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Very nice, Susan! The skin of these apples are beautiful. The color and texture is gorgeous. And those highlights are great. You are getting wonderful 3D form. Great job! You may want to adjust the cast shadow of the apple on the right a bit. When your light is coming from the upper left, that cast shadow should go back behind the right side of…[Read more]

Hi Susan- other than the tweaks that Pam recommended these apples are all ready amazing! Great job!!!

Pam gave such great feedback. I love the angles of the stems – they communicate so much character and keep my gaze moving around the page. I appreciate the cast shadows of the stems. You could “knock down” the embossed dots in the core shadow areas on the right hand side of the apples so that they recede a bit and curve away as the apple curves…[Read more]

This is amazing. I love the composition.

This is another gorgeous drawing, Sheila. There is one area that is bothering me a bit. There is a spot on the bottom right of the left page where the bottom of the queen ann’s lace, the petiole of the Ginkgo leaf, and the seed pods meet. Maybe you could consider making that queen anne’s lace stem a little longer, so that they don’t all converge…[Read more]

Hi Sheila- the placement of the pieces really moves my eye around the page. Beautiful!!!

Totally beautiful as usual. I really want to see these in a gallery show !!

So beautiful and fun!

Nice Richard! These colors are looking great, and you’ve gotten really nice 3D form. Wonderful! You could think about maybe toning down the highlight that’s on the top of the pear just a bit so that those two main highlights don’t look so similar. Great job, RIchard.

Loving watching you go through these lessons, Richard! I really like how your toning is starting to get smoother. Are you noticing that when you use lighter pressure on your pencil for your toning that you get softer, smoother gradients?

The colors are beautiful Wendy! It has a great range of tones, which give this nice form. I feel like I would like to see a main highlight. What do you think?

I love the colours!

Wendy, this texture and form is great! I’m with Doug on the highlight. It’s so hard with something that’s as matte as a peach. It doesn’t really have much of a highlight when we look at it. But to help to create that 3 dimensional illusion we sometimes have to exaggerate the highlight just a bit. You wouldn’t want to make the highlight the white…[Read more]

I think they are so fuzzy that they look furry but the paper is not accepting anything anymore. Haven’t worked on the stone yet. PS: thanks for the instructions in the intro to the Art Feed, Very helpful! I do ALWAYS want you guys to be critical and constructive. I appreciate the comments!

Nice job Renata! The colors seem spot on and the fuzz is very convincing! Thanks also for your comments!

The fuzz is very well done.

Renata, Those peaches are looking sooooo fuzzy! You really nailed that texture- makes me want to go back and work some more on my peach drawing to get it more fuzzy. This is such a lovely comparison of different varieties of peaches as well. The only thing that is throwing me a bit is how far away that pit is from the peaches. It keeps pulling my…[Read more]

Thank you everyone! Pam, I totally agree with you – the pit is very far away, not sure why I did that. Maybe I was hoping to add some leaves between the fruit and the pit but I don’t have access to a peach tree. Is it okay if I try to do something based on the ones you showed in the workshop?

Sure! Although it’s best to work from life, sometimes you have to use photos.

Nice, bright colors Richard! The dark outline is throwing me and I would not expect to see it especially on a light colored subject. You could add more range of tones to convey the shadows that would exist from the light source coming from the left at a 45 degree angle. That would help express the depth of the center well and give the whole flower form.

Richard, I love how you are getting nice and dark inside the throat of this flower, it really helps to show that depth. Keep these fun drawings coming 🙂