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Yes – a gem of a gift, indeed (Sam chiming in months later 🙂

Just seeing your note here so many months later! Did you anchor it? I like the idea of that upper left flower being attached to something – even if it’s just suggested in lightly…

This is a lovely drawing of an adorable nectarine. I especially like the left side and the area where the leaf is attached. You are getting lovely 3D form in that area. I think you have lost a bit of your main highlights, and you could take your kneaded erase and see if you can lift a bit of the highlight back out. And then I think you could get a…[Read more]

Richard, I love how much practice you are getting! One thing that I’m noticing is that the left and right sides of this fruit are the same value. You want your left side to be lighter than your right side. Keep practicing slow careful toning with lots of light layers. Try not to press too hard with colored pencils. I find it helpful to hold my…[Read more]

You got it Ethel!!

Wonderful. You got that watermelon texture just right!

Love this Sam!

Sorry, Cathie. I just saw I misspelled your name!

Cathy, this is a nice eggplant. I really like your drawing of the sepals and stem. You rendered those sections beautifully, and you can feel the thickness of those sepals. I wonder whether the color of the eggplant was this bright of a purple? I also think you could tone more slowly with a really sharp colored pencil to get your toning a bit more…[Read more]

OOOOOOHHH Renata! Perfection.

Ooooh! Theresia! Love this! My favorite is the 3rd from the left. It feels so 3D! I think you could get a touch darker in the shadow areas of the 2 on the left. But they are really wonderful. Great composition.

This is really lovely, Douglass. I think you could saturate that peach a little more. It feels a little too pastel to me. Or is your peach that light?

Lovely, shiny bulb, Joann.

I love the composition, Becky. If you feel like the lemon is a bit “lost just floating there”, you could maybe add another leaf to the branch, and have that leaf reach over, behind the lemon? Just a thought.

Wow! What a gorgeous drawing of a really challenging subject. I really love it just how it is, but I think if you add in those shadows and highlights, it might be even better 🙂

Becky, This looking fantastic!!! I think you can get a little darker in the core shadow area of the radish. Such a wonderful drawing, Becky. Great work!

Gah! Don’t change a thing. It’s perfect!

Richard, Nice bright colors. I like that you are starting to get some shadow color into your drawing with that purple. I think you could go even darker in those shadow areas. Maybe try some red-violet?

I wanted to do this in colour, but I realized I did a lot of shading with my graphite pencil.. not sure i feel like drawing another just yet. I found it challenging. I know there’s a lot left to be desired in this drawing. But I wanted to do it so much, because in my basket of nectarines ooh! there was a tiny leaf on one of them! 😃. Thanks for h…[Read more]