#pastelli pastels

[chiauno]

I tried oil pastels for the first time and I'm in love, it's really like drawing with pigmented butter sticks 😂💕

Here's my small first attempt. I can't wait to use them again and get better at this 💕

[mtsodie]

Art req: special one (dhmis 3)!!!

shes so cute...

[giorgiaink]

Happy birthday to Adrianne Palicki!

This is a mixed media portrait. I used mostly oil pastels but her eyes are colored with pencils and there are some white acrylic touch ups.

[Don't repost please, I'm on other socials too you can reshare my own post if you want, that'd be appreciated giorgiaink]

[cristina-landi-wingobia-art]

Cristina Landi, Kyra, 2017, Pastelli su carta, mm 300 x 400,Collezione privata, Sesto San Giovanni - Milano

Cristina Landi, Kyra, 2017, Pastel on paper, 300 x 400 mm, Private Collection, .Sesto San Giovanni - Milano

[garaviel]

Doing some fabric dying for the first time in years wish me luck

[fafos]

UNA CASCATA DA MASTERCHEF (Eng Below) La spettacolare cascata de "lu cacchèma" fiotta tra le possenti rocce spingendo l'acqua del fiume Salinello giù lungo la valle, all'interno del #parconazionaledelgransassoemontidellalaga.

Composta di più salti di cui il maggiore di ben 35 metri, ha un getto fragoroso e spumoso che produce una invitante piscina naturale. Il suo nome in dialetto teramano significa "il pentolone", ed è legato proprio all'aspetto ampio e striato di questa vasca.

Sul suo fondo da qualche giorno è in lenta cottura anche una delle mie matite. Un ingrediente speciale, sfuggito a questo disegno sul mio taccuino di #viaggievillaggi.

Cos'è "Viaggi e Villaggi"? sono disegni di luoghi, paesaggi, viaggi per raccontare l'Italia meno conosciuta, posti dove forse vorrai andare.

Per sostenere il progetto e arredare il tuo spazio, scegli tra le raffinate stampe della serie disponibili qui: viaggievillaggi.etsy.com

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - A MASTERCHEF WATERFALL

The spectacular waterfall of "lu cacchèma" flows between the mighty rocks pushing the water of the Salinello river down the valley, inside the #gransassolagapark in the Abruzzo region.

Composed of several jumps of which the greater than 35 meters, has a thunderous and foamy jet that produces an inviting natural pool. Its name in the local dialect means "the pot", and is linked to his large and streaked appearance.

One of my pencils has also been slowly cooking on its bottom for a few days. A special ingredient, escaped this design on my "Viaggi e Villaggi" #travelsketchbook.

What is "Viaggi e Villaggi"? Are drawings of places, landscapes, trips to tell the less known Italy, places where you might want to go.

To support the project and furnish your space, choose from the finest prints of the series available here: viaggievillaggi.etsy.com

[umbertafineart]

Esecuzione di un piccolo ritratto...

Non amo lavorare troppo in piccolo , ho accettato , visto che per settembre ho lanciato uno sconto su vari formati anche piccoli…Lavorare su un piccolo ritratto a pastelli può essere veramente sfidante per via delle dimensioni ridotte appunto, che richiedono ancora più precisione nei dettagli. Ecco alcune delle difficoltà che ho affrontato.   Dettagli limitati: è difficile catturare tutti i…

[makiko-art-mr]

[reallyhardydraws]

2023.

i hope any of you reading this will forgive the essay. i started posting to this art blog ten years ago in 2013 when i was just at the very end of high school, uploading short animations i'd made for one of my final projects, preparing myself for art school where i was gearing up to become an illustration/animation student.

i went into my art foundation course in 2014, still thinking i was going to be going into storybook illustration or with faint hopes of becoming like a concept artist for game/animation, although even then i'd started thinking about patterns...

and then in 2015 i did go into my BA, going in for that illustration with animation degree that... usually when i talk about it in real life, i say didn't really feel like the best place for me. if i think back, the best things i got out of it were two of my best friends, one of whom is now my partner. looking back on my BA era, there's some bits of sketchbook stuff...

and while i was at university my main fandoms were thunderbirds are go and x-men for a bit... these are from the end of 2015 into the beginning of 2016...

then for a little while i was doing this still sort of pastel-ish lineless situation:

and i alternated between that and this thin fineliner type work (pretty sure all of the linearted pieces were done on paper and scanned, and all the lineless were graphics-tablet-only) - it was in this style that i started to offer commissions for the first time too.

and i also had fineliner-lined work in sketchbooks that i coloured with marker and posca pens, the colours of which were generally a bit more intense just based on not being able to slide the hue/saturation around on paper:

also 2016 was when i discovered the spongebob musical just after it's trial run in chicago (which ended in july of 2016) and i started making fanart at that point... which would have the biggest effect on the way i drew (and i did end up handing in a piece of spongebob musical fanart as one of my art school homeworks lmao)

from summer 2016 until early 2017 things were still quite soft and pastelly in my digital art, colour-wise:

and then suddenly everything got whacked up to 100% on saturation. also i was using the binary tool to give everything really thin pixel lineart for some reason.

