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Thanks Amelie, happy you like it! Your drawings looks great!!

Hi Peta! The little white spots on the apple I got them in the early stages using an embossing tool( mine was for nail decoration 🙂). See for inspiration Botanical Basics Lesson 23, Apple pattern… By the way, I love how realistic& detailed you made your branches look!

Thank you Doug. I have just ordered some hot press paper in the hope it will be easier.

I started the course before I actually had the right equipment, so am making do with what was lying around. 🙂

Thank you Doug. I knew the reflective highlight was wrong. It made the sphere look like a Whoopie Pie. Thank you for all of the encouragement. This is such a nice positive group.

You are starting to get good form on your sphere Linda! There is also good transition of tones! The lighter area looks very similar in tone and part of the problem is I don’t see a true highlight. Establishing a highlight and making sure you have a nice, light transition away from it will help a lot! Reflected highlights are really tricky!!! Y…[Read more]

Thank you for your feedback Doug. I made a mistake, it’s an F pencil. And I might have cheated and brought in a B for the right hand side of the branch at the end there. 🙂

Thanks for letting me know the pencils you use. I’ll look out for a set of Faber-castelle ones.

Doug, thank you so much! I see what you are saying. About the branch and the cylinder. Lol. I was thrilled it looks like a branch!

Doug. Thank you so much for the comments.

Doug, thank you for the feedback. The glare did not help but definitely 8 and 9 are too close. Lol 7 too. I have never drawn before so the concepts are new to me. I will practice practice practice.

Hi Linda- your tone bar looks good! 7, 8 and 9 look a little close in tone, but there is a glare on a couple of them and that might be the reason I think that.

This looks great Linda!!! A couple of areas I would revisit. As I mentioned on your cylinder post, the highlight is too much of a stripe and the areas flanking it should be lightened. There is not enough range of tones in the area too the right of the highlight as it moves toward the shadowed side of the branch. Actually the top of the branch…[Read more]

These look good Linda! I would work a little more on the range of tones. There is too much of a jump from the darkest area on the right edge to the tone to the left of it. There should not be any stripes of tone – one tone should smoothly transition to the next tone. Same with the highlight. It is too much of a stripe which means the tones…[Read more]

Wow! Wow! Wow! Sam!!! Those veins!!! Amazing!!!!

Really nice Liz! Colors are beautiful! And those roots!!! What I find missing is a sense of form on many of the plant’s parts. I can’t tell where your light source is because you are missing the toning and highlights that would establish that. Adding that would also achieve the missing form I mentioned above. I see the dark recesses in the clu…[Read more]

Great toning exercises Peta! Beautiful transitions!!! You have mastered toning!!! I am surprised you can achieve the darks with an H pencil! I don’t know how hard it was for you, but a HB or B graphite pencil would get you the darks easier and quicker. After using several different brands I prefer the Faber-Castelle graphite pencils. The same b…[Read more]

Fantastic Peta! Beautiful toning even on what looks like textured paper! Great range of tones and highlights which is achieving wonderful form! Great attention to the details!!!

Thank you Peta. Yes , I learned from this website and lately from the ´Winter leaves ´ workshop. It was very helpful. Hélène