Make anyone look twice, maybe three times, to see if it is a photo or a coloured pencil drawing. With step-by-step instructions, this book explains how to achieve super realistic results. Over 550 photos will guide you through technique building projects teaching you how to achieve unbelievable results from colored pencils. Learn how to draw different textures from the smooth surface of a grape and apple to the super fine fur texture of a cat or scales of a snake incorporating tips on blending and selecting colours with specific focus on how to draw super realistic eyes. Understand the basics of beginning with an outline sketch and the important steps to building a finished colored pencil drawing with great depth that will create a level of realism only coloured pencils can give.

Otomi has done colored pencil drawings for more than five years while polishing up his sketching techniques at Tohoku Seikatsu Bunka University's faculty of art in Sendai. He graduated in March 2023. He is determined to carve out a livelihood as a freelance artist in Yamagata.