<B>Get a feel for your art—literally! <I>101 Textures in Colored Pencil</I> teaches you every technique you’ll need to give your colored-pencil drawings realistic, palpable texture.</B><BR/><BR/> *Named One of the 54 Best Colored Pencil Drawing Books of All Time by BookAuthority*<BR/><BR/> There has never been a better opportunity to master textures. Knowing how to make your surfaces and textures look real is one of the <B>most challenging aspects of creating art </B>in colored pencil, even for experienced artists. <I>101 Textures in Colored Pencil </I>provides artists with<B> step-by-step instructions </B>for drawing a wide variety of the most common textures and surfaces, including sand, water, metals, foliage, wood, fabrics, stone, grass, hair, and many more.<I></I><BR/><BR/> To get you started, this comprehensive guide opens with a review of<B> tools and materials </B>as well as <B>basic skills</B>, such as strokes, effects, and color mixing. Each page of instruct