Learn How to Paint Animal Portraits Using Pastels For the Beginner
Learn How to Paint Animal Portraits Using Pastels For the Beginner
Introduction:
First of all thank you for choosing this eBook as your guide in Pastel Art, This is the Second eBook for the Pastel Art Series The first one is – “Learn How to Paint Portraits of People Using Pastels For the Beginner”, for this Second series we will be drawing and rendering animal fur and it’s specific texture using Pastel. I remember as a kid I admired people who could draw and render animals, with just a pencil strokes, but as years goes by, my love and curiosity for art alone are not enough, so I seek for more ways to inspire me and appreciate art by immersing myself to some other medium, and I found out that pastel can really add something to my animals artwork as it has colors which can give life to your drawing aside from contenting myself from pencil alone. I can assure you that if you try this, you will be amazed with it. So read it from start to finish, the first part is about what to expect in Pastel art, styles and techniques, and a discussion of colors, tips to remember, and how to render Pastel using Brushes, which is the key for rendering and blending Pastels. And by the way if you want to learn how to render using Charcoal after you learned everything from this eBook, check our other Charcoal Titles- Learn How to Draw Portraits of People in Charcoal for the Beginner (Learn to Draw), Learn How to Draw Landscapes In Pencil and Charcoal For The Absolute Beginner (Learn to Draw), Learn How to Draw Portraits of African Animals in Charcoal For the Beginner (Learn to Draw). So be ready with your materials and follow the step-by-step procedures thoroughly in the exercises. And after that I’m sure at the end you will have Pastel Rendering skills and you will be rewarded for that, but first “have fun doing the exercises”.
Tips to Remember
• You must have a clear copy or photograph of your subject.
• See through shapes including the negative of the image as well the positive, to help you visualize the shapes.
• Practice sketching simple basic shapes, it will help you improve your strokes and good hand coordination and it can give you confidence in your work.
• Sometimes some parts in the photograph are blurred and it’s hard to distinguish, in that case, use your imagination.
• It’s not bad, to pick up some magazines and newspaper, and find a picture you want to draw and also interest you, for practice.
• Secure yourself a good lighting source when drawing.
• Watch the proportion of shapes to other shapes in a picture.
• Remember different textures have different technique or strokes, that you need imitate when drawing.
• If you find some parts of the face and other parts of the body, difficult to draw, break it down to smaller components.
• It helps if you have reference in handy or take photograph, so that you will have a guide when drawing and shading, especially if your confuse of the shadows and cast shadow in your drawing.
• If you’re having issues with smudges or fingerprints cause by oil from your hand on your work, you can prevent this by placing an extra sheet of paper under your working hand specifically the side of your palm.
• Constant practice drawing and rendering, for sure will make you succeed.
How to render using Pastels with brush
1. Using your template draw a large circle in your paper
2. Shave a Yellow colored Pastel; this will be ball color.
3. Use your Round Brush, take some pastel dust in the container, tap it to remove excess dust in the brush, and start from the lower right side of the ball, shading in a circular motion around the inner circle.
4. Fill the ball, but remember to make it appear with gradual transition, so apply another coat of the color again as you did before, to make it darker and to have depth and dimension, as you can see the light source was coming from above, so the ball received highlight on the upper part as for lower part it turns away from the light by that the area will have a shadow.
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