Tips for Smoother Pastel Pencil Lines

[@lil7002]

Great video and very helpful. Can you give any advice for whiskers/fine hairs that radiate from the subject if there is no background and the pastelmat is “raw”. I’m no good at backgrounds and end up hating them so I only draw the subject. This means my hairs etc aren’t crisp.

[@Lindamoirart]

Thank you for your lovely comments. You could try a white charcoal pencil - I've been using the Generals Pastel Chalk pencil recently which is working well. You could also use a scribe tool to indent the paper and then run a sharp pastel pencil along the indentation. Hope these work for you 😊

[@lil7002]

@ ohhhh, I didn’t even think of indenting pastelmat. Could I also put a base of white down where I want the whiskers? Is that what you mean? Also, I do love your weekly blether. ❤️

[@LindaMoir]

No, I would make the light indentation then run your pastel along that. Just make sure it’s a nice fine indent tool, you don’t want the lines too thick. Definitely have a practice on a wee bit of spare Pastelmat as well as trying the charcoal white pencil. I’m so glad you are enjoying the Blether 🩷

[@lil7002]

@ I’ll get the slice tool and try that. Thank you so much. I appreciate you taking time to answer. x

[@LindaMoir]

@ not the slice tool, a scribe tool sometimes called an indentation pen, the ones with a little ball on the end. The slice tool won’t really work for this.