SOFT PASTELS TUTORIALS FOR BEGINNERS & ARTISTS

Soft Pastels drawing tutorials for beginners & Artists:
In this class we will learn about how to get start using pastels for drawing or painting anything like portraits, still life etc. The most important aspect of this class is to provide each and every information about all the tools required for pastels like difference between soft & hard pastels or oil pastels. We will also learn how to draw anything from dark to light approach. We will also discuss about different type of materials used in drawing and how we can get different results from different papers.

The three important parts are:

1. Familiarization with different types of pastels & other tools

2. Process used

3. Getting results in drawing from Dark to light method.

The course is dedicated to all the beginners & artists

You will learn about different types of papers like what is sanded paper or what is honeycomb textures and which paper is most suitable for realistic drawing and artistic drawing, different types of shading techniques like how to use your fingers for blending pastel powder.
Most importantly, we will learn how we can utilize white pastel color for highlighting tool.

We will also talk about different methods of drawing of human head or still life.

In the end we can say that after completing this class you will be able to draw or paint soft pastel drawing like an artist.

• Introduction to Class
• Introduction to Pastels
• Pastels properties
• Intro: Pan Pastels surprise
• Pan Pastels surprise
• INTRO : Pastel Pencils
• Pastel pencils
• INTRO: Papers type
• Paper types: Textured
• Paper types: Sanded & grains
• INTRO: Analyzing Papers
• Analyzing Papers
• Process for pastels
• Holding pastels
• INTRO: Dark to light Approach
• Dark to light Approach
• Getting Values
• INTRO: Human Portraits study
• Human Portraits study: Getting form
• Human Portraits study: highlighting values
• Human Portraits study: finishing using charcoal pencils
• INTRO: pastel pencils approach
• Pastel pencil approach: prepare foundation
• Pastel pencil approach: creating features
• Pastel pencil approach: finishing value
• Finding Realism: primary layers
• Finding Realism: cheeks & jawline
• Finding Realism : Lips anatomy
• Finding Realism: finishing using pastel pencils
• Preserving pastel artworks