Creative Drawing with Oil Pastels

Creative Drawing with Oil Pastels

“We have reached the end of the course, we hope you had as much fun as we did, learning these simple lessons that we have been discovering over the last few years. Now we ask you to venture to create your own collection of the most representative everyday objects of your daily life. You can draw a collection of your favorite objects, your pets, your best friends and you can even think of other types of more unusual collections. We leave you a series of steps that we would love for you to share with us from your collection. What is in my day to day? Give yourself the opportunity to see your daily life with different eyes, allow it to surprise you. Pay special attention to what is part of your life and ask yourself what emotions or feelings they provoke in you, what would your day to day life be without these objects, what makes them important in your life.

Make your sampler and release your hand Create a blog in which you do exercises in grading, tracing and superimposing pastel oils with colored pencils. Also, do other tests, now leaving your hands more free, give them the opportunity to make different strokes, other grading exercises, in short, take the opportunity to be free in your strokes and to experiment. From the doodle to your collection Scribble your objects, then give the objects of your everyday life a new life, add other colors, give them a new texture, draw new lines, that is, give them another perspective. Remember that the color change you make must have a meaning, try to ask yourself why you are choosing a certain color, what makes you feel, how this new color makes it more meaningful and unique. Your collection Using your blog as a visual aid, paint your drawing without messing up the format, re-detail your drawing, add lines, textures and defined shapes. Your collection is ready. Remember that the process of drawing is a permanent path. You never stop learning and it always goes hand in hand with the time and love that we dedicate to it. Remember that over time you can think of drawing even more complex scenes where there are multiple elements and characters. It all depends on yourself. We are very happy to have shared with you this special moment as it is the process of drawing and rediscovering the things that surround us and constitute our intimate spaces. We hope to hear from you and your progress soon, we ask that you continue to draw as much as you can and give yourself the freedom to explore as much as you wish. If you want to know more or have any questions, write to us, we will respond as quickly as possible. Do not forget to share your collection in the forum, keep in mind that the more we share our processes, the more we can all learn in a community way. Thank you very much for sharing with us what is special about your daily life, we will be joyfully waiting to see your collection. See you soon! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“The course is over. and we would like to provide a summary of the steps you are going to follow to accomplish your final project. Now you need to create an illustrated collection of your most representative daily objects. To accomplish this, you should complete all the exercises we did in units two and three. Make sure to practice them as often as possible. It is important that when you are choosing the objects to draw, they have an emotional connection with you, They must be significant in your life. Also, try to experiment with the materials. Perform all kinds of strokes, trying them out ...”

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Course summary for: Creative Drawing with Oil Pastels

• Level: Beginner
• 98% positive reviews (169)
• 3358 students
• 4 units
• 12 lessons (1h 48m)

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration