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Such rich colors! Did you use watercolor pencil in addition to colored pencil?

You can try one using red violet as your grisaille – and then later in the process use dark sepia to darken a bit more. You can try a watercolour wash of red to saturate that red. Or just keep building up your colour with your red and orange pencils. Maybe some yellow too in the layers. And don’t forget to tone down your reflective highlight. Good…[Read more]

Beauty Ingrid! Perfect colours. You can darken some shaded areas of the sepals. And on your shaded overlap areas on the rosehips, make sure you graduate out the shading so that it doesn’t just mimic the curve of the one in front. I love the colours on the leaves, and those great thorns.

Hi Kyra – I would darken the lower right first. And think of the rounding of your form as you draw and tone. Think about it curving away from the lighted highlight into its shaded sides. And you don’t want your cast shadow to be too prominent. It will never be as light as your highlight. Remember what Doug said, pick your highlight area and then a…[Read more]

Beautiful composition, beautiful drawing. Lovely feel. Like 2 people who have been together a long time. 🙂

Nice Lucille – yes cross section pretty please.

Lovely!

Great range of interesting greens and greys and blues.

Wow! Beautiful. What a character!

Great colour work! Nailed it.

Try leaving the highlights without water-colour. Go around them, and then dry brush the edges, or smoosh the edges around the highlights if it needs some blending. I think you can go darker on the shaded sides of your stems too – so that the highlighted areas of the greens pop out more too. You can always lift some highlights out too with your…[Read more]

Cool! I like the idea of some greys to modulate the whites and give it some more form.

See where those darks are on that leaf? Bust out the blue indigo!

Hi Carol, we also found in the shiny/fuzzy leaves workshop that using the blue indigo pencil #157 to darken shaded areas on the leaf really improved the shiny “holly” quality of the drawing. The contrast of the dark and the white highlights makes it shine. And I agree – more saturation in the red berries. 🙂

Well you fooled me. Now you have a goal:)

I didn’t have a green tomato. It was difficult to get the red colors over the dark sepia grisaille. Mainly I used Pale Geranium Lake #121 and Dark Cadmium Orange #115.

You could eat it; the tomato at the left is my real tomato subject!

Looks good enough to eat

A little kneaded eraser can do wonders lifting when you get too dark.