Practicing drawing curly hair using a tutorial on Youtube from Kirsty Partridge, and trying to find a good blend for light red hair. Prismacolor colored pencils are used here.
For the lighter strand, I used Burnt Ochre, Goldenrod, Yellow Ochre, Sand and Cream. For the darker strand, I used Terracotta, Yellow Ochre, Mineral Orange and Beige.
I am not overly satisfied with either.
I have a set of Derwent pastel pencils (36-count tin), and am taking Phil Davies’ “Portraits in Pastel Pencil” class on arttutor.com. I was less interested in exactly matching the reference photo than I was in determining the best 10 colors to use. (We’re limited to a palette of ten, per the instructor, and he uses Faber-Castell Pitt pastel pencils.)
The first drawing was done on Rembrandt Talens pastel paper, and I dislike the look of the honeycomb hatched paper. Utterly ruins the drawing for me! The other paper used was Canson Mi-Tientes (smooth side). In both cases, a tinted gray paper was used.
Maybe someday I’ll get better at perspective. These photos were taken before Covid-19 hit.
The drawing done in charcoal — darkest lines — is based on a photo of a model in the pose of the painting. The other two drawings — in graphite — are based on a photo of Degas’ painting.
Using a reference photo of myself at aged 3.
Some of the drawings I’ve done of the human figure, referring primarily to books by Giovanni Civardi on drawing the nude, and the human figure. Compressed charcoal (upper left), graphite (upper right) and white Conte crayon on Strathmore gray-toned paper (bottom right).
Upper left drawing is based on an arttutor.com reference photo. The newborn’s feet are drawn from a photo by sippakorn on Pixabay.
I’ve been taking Rebecca de Mondenca’s pastel classes on arttutor.com, and this is some of my initial work from her class “A Beginner’s Guide to Pastels”.
I find I don’t care for the pastel paper that has the honeycomb look, although it can hold more pastel layering, given the “tooth” of the paper.
Most of these are from using the Dick Blick Artist’s Pastels (60 set), but the (finger) blended blues are Sennelier Landscape (30 set) pastels.
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