How to Create Soft Edges on Fur in Pastel

This short tutorial shows you some good tricks to making the edges of your animal portraits look believably soft. Check out my full catalogue of tutorials on my Patreon channel at / emmacolbertart .
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Velour Pastel Paper
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[@claireryan8074]

Beautiful demo!

[@erartcreative9794]

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[@barbarascott1774]

Thanks Emma for another great video you are to kind sharing all your excellent advice

[@yogibakshi2375]

Did like the soft fur tecnique you have used Emma. Beautiful

[@bajiron]

Amazing! You are a great teacher and I am so happy I found you!

[@louiseberube1733]

Thank you sooooo much for this video! The soft edges were a mystery to me until now!!

[@markjayne935]

Thanks for the tip Emma and another great piece of art work.

[@lyndakowalke8858]

Amazingly soft, beautifully shown, yes indeed, soft looking enough to want to stroke and pat 🙏💕

[@vytaute84]

I know you I'm friends with max colbert you Evan made Charlie crow

[@katywuste9054]

Great video, the dog looks guilty but the fur looks so soft. I watched a video of your progress over the years and you have a new subscriber

[@wandawTube]

I love your work. This tutorial will help me with my first pastel painting of my dog. Thank you.

[@flickaJay]

That was a great video. Also, at the end when we could see for just a second the comparison of the size of the collie to Brocci. It seems to help in the decision of what size to paint a picture.

[@virginiamonikarofner4034]

Wow, your art is so amazing, I admire you a lot! Quick question... I’m trying to understand if the number of the pastelmat pad means something that has to do with the surface of the paper, or if it’s just about the paper colours... could you maybe help me out? 🥰

[@EmmaColbertArt]

As far as I'm aware all the Pastelmat surfaces are the same so it might refer to colours. I don't buy it in pads so I can't confirm this. But there are not different grits of surface like some of the other papers.

[@johnlewis5663]

Really good video, some great tips.

[@natureandwildlife22]

Always wanted to know this thank you Emma!

[@suzannw9098]

I wonder if the UArt 600 or 800 would have been better for you to get softness in the fur? I think the fineness of the tooth on those papers reduce the amount of pastel you need on the paper in order to achieve the blending you need. This was a great video. Thank you so much.

[@EmmaColbertArt]

I'm not as keen on UART as I love the softness and layering capabilities of velour. I also like Pastelmat but there is no better paper for softness than velour. I'm only applying thin layers of pastel but I like to layer up lots of colours and find that UART is not as good at this. I have still to try the 800 though, so I'll experiment more.

[@noobhaitu426]

Your drawing is amazing and your channel is super best 10 years you doing hard work but still you just have 19.1k subscriber 🙄 why

[@noobhaitu426]

Hello listening I'm promote you okay you doing soooo must hard work 👍🙏❤️

[@EmmaColbertArt]

Thank you! It's hard to get noticed on here these days. But although my early videos are from 10 years ago, I only really started working on my UA-cam around 3 years ago. It's doubled in the past year, so hopefully moving in the right direction. All promotion and recommendations welcome though :-)

[@claritzairosario68]

I love all your videos! Very inspiring! Thank you ❤❤❤