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We asked a Product Information Team member about this tip, and they said that, while oil pastels do include non-drying oils like mineral oil in their formulation, adding so much to a paper object would certainly lead to oil migrating through the paper into matting and framing, sketchbook pages, and just about everything it comes in contact with. Artists using this method should consider interleaving a grease-resistant sheet like glassine if finished work will be in in a sketchbook or stack of drawings
It is almost encouraging in a way to see an artist I really like struggle with things. Especially on social media it seems like only the cream of the crop gets posted, so it's cool to see and remember that even the best artists screw up and struggle sometimes
@@antoniojoaquin2425 same. But I realized I need to give myself time and not feel too precious about my sketches, eventually we will learn the ropes and strokes. Good luck to us!
thiese are exactly the stages i went through when i stared oil pastels 6 years ago. then eventually comes the actually making it look good part. haven't gotten there but I'll tell you when it happens
I used this tip in art class. The key is to use very little baby oil. Just lightly dip the q-tip in the baby oil then dab it on a paper towel. You don’t want to drench your art:)
@@juststartingover2735if he didn't really want to try it I don't think he would have gone to do it, but it's not as simple as just using however much you want, if he didn't know how much to use it doesn't matter how he used it, he would only get it right by chance. Especially if someone made him feel like you "just add baby oil" you likely wouldn't even look up how much because it seems like someone would have just added the words "a little" to that sentence
Hey Scott I really mean this in a kind way but I really like watching u struggle with oil pastels. I really enjoy seeing your failures instead seeing your masterpieces. It reminds me that we are all on our individual art journeys, and art is a never ending learning process.
Am I a joke to you? Do I amuse you? Like a clown? Ha ha. I'm happy you're enjoying this. Honestly... so am I. I love trying new things and failing miserably.
@@ssavaart lmao- we just enjoy you struggling As a young artist It kinda reminds me of us as humans who fails and later turn them into masterpiece Thank you for being Here on youtube Please as a young artist teach us more on how to work with watercolors like u do As a student i can't really take extra classes of painting due to school , tuctions , home work , self study , etc So i depend of RU-vid shorts for tips You are the best one i have found But i do struggle as my painting always turns our dark instead of light like yours Any tips please ? Is it the paper quility or just my cheap watercolours ?
@@lan_zhan7141 I watercolor as well! Can verify. Apply your lightest colors first, __especially__ when using watercolor (do the same with gouache too though). Go in later, layer-after-layer, with slightly darker colors and shades. Also, watering down your pigment helps! I suggest watering it down separate from the page, since that will make it take longer to dry, will most likely make it harder to control, and may damage the paper or the paint around the spot you're working on.
I don't get it, if you're left handed why don't you start from the right side? And if you have to make it layer by layer, isn't that just a "having hands" problem??
I would suggest trying layering when it comes to oil pastels! from what I've seen, its the buildup of colour that gives pieces made w/ oil pastels so colourful
YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH YOU SAVED ME!! so I am assigned to be the person who will write for our group visual aid for tomorrow and my marker ran out of Ink, it's night time and gonna be submitted tomorrow and I Took a break and wanted to watch RU-vid and here I am watching you with an oil pastel and I remembered I also have oil pastel and here I am using oil pastel as my marker. Thank you very much!! 😭
@@kookycoolauntkaryn5884 I’m starting to hate that word just because the way it’s pronounced and I pronounced it the wrong way for years until a year ago
Pencils don't work with oil pastels at all! Here's a tip: Instead of using pencils to sketch out, it's more advisable to use a light grey oil pastel or any light base colour of your choice to sketch things out (like yellow or pink). A small addition: You can scrape away the colours if you either make a mistake or want to add another layer of colours! People also like to add a bit of hatching, squiggly or swirly line textures on their artwork by using toothpicks!
