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Great image Dorothea! Are you going to draw it now?

Hi Dorothea- Good job on these leaves! Nice toning technique and range of tones. Couple of areas I would revisit. It seems like the right side of the bottom right leaf would also be more in shadow than what is shown. I would add a little more dark toning to the areas you have dark toning and to emphasize that the main vein has a dark and light side.

Great job Marina! The color and texture of the crabapples are so good! I think the leaf on the right is the back view and the other two are front views, but they all look like back views to me. I think showing the secondary veins attach to the main vein would help them read more as fronts.

Doug, thank you for your feedback. I will try to fix it.

Hi Renata- I am wondering if the secondary veins end at the leaf edge or do they turn up before they reach the edge? The veins are very prominent especially on the leaf on the right. Is that cluster of leaves in the middle suppose to be attached to the stem and we can’t see it? It looks like it is floating there and I find it confusing. Also t…[Read more]

Thanks, Doug! Really helpful feedback. I only noticed the branch was floating after seeing it on the Art Feed. I will try to add a branch and am now struggling to add a rose to the lower right corner. Gosh, they are complicated!

Another beauty Renata! Amazing textured leaves!

So good Renata!!!! Love the addition of the second falling petal. The drawing has a wild look to it which works so well!!! Amazing job!!!!

Thanks again Doug! I think I will call this one done. It was Sam’s idea to add another falling petal! My poppies are still going, I had never had so many.

Beautiful movement in this composition. So many lovely moments where the stems intersect.

This has more of the highlight I was talking about in the previous drawing. I’d work now to make those darker areas not be an outline. Bring them in as integrated shadows. Feather gradually as the petal curls up.

Nice highlight! Now I want to see some more care taken in the shadow areas. I’d bring in some more of that dark red you have in the stem area to the right side. Then add some dark sepia in the core shadow and in that stem area. Bring it in slowly. You don’t want to get too dark.