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Yummy enough to eat

Love it, as usual. 🙂

Yay, my first study page. This is what I want to learn to refine. I feel the composition is not superb, I did not plan it in advance which dis not help. to many swqtches above so that will need to be changed in the next one. The lily is not delicate and transluscent enough. Any suggestions are welcome. I did make a kiatake un thw proces painting…[Read more]

Sorry for the typos. It is a challenge to post on my phone. Kiatake is mistake. Hope the rest makes sense.

Yeah, I was wondering what a Kiatake was!

Good first attempt on a study page. You have all the right elements. I would have made the flower a bit more front and center. And have its elements surround it. the leaf is quite nicely drawn! As for the flower, you need some darker and lighter values. it is all sort of mid tones. I’d go in and darken the anthers. Then darken the shadows where…[Read more]

Thank you Katy. I appreciate your help. More dark sepia, can do!

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.

Kiatakes are the key to learning. 🙂 May we make many Kiatakes together in our drawing practice.

I tried incorporating your feedback and feel it improved my drawings. Left as it was, right as it is now.

So much better. Good job!

Way to go incorporating the feedback

This is my first time trying a cast shadow on a stem like this… Do I have the right idea? Thanks so much!

Your leaf looks real. I’m looking at one of mine and trying to get up the courage to do a cast shadow. Yours gives me motivation

Hi Jill, Really beautiful drawing and the shadow looks great. I really feel the texture of the surface!

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.

Thank you for the positive feedback on this leaf and comments on the shadow! I really appreciate it. I’m not sure you’ll see this message. I tried to reply the other day but the “@” feature didn’t seem to be working.

I found doing the feathery part of the seeds terribly difficult on white. Help!

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 now.…[Read more]

Hi Deborah, Such a beautiful drawing! You have really captured the delicate cacophony of petals!

Thank you for comments and suggestions!