I do a similar thing with coloured pencils, sketch with a skintone colour (assuming it's a person) rather than graphite because graphite makes everything muddy :)
A few tips I find help: -Use paper with less grit unless you are aiming for a certain texture -baby oil does work but that was a large amount! Work in super small dowses and replace q tips every time you move onto a new spot - a Kleenex that is lightly dampened can help blend other larger spots -use an x-acto knife to pick up crayon you don’t want, or to add details designs/texture -burnishing with the oil pastels is a good way to practice at first to understand the limits they have. I like to blend with my thumb too! Hope this helps
YESSS!!! Exactly! I was thinking that probably the main component was the texture of the paper. Definitely made for water retention, hence the texture.
I use Bristol paper for oil pastels. It has virtually no tooth at all. I’ve never used oil, but blend with tortillons and twists of paper. Letting the pastel “cure” for a couple of days between layers helps, too, and instead of having a crayon-like drawing you can achieve paint-like effects.
It helped with blending but he used way too much oil so it just picked up the pastel and rubbed it around, so when he dabbed in with the paper towel it wiped off the pastel reveling the pencil sketch. This is probably why it looks better because now it doesn't fully look like a blobby mess but still isn't really what oil pastel is meant to look like. I personally find oil pastel such a difficult and tedious medium due to how difficult blending is
I'm pretty sure its supposed to help as long as you do it right, this is exactly how we blended the pastels we used in art class in 5th grade or something (I can't remember if we used oil pastels or not so we might not have used oil, but we definitely used q-tips to blend everything)
Yeah, no, Oil pastels, and pastels in general, are meant to be blended. You can add a small amount of mineral oil to make blending easier, but just using a blending stick or your finger is usually enough to get it to blend nicely. A heat gun can also be employed to soften the pastel on the page if you want it to blend more readily. Having said that, if you really want to use oil pastels and get a more paint-like experience, just buy softer oil pastels. The better quality ones use more pigment and less mineral stabilizers, so they can feel a bit more like you're trying to draw with lipstick, but they go on extremely smooth and blend readily.
Someone in the comments already said this but you should watch blackbean cms’s charcoal and pastel videos. He has a really unique style and he’s a great teacher!
My mom always told me to use a q-tip and just gently swirl to blend it out, "it's not a crayon don't push too hard, just smudge it" edit: wow I'm famous 2nd edit: my apologies to those upset by my previous edit, I know I'm not "famous" it's a trend, it'll be a trend, and you'll have to live with that, pick a comment in the thread & like it instead of commenting then, find a "I'm the 'she's not famous' button" and move on if it upsets you
@@thelovelyone7737 I was like 6 and got those cheap Crayola art sets with the markers pencils pastels paint and crayons- ig it wasn't cheap cheap, but yknow
@@TamaraKane he's not an oil pastel artist. He's trying a new technique. He never has a bad attitude in these videos, he's not insulting anyone. He's literally just trying a new method and yall are butthurt for what?
When my art teacher in high school did the tips and baby oil, it worked. But I guess it takes practice and knowing what to do with it…like a lot of things in art. Tbh I forgot how to do it
Exactly. It takes PRACTICE. Not something people get on the first try. Idk why these commenters are acting like he's being disrespectful to the medium somehow. I'd love to see the art most of these people make 😮💨 in every medium on earth no doubt.
@@TamaraKane well they didn't exactly give him easy to follow instructions lmao, he makes little jokey videos with his audience there's no point getting upset with him
To each their own :-) I like to use mine on watercolour paper because I find I can put more pastel on the page without the colour sliding around on the surface so soon. But that’s also because I really like the more oil painterly effect which I’ve found works for me!
They make powder out of them too, it's a really convenient way to not waste anything and both products have a really lovely, kinda sweet scent of everyone recognises...
hello! so i’m a really big fan of oil pastels, and honestly using baby oil is the worst choice to blend oil pastels. first i think that the best way to really got a good blend is taking a tissue and putting it on the point of your finger or the point of a cotton swab and rub it very gently on the draw. another thing that help very much are very creamy and pigmented oil pastels. my favourite brand is mungyo gallery soft oil pastels. i think he as a really good quality and a very good price comparing to other pastels brands with the same quality. the brand that i most hate is faber castell’s oil pastels. they are very hard and almost not pigmented at all, and can still be more expensive than gallery’s oil. at last oil pastels are a very hard material to work with. it needs a really big amount of practice to really get it perfect. so with all in mind i really think that oil pastels are not bad at all, but they are not made to every type of artist. i hope this helps someone and really hope that you give a second chance to oil pastels, you won’t regret it!
