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Sam McWilliams commented on Mama Mia's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
Kiatakes are the key to learning. 🙂 May we make many Kiatakes together in our drawing practice.
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Sam McWilliams commented on Jill Amadei's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
Beautiful, Jill. I’m curious if the cast shadow gets any darker or lighter the closer or farther the stem curves away from the paper – gotta go set up an experiment and look for myself.
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Pat Schiebold commented on Pat Schiebold's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
I toned the cone. It looks perfect. A little goes a long way👍 Thanks for your suggestion
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Wendy Hollender added a Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
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Exciting…. I’m collecting squash characters….
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sara stauffer commented on sara stauffer's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
Thanks for the suggestion about the shadow!
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sara stauffer added a Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
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Thanks for the suggestion about the shadow!
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Shadow much better. You could even extend it out to the right a bit more. Near the base and very gently.
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Deborah Gillikin commented on Deborah Gillikin's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
Thank you for comments and suggestions!
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Mama Mia commented on Mama Mia's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
I took your advice and as expected it was spot on. What an improvement. But, do I add more still? I do not want to over work it. On the right is the improved version.
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Mama Mia added a Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
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I took your advice and as expected it was spot on. What an improvement. But, do I add more still? I do not want to over work it. On the right is the improved version.
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I say move on and keep doing more! And you can ask yourself: Am I getting my darks in? Have I chosen where to leave/put my good strong highlights? Do I have a full range of values from dark to light in my tone bar and in my subject? Have I defined a nice, clean edge with a sharpened pencil? Have I clearly shown my overlaps? Draw on.
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I agree with Sam. At this point it would be hard to go back and pickup the highlights. Next drawing try what Wendy suggests and draw a single petal on the side of the page as practice to work out the values and colors.
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Mama Mia commented on Mama Mia's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
Aha, it is a pistil, I thought pistol seemed a bit violent! And yes, more white next time for sure, and dark sepia, but that can be layered after luckily.
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sara stauffer commented on sara stauffer's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
@vernfannin
thank you! I’m on it. I knew the shadow wasn’t right but felt puzzled by it. If there’s one technique I’ve mastered while learning to draw it’s erasing! -
Elizabeth Simonson commented on Elizabeth Simonson's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
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Pat Schiebold commented on Pat Schiebold's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
On to my Indian corn piece!
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Pat Schiebold commented on Pat Schiebold's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
It was certainly a heavy heirloom pumpkin. Hard to continue to work on a piece when the subject is no longer available. All in all I thought the suggestions improved the piece
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Mama Mia commented on Mama Mia's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
Thank you Katy. I appreciate your help. More dark sepia, can do!
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sara stauffer commented on Pat Schiebold's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
Pat, I’ve been watching the conversation in the art feed about you pumpkin as I was working on a pumpkin drawing. Yours looks great! I feel like I can tell how heavy it is and that the surface feels cool and leathery.
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Katy Lyness commented on Elizabeth Simonson's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
Such an interesting drawing! Such an interesting plant! I had to look it up. And I can see your difficulty in drawing those silky threads of the seedpods. They would be a good candidate for work on Kraft paper!
You need to think of them more as threads. The pod behind them should be showing through in areas. They are reading as a solid shape…[Read more] -
Pat Schiebold commented on sara stauffer's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
Yummy enough to eat
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Pat Schiebold commented on Pat Schiebold's Photo 4 years, 7 months ago
This is my 3rd posting and final revision. I was a little nervous about the shading left side, bottom and stem area. I also flared the stem on each side bottom to give a more natural line. I do think that helped it to appear to be coming from down in the pumpkin well. Thanks for your help
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This is my 3rd posting and final revision. I was a little nervous about the shading left side, bottom and stem area. I also flared the stem on each side bottom to give a more natural line. I do think that helped it to appear to be coming from down in the pumpkin well. Thanks for your help
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Pat, I’ve been watching the conversation in the art feed about you pumpkin as I was working on a pumpkin drawing. Yours looks great! I feel like I can tell how heavy it is and that the surface feels cool and leathery.
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It was certainly a heavy heirloom pumpkin. Hard to continue to work on a piece when the subject is no longer available. All in all I thought the suggestions improved the piece
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On to my Indian corn piece!
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Way to go Pat! This drawing is stunning. Make prints and mail it out as Autumn greeting cards. 🙂
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Thanks for the tips. I haven’t been at this long so it is good to have someone with more experience evaluating it
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I sent these out via text messages- cheaper and faster!
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