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!
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
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?
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 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.
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...
how do you clean extra dust without polluting the colours? whenever I try, at least a tiny dust pollute the colours. it's really annoying. I reached a desperation level level where I seriously think to use a small vacuum cleaner.
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.
If you have cheap pastels is because they are not as good quality and don't have enough strong pigments to do the clouds or any strong highlight. It can also be the type of paper, it needs to have a somewhat rough and gritty surface to get the best results
@@loati94 they were pretty expensive winsor and Newton ones. And the paper was expensive and specifically for soft pastels. I must be doing something wrong
@@smashingpencils I dont think W&N sells pastels anymore so I cant help you on that regard :/ You can try to buy a single White pastel from another brand like Rembrandt to have at least that one for highlights and see if its the pastels or the paper that causes that.
Hello I would like to know what materials you use to make the drawing, sorry if you say in the video, is that I am from Argentina and I do not understand English, of course thank you very much
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.
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!
mine didnt work out that good....for starters the white color wouldnt show on blue...and when i try blending with my finger it just doesnt blend as good. i think i am not using good quality pastels. i am using MUNGYO
i have the same problem..like the white doesn't blend with the blue and when i try blending with my fingers it doesn't look as smooth as in the video xD i think im also using the wrong material im using "dixie"oil pastel. But is it from the oil pastel or paper or...?i honestly dont know.
this tutorial is for "chalk" pastels only. oil pastels different than chalk. oil ones have their own techniques a lot different than chalk pastel techniques
ohh ok great thank you so muchsorry if i sound dumb lol its my first trial of using pastels and stuff like these thank you so much again ~ have a great day.
truth is... I've been drinking. However.... If u paint 3 birds on top of your "failed sky" and do your best with them you will find a way out... The one bird that u figure is the best one is the one you highlight with white. Buy a white "posca" pen and draw the outline. Now noone is going to notice the "bad sky". :-) best wishes JT
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!
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
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.
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. :)
Fantastic video! I have more confidence now after viewing your tutorial!
All seems so real!especially clouds you are soooo good! Thank you for sharing!
Those look amazingly real!
Thank you! I was struggling with clouds and this was very straightforward and helpful.
Something with a bit of texture to it. I'm new to this as well and have found that watercolor papers works nicely.
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!
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
Best demonstration I found on TH-cam!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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..
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?
Incredible!!! I’m so excited to try now. You broke it down very nicely 🙏🏼
I don't use pastels but i want to try. When your done do you spray something over it to seal or not.
Do soft pastels work well on regular sketching paper? What kind of surface did you use?
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
This was extremely helpful & inspiring! Thank you!
it's so pure
you're amazing artist
Quick question, what kind of chalk is it that comes with the prismacolor pencils, it has a chalky, wax and oil like texture
They’re made of wax, the coloured pencils.
what chalk brand do you use? the ones i have bought always are too tough to blend.
I noticed you used a brown colored paper , but I suppose the texture of the that
paper has to do with being able to blend the colors right?
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.
Wow. You’re my favourite artist!
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
Beautiful. I am inspired to try more clouds in pastel
That's actually REALLY good.
Good Job! Awesome!
Nannie on a budget.
A friend told me that you can use hairspray as a fixetive. Is this true, also could you use deoderant aswell? Please rsvp!
Which pastels are easy to blend with fingers? and which blend easily on mixing colors on each other
OG that WAS AWESOME!!!!! which pasells exactly did you use?? they seem to layer very well...
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
Try it out guys. I did. It was great. Actually, the clue to success here is the blending part.
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 :)
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’m pushing the white chalk pastel VERY hard but it barely shows up. Would water or something make it brighter?
how do you clean extra dust without polluting the colours? whenever I try, at least a tiny dust pollute the colours. it's really annoying. I reached a desperation level level where I seriously think to use a small vacuum cleaner.
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.
Why cant I get my soft pastel white show over the blue as you do
Its like a photo! Amazing!
I have the same problem but im use oil pastels.Maybe the main problem is a paper ?
Im excited to try this!
Is there a way to keep the colored project protected without framing it?
I'm more concerned how you use the little cakes of chalk. How are them helpful,? Or they a chalk water color ?
My white doesn’t show up at all like that when I draw it on top of the blue. I’m using soft pastels too. What’s going on?
