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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]

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.

This is gorgeous. Those rose petals are so lifelike.

Thank you Pam, I really enjoyed re-creating this funky leaf. I had to make the leaf darker than it appears so the stem would stand out in front.

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!!!

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]

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.

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.

I love this drawing. It’s wonderful!

Jill, this is gorgeous, and your style is shining through. Like Doug, I would love to see more overall 3D form on that group of little flowers. I’m seeing some – you are getting lighter on the left than the right. But you can push that even more, by visualizing the entire inflorescence as a cylinder (get lightest about a 1/4 of the way in from the…[Read more]

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

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.

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!”

Squawroot, Conopholis americana