Hi Amanda- the tulip flowers are beautiful. The leaves have a abundance of highlights and I would saturate them with color and leave only a couple of highlights. There are areas of the leaves that need more toning. Where they fold over and also where they would be in be in shadow because they are behind other leaves, etc.. This would also help the stems stand out more. Nice job!
04 May 2020
Hi Amanda, I agree with Doug; toning down some of those highlights and saturating some of those leaves a bit more will help to differentiate between stems and leaves. I also think that you could push some of your overlaps with some dark tones, to create more depth here. You could also consider varying the color on the leaves, so they don’t all read as the exact same green. Try adding some darker or lighter greens, or even some blue or yellow to create variety. I also see a few places where there is a white line that separates the edge of a leaf from what is behind it. I think that you could come in closer to those white lines with darker tones, and then they won’t be necessary. The separation you’re looking for there can be achieved by darkening the object that is behind. 🙂 Looking great! Those flowers really shine.
Thank you so much for the comments Doug and Vern, this really helps! I agree with both of you about the leaves. I think I had perhaps too many light sources from different directions and was trying to render all of the highlights I saw. Worrying about the leaves not looking ‘flat’, so to speak, led me to overdo the highlights, instead of deepening shadows and overlaps etc. I was also trying a bit too hard to keep the leaves subtle and used a lot of different shades of greens (and some yellow), but without stronger shading they ended up looking very much all the same colour anyway! Aaagghhh!
Struggled a bit here with the stems standing out from the leaves, found the shading quite tricky.
Hi Amanda- the tulip flowers are beautiful. The leaves have a abundance of highlights and I would saturate them with color and leave only a couple of highlights. There are areas of the leaves that need more toning. Where they fold over and also where they would be in be in shadow because they are behind other leaves, etc.. This would also help the stems stand out more. Nice job!
Hi Amanda, I agree with Doug; toning down some of those highlights and saturating some of those leaves a bit more will help to differentiate between stems and leaves. I also think that you could push some of your overlaps with some dark tones, to create more depth here. You could also consider varying the color on the leaves, so they don’t all read as the exact same green. Try adding some darker or lighter greens, or even some blue or yellow to create variety. I also see a few places where there is a white line that separates the edge of a leaf from what is behind it. I think that you could come in closer to those white lines with darker tones, and then they won’t be necessary. The separation you’re looking for there can be achieved by darkening the object that is behind. 🙂 Looking great! Those flowers really shine.
Thank you so much for the comments Doug and Vern, this really helps! I agree with both of you about the leaves. I think I had perhaps too many light sources from different directions and was trying to render all of the highlights I saw. Worrying about the leaves not looking ‘flat’, so to speak, led me to overdo the highlights, instead of deepening shadows and overlaps etc. I was also trying a bit too hard to keep the leaves subtle and used a lot of different shades of greens (and some yellow), but without stronger shading they ended up looking very much all the same colour anyway! Aaagghhh!