Portrait in Oil Pastel
Hello! How are you? The heat here in the Philippines was unbearable before the heat was tolerable but now just going out of the house feels like I am gonna melt. By the way back to the topic.
Working with oil pastels is hard and enjoyable sometimes but what I observed for the past year of playing with it is how you execute the style. I am in a questionable phase of how to do it with a stable style and not be confused. I have this problem of I should try this style, the second time I try it the passion is lacking. LOL
I have this rule for myself before I buy something to upgrade my art materials I have to convince myself to practice and practice and practice until "hmm I think I deserve to buy this thing because I work hard" Something like that may work as I observe. Oh, I remembered that was what I did when I was still new in digital art (I used my phone to draw), and now I have my graphic tablet(left unused for months now LOL).
Maybe this year or next, I will invest in more artist-grade art materials and these legends are going to retire soon they need to rest too. LOL
PROCESS
The first thing I did was to sketch the reference lightly. I am so brave at this part because I straight-used oil pastel. LOL
I started with yellow, red, and sky blue as base colors, by the way, I used the vertical stroke for clean shading.
After adding the base color, I fill the empty spots with a skin-tone pastel.
Next, I used blue and violet pastel as my dark pastel for the shadow of my portrait and some yellow on the lighter parts.
I repeated everything I did until the pastel was built up and combined.
This is how it looks close up.
Overall I like how it turns out. Maybe I will post again in the future some of my oil pastel portraits I did not take photos while in the process, but the day I drew this I remember to document it.
See you in my next post! Take care!
Even the e-fan, mainit na nilalabas no, aguyyyy.
Anyways, I learned about oil pastels during high school. I have this classmate who also use that and everytime I see the finish product of her art, I can't help but to be amaze. The pretty color blending is there and she really has a skills when it comes to art. I also want to learned using that but failed miserably, I'm not born to be an artist, charowtttt, lol. But really, it's cool, yours too of course. I love the end result. Why it looks so easy when you are doing it. But J can't get it right. Lol
Totoo yan kaya tambay sa may aircon na kwarto jusko kung di pa nagpaaircon kuya lutong tulo na kami dito hahahah.
Oil pastel is easy to use but messy to work with LOL. True oil pastel is the most common use in art contests in elementary or high school days here sa Philippines, right? hehhe. Madali lang siya basta masipag ka lang magpractice. Thank you :)))