How To Colour an Elk, Stag and Impala | Pastel Pencil Course

How To Colour an Elk, Stag and Impala | Pastel Pencil Course

Would you love to be able to paint AMAZING Wild Animals?

In this course you will learn techniques to be able to paint a Stag, Elk and Impala. When you're finished, you'll have the skills to be able to paint your own wild animals too.

Pastel Pencils

It all starts with Pastel Pencils.

In my 30+ Years of Experience I have found that Pastel Pencils is the by far the easiest art medium to pick up and learn.

When you have finished this course not only will you walk away with 3 AMAZING Paintings but you will also be able to apply what you have learnt to draw own pictures.

Materials

Pastel Pencils

Pastel Pencils are a wonderful medium, they can be blended easily on top of each other and, because they're in a pencil form, are very easy to use.

These subjects are technically classed at an "Intermediate" level however I always say that no matter your experience, if you want to have a go, then you should.

We use 24 Pastel Pencils from Faber- Castell and 8 from Cretacolor. You can of course use your own brand of pastel pencil too. We provide you with colour charts so that you can compare the colours. Here is the full list of colours used within the course:

Faber-Castell PITT Pastel Pencils

• 101 white

• 103 ivory

• 230 cold grey I

• 233 cold grey IV

• 132 beige red

• 189 cinnamon

• 131 coral

• 169 caput mortuum

• 283 burnt sienna

• 181 payne's grey

• 199 black

• 156 cobalt green

• 143 cobalt blue

• 102 Cream

• 113 Orange Glaze

• 186 Terracotta

• 182 Brown Ochre

• 184 Dark Naples Ochre

• 270 Warm Grey I

• 273 Warm Grey IV

• 176 van dyck brown

• 188 sanguine

• 187 burnt ochre

• 172 earth green

Cretacolor Pastel Pencils

• 231 silver gray

• 229 brown gray

• 130 tan dark

• 136 old rose dark

• 135 old rose light

• 239 paynes gray

• 210 sienna

• 237 blue gray

Pastel Paper

I start off with using Fabriano Ingres Pastel Paper (160gsm) for the Stag and Impala and move onto using PastelMat Pastel Paper (300gms) for the Elk. The Fabriano is a more forgiving paper in that you can erase mistakes more easily so we start off with this one and then move onto PastelMat which is a better paper in that it can take more layers and gets better results, but it is less forgiving in that you cannot really erase mistakes. You can of course use your own paper that you would like, there's no pressure to use the same as me.

Outline Drawing

I provide you with a basic outline drawing for each picture. If you wish to use this, simply trace the outline to your paper using a graphite transfer sheet like tracedown (for dark grey paper you will benefit from using a white tracing sheet so you can see the outline more clearly).

Step by Step Instructions

I walk you through step by step with video instruction how to draw each stage. You'll learn techniques behind drawing beautiful bird pictures and create pictures you can be proud of.

Start Learning Today

With just a small amount of pencils you will see the AMAZING effects you can get.

Let your journey into drawing and painting start here.

Learn to draw 3 AMAZING Wild Animal paintings with Colin Bradley. Follow along step by step and get amazing results

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What you will learn

• How to colour a Stag, Impala and Elk
• The fundamentals with using Pastel Pencils
• The light to dark rule when layering Pastel Pencils

Rating: 4.5

Level: Intermediate Level

Duration: 9 hours

Instructor: Colin Bradley School of Art