Sunflower in Vase Oil Pastel!

7 days ago

Hello, how are you? Last week, I decided to make a sketchbook dedicated to my oil pastels, and sadly, I forgot to document the process because I feel overwhelmed about it LOL.

Because last time I made a sketchbook, it became like my note-taking, sketchbook, oil pastels book, and everything! So I decided to make a sketchbook for the specific medium I am going to use, and I feel more confident and free to draw anything on it.

By the way, I really like drawing sunflowers in any kind of medium, but I really love drawing them using oil pastels. So I am going to show you how I draw a sunflower using oil pastels.

Materials I Used:

Oil Pastel
Sketchbook

Reference
Scratching Tool

Let's Draw!

I like to start with the basic shape of the reference so that I know where it is when I'm finishing it with line art. After that, when I am satisfied with the proportion, I am going to layer with more detailed line art.

I like to start with a darker color and the bottom part of the reference. I used to layer it as hard as I could, but I decided to experiment to do it lightly this time, and I think it works!

And do the same thing on the other part of the reference, and I feel like it is not enough, so I layer it with darker shades.

For this part of the process, I start adding lighter shades to the reference, and I think it is becoming more like the reference. I start adding color to the background too.

Then I added more intense shadows, and I rendered the background too, which made me see which part I am going to fix first.

For this part, I added more shadows because previously something was missing about so I guess I am correct adding more intense shadows makes it more dimensional.

This is what it looks like in zoomed in. I like how the way it turned out, and I guess I am going to use this technique in the future with oil pastels.

I like to finish it off with a scratch to make texture and highlights at the same time. And the same time, I finish it with a lighter color for the highlight too.