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Pastel & Colour: Cleaning, maintaining and preserving your material
You don’t need to be a cleaning fanatic to keep your pastels in shape… But watch out, they're fragile and messy, so you need to take some precautions! Overview.
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Pastel & Colour: Preparing your material
Because pastels are a dirty technique, they require some methodical organizing. Here are a few suggestions for preparing your material so you can draw cleanly, with peace of mind!
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Selecting the right accessories for working with pastels
You need just a few accessories to work with pastels under the right conditions. Guided tour of the pastellist's survival kit!
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Which pastels do you need? Dry pastels or oil pastels…
Are pastels really just colored chalk? Infinite variations in color, different textures for developing your creativity…
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Selecting your pastel paper
Do you work with dry or oil pastels? There are two parameters that will guide your choice of paper for either medium, to be made on the basis of the characteristics of the work you want to create.
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Origami: Choosing your materials
Origami is an art available to all. The proof: the creation of most classic projects only requires a single sheet of paper! But careful, the choice of paper determines the success of your folding projects.
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Manga: Preparing your material
You have come up with a script and your main characters… now you need to start drawing your panels! Pencils, eraser, pens, ink… You have everything ready! But did you remember to draw your margins?
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Manga: Selecting your accessories:
Before starting your panel, make sure you have all the materials you need to bring your story to life!
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Manga: Selecting your drawing tools
As a mangaka, you need to have precision tools for everything from your first draft to inking!
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Manga: Selecting your paper
To do your panels, there is just one prerequisite: high quality paper! Pencil drawing, inking, correcting and adding screens… it needs to be sturdy enough to take all the punishment.
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