Colour Pencil works

Working with color pencils is as amazing as working with any other medias. The only extra things it needs is extra patience. There are very few people who actually enjoy working with color pencils as it involves lot of scribbling. Coming to the matter of the category of color pencils, we can go for water color pencils as they are very soft in nature and we can get a very finely blended effect as shown in this portrait of Catherine Zeta Jones. About the brand, STEADTLER color pencils are the best for this work.

Sketching

The key way to improve sketching is to keep practicing. Various books on sketching on different subjects are available at book stores which are really helpful for practicing. There are books for beginners and for pursuing artists also.
Practice could be imitating from the books or from real objects, as common as they are around you.
For basic sketching or drawing use only HB drawing pencils. Pencils from 2B to 8B are for shading.