Colored pencils, used wisely, can give really striking works or works if one has sufficient knowledge of color theory. With all the boom in digital painting, it seems that they have gone into the background where pencil and charcoal are usually what is desired for the study of the human figure and to enter the world of illustration when one passes through a drawing school.
Possibly the work of Katy Lipscomb could be one of the examples that, as a teacher, one could use to present them to the students and demonstrate the proper use of each of the colors that make up the chromatic circle. Limpscomb is a Freelance illustrator living in Alpharetta, Georgia that his goals include being a good person and sharing his art with the world.
One of the phrases that most helped her on her artistic path was what a teacher told her when he told her that when you call yourself an artist, is when he is a real artist. Around this, we could possibly think that she does not pay much attention to the advice or criticism that she receives as feedback, but it is not like that, she takes them into account although she always takes them a little from a distance.
She herself tells how in this profession and life it is impossible to make everyone happy, so something similar happens with his art and so he takes it into account so as not to take unexpected failures in the face of certain criticism and opinion.
The work you do on this series of wild animals with colored pencils It is truly sublime and a display of technique to bring vivid colors to that wolf, deer or elephant. An artist to follow from her Facebook, Instagram o deviantart.