African Sunbird
- Only available with a membership
- Create realistic textures
- Learn how to work with difficult colours
Level: Intermediate
With some fine details and colours to balance, this is a good one for people with some experience.
Understand Yellow
Yellow is a hard colour to get right, so in this tutorial you'll learn how!
Videos and Downloads
Gain access to 8 video lessons and a downloadable PDF guide with reference images, too.
Choose the Right Paper
This class starts by looking at the paper choice and how to get the best colour to work on. This class manipulates the dark blue paper and uses it as a partial underpainting.
Desaturating Colours
Bright colours everywhere are not a good thing and can ruin your work. See how you can mix grey and muted hues to balance your colours and increase the realism.
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The Value of Values
Work in blocks of value to see how you can simplify a photo and then create something that feels 3D on the page. This class will take a look at reflected light, shadows and direct light.
Composition Technqiues
Create a balanced drawing with a simple branch that draws the eye in and compliments the bird perfectly.
Access to every course
An art membership gives you access to all of my pastel pencil online courses. That's well over 65 hours of content!
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