I LOVE oil pastels! But I didn't love them until I realized you could use baby oil on a q-tip to blend them and essentially turn them into a paint like texture. It goes from "crayon" to "paint" by just adding the oil. You can also get better detail by using a small folded scrap of paper (with a bit of oil) to get into tight places rather than using the pastel stick. Please try them again... I am an art teacher and I have taught an entire generation of kiddos to love oil pastels. They get so excited when they are out on the table and then immediately ask..."Where's the oil?" lol
I will have to try this at some point. I personally have never liked them; I am an art teacher as well and always have them available to use in the menu of materials. I found most students have a very strong opinion on them either way, unlike most materials. Thank you for the tip!
I actually love using oil pastels. But in my opinion the pentel ones aren't really good and I don't like using them. You should try Sennelier oil pastels. They're pretty pricy but you also can buy individual oil pastel sticks or a "test box" that has the primary colors so you won't spend too much and you can mix them pretty well. It's absolutely worth it in my opinion. They're WAY softer and smoother than most other oil pastel brands (probably more oil and pigments and less fillers? I don't know). Usually I draw with the pastels and then smudge them to blend and to finish blending I use a mineral spirit. Mineral spirit on a paint brush breaks up the oil pastel and you can blend it with the brush as you're painting with a "regular" paint. With that technique you can break up the "rough" pastel look and have some more detail in some areas of your artwork.
I’ve heard that the pricier ones are much better. I tried a cheap brand and hated them, but at the same time I could tell they might be fun if they were better quality. The ones I had would barely blend and seemed more like really bad crayons than oil pastels.
Lol I have always loved oil pastels. 🤣 I’ve always used them in a more “painterly or less detailed” I guess manner. Landscapes. Lol I recommend a landscape. Or something bold and graphic.
I like the texture of them! And you can also use them to transfer sketches/photographs so that’s nice (1. colour in the back of the sketch/picture 2. Trace the sketch with a pencil or a pen or something 3. Done!)
I remember them being satisfying, but I suspect that my technique was terrible. I'm very much a graphite/fineliner kind of gal and I'm always a bit lost when I try to create a piece with minimal/no outlining (following Maughan's "Guide to drawing the head" atm - yay for babysteps!)
I actually remember finding them V E R Y satisfying to use, but had difficulty getting them to do what I wanted - probably because I've always been about outlines and the i couldn't handle the mess. Clean edges can be difficult to get, but the way you can blend colours into each other and the vibrancy of them are amazing.
Exactly the same experience here. I could get alla sazed and dreamy, as they flowed across the page... annd then looked down on the paper at the unholy mess I had somehow created. My. Neat. Lines. ;-;
OIL PASTEL TIPS: 1 - Use them in order of tone, lightest first. 2 - Oil pastels are basically condensed paint, they work very similarly to oil paint. Treat it like you’re painting 3 - A good quality oil pastel should be buttery. If it’s at all chalky, they’re going to be very difficult to use. You can smudge out a good oil pastel with relative ease. 4- short strokes work best One last thing; you can use these on coloured/tan/black paper and they’re just as pigmented! Hope you see this doodle date! This is everything I remember from high school
My mom used to use these all the time. She would even get out small paint brushes and use linseed oil with them and make them behave a bit like oil paints.
I actually took a class on oil pastels! One technique that can be used is called "poor man's oil paint". You draw and fill in a big circle of the colour you want on some kind of plasticy surface, then put a couple drops of baby oil and mix with a paint brush. BAM! Oil paint! Also Steph, my favourite thing to draw with oil pastels is fruit!
Sleepy Pup it'd probably be helpful to google it because I'm a bit rusty with remembering the technique! Just google "poor man's oil paint" or something like that!
I think the biggest stumbling block with oil pastels is that people approach them the same way they would other dry media, when they're more of an in-betweener. You can blend them and thin them using the same sorts of materials you would use in oil painting, like mineral spirits or linseed oil. Use a cotton swab or rag -- or a brush -- dipped in mineral spirits or oil allows the oil pastels to loosen up and move around. I suppose it could be somewhat described as sort of the oil version of watercolor pencils -- sort of that bridge between drawing and painting. Using them on vellum is especially satisfying. You can achieve really beautiful painterly effects, while still maintaining the sort of control you have from drawing. Also, one of the great things about it is that mineral spirits don't buckle paper.