then i went on vacation in summer 2017 and didn't draw for maybe a month? just short of? and when i came back i decided to change everything up again... giving characters blobbier, more ugly-cute faces with large squinting eyes and big nostrils and i was worrying a lot less about making anything look smooth, lineart-wise. i turned off the pen stabiliser in SAI and let it wiggle.

then... the spongebob musical opened on broadway in late 2017, i went to see it live in person for the first time... and my whole brain was ENTIRELY consumed by my love of it. i was putting that david zinn inspired pattern explosion into everything, even if it wasn't sbm fanart.

as we go into 2018, i started colouring my lineart. my biggest interest was still broadway musicals (with spongebob at the top of the list)

i think summer 2017 - early 2018 is probably my favourite art era, i was at my most bright and colourful and exciting... although i know in my actual real life i was struggling a lot with my home situation and i had been for some time. art was definitely my escapism back then, and i think a lot of the time i drew really bright, joyful stuff to try and inject that feeling into myself.

as for my university work, i was putting my focus into 3D paper-mache puppets:

and i was also starting to do more repeat patterns, mostly inspired by things around me. i'd learned how to make patterns actually tile and repeat in 2017, so made a few during my time at uni just to accompany some of my projects, but never as the focus of them. one of my university tutors told me that maybe i should put more focus on doing surface pattern, and maybe applying it to textiles, but i said i wasn't interested.

i graduated from my BA in the summer of 2018, and immediately began volunteering at the whitworth art gallery doing anything i could - stewarding, helping with arts and crafts, dancing with families...

in 2019 i was still very colourful... i was trying out more chunky colouring on characters skintones that i think was def inspired by tumblr artist jadenvargen:

but the blobbyness and ugly-cute style of drawing faces was gone by here, and i think... the way i drew characters probably had better *anatomy*, proportions were maybe a bit more realistic...

in 2020 i started adding the black shading to under the chins and some other places on characters' bodies because i started watching the anime my hero academia with my brother, lmao (and i was starting to pastelise colours a bit again, these are the most pastel-ish examples) my lineart has really smoothed back out too, though i never turned my pen stabiliser back on in SAI. i think my hand just adjusted. probably seems a bit insane to miss that, but i do.

by the end of 2020, the almost-year of lockdown over cobid had... made me a bit insane, i think, and i moved out of my mother's house and into a flat with a friend from university.

in 2021 i think things were much the same... i think from this point on is where things have sort of settled. i don't want to say stagnated, but i do think things have been very... like this for a while.

2022 - got the most exciting examples out...

also i was very into these little frames in 2022.

and then on to 2023! in 2022, i did begin trying to shift gears a bit -- hoping to put more energy into sewing and making products (like my tutor has suggested back in uni, even though i'd really resisted the idea.) i sold at a few in-person markets during winter of 2022, but got disheartened by the amount of money i had to sink in up front to sign up for a spot...

which has made me VERY grateful for the people who have supported me via online sales. it has really helped me stay afloat in 2023 - AND it has felt more wonderful than i can describe that there have been people interested in my work... especially when a lot of it has been my original designs, rather than the fanart that i expect a lot of people initially followed me for.

i've also... in the past 2 years... branched out a bit more when it comes to 'being an artist' - and have had the opportunity to deliver arts & crafts workshops with local refugee & asylum seeker support charity, afrocats. it's taken me to their home base in a church to hotels across the city where asylum seekers were temporarily placed while waiting on their new homes, and of course to my beloved whitworth art gallery, where we welcomed visitors from all backgrounds: from the typical white middle class visitors the gallery usually expects, to all the refugee visitors coming into the space for the first time.

and through my volunteering at the whitworth, i showed up so often they decided they might as well pay me. so i've also become a facilitator of... creative play sessions, my favourites of which have been outdoors. monthly, year-round, we have 'outdoor art club', where i get to paint with mud and make potions from leaves with kids & families - here you can see me tell you a little bit about it in this video below with 'crempog' a puppet character that makes videos about activities for kids and families around manchester (my bit starts at 01:10 although i am in the intro and thumbnail haha)

and then of course the summer 'PLAYTIME' activities we've had the past two years: scrap studio in 2022, and play market in 2023. it's the best freelance gig ever -- just to hang out and encourage families to be creative and have fun.

in working more in these new avenues... outside of being - as i've called myself for a long time - "an internet artist"... i've found myself more interested in this sort of thing. in being a "real world artist" too. in doing surface pattern design, and being a workshop facilitator, i find myself wanting to put more energy into these sorts of projects.

in 2023 i've also dabbled a little bit more in youtube videos! i have had a channel for a while and have made videos in previous years, but 2023 has been the year i've done the most in. admittedly most of them haven't been about my art, and more just like... random things that interest me (the spongebob musical in particular) but i've really been enjoying video editing. that's kind of an art form too, so i'm including it here!

moving forward, want to keep putting even more of my energy into other things. my shop, with a bigger range of products to offer. workshops in real life, where i can make a difference.

