 Colorist: Jones Flores Coloring Book: Beautiful Creatures In this post you will find:
Jones Flores has very kindly shared with me two fantastic grayscale coloring guides she created. One is specifically for the owl in Beautiful Creatures and the other is for the leaf with the water drops in Beautiful Nature (I will be sharing that one at a later date). Jones' sister Julie (the painter!) has created and shared with me a wonderful grayscale painting guide for the hillside picture in Beautiful Nature. I will also be sharing that one with you in a future blog post so be sure to check back! For now, we will be focusing on the owl. Below you will find Jones' step-by-step directions for coloring the owl (a downloadable version of the guide is also provided at the end of the post), with detailed guidance on coloring the eyes and the feathers. Be sure to download the practice sheet (at the bottom of the post) that I created to go along with her instructions so you can test out Jones' techniques before coloring the complete owl in your coloring book. I think you'll find the guidance from Jones will also be very helpful when coloring anything else with eyes and/or feathers. Please show your support for and thanks to Jones for everything she is so generously taking the time to teach and share with all of us by liking her Facebook page, following her on Instagram, subscribing to her YouTube channel and checking out her web site. Choosing ColorsThe colors that Jones uses (other than black and white) are just suggestions. Also, the brand of colored pencil doesn't matter. Feel free to use other colors &/or brands. What is important is that you are paying attention to the lightness or darkness of the colors that you are using being sure to match them to the level of the gray you are coloring over. Therefore, for the feathers below you could easily use browns, greens, reds or any other family of colors instead of blues. As you will see in the "Coloring Stages" image towards the end of this post, Jones uses several different colors for different sets of feathers on the owl. With each color "family" she is applying the same coloring approach but just using a different set of colors. The great thing about grayscale coloring is that the grayscale can guide you on where and when to use light vs. dark colors. Coloring the Feathers Coloring the Eyes Coloring Stages Download the Practice SheetBelow you will see the practice sheet I have created to accompany the guide by Jones. Just click "Download File" to download it. 
 Download the Complete Grayscale Coloring Guide for the Owl
I hope you have found this post helpful. There are more tutorials (both written and video) on the way so make sure to check back! Happy Coloring!
9 Comments
Madeleine Poe
6/13/2017 02:37:06 pm
Jones, this is amazingly, wonderfully, outstandingly generous of you! I am the admin in a new up and coming group and I wonder if I may share this with them by asking them to subscribe to the newsletter. 6/13/2017 02:41:46 pm
Yes, absolutely Madeleine! Thank you for asking :-). I know that Jones will be thrilled to have her guide shared with others. Aren't we lucky to get all this amazing guidance from her?!
Julia
6/13/2017 03:23:46 pm
Thank you for explaining how to do eyes. I will be practicing.
Karen
6/13/2017 11:23:49 pm
This is truly fantastic. Thankyou Jones for shari g your knowledge with us, hugely appreciated from this beginner. I belong to a physical colouring in group, we were talking about perhaps getting some master lasses organized in feathers, but thankyou coz now i dont have to worry about them. Btw love the colours you used too!,,
Ali C
6/14/2017 06:29:00 am
This is fantastic! Thanks so much!
Els
6/19/2017 07:30:23 am
Thank you so much....i love all your tutorials
Debra Ferguson
9/27/2018 05:41:57 am
I am so happy I got your email for Tip # 2. Because I lost your Tip # 1 in spam folder. It deleted automatically. This time I made sure that I approved into my email inbox and it works! Phew! Leave a Reply. |
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