Sketching Guidelines for Pastel Painting

Video Transcript

"Okay we're going to continue and go ahead and rough frame up all these other objects. We've got our kitty basically in this position. And I'll just add a couple of more guidelines. Now notice that it's okay if they're not perfectly, exactly where you see them. Right now we're rough sketching things out. We'll refine the positions of these things as we go along. But right now I just want to get something down on paper. And as the thing starts to evolve then we'll do refinement of the locations of things. All I want to do is just generally get a feel for where everything is. I am seeing the top of that flower as generally a fairly large oval. There's one oval that's the greenery. And it's, from my position, it's kind of like a trapezoid shape. And it extends beyond to about a position here. And on this side it's extending just beyond a position here. So here's my trapezoid of the greenery. And then the flowers themselves are a larger area that extends up and a little higher. There's my flowers. Doesn't look much like flowers now but all I really want to do is get the locations of everything relative to our primary pot in the foreground."