Portraits pastel

This is a Pastel portrait process of a very charismatic girl...She was quite difficult and delicate to capture her well. I´ve enjoyed making her portrait...

Igor Babailov on Instagram: "👩‍🎨… PASTEL (or “drawing with color chalks”, as the Old Masters referred to it) can also be a wonderful medium to use when creating portraits. … This was a 2-hr portrait from life that I did from a life-model for my students in my masterclass (pastel on toned paper, 25 x 19 in). Music credit @maks_gabriel - Traces of Light . #portraitfromlife #portraitsinpastel #pastelportraits #drawingfromlife #colorchalks #pastelcolor #paintingred #paintingportraits…

I made this Pastel portrait, step by step, a few months ago. It is the third portrait commission I get from this family. This time my model was a beautiful young girl dressed in ‘faralaes’, something very characteristic of southern Spain. I only had at my disposition low-quality photos, taken from afar and with a […]

I made this portrait a few weeks ago. It was a request from a very special and charming woman, who is in love with her little granddaughter. The photos were “homemade” with a sidelight coming from the window. Sometimes it happens! We capture something special with the lens of our camera and this is what […]

So often people ask how to paint this or that. So often you find tutorials about how to paint something specific. You might have noticed (or not) that on my blog there are no ‘how to paint x’ posts…

I made this portrait a few weeks ago. It was a request from a very special and charming woman, who is in love with her little granddaughter. The photos were “homemade” with a sidelight coming from the window. Sometimes it happens! We capture something special with the lens of our camera and this is what […]

Portrait artist 🎨 on Instagram: "My love for what I do - is my main assistant😌"