National Chocolate Ice Cream Day Sketching Tutorial

Hi everyone, Mou Saha here to share a coloring tutorial using Polychromos Color Pencils in celebration of National Chocolate Ice Cream Day. Since I cannot share a real scoop or two with you digitally, I am showing you how I build the delicious scoops one subtle layer at a time!

Recommended Art Materials:

Graphite Sketch Pencils - HB - #112500

Kneadable Art Eraser - Grey - #127220

Polychromos® Artists' Color Pencils - Tin of 60 - #110060

Mixed Media paper

I used my HB graphite pencil for a quick light sketch of a few scoops of chocolate ice cream in a glass cup.

I applied my first color layer with the Coral 131 Polychromos Color pencil.

My next layer was with the Burnt Ochre 187 from the same set.

The third layer was a subtle addition of textures with Venetian Red 190.

I added a fourth layer with Sanguine 188.

At this point, I started working on the dimensionality of the scoops using shading with Burnt Sienna 283.

I added the remaining touches to the chocolate ice cream scoops with Walnut Brown 177.

I colored the glass cup with Light Ultramarine 140, Bluish Turquoise 149, and Indanthrene Blue 247, leaving the glass highlights blank for the white of the paper to show through.

Finally, I colored the background with Warm Grey II 271 and Cold Grey II 231.

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and will treat yourself to some delicious chocolate ice cream to celebrate the National Chocolate Ice Cream Day on June 7th!