My best friend ordered the Pentel set and I was really surprised at how good they were because I had always used the really crappy Daler and Rowney ones. And with the Pentel set I created a surrealistic piece of an eye and it’s currently one of my highest liked pictures on Instagram. So I don’t get why everyone hates them, you just have to blend it out really well I guess
We have a poster making contest that usually uses oil pastels and its why I never join because I SUCK at oil pastels. It's quite interesting to see you guys test it out!
I love oil pastels! I’ve used them since I was little! Don’t leave them in a heated area because they will melt. Also you can blend them using que tips and tissue paper.
It's been so long since I've used them! I love using them cause I know the other thing I can use is soft pastels and I hate them with a passion because they're all chalky 😂 to be fair I only use them abstract though, and I think what Stephanie was drawing really suits how I (others can use them differently) usually use them. Really cute!
You guys are so inspiring to me, I started watching your channel and I binge watch your videos all the time. You bring me out of sad states because its impossible to be sad while watching your channel, and I thank you for that.
Oil pastels, being oil based, are meant to be blended by heat (friction) and/or solvents (like Gambisol). They can lay some really velvety color but they generally need a well ventilated space to work with
In my art class, the teacher kept them all together in a big bucket, so overtime, the pastels got on each other to a point where every pastel was the same, muddy brown color. Getting the right color was just a guessing game...
i love oil pastels!! my last year of high school i did nearly all my art projects with them!! big tip-blending with your fingers is great, but cotton swaps works too if you dont want to get your hands all messy, and if you want something detailed itll need to be on a BIG piece of paper, because in my experience oil pastels are best for soft shading and blurry edges and stuff (you can get detail if you work at it but it takes some time and is easier on a larger scale) theyre really fun to do landscapes with!! i think you guys did great, especially considering this is basically your first time using them!!!!
I love oil pastel because they are so good to make backgrounds or add a little bit of shadows on top of color pencil where the pencil doesn't want to anymore.
Oil pastels are in my top 3 favourite art mediums, I remember first using them in school and instantly falling in love with them. A lot of artists like to blend them with those paper blending stubs or their fingers, but I personally don't like to smudge them at all! I prefer to put it down quite heavy and blend them in a way similar to burnishing with pencils, they're so waxy that layering the colour automatically causes them to mix. I've also found that working dark to light and blocking in shadows first is my favourite way to go, since they can be really opaque depending on the brand- my faves are caran dache neopastel, I have 3 white ones (can't afford a full set lol) and they're amazing for highlights, even over pencil drawings! Don't know if any of this helped, I love oil pastels but yeah they can be tricky, I think they're more for blocking in colour than detail work- a lineless cartoon drawing for example might be a nice simple way to experiment with them as beginners?
Oil pastels are awesome. I use them almost exclusively. I use the Pentel for my initial ideas... Then when I have something I love, I use Sennelier. The Mungyo Gallery are also quite nice and an affordable option.
I’m in 5th grade and we use oil pastels a lot in Art. I love them Bc they look so cool if u do them properly but hate them Bc they’re hard to use sometimes and if the paper with the pastels touch something else it’ll rub off
I did a few pieces in highschool using oil pastels, I didn't hate the end result, but I despised every second using them. They were messy, slippery, and smudged everywhere. No. Thank. You. Also, Steph, i think we have the same glasses!
They are just adult crayons I hate using them every single time in art! I stay far away from them and stick to like watercolours and other paints or just plain graphite pencil
As someone who is constantly using oil pastels for contests s a m e. Im from ph and we always use oil pastels for poster making contests and I hated joining those contests because of how messy my hands were after
A technique for oil pastels smoothing out pigment with blending stumps for small details to get an even color and less of a crayon texture. It makes the process less messy than using your fingers and the oil in your fingers will move the pigment around so you gotta be careful. You can also use paper towels as well for big areas of blending. They’re good for opaque layering as well!
Steph, your hair looks so cool ^u^ also you guys need more colors in art supplies. You would love Crayola tower of crayons they come in 157 different colors
Love the new glasses Steph! You both did better than I ever could with these xD We had these in primary school and they were little nubs that were kept in these dirty boxes and were covered in all of the other colours in the box, they were so gross, and you'd end up with blotches of other colours in the colour you were trying to use.
I love oil pastels. I recently got into them at the start of July and i have really been enjoining them. Syndia art has the best tutorials on this medium. I learned a lot from her videos
We were taught to use the pastels themselves to blend between the two, and to use a dark blue instead of a black - something I found is using tortillions/blending stumps can help blend them!
Oh no, I saw the Pentel oil pastels in the thumbnail and instantly felt the need to sweep the rough landscape studies I've done with those exact same pastels under the rug. I'm trendy, I swear! (Seriously though, for painterly landscapes in bold colours these can actually be really fun and give you some cool textures.)
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It used to be my most hated art supply along with watercolors bc I used to be bad at them. But now they’re some of my fav art supplies lol. SinceI find it hard to do smol details with oil pastels, I usually use it for really big drawings. It can be quite messy but it’s pretty fun blending with them!!
I’m glad to see from the comments that I’m not the only one who likes oil pastels! I personally use them on very smooth paper, and use cotton swabs or tortillon stumps to mess around with them and blend and such. I’ve even been known to use a toothpick or x-acto knife to scrape up colors I didn’t like or to clean up edges. I’m super poor so I don’t use the fancy artist grade ones, but I do really like the Crayola ones, they have a healthy amount of colors AND pointed tips. 😉 The thing I like most about oil pastels is how you can get a big fat line of bold color down quickly, it’s like drawing with lipstick. 😆 I also want to point out that since they’re oily, they don’t “dry out”, per se, for AGES, I’m talking days or even weeks...I learned that the hard way when I once decorated a sketchbook cover with oil pastels, and this sketchbook was going to be used during a trip and therefore was going to be packed in a suitcase...it kept getting closer and closer to my flight date and they still felt oily, so I panicked, sprayed them with hairspray (I didn’t have any fixative), the colors crystallized weirdly (I mean they literally started growing crystals!), so then I panicked again and just collaged over the whole thing. 😅
I love oil pastels! I did one of my art assignments using them, it was a close up of michalengelo’s “David” face, done in the style of Van Gogh. One of my favorite pieces!
I was shocked that other schools used chalk pastels instead of oil, because we were constantly doing cremation of sam mcgee projects in art that we always used oil pastels for
At my highschool we used both, and both sucked. Not because the pastels were bad, but because the school was too cheap to provide us with appropriate paper to use them on and the teacher also did not provide the students with a proper explanation as to how to use them. She just put a bucket full of pastels on every table and handed us sheets of paper that were marginally better suited for the job than copy paper. It's a miracle that I grew up to actually love pastels, because as a teenager I surely hated them because I did not understand that it was the papers fault, not the pastels.
Quick tip: You can color something with beige and use a black oil Pastel to shade by smudging it with your finger you can do the same thing with the white to shade and highlight things Or color them completely Try chalk pastels they are very interesting
Oh I haaaate chalk pastels... I don't know if it's just that my old school had the cheapest ones possible, but I hated the noise, I hated the lack of pigment and I hated the mess! Plus I never figured out how to seal them (glue made them smudge & basically vanish, spray fixative did nothing at all)
I made a small postcard size version of a renaissance painting with oil pastels for school. I liked doing most of it, hated doing the neck cause I couldn't get the right color, but loved the outcome. I was also doing the whole thing with about 10-13 different colors so it took a little longer cause I had to test all the color combos
I love oil pastels it’s super fun to experiment with.... I literally just got a box of Van Gogh oil pastels... these are lovely for abstract and minimalist art
My friend uses these, and he uses the sides of the tips, like crayons, the blends them,out so they are nice and smooth. Its fascinating watching the drawing go from what looks like a 5year olds piece, to something great.
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I LOVE THEM In high school we had a bunch of really high quality ones in our art class and they were smooth like butter and were very vibrant. I think I was the only one that liked them though.
