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Pastel War Pastel and marker on paper. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ0DTcFOJXP/?utm_medium=tumblr
L’Été, Réne Gérin, oil on canvas, 1888
Spring, Arthur Loureiro, oil on canvas, 1891
“La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours”. 2018 Vaganova Ballet Academy graduation performance dress rehearsal. Mariinsky Theatre. Photos by Alexander Ku
mermaid motel
This time it’s another alien(who actually does look like an alien)! Meet Bugg- she’s supposed to be like a firefly, but now she looks like she’s made of candy in this drawing-
This time it’s my character Barbara Summerson, or Mother Sun! Looks like she forgot to clean her usual outfit, though
Pastel Doodle
Even before I tried the Procreate tutorials, I opened the app occasionally to play around a bit.
I feel like there’s a bit of a double challenge, the app itself, switching to a digital format with layers and digital brushes has its own learning curve, but also just drawing itself. I haven’t really drawn in ages and almost feel I have to relearn how. Nothing like some practice and also remembering not to take things too seriously or get discouraged 😊
Used the default Procreate pastel brush for this “study of an apple”. Done sometime last year.
Ferry Doodle - Yellow Flower
Still in the “getting to know you” phase of the app. A quick little doodle as I waited for the ferry to dock just to experiment and practice a bit with layers and brushes. Used the default pastel brushes, all freehand, no reference pics.
Pear
A quick study of a pair using the default pastel brushes.
Pear Two 🍐
Decided to cut a few corners and buy some brushes. I’ll worry about learning how to do them myself much, much later :)
Googled around and decided on the Bardot Brushes, it also helped that there was a nice sale at the time! They also came with pastel backgrounds/paper.
I drew a quick pear using the Bardot pastel brushes to compare it to the one I did with the default brushes.
I do think the new brushes add a bit of extra “pastelness” feel to the drawing 😊
More Ferry Doodles
When the weather is nice I prefer to go out on deck, but winter, especially evenings are dark and cold, not really appealing 😊, so I got into some quick doodles. I’m actually not sure what I was doodling, fruit? I think it’s an apple, mostly playing around with the ‘new’ pastel brushes.
Plane Doodles - Peach
Well, seems like I tend go have a theme going for travel doodles, should try something other than fruit next time, diversify my portfolio and all 😊
Nothing much, I was just trying to distract myself from the fact I was on a plane, don’t like them. Used the Bardot pastel brushes.
Amanita Muscaria
Playing around with pastels, a quick sketch of a mushroom 🍄
Waterfall
Came across a picture of a waterfall which was probably done in low light. I thought it looked cool and I tried using it as inspiration for a quick pastel sketch.