Pastel Drawing for Beginners

Hello! My name is Elena Tatkina. I am an Artist, a Teacher, an Art Director, and a Production Designer. As a Computer Graphics Producer, I participated in famous movies including “The Turkish Gambit”, “The Brest Fortress”, “Mongol” etc.

At Veronika Kalacheva’s Art school I have the privilege of teaching the course of pastel drawing.

Pastel Drawing for Beginners—

Get a New Perspective!

The pastel drawing tutorial has been a significant course that has contributed over 2 years to the Schools program. It became immensely popular resulting in other schools using it as a basis for their own classes.

Thousands of students have successfully completed the first version of the course and provided several positive comments and feedback.

We analyzed the process of the lesson by reviewing the education, including all the errors, feedback, and suggestions, and decided to improve the course to meet the needs and standards of our students.

Meanwhile, there have been several new techniques and pastel materials which have emerged recently, and we are continuously adapting our course and improving it to keep up with the changes.

We have added new topics and tasks to ensure the explanations are more informative and interactive for our viewers. This change has resulted in our lessons and tutorials being more engaging and interesting.

A lot of long and hard-working months of passion and experience has gone into this, and here you go – we reveal to you, the brand-new course, “Pastel drawing for beginners!”

This course is completely different to the previous one and compared to the rest of the other schools. Now, you will be able to find more modern lessons, updated topics, and super-efficient techniques that will equip you to deliver amazing results.

Even if you had been studying with us during the first course, we guarantee that you will be able to find new tasks and skills in this new and improved course.

Introduction: visto

Let’s find out what we will learn during this course.

Getting to know each other: visto

We briefly introduce ourselves

The structure of the course: visto

More detail about the course

Pastels and its techniques visto

Getting to know the story and famous artists in the pastel drawing.

Pastels and its techniques: visto

Discovering the famous artists and history of pastel drawings

Overview of modern pastel brands visto

We will discuss and compare pastel brands.

Create the perfect set of pastels: visto

Select the most appropriate set of colors and combine them into the perfect set for drawing.

Storage of the pastels visto

Understand how to store multiple sets of pastels.

Pastel pencils visto

We will separately discuss the tool which is used by Pastel Artists.

Additional materials visto

Learn what else can be useful during the work with pastels.

Paper for pastel drawing visto

We will review paper from modern manufacturers.

How to choose the paper color: visto

Discussion on how to select the correct paper hue for the drawing

Storage of pastel drawings visto

We reveal the secrets of storing the works in their original form.

Workplace preparation visto

We will find the best way of making the process comfortable and exciting.

Study your own set of pastels and get acquainted with the names of artistic pigments.

Color characteristic visto

We will talk about the physics of color and get acquainted with the terminology.

Color wheel visto

Creating 12 sections of the color wheel. Studying nuances of the hues and colors.

Color harmony laws visto

Recognizing harmonious combination of colors, learning how to select colors and drawing up color schemes.

Color cheat-sheets: visto

Receive a couple of “live” tips on how to work with color.

Color blending with pastel: visto

Learning how to effectively combine the colors from your pastel set.

The concept of the color wheel visto

Creating warm and cold hues by using just one color.

Creating a color map. visto

Choosing the chalks for the picture.

Fast ways to transfer a picture visto

Revealing the secrets of the accurate image creation without any academic drawing skills.

Learning the correct way to create accurate shading.

We will learn how to draw using the edge of the chalk visto

We reveal the graphic potentials of the pastel chalk. Practicing the “hand position” and learning how to make confident and clear movements.

A simple scene: fish visto

Applying the sketch technique in practice.

Wildflowers: elements visto

Mastering the main strokes, lines, and shapes for the floral etudes.

Wildflowers: Poppies visto

Learning to draw light floral etudes without using a background.

Flower etude with background visto

Learning to create light floral etudes with a background.

Animal silhouettes. Exercises visto

Working on expressive silhouettes of animals using just one color.

Sketches of animals. Eyes visto

Learning how to sketch the eyes of the animals.

Animal Portrait Sketches: Cat visto

Creating animal portraits using a quick-sketch technique

Fish. Sanded surface. visto

Learning how to depict fish or other inhabitants of the aquatic environment.

Landscape: introduction visto

Understanding of what to consider when working on the landscape.

Marine sketch: Boats visto

Creating the marine etude with boats.

Marine landscape visto

Drawing of the easy landscape with marine scene.

Trees as landscape detail visto

Learning to draw the trees using 2 ways: with and without a background.

Landscape: Provence visto

Complicating the scene. Learning how to draw the foreground and background adding an architectural element.

Architectural elements. Door. visto

Showing the building texture on the abrasive paper.

Still-life. Textures visto

Determining how to convey the visual features of different materials in the picture.

Utensils: Glass carafe visto

Learning to depict glass.

Kitchen utensils: coffee grinder. visto

Depicting wood and metal.

Culinary sketches. visto

Learning to draw individual products: buns, cakes and croissants.

Practicing to depict juicy and ripe fruit.

Practicing to depict juicy and ripe fruit. visto

Creating still life in Dutch Style on abrasive paper.

Still life in vintage style. visto

Completing one more task to consolidate the skills.

Butterfly visto

Making a fine work transferring the weightless butterfly features.

The balcony with flowers visto

Working on a plot with a picturesque architectural element.

Conclusion. What is next? visto

Summing up the results of the course.

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