A colored pencil technique book by Shie Mikami, an artist known for colored pencil drawings that look like photographs. It shows how to draw realistic pictures with only a few colors: red, blue and yellow as the base, plus one or two more.
All the projects are small works. Each one comes with a photo of the subject and a line drawing, both printed at actual size, so the drawings can be colored like coloring pages. QR codes link to 50 videos that show the key points of each technique.
Chapter 1 covers materials and basics, such as colored pencils, paper, basic strokes, gradation and blending, corrections and color mixing. The next three chapters move from simple to more advanced subjects, including an orange, green grapes, a shiny apple, a red rose, chocolates, a glass bottle with leaves, a dog and a cat.
Translated from the Japanese original.