--- product_id: 49839135 title: "Colorist's Special Effects 2: Step-by-step coloring guides. Improve your skills!" price: "£27.35" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/49839135-colorists-special-effects-2-step-by-step-coloring-guides-improve store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Colorist's Special Effects 2: Step-by-step coloring guides. Improve your skills! **Price:** £27.35 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Colorist's Special Effects 2: Step-by-step coloring guides. Improve your skills! - **How much does it cost?** £27.35 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/49839135-colorists-special-effects-2-step-by-step-coloring-guides-improve) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description 66 step-by-step-guides! Improve your colored pencil skills... & have fun! INSIDE this book are techniques for: skin tone, leaves, metal & steampunk, shells, fabric, snow, flames, grass, fruit, healing gemstones, feathers ... and much more! Review: Just When You Thought You Had Learned It All, Colorist Special Effects 2 Has Delivered So Much More! - Just when you think you have learned how to color almost everything, Helen gives you more than you could have hoped for. This is truly a wonderful guide to help you learn techniques to make your Coloring top notch. There is so much to appreciate in both guides. You will find a couple of techniques that refer back to the 1st guide, but if your budget doesn't allow for you to purchase both you will still love this guide. I particularly love the different Skin Tones, along with how to color fabric. I love Clocks and there is a Vintage Clock in the Metal & Steampunk section. A nice selection of leaves that tend to be in a lot of Adult Coloring Books, beautiful Peacock Feathers, and feathers in general. My favorite is the beautiful Hummingbird as well as the Ladybug. If you like Skull and Crossbones, Cauldrons, Glass Bottles, Cogs, Marbles then you get it with this guide. Unicorn Horn, Onion Domes, Tera Cotta Pots, Apples, Strawberries, Ice Cream as well. This is just a small sampling. The list goes on and on. I learned from the 1st Guide to use tracing paper and go over the actual steps until I felt comfortable enough to actually use the Color Pages provided in the Guide. This guide has a Color Swatch for Prismacolor & Polychromos along with inspiration for color combinations. You definitely don't have to have the above mentioned. I use a mixture of Prismacolor, Crayola and other brands. The swatch is very nice and will help you get close to the colors if you want to use the particular suggested colors. This will make a wonderful gift for anyone that enjoys Coloring. I will be gifting this to some special people on my Holiday List. Great job Ms. Elliston. It has definitely been worth the wait. I am attaching 2 category pictures (there are many more) and will add pictures as I finish a technique. What a wonderful way to spend the cold days ahead. You can't go wrong with this guide. Ms. Elliston has an active Social Media Page and several of us have followed her journey in the creation of this book. She is a super lady and worked very hard to bring this Guide to Life. I Did Not receive this Guide at a discount. This is my true and honest opinion. I do believe in giving credit where it is due. Review: Techniques apply to all sorts of art - This series of books is amazing! The steps are easy to follow and they are helping me improve my coloring. The general information Helen Elliston provides for shading and highlighting applies to any type of art, so this series of books is a great reference tool for any artist or colorist. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #521,250 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #365 in Arts & Photography Study & Teaching | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 726 Reviews | ## Images ![Colorist's Special Effects 2: Step-by-step coloring guides. Improve your skills! - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81kVA9pbueL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Just When You Thought You Had Learned It All, Colorist Special Effects 2 Has Delivered So Much More! *by A***. on November 18, 2017* Just when you think you have learned how to color almost everything, Helen gives you more than you could have hoped for. This is truly a wonderful guide to help you learn techniques to make your Coloring top notch. There is so much to appreciate in both guides. You will find a couple of techniques that refer back to the 1st guide, but if your budget doesn't allow for you to purchase both you will still love this guide. I particularly love the different Skin Tones, along with how to color fabric. I love Clocks and there is a Vintage Clock in the Metal & Steampunk section. A nice selection of leaves that tend to be in a lot of Adult Coloring Books, beautiful Peacock Feathers, and feathers in general. My favorite is the beautiful Hummingbird as well as the Ladybug. If you like Skull and Crossbones, Cauldrons, Glass Bottles, Cogs, Marbles then you get it with this guide. Unicorn Horn, Onion Domes, Tera Cotta Pots, Apples, Strawberries, Ice Cream as well. This is just a small sampling. The list goes on and on. I learned from the 1st Guide to use tracing paper and go over the actual steps until I felt comfortable enough to actually use the Color Pages provided in the Guide. This guide has a Color Swatch for Prismacolor & Polychromos along with inspiration for color combinations. You definitely don't have to have the above mentioned. I use a mixture of Prismacolor, Crayola and other brands. The swatch is very nice and will help you get close to the colors if you want to use the particular suggested colors. This will make a wonderful gift for anyone that enjoys Coloring. I will be gifting this to some special people on my Holiday List. Great job Ms. Elliston. It has definitely been worth the wait. I am attaching 2 category pictures (there are many more) and will add pictures as I finish a technique. What a wonderful way to spend the cold days ahead. You can't go wrong with this guide. Ms. Elliston has an active Social Media Page and several of us have followed her journey in the creation of this book. She is a super lady and worked very hard to bring this Guide to Life. I Did Not receive this Guide at a discount. This is my true and honest opinion. I do believe in giving credit where it is due. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Techniques apply to all sorts of art *by D***E on December 28, 2023* This series of books is amazing! The steps are easy to follow and they are helping me improve my coloring. The general information Helen Elliston provides for shading and highlighting applies to any type of art, so this series of books is a great reference tool for any artist or colorist. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Vol 2 is superb! *by H***E on November 16, 2017* This is the second volume in this series. I didn’t think the artist could top the first volume, but she has. This one has the techniques for coloring so many of the things we commonly see in adult coloring books. Learning from these pages will bring my coloring pages to a whole new level. The one thing I really love is that the artist gives us the Prismacolor pencil numbers with each step. She also has a graphic with Polychromos Vs Prismacolor colors. I really enjoy using her first guide so this is a must have companion. I’ve included a pic of some elements inside the book and will add pics of my efforts as I try the techniques. I can’t wait to dive into this one! ## Frequently Bought Together - Colorist's Special Effects 2: Step-by-step coloring guides. 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