Working With Chalk Pastels

[MoparManJim]

Okay, I been for the past few months trying to work with stupid chalk pastels on models and not having no dam luck at all with the crap  . How the hell do you seal the stuff down but yet keep the original of the stuff at the same time? I tryed dull coat as a base and had no luck at it at all. Tryed mixing the stuff with water and again no luck at all  . I just can not what so ever get the color I'm looking for out of the stuff. I have bought over 10.00 worth in chalk, dull coat, paint bruches. I even tryed some of the stuff that I have seen done on online videos and yet still even the mist coats of the pastel selaer and the color is wam gone!   . I just took the last tray of pastels I had and threw them into the tran can as I'm down right fed up of the crap   

The stuff I seen on line of how to do this and that with pastels I'm starting to wonder about now. You can't just leave the dust expose to the open, you have to seal them up some how. 

Please, for those of you that work with chalk pastels please "please" convice me and make me a beliver here about the stuff. 

[69bronzeT5]

I hated it when they made us use those stupid things in school.

[MoparManJim]

I hated it when they made us use those stupid things in school.

Judging by the sound, you don't like the stuff either?   

To be honest here, after useing what I did of the chalk pastels on a junk model and seeing the results. I didn't like what I saw. I'm the type that when doing something, I don't only want the look  but also the texture as well  . This stuff didn't give a texture at all and the color sure as heck didn't say either. Heck I can get better results with use dirt dust  . And that stuff has a texture to it as well!