EP 1: INTRO TO PASTELS & ITS TYPE

This is just for familiarization with pastel tools and how to basically choose correct pastels for your drawing and how one can identify various kinds of pastels. Evaluate how many pastels you presently do have and what need to be purchase.

EP 2: PASTEL PROPERTIES

Here you can understand that why there are so many pastels available and what are the difference in them in their composition. See what really suits your art style & fulfil your needs.

EP 3: BONUS PAN PASTELS

This is something new to explore and it’s just a glimpse to see how the world of pastels has been changed. Try these as they are super awesome to apply pastels like paints.

EP 4: PASTEL PENCILS

It is most helpful for realistic portrait drawing techniques. If someone is not comfortable in pastel block, then these pencils really help to make better artworks. Have them in your art supplies and eventually you can see their advantages. Also it is awesome on sanded paper base foundation techniques results.

EP 5: PAPERS & SUITABILITY

This is very important lesson; you have to learn about the paper as it plays major role in pastel artworks. Try to have them all and explore the possibility with them.

EP 6: ANALYSING PAPERS

Practice on various paper will really help you to understand pastels more. Do exactly what I elaborated in this lesson and see the difference.

EP 7: PROCESS

Learning process is the key to understanding things better and get better into anything. I would say that it is the key what one requires to open the beautiful world of pastels. Watch this lesson closely and try to understand basics.

EP 8: DARK TO LIGHT APPROACH

This is the approach which everyone should learn if he or she want to learn pastels techniques. So try to practice it and anything what you want to draw. You can start with simple still life artworks and see how can you really get the details etc. For doing practice of this technique, you need to first squeeze your eyes a bit and find the darkest area of the subject and choose darkest color and apply first layer. Accordingly find lighter color and apply them as well. Use the below drawing as reference and draw and post it on project section

EP 9: GETTING VALUES

If you want to learn human portrait, then this episode is basically for you. Your task is to create human face features using this technique and referring the below drawing and submit your project in discussion forum. I will review them.

EP 10: HUMAN PORTRAITS

We are stating with the basics and using only blocks to finish the portrait on textured paper. Take the below drawing as reference image and create this artwork and submit your artwork in the project section.

EP 11: PASTEL PENCIL APPROACH

Well if you want to explore the pastel pencil on sanded paper alone by using foundation process then this is for you. Pick up pastel pencils and draw the below drawing on sanded paper and see how much you can achieve with these pencils. You can also achieve hyperrealism as well.

EP 12: REALISM IN PASTELS

So this is for all those who want to use pastels for realistic portrait drawing. In this lesson we will use both kind of pastels simultaneously. Take this as reference drawing & see the steps and layers to apply, I am very excited to see your effort on this drawing in discusion projects forum. I am attaching original reference images as attachements.

EP 13: PRESERVE PASTELS

Well, at the end we have to learn this very important lesson as pastels are powder like elements, so it’s important to preserve them from the open environment. You can use anyone of them what I have shown in this episode and show the results to me on projects section.

Ankita Biswas

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