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Hi Camille, This is a lovely drawing. You have nice smooth toning and excellent drawing skills. I am not sure what story it it telling, but I am compelled and intrigued! My only suggestion would be to tone the radish with more variety of color. Something more saturated. Especially in the shadows.

Beautiful use of what we call “atmospheric perspective” Those lighter, flatter background leaves receding nicely and the sharper contrast of the foreground bits pushing forward! Good job! I also love the spring green and the way you have transitioned from green to red.

@sam-mcwilliams Lots of layers but making sure to have a good mid tone of red which I did with watercolor. Otherwise you are having to layer colored pencils for days to get there!

Beautiful point of view, and it feels like I could reach out and touch it.

What red watercolor did you use. Mine all have a pink tone

Thank you for the info

Love it

@sam-mcwilliams The key to deep reds is getting dark enough base layers of reds, preserving whatever highlights you need and then getting really really dark with shading. I used watercolor layers to get to the mid tones and then colored pencils and more watercolor on top.

Some holly from a while back, any suggestions to improve gratefully received.

Hi Amanda, so many great things about this drawing: the shine you get on the leaves and berries, the details of the stem, the rich colors! It is quite nice. My main suggestions for improvement would concern the composition. I would have eliminated the bottom stem and instead attached a leaf or placed a few loose berries somewhere for balance. That…[Read more]

That makes sense. Yes, when I look at the drawing I can see how it might need to be broken up, basically to soften the lines a bit. Leaves and loose berries could work for sure. I was being very faithful in rendering the shape of the branch I had cut etc. I’ve since started to learn to be a bit less strict with myself; if I miss or add a leaf etc,…[Read more]

I love the composition. So clean and artful

Love this Jane, so bright and cheerful! perfect for the holidays!

Yes, Jane! Very striking! One of those I can’t look away from. I don’t know if it is the colors or the composition or a combination of everything, but whatever it is it really works!

I’ve been a bit MIA (work etc), but thought I’d post an illustration of some rosehips I drew last season and which I’d like to work on a bit more.

So Beautiful! I think you just need to add some darker areas in the shadows, especially where the elements overlap.

Thanks Katy! Good suggestion!