as for my art blog... i feel like i've done the least drawing in many years in 2023, and... well, things have been weird and complicated for a bit in my real life. i hope to draw for fun a bit more again very soon, and to return to doing things in more of a wild and crazy way, to be more creative and exciting with the way i draw things. still, here's some of my favourites from 2023:

thank you so much to everyone who has borne witness to my art journey this past decade!!! i hope you will stick with me, who knows, maybe for another 10 years if tumblr holds out. especially a big thank you to everyone who has ever commissioned me, or bought anything from my store, you literally keep me able to make art at all and i cannot, cannot, cannot overstate how much it means to me.

i'm moving homes soon, possibly into very cramped temporary conditions for a little while before HOPEFULLY starting my real life with my partner. if i can take one more moment to plug my work, then [here is a link to my online shop] and [here is my ko-fi page too.]

cheers, cheers, cheers!

- LOREN 🌈🍍🎉

[salchat]

Messy, pastelly Cas WIP...

Finger smudges...

More finger smudges...

Messed around with a make-up sponge and then slapped on some pastel direct...

I think, maybe, if I go over that tomorrow in soft charcoal pencil, I might be able to make it work? Maybe a bit more smudging, or maybe leave it rough?

[blockgamepirate]

Since Mojang fulfilled my number one Minecraft wish (customisable armour), time to voice my number two Minecraft wish, which is pastel coloured wood.

I mean we already got the pastelly pink one which is AWESOME, but I’ve been wishing for a pastelly blue wood since I started playing this game, because I want to build my childhood home which is an old wooden house painted pastel blue.

(Genuinely the closest thing I’ve got is white concrete, which isn’t really blue or wood, but it’s at least vaguely similar I guess.)

Also I keep wanting to build a quintessentially Finnish village but again, I’m just missing those pastel colours. (Mangrove wood at least is pretty close to the iconic rural Nordic punamulta colour and I guess I can use yellow terracotta for the keltamulta variant. But that’s a completely different vibe from the pastels)

I would also accept a pastel terracotta set too though. Something like what white terracotta is now, but other colours as well. Sandstone kinda works for the yellow but again I’m just stuck with only reddish and yellowish options. idk, I just want more pastel colours in Minecraft pls... Mainly pastel blue and pastel green, if I only got those two I would be just so unbelievably happy.

(Please don’t tell me to just download a texture pack, I already know I can do that. It’s fine for single player but I like to play in multiplayer and I don’t want my builds to look weird for other people. Also yes prismarine brick exists but the texture is weird. Look, I know I’m being greedy and all, but I’m allowed to dream, aren’t I?)

Actually I think what would be a perfect way to introduce these would be to add End biomes with some sort of alien plants that could be crafted into planks with pastel colours, similar to the nether fungi but even more bizarre. That would be really cool IMO

[lunamagicablu]

La Nostalgia è dipingere i Ricordi con pastelli a C’era. @AlbertHofman72 ******************* Nostalgia is painting memories with pastels once upon a time. @AlbertHofman72

[mochiwrites]

dude in the most /pos way your minecraft skin is SO you!! like if someone was like "hey [anon], what do you think Mochi's minecraft skin looks like" i'd probably answer something like that because it's so good!!!! like it's so pastelly and cute and ajiofew the vibes >>>>>>> /pos

SOBS AT YOU REALLY LOUD??? 🥹💕💕💕

uwahhhhhh thank you!!! 🥹 I recently made it like. Two months ago maybe??? and by made it I mean I took the head of my old skin and slapped it on a base DBFBFBFG but I love it SO much !!!! it has the cutesy pastel pink and fits the vibe I like very much <333

[just0nemorepage]

April Just One More Page BPC 📚 // Day 20 ➜ Pastels.

↳ Pastelly purples!

[satorisoup]

hjgkdfjhgkdjf i am so sorry but ur theme is amazing ꒰⑅ᵕ༚ᵕ꒱˖♡

like all the pastelly colors and the overall vibe? its just perfection and it makes me think of macarons and small tea cakes... yum.....

how r u on this marvelous day miss lene? (If I may call you that T*T)

OMIGOSH hello claire !! (^∀^*) SOB STAWP THANK YOU SOSO MUCH !! you flatter me teehee >//< tha bakery theme has been a big win so far, m’ soso happy you like it !! teacakes and macarons ?? :0 YUM !!

but can we talk about YOUR theme ?! IT’S SOSOSO CUTE WAHHH !! i love the pastel yellow :0 and gojo in your comments PLS that’s soso silly !! >_<

my day has been pretty good so far !! i’ve been playing games wif my best friend and i just stopped to have a snackie n’ check tumblr >.< and OF COURSE YOU CAN CALL ME THAT !!

how are yousss doing claire ?? i hope today has been treating you well !! supa excited to be mooties wif you and watch your blog grow !! :>

[cristina-landi-wingobia-art]

Cristina Landi, Fur Hug, 2019, Pastelli su carta, mm 350 x 350, Opera su commissione, Collezione privata, Losanna

Cristina Landi, Fur Hug, 2019, Pastels on paper, 350 x 350 mm, Commissioned work, Private collection, Losanna