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A couple of studies
Jan. 15th, 2011 07:31 pmThis one is from figure drawing classes and uses the new flesh-tone conte set that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shashigai gave me for Christmas. I'm not really happy with it because it doesn't capture the light as vividly as it was in the scene, but I think these pastels are going to take some getting used to. They're hard like conte even through they're not traditional conte colours.
( Mild nudity )
This is a study with Sennelier pastels and proper pastel card with a sandpaper surface made from cork (luxury! Shashigai found the pastels and paper on clearance!). The colours didn't come out very well, neither in the photo nor in the original. It's way too bright and sunny. I'm going to need a lot more practice mixing the colours... and then figuring out how to mix the highlights without making everything all blurry. It's only a 20-colour set so putting in the highlights raw means all the subtlety gets subsumed into these primary splashes, but without highlights the picture doesn't really jump off the page.
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shashigai gave me for Christmas. I'm not really happy with it because it doesn't capture the light as vividly as it was in the scene, but I think these pastels are going to take some getting used to. They're hard like conte even through they're not traditional conte colours.( Mild nudity )
This is a study with Sennelier pastels and proper pastel card with a sandpaper surface made from cork (luxury! Shashigai found the pastels and paper on clearance!). The colours didn't come out very well, neither in the photo nor in the original. It's way too bright and sunny. I'm going to need a lot more practice mixing the colours... and then figuring out how to mix the highlights without making everything all blurry. It's only a 20-colour set so putting in the highlights raw means all the subtlety gets subsumed into these primary splashes, but without highlights the picture doesn't really jump off the page.
