Oil Pastel Sunflower in Vase

Hello, how are you? My love for oil pastels is coming back since I started posting on my TikTok again, which I abandoned many months ago, hehe. What I love about oil pastels is that you can do whatever you want with them. Although it's a bit messy to work with, I think it's worth trying. I was in search of other oil pastel brands I see on tiktok on other artist use and I kind of want to try it, and I ordered some of it and I never knew that pentel have 50 colors so I need to have it so it is still on its way and I can't wait for it so I ordered another one its from crayola I like to try on budget friendly options first before I go to more professional one and I kind of excited it is going to get delivered today so wish me luck!

Materials I Used:

Oil Pastel
Paper

Scraper
Reference

Let's Draw!

I prepare my sketchbook and place it at an angle I am comfortable with, and then start to sketch the reference in shape because doing this makes me know where I am drawing, and I use this gray oil pastel to sketch the reference.

I outlined each part of the sunflower using its respective colors.

Same as the one I drew the outline of the stem, leaves, etc of the flower using this grayish green. I love using this as my base color or outline for my drawings.

And I am not forgetting the vase, of course, and I am starting to fill up the pollen. What I do is I lightly layer it first.

Next, I use these darker shades of green to fill in the part where the shadows are. I do it lightly, like I did earlier.

For this part of the process, I start completely filling up the flowers part and just trust the process, keep layering, and sometimes I have limited color, so if I have a color that is similar to the reference, I use it.

Now the drawing is getting there, I started to fill up the background with gray color so that I can see it more tonally, and I started adding darker colors to the flowers to make it more contrast to look at.

Just keep layering different shades of the color of the flower. I like to finish it with white oil pastel just to blend the colors smoothly. You know when the drawing is getting there when your hand looks like this LOL.