The paper is soft bamboo in 24to 42 cm…special
Background with cretacolor megacolor
Bird with Polycromos
Three things I tried the first time in a drawing
I finished this one two days ago…not really happy with the head….but OK…
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Hi Jay @jp101
This is superb, excellent, outstanding, great, impressive. In other words, I really like it.
Terri Robichon
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This is an 8x10 graphite drawing on Strathmore - Bristol paper with a vellum surface. Probably not the best paper choice because shiny dark values were annoying. I eventually decided to try fixative. It didn’t get rid of the shine. Then I put on a spray matt varnish (which the can says is for acrylic and oil paints). That was actually helpful. At least I didn’t ruin it. The reference was a photo I took myself with my cell phone.
Terri
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Oh, Thank you so much! 
Thanks! I’m definately going to make a lot more art with these pencils.
Hi Elina, I used regular graphite pencils on Strathmore Bristol Vellum paper.
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Thanks Terri! Really glad you also liked it 
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Terri, this is beautiful. What interesting clouds, you captured the flow so well.
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Wow, that is graphite?! I’d have guessed ink; how do you avoid smudging? 
It’s so sharp and clear, and realistic. Nice job!
Thanks, I would never be brave enough to try that in ink, at least not yet! 
I usually weak a fingerless glove to stop my hand smudging it, although it doesn’t always work 100% as my fingers are still exposed. Sometimes I put a sheet of paper under my hand as well.
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This was my 2nd drawing this week (that’s my goal - 2 completed each week until the local county fair in August). This is 8x8 on Scratchbord. It was my own reference photo, but I asked ChatGPT for help to put the racoon on a branch (rather than the deck railing where it was actually sitting). This took 3 days to complete, with me spending a typical 6 hours each day.
Terri
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I have started the Pastel Landscape mastery class - this is my attempt at Lesson two. And may I add, I am never-ever-ever-ever using Canson Mi-Teintes velvet again. Horrible paper.
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O wow, what a wonderful drawing! I love it! It actually reminds me a bit of the ‘Starre Night’ painting, with that sky.
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This is my most recent drawing, of a screw in old wood. With sepia fineliner on watercolor paper. 9 x 12 cm.
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I love the detail and the closeup nature of the image. And, in ink! That’s impressive. Great job.
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Ok, just the beginning but here’s some progress… The watercolor under painting is very loose; I could have done more layers with that but I really wasn’t liking it, and just wanted to jump to the prismacolors. The grid/blocking is still helping me focus on small areas at a time.
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It is a beautful picture!
What was the difficulty with the paper foryou?
Honestly, I was laughing out loud, reading this about the paper, because I draw my first time in this with my New pastel pencils. The paper has muuuuuch tooth, but I was happy it is not so soft as this really special bamboo paper Iused for the bird and kind of fail through choosing to hard pencils for this
It is a lesson in patreon with Jason Morgan
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I am glad you told me it is a drawing, I thought it was the reference. This is amazing work.
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Hi Elina
You need to watch this video from Jason Morgan, where he tests Canson Mi teintes velvet, and also concludes, that he will never be using it again.
I personally learned to use soft pastel in a time before PastelMat and Mi Teint-velvet paper was invented. I was thought to use Pastels on Hot pressed watercolour paper. And I absolutely prefer using the watercolour paper, because it offers better blending and it offers me the ability to work in layers. I could probably work in layers too on Pastel Mat, but it is much harder and much more difficult to use than the watercolour paper. Using Pastel Mat makes sense for work with very fine details, and I would absolutely use Pastel mat again for animal drawings. But for the landscape drawings in the Pastel Landscape mastery class - I will stick to hot pressed paper.
xoxo
Sys
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