Holysocks wrote:Those are beautiful! I'm playing around with pastels right now, for an art course I'm in. So it's really nice to see yours!
Thank you.
Since you like my work and you're playing with pastels, I'll explain what my teacher told us.
I'm not sure which pastel you're working with, so I'll just say them both.
The soft pastel was all about building it up from the darks to the lights, kind of like painting statues, You can't get a good affect if you don't have your darks, and that means getting really messy and little to no paper showing when you're done with the darks. It takes a while to work through all of the darks and mediums, then it's just some light touch ups, lots of blending, and exploring the lights while maintaining your darks.
With Oil Pastel it's a lot more basic. Layering too much can cause the colors to mix unfavorably so you just have to work with the cross-hatching to help with minimal blending. With oil pastel too, you want to work from one color to the other, but you mostly want to lay it on thick with multiple different colors to create the color you're really looking for, without mixing. It's a tricky business and not one I really mastered.
For the picture of the girl I started out with a light outline of the basic shape, then moved into the mediums, working with medium dark and medium light to fill in my space, then the extremes after that.
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