Expand your digital soft pastel painting skills!
My soft pastel chickadee class is one of my most popular classes and the brushes are raved about, even by traditional soft pastel artists!
Well now you can practice flowers and bees in this soft and luxurious style that is so fun, it's hard to stop! I added 6 new brushes to my pastel brush set and they have quickly become my favorites!
YOU can do this too!
I will show you exactly how I achieve this rough yet detailed look and along the way, teach you how and what I observe in order to do it on your own! I even smudge with my finger like you would when painting with traditional pastels. It is SO much fun. :)
You might look at these paintings and think they are super detailed, maybe even too realistic (and possibly intimidating) so go ahead and zoom in...you will see that it's actually quite rough but when you know which details are worth paying attention to, that is where the magic is!
These are done on ONE layer!
One of the many ways to help you get a more traditional look when you work digitally is by using fewer layers! I will show you exactly what my process is to create this entire painting on one layer, just like you would if you painted it on paper!
If you are interested in learning more about getting a less digital look with your digital art, I have a whole class on it!
I provide free brushes AND 30 free-use photos to get you started!
More classes included in this bundle!
Soft Pastel Chickadee
Learn how to create this beautiful chickadee with a soft pastel look. I give you everything you need to get a pastel paper texture, choose a pastel board color, try to get a real pastel look using very few layers and fantastic brushes!
I've had numerous pastel artists message me about how these brushes truly emulate the real thing! Mess-free! lol. It's actually one of my favorite brush sets ever!
Soft Pastel Dragonfly
This is a beginner-friendly, meditative, smudgy, colorful and fun class. Plus...dragonflies! Need I say more?
Pastel Succulents
This is the oldest of the pastel classes and it was made before I knew how to make brushes! So it could be really fun to use my chickadee pastel class brushes on this older class!
Curriculum
- Introduction (1:00)
- Your Class Resources
- Tracing and Using Private Photo Layers (4:30)
- Prep Canvas and Reference Image (6:09)
- Brushes and Smudges (7:02)
- Create Your Palette (8:37)
- Painting the Background! (10:54)
- Painting Flower Petals (14:57)
- Finishing Petals (5:57)
- Painting the Stem and Center of Flower (14:10)
- Painting the Fuzzy Bee! (17:09)
- Painting Wings! (13:15)
- Adding Final Details (7:48)
- Pics, Projects, & Thank You! (9:08)
- An older pastel class!
- Introduction (1:31)
- Resources (4:31)
- Creating a Textured Canvas (6:49)
- How to Use the Brushes (7:25)
- Class Project (this is a Skillshare thing;) ) (0:56)
- Quick Sketch Practice (4:54)
- Sketch 1: The Branch (5:41)
- Sketch 2: The Bird (13:01)
- Finalizing Your Sketch (1:58)
- Add the Base Colors to Your Illustration (10:02)
- Complete the Head (6:54)
- Complete the Body (8:40)
- Complete the Tail & Wings (5:57)
- Complete the Branch (4:59)
- Complete the Pussywillow Blooms (7:48)
- Bird Feet, Oy! (8:23)
- Final Thoughts (5:04)
- Introduction to this class (1:54)
- Downloading Resources (2:54)
- Prepping Your Canvas (9:19)
- Creating the Background (7:04)
- The Dragonfly Body (12:08)
- The Wings: Transparent Layer (3:21)
- The Wings: Outline Layer (5:44)
- The Wings: Colorful Layer (6:43)
- Blend Modes & the Dragonfly Shadow (7:05)
- Final Touches (4:58)
- Bonus Lesson! (12:07)
- Text Tool & Thank You! (1:54)