I used to not like them, but since trying some quality ones (Sennelier) I love them! The cheap ones smell and have a terrible texture and make loads of flakes/lumps. The Sennelier ones are nice and creamy making it easy to blend with tortillons or those rubber ones (or q-tips!) or you can use solvent to blend like you do with colour pencils (so you could try zest it). They work great on canvas paper if you want to apply them a bit like oils, using lots of blending with solvent. Anyone who hates oil pastels needs to try a good quality one to see what they can really do before writing them off ;) Have fun!
In 6th grade my art class did a project where we made tie dye patterns on paper by making spiky circles next to eachother (think like a bullseye/target), alternating the colors, and then smudging the outwards to smooth/blend them out. It was pretty fun!
I haven't used oil pastels since middle school but I always loved using them. They're very easy to blend together imo because they don't mix too much and muddy things, but they blend enough to keep the drawing cohesive.
I used these in an art class, and if your using good paper, you can use oil (like olive or vegetable oil) and a q-tip, and smudge it around, it uses less pastel and has a smother look on the paper
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I used to love oil pastels. I think I just started using other mediums more and just stopped using them. I remember having a lot of fun with them. I still have my set somewhere. I do remember loving how vibrant the colors were and the way the texture looked
Ohyea, when I was still bad at using them normally, I used to dilute them with baby oil (Like, I’d thoroughly mix a bit of them with baby oil) so I can just use a brush and use it like how you would use watercolor. It does make the colors really less vibrant and the paper ends up being oily but uh, idk why I’m even mentioning this. But yeah, it was fun experimenting with it.
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I LOVE oil pastels! But I didn't love them until I realized you could use baby oil on a q-tip to blend them and essentially turn them into a paint like texture. It goes from "crayon" to "paint" by just adding the oil. You can also get better detail by using a small folded scrap of paper (with a bit of oil) to get into tight places rather than using the pastel stick. Please try them again... I am an art teacher and I have taught an entire generation of kiddos to love oil pastels. They get so excited when they are out on the table and then immediately ask..."Where's the oil?" lol
Precisely what I was going to say! Smudge and smooth them with oil! They can make really lovely gradients.
I agree
I use my fingers :)
This makes me want to try them!
I will have to try this at some point. I personally have never liked them; I am an art teacher as well and always have them available to use in the menu of materials. I found most students have a very strong opinion on them either way, unlike most materials. Thank you for the tip!
I actually love using oil pastels. But in my opinion the pentel ones aren't really good and I don't like using them.
You should try Sennelier oil pastels. They're pretty pricy but you also can buy individual oil pastel sticks or a "test box" that has the primary colors so you won't spend too much and you can mix them pretty well. It's absolutely worth it in my opinion. They're WAY softer and smoother than most other oil pastel brands (probably more oil and pigments and less fillers? I don't know).
Usually I draw with the pastels and then smudge them to blend and to finish blending I use a mineral spirit. Mineral spirit on a paint brush breaks up the oil pastel and you can blend it with the brush as you're painting with a "regular" paint. With that technique you can break up the "rough" pastel look and have some more detail in some areas of your artwork.
What about oil instead of mineral spirit?
@@gryla5290 I heard of some people using baby oil but it doesn't really work for me
I also love oil pastels. I haven't tried Sennelier yet, but I've been super happy with Caran d'Ache!
I’ve heard that the pricier ones are much better. I tried a cheap brand and hated them, but at the same time I could tell they might be fun if they were better quality. The ones I had would barely blend and seemed more like really bad crayons than oil pastels.
I just use crayola lmao
Lol I have always loved oil pastels. 🤣 I’ve always used them in a more “painterly or less detailed” I guess manner. Landscapes. Lol I recommend a landscape. Or something bold and graphic.
I like the texture of them! And you can also use them to transfer sketches/photographs so that’s nice (1. colour in the back of the sketch/picture 2. Trace the sketch with a pencil or a pen or something 3. Done!)
Wait how exactly??
You can blend them with mineral spirit and a paint brush, it makes them melt into one another, you get a very painterly look to them.
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Haha so true, sometimes I feel like the only person who likes oil pastels! But even though I like them I don't really use them...
