Chalk pastel tutorial: Portrait

[@fridanilsen2386]

I recently picked up chalk pastels and got unmotivated by how bad my portrait turned out. Thank you for all the pointers, I'll be sure to try them out!

[@ohsfer11820]

Finally, it's hard to find tutorial for chalk pastel. Thank you so muvh

[@frankgutter173]

I have been watching this 3 times now. It effin beautiful what you do!!!

[@hackneyfinearts8483]

That’s super sweet of you to say, thanks 🙏🏽

[@conversationalhealing6363]

Thank you, very inspiring! I have been blending everything to death, so it was great to see this different method!

[@rosaliefunk1629]

The first thing I learned with pastel is never to blow the dust. Pastels are pure pigment and can be toxic to inhale. The portrait you created is lovely. Thank you.

[@cassiopeia1437]

wonderful tutorial, u carry such skill, confidence, and intuition in your strokes :)

[@punklejunk]

Amazing how feathering is such a powerful technique. About nine minutes in, it looks almost like a random salad of colors. By twenty-seven minutes, it's unmistakable who it is. Just magical.

[@sabrinamitchell8356]

I have been looking for a video like this for weeks now!!! I've been experimenting with making chalk pastel portraits but all the tutorials I keep finding are with oil pastels !! Thank you so much, this was very helpful and I'd love to see you do more!!!

[@hackneyfinearts8483]

Glad it was helpful! :)

[@Carmen-lm9kh]

You are a true artist! I hope you continue making awesome videos like this one!

[@chrizcrossz]

Wow, thank you, this helps a lot, especially when you remind us to not have expectations. Just all around great work and advice.

[@mariateresabuenavista8560]

I enjoyed watching this video of yours. The end result is awesome! I would definitely give it a go.

[@health2366]

Mam you are doing great work plz keep doing. ... No one is making video on soft pastel ...Love from 🇮🇳india mam 😘😘 thankew so much mam 😍😍

[@sheindyone]

amazing work love Michaela

[@Kate-yf4zh]

Thank you for this, it's very detailed!! I've been exploring with pastels lately so this tutorial is really a big help for me! I would definitely follow this one. Keep making videos pls! ❤️❤️❤️

[@hackneyfinearts8483]

Thanks! Glad you are finding them useful :) there’s a few more tutorials on pastels in my channel, check them out.

[@tylergibson2724]

This video helped me SO MUCH. Thank you!

[@paigew7921]

Your video is very inspiring and instructional. I look forward to practicing my chalk pastel portraits after this tutorial

[@trankhanhlinh834]

I’ve just found your channel. Im so glad I found it. Your video really inspired me so much. Thank you for uploading these videos for the watchers. Please keep up your job ❤️❤️❤️

[@hackneyfinearts8483]

You are so welcome! Very glad you find them useful :)

[@pedrodavila8927]

Wowww excelente video buen proceso para aprender Muchas gracias saludos desde Honduras

[@dvora3232]

wonderful lesson and beautiful painting! thanks so much!

[@Setayesh.hoseinpoor]

Thats soo beautifull. Thanks for sharing😍

[@normaleestudio8444]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

[@official_dsonarts]

Beautiful ❤️

[@luizatattooart]

This tutorial helped me so so so much! Thank you very much

[@houcine339]

Nice painting, I love it.

[@janejordan1894]

Beautiful. Will try this tmr

[@TomaszRykala]

It's the wonderful Michaela Coel. I think she'd love to see this!

[@janetmcnish-counsellor3712]

Beautiful creative picture. Thank you. I have subscribed and will do some of your tutorials. I'd like to improve my portraits.

[@xstorm44x]

Thanks for the detailed process

[@Steeban1]

amazing work! which brand of pastels are you using here?

[@krisobrien2314]

Beautiful work ❤

[@hackneyfinearts8483]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@reignlyricalgod536]

Wow this is absolutely lovely.. I have a little problem over blending the colors in the face after applying the base and the value layers, please 🙏 🙏 , if you could do a tutorial on how to blend the face properly well using soft pastel, I would be very great full mam.. Thanks

[@hackneyfinearts8483]

I normally blend with a stick of pastel rather than fingers as it makes it really dirty. Try using a lighter colour to blend.

