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Pastel Tutorial
Published: 2012-11-19 10:43:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 56055; Favourites: 2130; Downloads: 631
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I have made a pastel tutorial, because some people haveasked me to do so and I could not even find a pastel tutorial at
DA, which quite surprised me. There were some links, but you know what they say: out there be monsters
What a lovely surprise to be on DA facebook's frontpage.
The amount of comments is heartwarming.
I will answer all in time, and thank you very much
And now a DD as well, oh wow
Thank you so very much These are the pastels I use
Soft pastels
Hard pastels
Bubo virginianus, Great Horned Owl.
The lovely reference picture is from
Thank you Nuna for letting me use it.
You can find the photo here [link]
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i finally got my soft pastels but sadly i only got 12 colors and i cant find any velours paper
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[link]
done making it
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finished it will post link when i could
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finally found paper not velours but the sales lady in the art shop said its similar and also for soft pastels just cheaper its like 3x cheaper lol
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oh and how long would it take u to make one of these art works of urs just curious
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Coole tutorial, erg duidelijk uitgelegd en mooi om zo het proces te zien!
Ik waardeer dit soort stuff, tutorials zijn geweldig als ze goed zijn, en deze is dat zeker
COngratz ook met de D.D., die heb je wel verdiend
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Ha, dat vind ik erg leuk om te horen, dankjewel
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Just wanted to thank you for making this tutorial 
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Thank you very much, very nice of you to let me know.
I took a look at your gallery and your pastels are great
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thank you, i love owls and cannot wait to play with this.
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Most welcome, and have fun
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Wonderful tutorial (and drawing!) Thanks so muc for making this!
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Thank you very much
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Fantastisch! Ik kan dit spijtig genoeg niet afdrukken...
Hoe heet het papier in 't nederlands? Is het gewoon 'pastel'papier?
Gebruik je iets om het te fixeren of niet? Ik wil het zeker eens uitproberen met jouw tutorial!
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vreemd dat je het niet af kan drukken, het is toch gewoon een jpeg bestand.
Het papier heet velourspapier in het Nederlands.
Als je het niet kan vinden kan ik je wel een link sturen van een winkel in Nederland, zij sturen het op.
Ik gebruik geen fixeer, sommige tekeningen lijst ik in met passe partout, achter glas.
De rest stapel ik voorzichtig op.
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Thanks so much for this tutorial, I had no idea of the existence of the paper you used...I'm gonna give it a try! Question for you, (I know it's dumb, but I gotta ask! ). How do you transfer the drawing to velours?
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Velourspaper is really ideal for soft pastels.
It's not a stupid question at all,
I make my sketch on ordinary paper, when I'm finally satisfied (it really has to be ok)
with that I turn my paper around and use the flat side of a soft pastel to smear to whole backside of the paper.
Then lightly tap the paper to get with of too much pastel.
Then lay you paper on the velours and start tracing, use little pressure or you'll indent
the velours.
Try to keep your drawing hand sort of in the air, so it doesn't press the on the paper.
I find that the hardest part
Goodluck.
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Thank You, Thank You for the response! I'm definitley gonna try that! You really have helped me out!
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wonderful!!!!!!!! Congrats for the DD my dear, very well deserved!!!!!
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Aww, thanks very much Mimika
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you're very welcome my dear Sarah!!
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wow, thank you very much for this! Just learning pastels after years of working only with graphite pencils, and finding them quite an unruly and challenging but exciting medium 
Question for the teacher: Do you ever use pastels pencils?
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Hi, thank you very much, glad you like it.
When working on the velourspaper I don't use pastelpencils.
But I recently made a drawing using only pastel pencils, it's a caracal and he's on my frontpage. I've used Mi Teintes paper for that, but I'm new with pastel pencils, and still experimenting.
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Thank you for the tips, dear! <3
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Your wonderful tutorial has been featured here
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What brand of hard and soft pastels do you recommend?
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I use mostly Rembrandt, I like that brand best
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...No. Just no! You're not allowed! lol It looks too amazing!
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I loved reading your tutorial. I've only used Soft Pastels on paper resembling fine sandpaper. I use oils on velour and love the way it comes out.
Now that I've seen your work I want to experiment more with Soft Pastels (I wasn't a fan really...but I love velour).
Your work is beautiful and very detailed
I look forward to seeing more ^_^
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I've never used oils so I wouldn't know anything about that.
The soft pastels are messy, but I love the results
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you have entirely to much talent
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Haha, that's the sweetest thing I ever heard
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