A guide to colored pencil drawing, supervised by Tomoko Hirao. It runs from the basics of sketching and coloring to tips for giving a picture a more finished look.
The book has five parts: choosing and caring for tools, form and sketching, basic coloring, more advanced coloring techniques, and worked examples. Topics include using different pencils for different jobs, sharpening, making a color chart, layering colors, hatching, and filling large areas evenly.
The techniques come from Tomoko Hirao's own work. One of them is adding a 4H pencil to colored pencils to show the solid form and weight of still-life objects, overlapping trees, or the depth of water. An eraser is also used as a drawing tool, for example to show the clear look of glass. This is a re-release, with a new cover, of the 2018 revised edition.