For this tutorial, I’m going to use soft pastels and Conté crayons for drawing, rather than painting. There has always been a debate about whether pastels are a drawing or painting medium, but personally I believe it depends entirely on the way that you use them.
Here I’ll be using limited colour to capture the energy and texture of natural forms by changing my mark making and getting a feeling for the flow of line. As I draw each piece, I like to hold it in
