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 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!
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!
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.
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...
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.
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.
I love your tutorials, but I wish you'd go into detail on the shapes of the objects and how to achieve those shapes with the pastels. I can mimic the shapes and textures and still don't get the shapes or textures you get for some reason. Idk what I'm doing wrong.
this guy has a wonderful voice and approach to teaching. not arrogant or condescending in any way, knowledgeable of the subject at hand.
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 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!
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!
Those look amazingly real!
Fantastic video! I have more confidence now after viewing your tutorial!
man thanks a lot, brown to the sky never would have thought of it, seriously great and awesome job
I have never seen anyone do pastels before and that was amazing. It seems like amfast medium if you know what your doing.
Steel Art Although it is time lapsed, it's actually very slow.
Thank you! I was struggling with clouds and this was very straightforward and helpful.
All seems so real!especially clouds you are soooo good! Thank you for sharing!
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.
I AM SOOOOOOOOOO GOING TO TRY THIS!!! I MUST!!!
He made it seem so easy. :(
Great job. I enjoyed it a lot. :)
This was extremely helpful & inspiring! Thank you!
Try it out guys. I did. It was great. Actually, the clue to success here is the blending part.
Best demonstration I found on RUclips!!!!!!!!!!
I always enjoy your videos. As an experienced artist myself, it is always a nice refresher to see how others draw and create works of art.
I agree with you
Incredible!!! I’m so excited to try now. You broke it down very nicely 🙏🏼
Thank you !!
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!
Something with a bit of texture to it. I'm new to this as well and have found that watercolor papers works nicely.
I used chalk pastels for the first time in years omg it's such a weird medium to work with.
I moved my hand over it by accident and BAM all gone.. ;_;
Ya. True. But I love the effect it creates. I am a beginner in art.
lmfao thats sad
I didn't want to laugh.. but omg..
it's so pure
you're amazing artist
Wow. You’re my favourite artist!
No ordinary sky, I love it ❤️👍🏻🙏🏻
That's actually REALLY good.
Good Job! Awesome!
that was fun, I was actually able to look at my work closer and it still looked good.
This was helpful even for use with other mediums. I'm new to pastels and I have such a hard time with clouds when painting.
I'm still struggling with them 😖
@@Lola1912 I tried this technique and still need practice but it is really easy with watercolor I found
Its like a photo! Amazing!
Lovely clouds and sky.
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 did a painting before and smug it and it looks awesome and its called the starry night and ur painting looks awesome too good job :)
Beautiful. I am inspired to try more clouds in pastel
Thank you so much, really beautiful and a wonderful share of info and love
wow.that was amazing.nice of you to share! learned a ton.
who in the world disliked this ._. This is amazing!
how did you know which color to be used? which goes first which goes next.It was just amazing combinding those colors the way you did.
It's like watching a conjurer. Amazing talent.
wow its so amazing its so realistic
Looks great brother.
awesome...u have a very good way of teaching...thanks
Thank you for this, I'm just about to start on my art journey at 63
Beautiful choice of colors =)
Very cool, you make it look so easy.
blows my mind away
You are so good.I so wanted to draw clouds,yet I get it as of this moments.
Whoa that was amazing
Absolutely amazing..
Great drawing!
It looks real nice
wow!!!!!seems tat drawing comes live
That's so amazing . i can't seem to draw white clouds on top of the blue background though
VERY GOOD!! VERY HELPFUL VIDEO
Очень Замечательные облака и пейзаж! Спасибо! 😊🤩🌹🍀
YOUVE GOT CURLY CARTTON HAIR IT LOOKS SOOO GOOD :D
beautiful you are really good and i like you countryishh accent
wow! gorgeous *.*
that cloud on the right looks like a dragon : o
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it does-
Sir, you are amazing..... God bless you
Fantastic class...as usual
So helpful, thank you!
This is wonderful, sooo beautiful
This is beautiful.
OG that WAS AWESOME!!!!! which pasells exactly did you use?? they seem to layer very well...
So beautiful!!! Thank you so much for all this Beauty !! You help me so much by your great work!!
Thank you for explaining this so clear
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?
Is there a reasson why I couldn't do this ;-; My white pastels wouldn't appear on the blue background
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
+andrada andreea oil pastels have a consistency that does not allow you to blend very eell
+Emmiwy well*
I used soft pastels,still the white didn't appear on blue
Same. Why white just turned blue and didn’t look like a cloud
amazing art work
it looked so real! =D
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.
Great job
this is beautiful and so helpful!!
Thank you so much!!! Spot on !
Great content as usual, but wow, your presentation has vastly improved since this video lol
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...
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.
Yay I have mungyo and I was a little scared they weren't good but they're wonderful
pretty awesome
Nice little edit on the blue under the clouds between 2:48 and 2:49... But seriously, I like your instructions... Nice work.
Beautiful as always.
beautiful drawing :)
Thank you for making this, it helped me lots x
Antonio Garza?
HAHAHAHA is it because of the background music?😅😂
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.
I did a painting before and smug it it awesome its the starry night
Very amazing and inspirational
I don't use pastels but i want to try. When your done do you spray something over it to seal or not.
A good quality soft pastel as well as the toned paper will help you out.
Beautiful work!
Very beautiful art!! Compliments!!
I love your tutorials, but I wish you'd go into detail on the shapes of the objects and how to achieve those shapes with the pastels. I can mimic the shapes and textures and still don't get the shapes or textures you get for some reason. Idk what I'm doing wrong.
This is so beautiful ! Thank you 😊
Beautiful.
Which pastels are easy to blend with fingers? and which blend easily on mixing colors on each other
very helpful!
wonderful and thank you for your time, it is much appreciated.
Very nice ! 💚💚
I love what you did there! I'm just beginning to learn how to use soft pastels and would you tell me what kind of paper you used?? Please reply!
In 6 years more He will answer you...be patient.
@@pablottalonso7878
It's now been 9 years
Magic!
Great video, learned a lot!!!!!
This girl s very helpful! Thank you!
Do soft pastels work well on regular sketching paper? What kind of surface did you use?