Pastel portrait demonstration on 19" x 25" Mi-Teines canson paper
Pastel portrait demonstration on 19" x 25" Mi-Teines canson paper |
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| 1. Using a light touch for the initial drawing with nupastels (hard pastels), I closely observe angles and shadows. | 2. Refining the drawing by going darker (again with nupastels), and always paying close attention to detail. | |
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| 3. Adding midtones and some high lighting using softer (Rembrandt) pastels. | 4. Developing the masses and checking the values of the compostion. | |
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| 5. Applying and adjusting colors from darks to midtones, to lights. Again checking values and the direction of light. | 6. Finalizing by lightening the lights and darkening the darks. I did very little blending of colors. | |