pastel portrait

[daarken]

trying out my new pastel set. i did this from life during my heads and hands 2 class.

http://www.daarken.com/FlashPage/Paintings/pastel.jpg

[Buffalo]

That's a beautiful sketch. I love the colors and the highlights on the earings. The sketch has a lot of personallity and feeling- Great job.

[Blackhawk]

That's beautiful Daarken. The lips look a little askew, but I love the colors on this, especially on the forehead. Nice work man.

[MindCandyMan]

You are progressing so well daarken...your work is an inspiration to me. Keep it up bro.

[Oblio]

You rock!
Is this oil pastel?

[daarken]

blackhawk: yeah, towards the end of the pose i was noticing that the lips were off, but i was too lazy to change it. plus the nose kept giving me problems.

oblio: no,they are just regular soft pastels.

everyone else: thanks a lot! i am currently working on a master copy in pastels of a velazquez painting, so hopefully that will turn out ok.

[PandaWhipper]

Daarken this is great! I love how colorful it is. I'm always intimidated by using saturated colors, but you really pulled it off!

-Rye