If you have cheap pastels is because they are not as good quality and don't have enough strong pigments to do the clouds or any strong highlight. It can also be the type of paper, it needs to have a somewhat rough and gritty surface to get the best results
@@loati94 they were pretty expensive winsor and Newton ones. And the paper was expensive and specifically for soft pastels. I must be doing something wrong
@@smashingpencils I dont think W&N sells pastels anymore so I cant help you on that regard :/
You can try to buy a single White pastel from another brand like Rembrandt to have at least that one for highlights and see if its the pastels or the paper that causes that.
@@loati94 my bad just checked they’re Fabre castell. Should they work? Ty for the tip I will literally do that right now!
Hello I would like to know what materials you use to make the drawing, sorry if you say in the video, is that I am from Argentina and I do not understand English, of course thank you very much
i have the same problem. im using schmincke pastels on a normal white photocopy paper.
Lovely clouds and sky.
Looks great brother.
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.
Beautiful choice of colors =)
that was fun, I was actually able to look at my work closer and it still looked good.
but sir when u r colouring d clouds what r u using oil pastel or soft pastel ??? pls ans ny qstn as quickly as possible
awesome...u have a very good way of teaching...thanks
I tried but my white doesn't show up like yours does. It just makes the underlayer brighter. how do you get that white to show up like that?
Thank you so much, really beautiful and a wonderful share of info and love
No ordinary sky, I love it ❤️👍🏻🙏🏻
wow.that was amazing.nice of you to share! learned a ton.
do i have to use clear spray after i finish it?
Nice little edit on the blue under the clouds between 2:48 and 2:49... But seriously, I like your instructions... Nice work.
What brand of pastel's do you use?
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My Rembrantd white soft pastel did not work on my blue sky! It is no white, it is just like a pale blue onto my sky ... what happened ?????
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!
can oil pastels be used instead?
who in the world disliked this ._. This is amazing!
Great drawing!
Can I get this results with Stafford or Nupastel???
blows my mind away
wow its so amazing its so realistic
will pastel pencils work if I don't have the pastel sticks?
wow! gorgeous *.*
that cloud on the right looks like a dragon : o
Sora4277
it does-
mine didnt work out that good....for starters the white color wouldnt show on blue...and when i try blending with my finger it just doesnt blend as good. i think i am not using good quality pastels. i am using MUNGYO
i have the same problem..like the white doesn't blend with the blue and when i try blending with my fingers it doesn't look as smooth as in the video xD i think im also using the wrong material im using "dixie"oil pastel. But is it from the oil pastel or paper or...?i honestly dont know.
this tutorial is for "chalk" pastels only. oil pastels different than chalk. oil ones have their own techniques a lot different than chalk pastel techniques
+unnamed until I think of something oil pastels are a lot thicker, and don't blend together the way chalk pastels do
ohh ok great thank you so muchsorry if i sound dumb lol its my first trial of using pastels and stuff like these thank you so much again ~ have a great day.
truth is... I've been drinking. However.... If u paint 3 birds on top of your "failed sky" and do your best with them you will find a way out... The one bird that u figure is the best one is the one you highlight with white. Buy a white "posca" pen and draw the outline. Now noone is going to notice the "bad sky". :-) best wishes JT
Sir, you are amazing..... God bless you
A good quality soft pastel as well as the toned paper will help you out.
Hello, could you favoreelencarmi mica colors you used to make the sky? Thanks in advance ^ ^
Surprised ok brown ib the sky, was it a cold brown?
Antonio Garza?
HAHAHAHA is it because of the background music?😅😂
which brand soft pastel are you using
Very cool, you make it look so easy.
It looks real nice
Fantastic class...as usual
Whoa that was amazing
what kind of paper are you using because the white pastels won't show up as I color over the blue pastels
i have the save problem
He normally uses Canson Mi Teints and rembrandt soft pastel
Thank you !!
You are so good.I so wanted to draw clouds,yet I get it as of this moments.
is soft pastel oil based?
what paper are you using???
can i use the oil pastel on chalkboad instead on paper?
beautiful you are really good and i like you countryishh accent
Absolutely amazing..
VERY GOOD!! VERY HELPFUL VIDEO
So beautiful!!! Thank you so much for all this Beauty !! You help me so much by your great work!!
Hello. I need the picture about spring or about flower. Would you help me? Pleeeaase.
Beautiful as always.
Who wrote the background music?