Picking a palette
For this exercise, you will need to select a palette that contains at least one hue from each major colour group in the spectrum. Rather than selecting them all in advance, lay out your full set of coloured pencils and, with your reference or model in front of you, pick the specic hues that seem appropriate to your subject as you draw. In this drawing, I’ve selected a palette of extremes with pale colours for the skin and deep darks for the hair and collar. You might choose to pick a saturated palette of fauvists blues, reds and greens, or a more muted range of low-chroma colours.