Space Art - Pastel drawing / Pastellmalerei: Green Nebula

[GuitarKid581]

ive looked up soft pastel crayons and i get sent to "Quartet Alphacolor soft pastels" are those correct? thanks =]

[Startwister]

@GuitarKid581 There are different brands of pastels. I use Schmincke soft artist pastels. There may be slight differences in pigmentation, tones, and workability, but as long as you have soft pastels, you should do fine!

[GuitarKid581]

are you just breaking and scratching the pastel apart for the stars and dust effects? awesome btw

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@GuitarKid581 Thank you! yes, to get the dust for stars and galaxies, I scratch with my fingernails, or if I got small pieces of crayon, I just crumble them between my fingers.

[brownmommy13]

Great work! Thanks for sharing your artwork!

What kind of pastel and paper are you using?

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@brownmommy13 Thanks again! I don´t use special pastel paper. The problem is, that it often has some structure in it, wich diturbes th painting - specially, if you paint nebulae. I use regular black coloured paper with a smooth surface, but you can also use black drawing - or very fine sand paper.

The pastels are soft pastel crayons (quite expensive, but very easy to work with).

[Startwister]

@NoFunNoS Dankeschön. Du zeichnest mit Bleistift? Würd ich gern seh´n.

Das mit der Kreativität hat auch seine Nachteile, da es relativ lange dauert, neue Ideen zu bekommen.

[psychodelicdragon]

this is what i mean by art!!!

beautiful work, no art!!!

keep after it, looks great!!

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@psychodelicdragon Thank you very much. There will be at least one more, this year. But after an exhibition on Halloween weekend, I´m part of - or rather my work is...

[jjavengg]

Nice drawing, very interesting

[Startwister]

@jjavengg muchas gracias, Javier! It´s in fact a very simple drawing. But it looks cool, I think.

[jjavengg]

@Startwister pues a mi me ha gustado mucho. I´m spanish, bye bye

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@jjavengg I know, I always take a look at the channels, when people write comments or messages.

I learned a few words in spanish for my vacation in Punta Cana, but most of it, I forgot. :(

[JumperFrank]

nice drawing

I love pastel! =DD

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@JumperFrank Thank you, and thanks for subscribing. I really apprecciate it!

[ghap4a]

Rafa this drawing is terrific, wonderful. I don't know how you can get the cluster of star so well done. Believe me I tied hard when I was drawing the moon because first instead of the moon it was supposed to be a planet but I didn't get it right so I turned into a moon lol, but I still want to do it like this, I want to draw a planet!

[Startwister]

@ghap4a Just keep on trying. It´s really not hard to get them right. And for the planet: It´s not that different than a moon (exxept, you wanna draw an earth-like landscape - I would have problems with that, too!

[bethmusic88909]

So cool!

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@bethmusic88909 Thanks very much!