I remember them being satisfying, but I suspect that my technique was terrible. I'm very much a graphite/fineliner kind of gal and I'm always a bit lost when I try to create a piece with minimal/no outlining (following Maughan's "Guide to drawing the head" atm - yay for babysteps!)
This is so me lmao. I need to use mine again!
I like them for drawing on walls because they come off really easily 😂😂
You probably like them because you don't use them! :P
@@jaderatliff179 So that's what they are for. Temporary wall art! Very interesting :D
I actually remember finding them V E R Y satisfying to use, but had difficulty getting them to do what I wanted - probably because I've always been about outlines and the i couldn't handle the mess. Clean edges can be difficult to get, but the way you can blend colours into each other and the vibrancy of them are amazing.
Exactly the same experience here. I could get alla sazed and dreamy, as they flowed across the page... annd then looked down on the paper at the unholy mess I had somehow created. My. Neat. Lines. ;-;
OIL PASTEL TIPS:
1 - Use them in order of tone, lightest first.
2 - Oil pastels are basically condensed paint, they work very similarly to oil paint. Treat it like you’re painting
3 - A good quality oil pastel should be buttery. If it’s at all chalky, they’re going to be very difficult to use. You can smudge out a good oil pastel with relative ease.
4- short strokes work best
One last thing; you can use these on coloured/tan/black paper and they’re just as pigmented!
Hope you see this doodle date! This is everything I remember from high school
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I too like to have a preemptive cry when there's something new to be faced
How could you sink to the untrendyness steph... I expect this from Adam not you
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I love oil pastels, its like oil painting but without a brush
Woah i never really thought of them like this!!
Shoutout for the oil pastels squad 😹😆,I really love them and miss them I’m broke af 😪.
I can't be the only one that LOVES oil pastels...right... Try it on something smoother, like bristol board.
Can't wait to watch the video! You two are amazing and I love you guys!
Thank you so much Emma youre such a sweetheart!!
Pastels are normally flat because it goes down on bigger paper better
So I recommend having gloves when using them, they get really messy
I use them for backgrounds and I used plastic gloves
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My mom used to use these all the time. She would even get out small paint brushes and use linseed oil with them and make them behave a bit like oil paints.
Literally forgot these existed...having flashbacks to elementary school now.
SAME THOUGH, And the smell?! Dont even get me started
I actually took a class on oil pastels! One technique that can be used is called "poor man's oil paint". You draw and fill in a big circle of the colour you want on some kind of plasticy surface, then put a couple drops of baby oil and mix with a paint brush. BAM! Oil paint! Also Steph, my favourite thing to draw with oil pastels is fruit!
:0 i NEED to try that.
Yeah. Oil pastels are great. Most people get frstrated cause the just use them like coloring crayons.
Sleepy Pup it'd probably be helpful to google it because I'm a bit rusty with remembering the technique! Just google "poor man's oil paint" or something like that!
Currently working on art with oil pastels... I go to the sink every 5 minutes
Good luck with your arting!!
I now feel inspired to use my watersoluble crayons in my mossery sketchbook ☺️ thnx guys!
I think the biggest stumbling block with oil pastels is that people approach them the same way they would other dry media, when they're more of an in-betweener. You can blend them and thin them using the same sorts of materials you would use in oil painting, like mineral spirits or linseed oil. Use a cotton swab or rag -- or a brush -- dipped in mineral spirits or oil allows the oil pastels to loosen up and move around. I suppose it could be somewhat described as sort of the oil version of watercolor pencils -- sort of that bridge between drawing and painting. Using them on vellum is especially satisfying. You can achieve really beautiful painterly effects, while still maintaining the sort of control you have from drawing. Also, one of the great things about it is that mineral spirits don't buckle paper.
Yeah I think that a lot of people don't realize that they're supposed to thin them out a bit like oil paints.
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I actually loved using oil pastels when I was younger and I'm glad you guys are doing a video with them I never see them used
I don't hate them
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I like using oil pastels to add texture to illustrations
Like on trees and stuff
My best friend ordered the Pentel set and I was really surprised at how good they were because I had always used the really crappy Daler and Rowney ones. And with the Pentel set I created a surrealistic piece of an eye and it’s currently one of my highest liked pictures on Instagram. So I don’t get why everyone hates them, you just have to blend it out really well I guess
We have a poster making contest that usually uses oil pastels and its why I never join because I SUCK at oil pastels. It's quite interesting to see you guys test it out!
