*gasp* Nice job! I love the geometry and realism affects! This is an instant favorite of mine...

Thank you very much!

Nice! What kind of pastels did you use? and on what kind of paper?

They are a variety of soft pastels, from Faber-Castell, Rembrant, and the super-cheap Loew-Cornell and then Prismacolor's hard Nupastels over the "base painting" to sharpen it up and bring out the details.

The paper is the Mi-Tintes Canson paper, as stated, approximately 19"X25".

Thanks!

Mi-tientes paper?! really? I allways have a hard time with that paper.. I get little 'holes' allll over my work. Try kitty wallis sanded paper some day! You' LOVE it!!

And cool on the different brands of pastels, I do the same thing!

Very nice! thanks for sharing. :)

Yep! The key is to use the smooth side. The paper is double-sided, one having that horribly ugly tooth that leaves the art looking potch-marked, the other is much smoother. I always do a light mark on both sides to be sure I'm drawing on the texture that I prefer.

Oh, I think I've seen that paper, it's like fine-grained sandpaper isn't it? I've used the pastelbord made by amperstand that has the same type of texture and absolutely love it. Thanks for the suggestion!

Variety is always good!

You're most welcome! Thanks for the question!

Yes! it's like a fine toothed sand paper on a long lasting backing. You can even wash it off with water and scrub it clean and start all over if you want. it's pretty amazing paper. and I LOVE pastel board. that's great stuff to work with!

I'll have to try it when I get some time and some spare change (it seems school kills both).

oh wow that is fantstic you did this by hand with pastels!?!?!? jeez that is amazing seriously i find it so hard to use them the detial on the cat os wondefull ^^ 10/10 ^^

Yep, completely by hand. Thank you very much! It helps that I worked rather large, but if you have a sharp edge and use the harder pastels you can get some pretty good detail out of them.