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I’m starting to get a feel for consistent results when I only want one value. Still having trouble with getting a nice gradation, or at least one that starts and stops where I want it to at the values I want it to. Any tips welcome!

Hi Sara- what a wonderful tool and reference page! Once you find something that you feel is successful keep practicing it until you feel comfortable with it. If you are going to work strictly in watercolor than it is more important than if you were to add color pencil on top of the watercolor. The advantage to adding the color pencil is that you…[Read more]

Hi Sara! Your radish is beautifully rendered! It has a wonderful soft quality to it, which I really like and I am having a conflict with myself as to if I suggest you to take it further. For arguments sake, you could add more shadow toning along the right side to emphasize the form. I would also lift some color to make a more distinct highlight,…[Read more]

Thank you for your feedback! I went back and tried changing it, and it does look better. Also, I belated realized that it’s a beet, not a radish, so I changed the title, but wanted other people to know that your comment made sense at the time!

@pgthompson Hi, I’m new to Draw Botanical. Do you have a recommendation for what to focus on improving next? (Colour, blending, lighting, watercolour application?) Any critique would be welcome. I really like how you did the little dots on your pears.

Your work is truly remarkable. So lifelike! Well done.

Thank you! I’ve been excited by the idea of adding watercolour to pencil. That’s new to me.

Great job Sara! The colors are wonderful! As I mentioned on some of your previous posts, the pear would benefit by adding more dark and mid-range tones starting in the right edge to emphasize the form. It looks like you are working strictly in watercolor, which is fine. Wendy’s technique, which many of us follow, is applying color pencil on top o…[Read more]

Hi Doug, thanks for the feedback! I’ll go back and either try adding more dark tones to this one or try a whole new one. This one is Both watercolour and pencil. (Maybe only two washes in watercolour?) Most of my standalone practice has been watercolour so far, because I haven’t used it in the past and it’s the part of the process that I’m most…[Read more]

This is nice! The greens are very rich. Is it a poppy pod? (I’m not great at IDing flowers/plants.)

Welcome to the ArtFeed Maria! You are off to a good start. I am glad you realized that the color is off. I think of most poppy pods and stems to be a lighter green and many of them a blue/green. If a subject is very shiny then a white highlight helps to convey that. Less shiny subjects (like a poppy seed pod);are going to have a softer highlight…[Read more]