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I love seeing this quick sketch and tonal study. I’t a great way to start!

Looking good, Susan. You could add in some of the veining on the papery bit on the bud. and some more toning on your petals to get a bit more 3D form. But it’s a really nice drawing.

For fun, I copied one of the suns from the CBS morning show to practice mixing colors and such.

So much fun, Bonnie.

I kept losing track of where I was, so I did a smaller section. I think I have to set things up on a grid. I also need to watch the “How to photograph section!”

I think you are doing great, Bonnie. I like how you are getting nice and dark on the right side of that branch. Now try to feather that dark area into the midtone area a bit more so that you get a more smooth gradation.

I keep pIugging away under the theory, “the only way to fail is to quit!” kept buying more pencils as I went along, but still didn’t come close to raw wood color. In real life the raw wood is much too gold.

Bonnie, this is off to a great start. Your highlight is in the right place, and you are beginning to get 3D form. Your cast shadow seems to be coming out to far forward. When you have the light coming from the upper left, the cast shadow should head off to the right and toward the back of the subject at about a 45 degree angle.

Bonnie, I love your attention to detail! It can be a struggle to keep the overall 3D form of a subject when it’s so patterned and detailed. That’s what seems to be happening here. You may want to go back into this drawing with the cylinder model in mind and darken the shadow side (right side), an bring back some of the highlight about 1/4 of the…[Read more]

Bonny, This lovely. Your color matching is wonderful, and I really like your attention to detail. You could push that 3 dimensional illusion a bit more by getting a little darker on the right right side of your branch, and maybe lifting out just a bit in highlight area. Also, be careful with your cast shadow. Do you see how your drawing has a…[Read more]

Squawroot, Conopholis americana

Oh Glenn! This is my favorite of yours so far. It’s really beautifully drawn. You could tone down the highlights a bit more toward the top, bottom, and right side, and your could get a little darker on that right side in general (think cylinder) to bring out the 3D form some more. Awesome detail!!!

Wonderful drawing Glenn and it looks even more amazing on the colored paper! Bravo!

Thank you both. I think that Squawroot must be the most unglamorous flowering plant in our eastern hardwood forests. It seems that most people who see it for the first time don’t even realize that it is a wildflower and mistake it for some sort of mutant toadstool. But it is a true angiosperm, but one lacking chlorophyll, there is no green color a…[Read more]

I can really feel that shimmy quality that birch bark has. I can’t tell how curved this is, but if it’s fairly curved, You might want to try to push that 3D form a bit more. I love all of the detail. It’s a beautiful drawing.

So good, Patricia. One other suggestion: I think you could vary the whiteness of your highlights a bit, so they look a little less uniform. I really love this drawing. The colors are so great, and you nailed the veins and the pillows between the veins.

This is so cool. I love seeing that connection area of the stem. The detail down there is wonderful. I think you may be losing a bit of the form here. I’m having trouble figuring out where your consistent light source is coming from. I’m thinking about how to handle that, and we’ll probably discuss it today in the webinar. I have some ideas, but…[Read more]

I love this drawing. It’s wonderful!

This is gorgeous. Those rose petals are so lifelike.

I love this Sheila! The colors and composition are wonderful and as Pam said – so lifelike!

Thanks, Doug. I was thinking the composition was a little too rectangular and grass was suggested at the monthly meeting. I just posted that version. It’s not glued.