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My project in Expressive Portrait Drawing with Soft Pastels course
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What a wonderful course! I enjoyed it a lot, thank you @chris_gambrell!
First I started with the blue portrait, somehow I liked that combination of colours, but I had so much fun exploring the soft pastels, that I immediately wanted to do another one, more colourful. I hope you'll like the results and would be grateful for any advice on how I could improve the portraits :)
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displayname6075220
Teacher PlusHi Ewe, firstly, thank you for posting all of your initial drawings here too, it's very useful to see what led up to the final drawing. It appears to me that the process has given you confidence, I can feel your attention to different elements in both of the final pieces and setting them against what you have learned, they are very successful pieces. My advice from this point would be to move on, take what you have learnt about colour, form and texture and apply it to more subjects, soft pastels are a relatively quick medium so choose other subjects with shapes that inspire you and create more. In my experience, when I am doing something for the first time, I hold onto the guidelines quite tightly and it's only with more practice (more subjects) that I loosen up and begin to discover what is possible - what happens when I press harder with the pastel or perhaps how I feel about something when I leave the colour partly filled in or change the colour altogether. Hope this helps, well done. Chris
displayname5015911
Hi Chris, thank you for taking your time and giving me advice. I've already started sketching some animals with soft pastels. I'll gladly experiment more with different subjects and try out new ways of working with this technique. They are indeed a quick medium and I think that's why the creative process is so exciting.
I've learned a lot from you, hope there will be another course soon, thanks. Ewe
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