r/Softpastel

A quick sketch of an early, snowy morning using half-stick rembrandt soft pastels, attempted in a sketchy, expressive style!

B&B farm Sequim WA
Clairefontaine mat, soft pastel

Made some sanded paper with pastel ground on watercolor paper. Fun textures.

Reference images and a couple of the drawings I did

I'm trying to figure out what to do with the background of the mountain with trees behind the mountain with the rock. In one I tried to recreate the trees on the mountain and on the other I just ignored them completely. I'm getting better at the foreground trees and have just gotten some pencils to also use for some of the more detailed areas.

Any suggestions or feedback/critique are welcome. I am new to pastels and am working on these as a trial run for a larger piece to turn in to my drawing professor. I'd specifically like any suggestions for that background mountain.

I painted this on sandpaper for an upcoming lesson on my Patreon. It’s a great surface to use for practice! I find 400 grit sandpaper feels very similar to UArt 500.

Soft Pastel on Sennelier La Carte Pastel 11x15.75 inches

I’m almost done with a pet portrait. I just wanted to put it up and see if anyone has any notes. I want to work on the wood texture, the white window frame and the range of shadows and highlights on the pet fur. What do y’all think?

I bought this paper to practice with guache but I had some old pastel pencils lying around and forgot how much I loved using these!

I’m trying to practice with more traditional art after focusing on digital for so long,

And I love how you can layer light values on darker colors, and blend so well!

And it takes a lot before it starts feeling overworked

Pale headed rosella on pastelmat “wine” paper. Made using pan pastels and pastel pencils.