Soft Pastel Drawing Ideas for Beginners
Soft Pastel Drawing Ideas for Beginners is a step-by-step tutorial & video for making a drawing of an apple using simple techniques.
Servings: 4
Cost: $2
Equipment
- none needed
Ingredients
- 1 pad Paper suitable for pastel drawing (will say on the front cover)
- 1 set Soft pastels- (Purchase a set with as many colors as possible)
- 1 Apple- to draw (can be eaten later-ha)
- 1 Paper towels
Instructions
- Watch video with step-by-step directions. Stop and follow each step.
- Put pastel paper and soft pastels out on newspaper to protect your work surface. Place apple on table in front of you.
- With a pencil draw the outside silhouette (the outside shape) of the apple on the paper. Add a stem and a leaf if you want.
- Use the side stroke to add a yellow base color to the apple drawing.
- With the side stroke add some red over the base coat and blend.
- Add some shadowing with some blue soft pastel.
- Color in the stem with brown.
- Color in leaf with yellow green as the base color. Add some green over this and blend.
- Use a little black outline to edge the drawing and blend slightly.
- Make a blue table top with a side stroke application. Add a little black outline and blend