Looking for something creative to do? Try these 5 POSCA pencil projects that suit a range of styles and abilities.
POSCA PENCILS have the same quality you’d expect from POSCA paint markers, boasting amazing longevity, usability and, naturally, fantastic colour range and coverage.
POSCA PENCILS have a unique formula and contain more oil than wax, making the colours ultra deep, punchy and vidid. Their innovative construction means the pencils are sleek and easy to use, sharpen like a dream and don’t crumble or break when a heavy pressure is applied. These top quality art pencils have six levels of intensity and carry a deep, rich concentration. So embrace your colourful side and explore a wealth of possibilities with POSCA PENCILS.
1 Create a mirror image
Take a symmetrical subject like a butterfly. Source an image then fold it in half and use your POSCA PENCILS to create the other half.
Using a natural subject such as a butterfly will allow to you try different pencil techniques as these subjects often have complex shades and intricate structures.
This means you can layer and blend your POSCA PENCIL colours before overlaying with fine strokes and detailing. This is one of those great POSCA PENCIL projects that is a great for refining your observational drawing skills.
2 Make faces on card
Practising facial features, hair and skin tones are an excellent way to explore various mark-making techniques and improve your skills. Here we’ve used the back of a sketchbook to draw an eye and to observe pale skin tones.
This is one of our favourite POSCA PENCIL projects. Who knew your sketchbook backing card and any old cardboard would make a great surface for art? You can see this plain uncoated cardboard shows off our POSCA pencil blending, softening and layering techniques.
The POSCA PENCIL colours, even the light shades, look intense and true on this dense, uncoated surface, showing off the quality of the pencils themselves. Line definition is still strong on this rough card as you can see with details such as eyelashes and brows. Cross-hatching this pale flesh technique looks effective even on this grey, unbleached background.
3 Layer lovely leaves
Do you know why drawing leaves is such as go-to for beginner artists? It’s because they can be deconstructed into lines and curves. A ginkgo leaf is a brilliant shape to start with and because it has lots of different shades through the seasons you can master both shape and colour. Quite simple it’s a lovely subject to draw.
Check out the video below to see how we created this basic POSCA pencil illustration.
4 Draw beautiful blossom
We love this simple step by step. In this blossom tutorial we talk you through every stage of creating beautiful blooms.
Here you employ shading, layering and definition techniques to create a stunning botanical illustration. One top tip for this one is keep your pencils super sharp!.
Follow the pencil drawing tutorial by this link here.
5 Create a colourful bird
If you are looking for an easy illustration project then plump for this. This is one of our go-to beginners POSCA pencil projects as can create this bird drawing by starting with simple circles and ovals. You can then build the avian illustration with strokes of POSCA coloured pencils.
Follow the video below to see how are used our POSCA pencils to create our colourful bird.