad pencil, which combined red, blue, and yellow. The source photo I used was a picture I took in 2005, on my class trip to France. The castle is Chateau de Chenonceau, near Paris.

Here are the process photos for how I created the drawing step-by-step:

And here is the finished sketch, with some close-up detail shots of the drawing and the "magic" pencil I used:

The sketch turned out so well that I decided to do several others. Tomorrow's post will show the next drawing in this series.

I posted the final image on Instagram and got a lot of positive comments!