101 Textures in Colored Pencil

26 Burlap

STEP ONE Burlap is a loose weave of very coarse jute threads of varying thicknesses, so precision is unnecessary. The hardest aspect is the first step—drawing the outline of the basic basket-weave pattern correctly, with gaps between the threads.

STEP TWO Use sharp dark brown with heavy pressure to fill the rectangular gaps between the threads. Then use sharp light umber and light pressure to define where each thread passes under another, ...