Tania (unfinished)

Portrait of my aunt Tania, pastel on paper. It's already finished though this picture was taken with a better camera. It isn't mine so the finished piece hasn't been photographed yet.

Pastel Portrait - Fernanda

Took me about 3 months from start to finish, mainly because of the blouse pattern which would have me simply not do anything for days until I regained courage to continue. Some WIPs of this over at the portuguese version.

Pastel on paper, 50x70 cm

Jurgen Gustav Woogglesforth

Portrait of a friend.Wish I had used the smoother side.


Pastel on Canson Mi-teintes, a tad larger than A3.

Lady Henegham

A Hans Holbein, the younger study over one of his pastel portraits, The Lady Henegham. Since I had only a black and white reference of the drawing I went loose on the colors, taking as reference his other portraits and the costumes of the time but not letting myself completely locked by it. In the end it took me so long to choose a color for the dress that I lost interest in the drawing and didn't finish it appropriately.

I used the smooth side of the Mi-teintes paper this time and it was very pleasing. It allows for a smoother drawing without much stumping and I can achieve finer details as well.

Pastel on Canson Mi-teintes, a little larger than A4.

Jsmael Mengs

Another Mengs study, this time of his father's portrait. I decided not to smooth it out with a brush and left the pigment pure with the paper breathing beneath it. I think I like it better this way.

Pastel on Canson Mi-teintes, a tad larger than A4

Mengs

This is a self-portrait by the german painter Anton Raphael Mengs. Decided to copy a few paintings in between drawing the portraits so to not lose the familiarity with the colors and to study them from old masters too. If you don't look at the original it actually looks decent. Except the head now looks kinda big.

Pastel on canson mi-teintes, a little larger than A4.

Pastel #4

Study started at class then finished at home.
24x30 cm

Couldn't find the name of the photographer, picture was torn from the newspaper.

Katrine

Portrait of a friend that lives in Corsica.

Pastel on Canson Mi-teintes

Pastel #2

This is my first real drawing with pastels that came before the little boy's face on the previous post. It was based off a Colins Vincent painting but I don't advise you to compare them both. The neck looks awfully long. I was eager to try the colors and didn't finish the drawing correctly first. I used a brush to smooth the colors throughout the entire process but after a while the pigment would just fall off altogether instead of fixate and mix. It was a good start to get the feeling of the medium but I don't intend to finish it. I used pastels of the brand Toison D'or and a regular Canson paper. All of the following pastels (including the previous posted one) will be made with Rembrandt pastels on Canson Mi-teintes paper.

Pastel

I took a Painting class this semester and am going to focus on Pastels. My main goal is to master the technique which I'll try mostly through portraits and move on to live model drawins later. This is my first study with a new set of pastels I got and my second ever pastel drawing. The drawing doesn't look very good but the colors sure are vibrant :)