CREATE A SOFT PASTEL PORTRAIT OF A LION – VIDEO TUTORIAL

Are you ambitious? Do you want to improve? Save time? Sell your artworks better? Be proud of yourself? … Grab your pencils, let’s go!!

• Option to pay in installments*
• You will be allowed to sell the artwork you create**

 

INTRODUCTION

Do you want to learn how to color a portrait of a big cat with soft pastels? In this online video tutorial, I guide you step by step to create a magnificent lion with a soft and realistic finish.
This course is designed to help you master soft pastel techniques and improve your skills in wildlife art, thanks to:
🔹 Tips,
🔹 Tricks,
🔹 Technical explanations,
🔹 Animations,
🔹 Quizzes and fun mini-exercises.

 

🎨 Grab your pastels!!! Discover the Skyzune Art Academy course dedicated to drawing a realistic lion portrait in soft pastel. This complete video tutorial teaches you step by step the techniques of animal portraiture with pastel pencils. Accessible to both beginners and advanced artists, it guides you through observation, sketching, and the precise rendering of fur and hair.

Learn how to create a hyper-realistic wildlife portrait with a progressive method: building nuances, layering, rendering shadows and highlights, choosing colors, and drawing sharp details to achieve an expressive gaze. The training includes the fully filmed process, professional advice, and practical tips to develop your skills in soft pastel art.

This online course is an excellent resource for self-taught learning, strengthening your foundations, and advancing in animal art with faithful and detailed results. With clear educational content, mini quizzes, and practical exercises, you’ll succeed in your lion drawing and progress confidently in your artistic journey.

 

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN

✔️ Techniques to create fine, detailed hair.
✔️ How to build a natural and soft fur texture
✔️ How to choose colors for a lion
✔️ Underpainting management
✔️ Order of color application and step-by-step progression
✔️ Method for realistic, shiny eyes
✔️ Tips and tricks for drawing a perfect nose and whiskers
✔️ How to work for a result more aesthetic than the photo

 

 

WHY TAKE THIS COURSE?

• Save time by learning the right soft pastel techniques from the very beginning
• Go at your own pace, pause and resume whenever you want
• Progress faster in soft pastel with an engaging and motivating subject
• Understand the medium and the process to bring it to life
• Learn how to choose your colors
• Create an expressive and realistic wildlife portrait
• Opportunity to sell your finished artwork*

 

CONTENT

• Detailed tutorial video of the lion portrait with soft pastels, including technical explanations and real-time demonstration
• Page with full instructions and references
• HD reference photo
• Gridded images to help you draw more easily
• Color chart of all used pastels
• Save time: direct links to buy the materials.

+BONUS

• Links to several complementary resources
• Video: how to prepare your surface
• Video: how to draw with a grid
• Video: mini lesson on drawing hair
• Throughout the course: quizzes and small fun exercises

 

 

 

LEVEL

This course is best suited for pastel artists with a basic understanding of soft pastels, as well as more advanced artists wishing to refine their wildlife portrait techniques.
BUT!
If you are an absolute beginner and you fall in love with this portrait and want to try it: don’t worry, there’s a bonus mini-course to help you!!
And remember, the goal is not to draw a perfect masterpiece, but to practice, learn, and enjoy yourself! 😉

 

MATERIALS

Basic materials list:
► MATERIALS
Specific materials are listed at the start of the course

 

OTHER

⏱️ Duration: total video time: 7h55
📌 Year of creation: 2025
📝 Subtitles: Available for the deaf and hard of hearing.
🎥 4K video quality – For the best experience with details.
⏳ Two-year access after purchase. That gives you plenty of time to complete it, and allows me to remove it later and replace it with new courses.

 

Any account sharing with third parties (outside close family), account reselling, or any other fraud will result in the immediate suspension of access to purchased courses, permanent blocking of the user account and the associated bank account!!

Please respect the artist’s work and investment… ❤️

Any full or partial representation or reproduction of this course content is illegal.
This also applies to translation, adaptation, modification, arrangement, or reproduction by any process whatsoever.

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* COURSE PAYMENT IN 3 INSTALLMENTS
At checkout, choose “Klarna” and pay in 3 installments with no fees.
⚠️ Attention!!
To pay over 3 months, your bank card must remain valid until the end of the period, otherwise the transaction will be blocked!
More information about the payment system:
https://www.klarna.com/fr/qu-est-ce-que-klarna/

** SALE OF THE ARTWORK MADE WITH THIS COURSE:
I authorize the copy and sale (for registered professionals, of course), but it is essential to know that, from a legal and judicial perspective:
For any exhibition (in real life OR online / social media), you must clearly state that the painting is a copy of such-and-such artist, in this case:
“Copy made from a SKYZUNE ART ACADEMY tutorial”, as well as on the back of the artwork. 🙂

 

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