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Polychromos Color Suggestions For Animal Portraits (Dogs, Cats and Horses) and Human Portraits

This document provides a list of the most suggested Polychromos pencil colors for drawing animal and human portraits, as collected from 20 artists on Instagram and Facebook. The top suggested colors are Walnut Brown, Burnt Ochre, Light Flesh, Black, Burnt Sienna, Cinnamon, and Bistre. The list is intended to help people purchase the most useful colors separately when starting a collection for portrait artwork.

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Polychromos Color Suggestions For Animal Portraits (Dogs, Cats and Horses) and Human Portraits

This document provides a list of the most suggested Polychromos pencil colors for drawing animal and human portraits, as collected from 20 artists on Instagram and Facebook. The top suggested colors are Walnut Brown, Burnt Ochre, Light Flesh, Black, Burnt Sienna, Cinnamon, and Bistre. The list is intended to help people purchase the most useful colors separately when starting a collection for portrait artwork.

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Polychromos

color suggestions for animal portraits (dogs,


cats and horses) and human portraits

The purpose of this little experiment was to compile a list with the most suggested
pencil colors for people willing at buying Polychromos pencils separately in order to
start drawing animal portraits (dogs, cats and horses) and human portraits. Since
many colors that come with the sets are barely used for this type of drawings, the
idea in here was to create a list with the most used colors. Based on this list, a
person can start buying the colors separately starting from the top, which contains
the ones that were suggested the most.

The color suggestions were collected from at least 20 different artists on Instagram
and Facebook Groups of Colored Pencil enthusiasts.

If you have any question about it or suggestions to make, feel free to message me on
my Instagram @aob.arts. I hope this list helps you as well J

Thank you very much for everyone that contributed with creating this list by
providing your awesome feedback and tips along the way ;) Thank you!

Color name Number of indications
Walnut brown 16
Burnt ochre 14
Light flesh 13

Black 13
Burnt sienna 12
Cinnamon 11
Bistre 11

White 11
Terracotta 10
Raw umber 10
Medium flesh 9

Warm grey ii 9
Dark sepia 9
Brown ochre 8
Nougat 8

Burnt umber 8
Venetian red 8
Warm grey iv 8
Ivory 8
Van-dyck brown 8
Cold grey vi 7
Sanguine 7
Warm grey i 6
Dark flesh 6
Light yellow ochre 6
Warm grey iii 6
Caput mortuum 6
Warm grey v 6
Cold grey ii 6
Deep scarlet red 6
Cold grey iv 5

Warm grey vi 5
Cold grey i 4
Dark indigo 4
Indian red 4

Caput mortuum violet 4


Naples yellow 4
Cold grey v 4
Light ultramarine 4

Pink madder lake 3


Sky blue 3
Earth green yellowish 3
Cold grey iii 3

Cream 3
Helioblue-reddish 3
Pompeian red 3
Pine green 3

Earth green 3
Indanthrene blue 3
Light green 3
Emerald green 3
Magenta 3
Light cobalt turquoise 2
Violet 2
Light magenta 2
Dark chrome yellow 2
Light red-violet 2
Dark naples ochre 2
Ultramarine 2
Pale geranium lake 2
Dark red 2
Payne's grey 2
Olive green yellowish 2
Green gold 2

Dark cadmium orange 2


Prussian blue 1
Middle phthalo blue 1
Middle cadmium red 1

Maygreen 1
Mauve 1
Manganese violet 1
Delft blue 1

Cobalt green 1
Cobalt blue 1
Cadmium orange 1
Burnt carmine 1

Cobalt blue-greenish 1
Phthalo blue 1
Light yellow glaze 1
Dark phthalo green 1

Cadmium yellow 1
Blue violet 1
Purple violet 1
Pink carmine 1
Chrome green opaque 1
May green 1
Deep cobalt green 1
Red-violet 1
Juniper green 1
Pthalo blue 1

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