Usually with oil pastels i use paper with lesser grain and it helps to build up details in layers. Portraits aren't really my forte but landscapes look beautiful with these
I hv no experience in oil pastels but im guessing the baby oil was supposed to lift the color to allow you to blend them more smoothly. Its equivalent to using water on dried watercolor except you need oil bc its “oil” pastels. I also think dabbing the q tip w the oil first and applying to the page would hv more control than adding the oil straight on top.
It's so inspiring to see that some of the best artists also struggle at times, no matter how perfect their works are. Thanks for the honesty sir, we respect you! ❤
Oh thats intetesting! I found it extremely soothing. It reminds me of the clock that used to hang on the wall in my Grandma's living room. When I was a little kid I would sit in there alone for the sunrise and watch as the sun beamed through her orange curtains. It cast this warm glow around the room and made me feel fuzzy and safe. The house was still and silent, all except for that faint clock ticking. Interesting how the same thing can bring complete opposite feelings for people!
You could try to also make a slightly bigger peice! Anyway this makes me want to go through my oil pastels again. I do recommend watching Blackbean CMS on RU-vid!!
I've said this before, it's definitely the paper. You need to smooth the pastel pigments over the paper, a paper with texture would not help you with that. I mean, I got this tip from my teacher. Edit: I just remembered the paper professor recommended me: mi teintes 160g/m² I believe it has cotton in it
Tbh I think you should try a third time, New sketchy, new technique. Maybe try to play with the oil pastels and baby oil to see how much you really need. it works but you just gotta find that balance
You have a he feeling that you've been played because you kinda have. I've been taking art for a while now and from my knowledge oil pastels are suppose to be blended with your finger or a regular tissue. But don't blend until it is completely smooth.
I think you used too much baby oil. I've seen people use baby oil for colored pencils and crayons and you want the q tip to be so subtly damp it doesn't even look wet. Then, you use it as a blending stump. Hope this helps in any future art! (Disclaimer - I haven't done this much as I usually use alcohol to blend the colored pencils and crayons (and for the pencils I also use a colorless blender pencil)
If there's one thing I've learnt from your experience with oil pastels is that sometime it's good to stick to what you know and do best. There's always this assumption that an artist should be capable of using a variety of mediums and styles but in reality some just don't work out for other's and it's fine like that...
I think the problem is the oil pastels themselves, I don't know the brand, or ever worked with it so I can't say for sure, but they don't seem to be able to layer and blend with eachother, i recommend getting a better collection of oil pastel, personally i recommend the caran d'ache neopastel, they're very smooth and easily bendable and they layer perfectly
This specific oil pastels are a little expensive, but but you don't really need the big packs, a small one works perfectly beacuse they're so bendable you create your own colors easily
SCOTTTT!!!! I have made a lot of paintings in oil pastels and its pretty easy to work with. First of all the paper you are using is not suitable for oil pastels, you should use pastel paper you can probably get it from any art store! and another thing when you get the paper there will be a smooth side and textured side, use the textured side. And then dont apply alot of colour because after when you go to blend them they will have so much pigment that they will be super hard to blend but all hope isnt lost yet. You can use a box knife and use it to remove a bit of pigment but be careful and dont rip the paper. Hope this helped! I will see if you have any socials and contact you and send you some of those paintings so you can see how you should use them!
The amount of joy I get from watching you create art, and somtimes even fail is so amazing. It's nice to see that even an amazing artist like you struggles, and it reminds me that the more ugly drawings there are, the better each good one will be :)
Oil pastels are my favorite to work with, they’re just so fun and freeing to me. But seeing your work they’re not something that would work with your style. Plus the one’s you got were really similar to crayons rather than oil pastels!