I have always LOVED oil pastels!
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Same here, I love how vibrant they are! They are really good for impressionist style illustrations and landscapes.
@@DoodleDate you need to draw LARGER tho, and try layering. :)
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I love oil pastels! I’ve used them since I was little! Don’t leave them in a heated area because they will melt. Also you can blend them using que tips and tissue paper.
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It's been so long since I've used them! I love using them cause I know the other thing I can use is soft pastels and I hate them with a passion because they're all chalky 😂 to be fair I only use them abstract though, and I think what Stephanie was drawing really suits how I (others can use them differently) usually use them. Really cute!
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Oil pastels, being oil based, are meant to be blended by heat (friction) and/or solvents (like Gambisol). They can lay some really velvety color but they generally need a well ventilated space to work with
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In my art class, the teacher kept them all together in a big bucket, so overtime, the pastels got on each other to a point where every pastel was the same, muddy brown color. Getting the right color was just a guessing game...
i love oil pastels!! my last year of high school i did nearly all my art projects with them!! big tip-blending with your fingers is great, but cotton swaps works too if you dont want to get your hands all messy, and if you want something detailed itll need to be on a BIG piece of paper, because in my experience oil pastels are best for soft shading and blurry edges and stuff (you can get detail if you work at it but it takes some time and is easier on a larger scale) theyre really fun to do landscapes with!! i think you guys did great, especially considering this is basically your first time using them!!!!
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This may have been mentioned already, but I think crayons are more of a waxy composition, instead of oil. Love you, Trend Lord & Lady! 🥁🙏💕
I love oil pastel because they are so good to make backgrounds or add a little bit of shadows on top of color pencil where the pencil doesn't want to anymore.
I’m so excited to watch when I get home in a few hours! I’ve been gone all day and just saw you uploaded :)
Oil pastels are in my top 3 favourite art mediums, I remember first using them in school and instantly falling in love with them. A lot of artists like to blend them with those paper blending stubs or their fingers, but I personally don't like to smudge them at all! I prefer to put it down quite heavy and blend them in a way similar to burnishing with pencils, they're so waxy that layering the colour automatically causes them to mix. I've also found that working dark to light and blocking in shadows first is my favourite way to go, since they can be really opaque depending on the brand- my faves are caran dache neopastel, I have 3 white ones (can't afford a full set lol) and they're amazing for highlights, even over pencil drawings!
Don't know if any of this helped, I love oil pastels but yeah they can be tricky, I think they're more for blocking in colour than detail work- a lineless cartoon drawing for example might be a nice simple way to experiment with them as beginners?
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Oil pastels are awesome. I use them almost exclusively. I use the Pentel for my initial ideas... Then when I have something I love, I use Sennelier. The Mungyo Gallery are also quite nice and an affordable option.
I’m in 5th grade and we use oil pastels a lot in Art. I love them Bc they look so cool if u do them properly but hate them Bc they’re hard to use sometimes and if the paper with the pastels touch something else it’ll rub off
I brought these about two years ago and loved them so much . Didn't know what I was doing so used lined paper and the end result was really nice.
You guys reminded me i have two sets of oil pastels I used to use in highschool all the time and I should really go back into that passion
I did a few pieces in highschool using oil pastels, I didn't hate the end result, but I despised every second using them. They were messy, slippery, and smudged everywhere. No. Thank. You.
Also, Steph, i think we have the same glasses!
They are just adult crayons I hate using them every single time in art! I stay far away from them and stick to like watercolours and other paints or just plain graphite pencil
As someone who is constantly using oil pastels for contests s a m e. Im from ph and we always use oil pastels for poster making contests and I hated joining those contests because of how messy my hands were after
Me: proceeds to have world War flash backs to the days where my art teacher made me use these cretins
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Your glasses are gorgeous! Oil pastels terrify me to my core. Can’t wait to see what you two make!
