This is gorgeous. I am brand new to pastel pencils. I’m best at landscapes. Do you have this full tutorial on Patreon and what tier? Thank you so much for sharing.
I've felt so lost, never using pastels until Sept last year for the first time ever. I started drawing a year ago and tried just pencil then coloured pencil but just didn't find that excitement until I tried soft pastels. I'm trying so hard to build an art business drawing Equine and animal portraits, I've done 8 commissions do far though only 2 in pastels which I feel wasn't real start I to becoming an artist. Because I had to stop working after a long fight with cancer then radiation poisoning from my treatment which left me very ill an in a wheelchair for the rest of my life being able to afford pastels and any kind of help is just not an option. I'm currently buying pastels or pastel pencils in singles to be able to afford the colours I need, however I have a collection that is huge waiting for me to buy, I paid a tiny deposit on them to be held but now have to find £290 to get the rest, my problem is by the time I've saved any money I need to replace stock that Ive used to be able to continue to draw. Swings and roundabouts 😳 your videos help so much! Sadly I have only 1 pot of PanPastels as I just can't afford them at all, but I hope to be able to in the future if I can rebuild my life with my art for my family. Your videos help me more than you could ever know, thank you 😊
Dee, that is a beautiful story ❤️ Pan pastels are a great way to save a bit of money because you don't go through them as fast but it's expensive to start buying them at the beginning! Maybe you can get a black and a white pan pastel and add detail with black and white pastel pencils.. Then you can offer black and white pieces as an option while you're saving up? Then you don't need to buy all of the colours 😊 This isn't the same situation, but I'm saving for a new computer because I'm actually recording these videos on my phone, then editing them on a 2009 Mac with the 2006 version of iMovie... It's really not ideal, and takes 10x as long, but I really want to help other people so I'm making the videos with what I already have 😊 Keep fighting, and keep making art! You can only use the supplies you have currently, but I hope that you are able to make enough from your equine pieces to pay for more supplies 😊 It's lovely to hear that my videos are helping you on your journey!
I hope that by now you are very very busy artist and making money too. I love your story, as painful as life can get, art can take the edge off of things. I know, I also had an accident 4 years ago and am disabled now too. Art is my creative outlet, and the only way i can stay within the realms of "sanity".
I don't provide the exact link to each reference photo, just the site I used to find the reference photo because the exact links for each photo sometimes change and it's too difficult to keep up with them all on my hundreds of RU-vid videos If you're a member of the KR Fine Art Academy, I provide all of the reference photos as downloadable attachments but I am unable to do that on RU-vid so a link to the home page of the royalty-free site I used is the best option The link provided is for Pixabay, so if you click on it, and then type in sunset, it's the 4th photo 😊
Hi, if you would like slower, real-time, in-depth tutorials where I talk through every step of the process and give you colour names/downloadable reference photos, then you're welcome to join the KR Fine Art Academy! 😊
im confused. are pastel pencils pastels in pencil format or colours with a specific aesthetic ? only recently i was into colors used to draw pokemon and i realized that all those colours were offered on the basic faber c pitt pencil set, which are different from any other basic pencil set. what do you think?
Pastel pencils are just soft pastel inside of a pencil casing 😊 So they are like the soft pastel sticks that you can get, but they are a bit harder so they don't crumble as easily inside of a pencil! It's completely different than working in coloured pencil so you'd want to do some research/watch tutorials etc to find out whether you can get the look you are going for PS: You can buy individual pencils (coloured pencil or pastel pencil) so you can avoid buying sets if you only want to use specific colours 😊
@@KirstyRebeccaFineArt I see. I now know pastel is a different medium. thanks for that! ☺ I found out that the colours they (Japanese) provide in many of thier basic sets are either tints or shades but never in full chroma. and this specific box of pencils i was looking at, had those colours. ☺ thanks again! 😊
Your colour choices are not that important when it comes to realism - as long as you choose a colour that is similar (not too dark or too light) it doesn't have to be a perfect match! If you would like more in-depth tutorials where I talk through every stage of the process in real-time including listing the colours I am using while I am drawing (and also in the description) then my KR Fine Art Academy might be a good choice for you! There is a link in the description if you would like more information 😊
Sorry but what happened to the beginning? you jumped from blank paper to a basic sketch!! I was waiting for a complete tutorial. Well I guess you get what you pay for...
There are a lot of different methods like the transfer method/projector/tracing/grid method/freehand method you can look up on RU-vid where people explain in-depth how to get an outline onto your paper. My videos focus on the rendering/techniques/realism/colour choices/values etc, not the initial outline as there are so many options/preferences to create an outline. This one in particular is a very simple landscape/water scene, which definitely doesn't have to be accurate at all! A very basic sketch with a horizon line, a brief outline of where you want your clouds/mountains/sun to be, and some lines that represent the darker parts of the water are all you need... and none of them needs to be in the same spot as mine or the reference photo - you can make it up and it will still look fine because every scene is different! Even if you just loosely follow the reference photo, close enough is good enough with something like this! Also, yes, RU-vid is free, and most creators (who are creating similar tutorial content) are uploading tutorials because they either enjoy creating tutorials or they are trying to help people out of the goodness of their hearts. It takes hours and hours to create a RU-vid video and despite what some people may believe, the financial return is negligible.... the time it takes me to make a video is definitely not worth it... but again, I upload these free videos to help people because I would have appreciated these kinds of videos when I first started out drawing/painting 😊