[@ElizabethBattle]

This is lovely. Good advice and technique! What kind of paper and pastels did you use?

[@davidsilverhawk3732]

Wonderful!!!! Thank you very much!!!

[@kelleynoiseux1888]

Awesome.

[@jimburns6232]

HI, Love your demo the way you apply rhe pastel with very little detail just dark and lighr tones then start to add detail and bring it all together and finish with a fantastic Portrait . 👍😊, PS . For your health please don't blow pastel dust a small hand held hoover would be a better option.

[@marceystevens8275]

Would a vacuum probably smear the painting or suck up too much color? How would you do it? Just curious, not criticizing

[@Danye4191]

Come back!! I love your tutorials.

[@evaflowerpower5039]

Amazing! On which underground do you work? Is it paper?

[@SomnathAvhad-vc6sl]

Amazing

[@CaroCallas87]

thank you. very inspiring

[@taspringfield]

I love it

[@user-pd3qc5vr1w]

I just did and eye with pastel chalk, and I think it was so good, but tha lashes and brow ruined the whole thing :( I hope this video will help! ty ☺️

[@danijelapopovic1850]

Do you ever blend with fingers?

[@hackneyfinearts8483]

I try not to. It makes it super messy and the colours get super dirty 🙈

[@vaishali3355]

Could you please share where to buy this specific coloured paper, colours look so vibrant on it and is it archival ?

[@hackneyfinearts8483]

It's really cheap sugar paper. I think the colors look vibrant because the warm colors are balanced with cold colors.

[@vaishali3355]

Your artworks are beautiful❤️ thank you

[@najibsagrajos7590]

I've waiting for blending .

[@frankgutter173]

You are genius somehow!

[@aledocat]

what kind of paper do you use?

[@hackneyfinearts8483]

Sugar paper :)

[@somannifique5201]

please make one for acrylic/ painting self portraits ! love your videos ❤️

[@jekaterinanemeth3052]

🤩♥️😊💐🍀🎁

[@jekaterinanemeth3052]

Merci! Bravo! 🤩🤩🤩😊🌹🍀🎁

[@Mycaenae]

Is that a dis? Why do you say it doesn't matter? If you intend to draw Michaela Coel, it absolutely matters.

[@hackneyfinearts8483]

A dis to my own ability to resemble her beauty in a short drawing without practising! Definitely not to her. I'm a huge fan, but that often happens...It's often hard to get resemblance of someone you admire a lot. It doesn't matter because my aim was to demonstrate techniques for chalk pastels in portrait on black skin and I only used her image as a photo reference, it's not quite the same as doing a portrait ;)

[@Mycaenae]

@@hackneyfinearts8483 Ah. Got you! :)

[@katewoollard5538]

This is why I've avoided anything, character drawing/portrait drawings, with any ethnicity other than those of "white" tones. The fear of the result looking like an insult. Especially because I'm a beginner. But I absolutely love dark skin tones. Love. I always have. I wish we'd move past this way of thinking: looking for negative. Thank you, @HackeyFineArts, for this video and your wonderful response. I am unable to draw anything well... Light skin tones. But with your video and humbleness I have courage to try darker skin tones. Which are so incredibly beautiful. ❤💖💕

[@Mycaenae]

@@katewoollard5538 you obviously have the luxury to "move past this way of thinking", I do not. You may label it "negative" till the cows come home, my question was apropriately and respectfully asked and answered. You take care. 🤘🏿

[@katewoollard5538]

Luxury... We all have luxuries.... Every one of us... Every single one of us that lives in a developed country... It's a matter of choosing what you see... I wasn't disrespectful about your comment... On the contrary, you made my point and highlighted the truth of my hesitancy to draw any character or person of any other ethnicity than lighter skin tones... I wish you well too ❤💖💕

[@justinrobinson9583]

Sry

[@jeffreyross8855]

your video is out of focus!!!!!!

[@hackneyfinearts8483]

Sorry to disappoint you, we are new to this. Just making videos to keep my students and the general public entertained during lockdown.

[@mabelolivotto3645]

no me gusto!!!

[@hackneyfinearts8483]

lo lamento, no se puede satisfacer a todos siempre...Espero encuentres alguno x ahi que te fascine!