I love u guys! In fact Steph is who inspired me to make my own paper world, just like her rimzies
A technique for oil pastels smoothing out pigment with blending stumps for small details to get an even color and less of a crayon texture. It makes the process less messy than using your fingers and the oil in your fingers will move the pigment around so you gotta be careful. You can also use paper towels as well for big areas of blending. They’re good for opaque layering as well!
I think they work really well for a stippling technique with a lot of layers and blend them together with white, the white does wonders for blending.
Steph, your hair looks so cool ^u^ also you guys need more colors in art supplies. You would love Crayola tower of crayons they come in 157 different colors
Love the new glasses Steph! You both did better than I ever could with these xD We had these in primary school and they were little nubs that were kept in these dirty boxes and were covered in all of the other colours in the box, they were so gross, and you'd end up with blotches of other colours in the colour you were trying to use.
I love oil pastels. I recently got into them at the start of July and i have really been enjoining them. Syndia art has the best tutorials on this medium. I learned a lot from her videos
We were taught to use the pastels themselves to blend between the two, and to use a dark blue instead of a black - something I found is using tortillions/blending stumps can help blend them!
Oh no, I saw the Pentel oil pastels in the thumbnail and instantly felt the need to sweep the rough landscape studies I've done with those exact same pastels under the rug. I'm trendy, I swear!
(Seriously though, for painterly landscapes in bold colours these can actually be really fun and give you some cool textures.)
Blue raspberry was actually created when companies were scared red was already associated with cherry, so they made it blue 💙💙💙
Love the new glasses, Steph . I get my new glasses tomorrow,🤓many hugs for you and Adam. Thank you for uploading today I really needed a bright spot in my day and Doodle Date always makes me happy.🤗🙂🎨
It used to be my most hated art supply along with watercolors bc I used to be bad at them. But now they’re some of my fav art supplies lol.
SinceI find it hard to do smol details with oil pastels, I usually use it for really big drawings. It can be quite messy but it’s pretty fun blending with them!!
Pentel oil pastels give me so much nostalgia, I no longer do art with them but I used to used them when I was little
Wow, the mix media sketchbook looks sooo nice!! :)
I’m glad to see from the comments that I’m not the only one who likes oil pastels! I personally use them on very smooth paper, and use cotton swabs or tortillon stumps to mess around with them and blend and such. I’ve even been known to use a toothpick or x-acto knife to scrape up colors I didn’t like or to clean up edges. I’m super poor so I don’t use the fancy artist grade ones, but I do really like the Crayola ones, they have a healthy amount of colors AND pointed tips. 😉 The thing I like most about oil pastels is how you can get a big fat line of bold color down quickly, it’s like drawing with lipstick. 😆
I also want to point out that since they’re oily, they don’t “dry out”, per se, for AGES, I’m talking days or even weeks...I learned that the hard way when I once decorated a sketchbook cover with oil pastels, and this sketchbook was going to be used during a trip and therefore was going to be packed in a suitcase...it kept getting closer and closer to my flight date and they still felt oily, so I panicked, sprayed them with hairspray (I didn’t have any fixative), the colors crystallized weirdly (I mean they literally started growing crystals!), so then I panicked again and just collaged over the whole thing. 😅
I love oil pastels! I did one of my art assignments using them, it was a close up of michalengelo’s “David” face, done in the style of Van Gogh. One of my favorite pieces!
I come back after like a month and Adam is drawing manga style
I used to love drawing sunsets with these, once you draw some layers they get pretty smooth and you can blend colours well! :3
>have you ever used an art supply that made you cry
I cry from frustration every time I try to use clay lol. It ain't meant to be.
I was shocked that other schools used chalk pastels instead of oil, because we were constantly doing cremation of sam mcgee projects in art that we always used oil pastels for
At my highschool we used both, and both sucked. Not because the pastels were bad, but because the school was too cheap to provide us with appropriate paper to use them on and the teacher also did not provide the students with a proper explanation as to how to use them. She just put a bucket full of pastels on every table and handed us sheets of paper that were marginally better suited for the job than copy paper. It's a miracle that I grew up to actually love pastels, because as a teenager I surely hated them because I did not understand that it was the papers fault, not the pastels.
