Pastel painting demonstrations

I am starting off with a medium cobalt blue pastel here, I could have used any pastel really but this coloured pastel relates to the blue tint of the paper. I am starting off with the main features of the face and so I roughly painted in a few lines to indicate the eyes, nose, mouth, forehead, right cheek and a few lines in for the chin.

Carrying on painting in with rough lines for the hair and the crease of the left cheek, I also indicate the eyes and eyebrows and just blocking them in roughly. All I am doing in this first stage of the portrait is painting in rough lines as a guide through the portrait.

Once I have my basic lines in I can then start putting in tone, I am using burnt umber to roughly indicate blocks of tone, these are where the shadows are down the left side of the face and under the chin. If you half close your eyes you will be able to see the shadows better, try this with the photograph above. 

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