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Animals with Pastels
Rating: 4.8 out of 5(106 ratings)
947 students

Animals with Pastels

Learn how to draw animals with pastels.
Created byMatthew Fussell
Last updated 3/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • The basic materials, tools, and surfaces for working with pastels.
  • How different drawing surfaces play a major role in your success.
  • How to plan out your sketches and ensure accuracy in your drawings.
  • How to draw a cat with pastels and pastel pencils.
  • How to layer pastels to create realistic colors and textures.
  • How to draw a dog with pastels and pastel pencils.
  • The differences between oil pastels and traditional soft pastels.
  • How to plan a composition to make it more engaging for the viewer.
  • How to draw a Macaw parrot with pastels and pastel pencils.
  • How to develop details with pastel pencils.
  • How to draw a cow with oil pastels.
  • How to achieve a painterly look with oil pastels.

Course content

4 sections • 19 lectures • 4h 4m total length

  • Introduction, Materials, and Transfer4:34

    Learn to start a fluffy cat drawing with traditional pastels, pastel pencils, and transfer contour lines from a photo onto pastel paper, using pan pastels and masking tape.

  • Background and the Eyes18:23

    Establish a medium gray background and block in the cat’s eyes with layered greens, whites, and subtle browns, using color theory and blending to create depth and realism.

  • Underpainting10:45

    Establish the underpinning of the cat's fur with stick pastels, using dark raw umber, earthy orange, and creamy tones. Transition to pastel pencils for head detail, continuing patient layering.

  • The Head - Part 114:23

    Layer pastel pencils over the base underpainting to enrich color, define the eye as a focal point, and build texture with directional strokes for a natural fur look.

  • The Head - Part 220:48

    Layer pastel pencil applications to build the cat's fur texture with earth tones and creams, creating depth. Use directional strokes and patience to refine the ears, nose, and mouth.

  • The Body18:29

    Finish a fluffy cat drawing with pastels by layering black, brown, cream, and gray to build fur texture and depth. Learn blending, value shifts, and adding whiskers for realism.

Requirements

  • A willingness to learn.

Description

In this course, we take a look at drawing four different animals with pastels and pastel pencils. Each in-depth lesson series demonstrates and explains every step of the process. Learn how to master pastel techniques while exploring the subject of animals. See why this medium is perfectly suited for this subject.

The course is designed to expose the learner to a variety of animals as well as surfaces and techniques.

In the first series of lessons, we take a look at drawing a cat with soft pastels and pastel pencils on PastelMat paper. The second series features a drawing of a dog with pastels and pastel pencils on green pastel paper. After this, we explore drawing a tropical bird on pastel board with soft pastels and pastel pencils. And lastly, we draw a cow in a field with oil pastels.

This course is clearly a video course. But not all of us prefer to learn from watching videos. Some of us prefer to learn from books as well as videos, so ebooks are included as well. This course has been developed to accelerate learning by teaching to many different learning styles. Each course module includes an illustrated ebook that corresponds with the video. Every step and concept is clearly illustrated and described in each ebook.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginner and intermediate artists interested in creating artworks of animals using pastels, pastel pencils, and oil pastels.

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