They seem to have a lot of mineral stabilizers mixed in. The way the hair looked and how pale the drawing seemed overall made me think that they were either a very firm oil pastels, old oil pastels, or low quality oil pastels. The ones I used before in college were luxuriously soft, almost like drawing with lipstick.
The proper way to blend pastels is to firstly use a good amount of pressure to get the vibrant color, second is to use a dry paper towel and gently smudge the areas you want to be smooth, this might take some time but it’s worth it to have a nice looking pastel drawing hope this helps 😊
Glad you didn't give up. But baby oil is a very "difficult" choice. Oil pastels are best treated as the other oil colors... Turpentine and the other classics oils media are good. But your work whould need a thicker and harder, better if primed, support... But I enjoyed you trying. It's like using hairspray instead of fixers for pencils, charcoal... But that one works sometimes, instead.. 🤣🤣🤣
Lol, for good results, it must be a good oil pastels. I'm in Asia and used to use a brand from there so it won't help, but good oil pastels are so smooth, soft and overall very easy to blend. Of course you must use a different paper and the result would be awesome. Like oil pastel's result is kinda like oil paint. I am not a pro at oil pastels, i just dabbled into it a little and fell in love.
Honestly… thank you for posting about your struggles. It’s nice to see someone who’s so talented show both the good, and also the struggle. As an artist myself, it kinda makes me feel a bit better about myself, cause it’s easy to see all the finished products online, all the brilliant pieces, and feel “man… they’re doing so well, how come I’m not”, but then seeing that even pros struggle sometimes, it helps me feel like “hey, everyone struggles”. Like, I consciously know that, but seeing it in action is a whole other thing.
Omg please don't do that! That's not how to use oil pastels! I have been working with them for 4 years and that's not how they are supposed to be used. The oil will sink into the page, there's a proper way to use them. •You have to apply a lot of pressure to get the full opacity, don't use them so lightly. •If it's patchy or has a lot of texture, blend it with your fingers, a tissue or even a q-tip will work to get a smoother blend. •Don't scratch off the top layer! I know it's tempting and seems satisfying but don't do it! It will make it smooth but lightens the colours just like the video. •If this video looks better with the baby oil to you then you have a very cartoonish style and the outlines might be for you! If that's the case then oil pastels won't be very appealing for you. Oil pastels can be used to make more realistic artwork and doesn't have outlines. •Don't use any liquid! It's tempting but just don't do it. I saw another comment saying that they use paint thinner, that's fine but not the real way to use oil pastels as it can cause a LOT of other issues. •Use the right paper. The paper you use will drastically improve your art with oil pastels. And that's it! Those are some things to keep in mind when trying oil pastels for the first time. So next time you make an oil pastel artwork, come back to this comment or screenshot it for the future. I was glad to help you❤
Looks better, but i dont think you are supposed to use that much baby oil!! Lol!! On the rare occasion that i do use oil pastel, i use a q-tip or my finger ro blend the colors. Im more of a chalk pastel person though!! Lol!!
I've found using a tissue/oil paper helps blend oil pastels, it's thin enough where it won't scrape up the pigment, but strong enough to add the right amount of friction to help blend Edit for clarification: I do mean a tissue paper, or oil blotting paper, I haven't personally tried just a tissue
From someone who has won over 100 competitions using oil pastels, i don't know what's wrong with these. Mine ( Camlin ) works really well and it extremely vibrant and actually just needs a little pressure but works really well
I tend to press hard while filling in the color, then I use paper towels folded up and move the color. Q tips with smaller areas, I’ve never used baby oil
I know this isn't exactly your fav medium of art but it's so cool seeing you try. Personally I'm just a paper pencil type of person but I wanted to play around with watercolor and I'm getting ALOT better. Idk I think it would be cool to see you keep trying with oil pastels until you see some improvement.
When we used to do art in school then only allowed us to use oil pastels for a long time it hate using them since they know who took the pastels crushed them and put them in my head I have curly ass hair
