Monochrome Pastel Portraiture at Tidy St. Art School is a focused, day-long workshop designed to take the guesswork out of drawing faces and help you build a striking, high-contrast portrait. This hands-on course guides you through the practical, step-by-step techniques of mapping out accurate facial features using specialized monochrome pastel pencils. Whether you are a beginner nervous about proportions or an experienced artist wanting to master value and shadow, you will learn Lucie’s own signature techniques that guarantee fantastic results and ensure everything lands in the right place from the very first mark. you'll learn to see and render form with confidence.
Working in monochrome pastel pencils, you'll build up tone, depth, and likeness step by step—leaving with a finished portrait and a set of skills you can apply to any medium.
What you'll do
- Apply Lucie's structural head-drawing method
- Build tone and depth using monochrome pastel pencils
- Capture a powerful likeness and striking proportions
Who is this for?
All levels.
What to bring
Pastel pencils (monochrome set). A full list is sent on booking.