Don't remember oil pastels much (maybe middle school mandatory art class?) neutral until i remember or try them
Quick tip:
You can color something with beige and use a black oil Pastel to shade by smudging it with your finger you can do the same thing with the white to shade and highlight things
Or color them completely
Try chalk pastels they are very interesting
Oh I haaaate chalk pastels... I don't know if it's just that my old school had the cheapest ones possible, but I hated the noise, I hated the lack of pigment and I hated the mess! Plus I never figured out how to seal them (glue made them smudge & basically vanish, spray fixative did nothing at all)
I made a small postcard size version of a renaissance painting with oil pastels for school. I liked doing most of it, hated doing the neck cause I couldn't get the right color, but loved the outcome. I was also doing the whole thing with about 10-13 different colors so it took a little longer cause I had to test all the color combos
I love oil pastels it’s super fun to experiment with.... I literally just got a box of Van Gogh oil pastels... these are lovely for abstract and minimalist art
My friend uses these, and he uses the sides of the tips, like crayons, the blends them,out so they are nice and smooth. Its fascinating watching the drawing go from what looks like a 5year olds piece, to something great.
Hi guys I love watching your vids u guys inspire me so much to the point where I went through with my comic idea instead of throughing it in the trash with many of my sketchbooks
I LOVE THEM In high school we had a bunch of really high quality ones in our art class and they were smooth like butter and were very vibrant. I think I was the only one that liked them though.
One of my favorite supplies, so underrated and so amazing.
Saw the notification pop up and closed the video I was in the middle of to watch ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I like the new glasses, Steph! ❤️
They are great for adding pops of color on a watercolor painting. Super pigment!
I love oil pastel when I was in school. used it during my art exams every time!
Reads “untrendy”
Me: how did I get in a video!!!!
FAKENESS, you are super trendy and that is FACT
I used to not like them, but since trying some quality ones (Sennelier) I love them! The cheap ones smell and have a terrible texture and make loads of flakes/lumps. The Sennelier ones are nice and creamy making it easy to blend with tortillons or those rubber ones (or q-tips!) or you can use solvent to blend like you do with colour pencils (so you could try zest it). They work great on canvas paper if you want to apply them a bit like oils, using lots of blending with solvent. Anyone who hates oil pastels needs to try a good quality one to see what they can really do before writing them off ;) Have fun!
In 6th grade my art class did a project where we made tie dye patterns on paper by making spiky circles next to eachother (think like a bullseye/target), alternating the colors, and then smudging the outwards to smooth/blend them out. It was pretty fun!
I haven't used oil pastels since middle school but I always loved using them. They're very easy to blend together imo because they don't mix too much and muddy things, but they blend enough to keep the drawing cohesive.
It's definitely not a medium for detailed drawings tho. Get yourself a bigger paper and you're set
I used these in an art class, and if your using good paper, you can use oil (like olive or vegetable oil) and a q-tip, and smudge it around, it uses less pastel and has a smother look on the paper
Blue raspberry came about since ice popsicles company had access to blue dye but no flavor to go with it. Since alot of fruits are red they decided to change raspberry to blue to be different.
I cried because of a pencil when I was in 6th grade, but it was because someone stabbed me with it. Love your guys art!!!☺
Parrot Animations I remember a kid in third grade was out of school for a long time because of lead poisoning and I thought it was because of a pencil stabbing until embarrassingly recently
My little sister once stabbed me in my hand with a mechanical pencil. This was maybe 15 years ago. Still mad ;p
I accidentally stabbed my sister with a pencil in the hand when I was little lmao
8:46 "imaginary made-up fruit"
*sees a slice of starfruit* 😳😂
Oil pastels in primary were like copics 😂😂😂
I used to love oil pastels. I think I just started using other mediums more and just stopped using them. I remember having a lot of fun with them. I still have my set somewhere. I do remember loving how vibrant the colors were and the way the texture looked
Ohyea, when I was still bad at using them normally, I used to dilute them with baby oil (Like, I’d thoroughly mix a bit of them with baby oil) so I can just use a brush and use it like how you would use watercolor. It does make the colors really less vibrant and the paper ends up being oily but uh, idk why I’m even mentioning this. But yeah, it was fun experimenting with it.