Creating Textures in Colored Pencil by Gary Greene (1996, Hardcover, Illustrated)

"Creating Textures in Colored Pencil" by Gary Greene is written so well that I think a total beginner who had trouble drawing or reading about art could follow it. As in another of his books, step by step exercises demonstrating different colored pencil techniques are used on the same subject -- a tantalizing green apple that looks so real you want to bite the page. You can see exactly what these techniques do and which one will give the effect you want. The latter half of the book goes into an amazing variety of textures from how to draw Asian skin tones and old people's faces, to flowers or old wood or polished wood, metal, chrome, rust, fur, feathers, anything. The sheer diversity in this book is incredible.

Index it and keep it handy when you want to do anything in colored pencil. Reading over the texture lesson on your subject again is sure to give you good ideas. Almost all the examples are in Prismacolors anyway, so if you picked up a discount set of Prismacolors on eBay you're good to go!