Portrait Pastel Course – Ten Sessions

Description

Portrait Pastel Course – Ten Sessions

A 10-Session Course to Master Pastel Portraits from the Ground Up

Discover how to create expressive, accurate pastel portraits using a clear, structured method. Perfect for beginners and growing artists, this course teaches you everything from proportion and value to colour, composition, and the unique techniques that make pastel such a powerful medium.

In this course, you will:

• Build strong portrait foundations fast
  Learn reliable methods for proportion, gesture, and feature placement using simple shapes before transitioning into pastel.
• Master value — the secret to great portraits
  Work from charcoal into pastel as you mass in shadow shapes, use your paper as a midtone, and build convincing form with light and dark.
• Learn to use colour with confidence
  Add coloured pastels one step at a time, focusing on clean value relationships, layered transitions, and a limited palette that keeps your portrait unified.
• Draw from a live model
  Apply your skills to real portrait drawing, learning how to simplify, edit shapes, observe light direction, and work with increased nuance.
• Create a full, naturalistic pastel portrait
  Go from block-in to finished piece with clear instruction on colour choice, value range, layering, and edge control.
• Design and complete a large final composition
  You’ll create a colour study, scale it up, design a background, and finish a polished portrait that showcases everything you’ve learned.

By the end…
You’ll have a complete pastel portrait, a powerful step-by-step method, and the confidence to tackle portraits from life or imagination — with colour, value, and composition working in your favour.