Texture is one of the key elements of art. The texture is how an object feels when you touch it. Like a prickly feeling of a thorn or the soft feel of your comforter. Learning to visually create this feeling will help an artist create a successful drawing or painting.

In this post, we are going to learn techniques to create visual texture for 12 different things using colored pencils.

There are various elements of art that we can use to create visual texture:

1. Using soft and thick lines

2. Contouring and cross contouring to create a form in turn, creating an illusion of texture.

3. Hatching and cross-hatching lines

4. Using different strokes like stippling, flicking, circular motion, etc

5. Using Patterns ( for example, the pattern that a brick wall might follow)

Please follow the video below to see step-by-step to create 12 different textures using colored pencils: