I have watched dozens and you are by far the very best!!! I appreciate that you don't do undercoats then totally cover them all up. I have just purchased my pastel painting supplies and am ready to go!
Practice, Practice, Practice! I am 63 now, and I have done a little computational reminiscence, and figured that since 1961, I have done over 10,000 hours of art in various mediums. As a matter of fact, I am a retired Illustrator from the Boeing Airplane Co. And was awarded employee of the quarter for my work on the 737 Maintenance Program, and all this starting with a little girl named Carol in 1960, who sat down with me to show me how to color with crayons! Now that is how it is done!
I made my first pastel drawing, according to this turturial. I got nice comments on it :). I never had been drawing with pastels but is so easy. Now I'm practicing to get better and try other stuf. Awsome video!
I can't fully answer that question, but from what I understand, a lot of it has to do with the brands you're using. I wish they'd told us what kind of soft pastel they used. Same thing with the paper; Different paper retains pastel differently than others. So, if you're using regular printer paper or something from your sketchbook, a lot of the pigment will rub off. Same thing with cheap pastel paper. And make sure you're using a good quality white. I personally buy my white separately.
Just make sure that it is Acid Free paper! I go down to my local picture framer and get small pieces of matt board that they can't use, to practice on! It is smooth and rough as well, and comes in thousands of colors! Try it! They will give it to you, if you tell them that you are a budding artist and looking for a new surface to try drawing on, with your pastels!
You will find the experience of playing with both quite different, but colorful as well! Now! Oil Pastels are just crayons on a high fat diet! They blend or smear, as some would liken it, too an overly soft crayon! They don't like to blend on top of previously applied colors...Where as, you can as you seen apply quite bright white on dark blue with Pastel Chalk quite successfully. I prefer Pastel Chalk, because the dust blends smoothly! Buy a set of each and experiment!
I watched it twice then did a practice on bad paper, then on my toned tan. It came out great! Thank you! Is there a reason you are not using pastel paper? By the way, the better quality pastels really are the best for blending. Don't use crappy cheap ones from Michael's. go to Blick or other real art supply stores.
If you spray fixative to preserve your work & prevent smearing, will the fixative kill the highlights or ruin the image? Can you still work the image after letting the fixative dry?
maybe they are not soft pastels, maybe you have hard pastels. Oil pastels are really fifferent,i think you'd have noticed that. Or maybe you do not use toned paper
I had a hard time getting the white to pop out it blended in too much with the blue sky. But I used white sketch paper. The rest came out great though. thank you.
Hello I would like to know what materials you use to make the drawing, sorry if you say in the video, is that I am from Argentina and I do not understand English, of course thank you very much
how do you clean extra dust without polluting the colours? whenever I try, at least a tiny dust pollute the colours. it's really annoying. I reached a desperation level level where I seriously think to use a small vacuum cleaner.
If you have cheap pastels is because they are not as good quality and don't have enough strong pigments to do the clouds or any strong highlight. It can also be the type of paper, it needs to have a somewhat rough and gritty surface to get the best results
@@loati94 they were pretty expensive winsor and Newton ones. And the paper was expensive and specifically for soft pastels. I must be doing something wrong
@@smashingpencils I dont think W&N sells pastels anymore so I cant help you on that regard :/ You can try to buy a single White pastel from another brand like Rembrandt to have at least that one for highlights and see if its the pastels or the paper that causes that.
I teach soft pastel art and i use Mungyo as a great starter for beginners and they work fine for me. I think the quality of the paper could be more the problem. Proper sanded Pastel type paper helps the blending better. "Bad" paper with no grain or texture will just make a mess, pastel needs to be able to grip the paper.
still amazed with how colors can come together one at a time to have an awesome end ,...how does one learn which colors to use to create the illusion? like with the mountains...
