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. Try to find places you can indicate their thread-like transparency by bringing in an indication of the pod behind them.
30 October 2020
Great suggestion for the silky threads from Katy. You can also play with highlights on threads like that; emphasizing certain places as extra white, to show the shiny, silky quality. You could also pull a single one out and lay it near those seeds and use verithin pencils to really get in there and show the individual threads. The pod at the top is so interesting!! What a cool plant. Is this related to milkweed? Great job on the overlaps in the leaves.
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. Try to find places you can indicate their thread-like transparency by bringing in an indication of the pod behind them.
Great suggestion for the silky threads from Katy. You can also play with highlights on threads like that; emphasizing certain places as extra white, to show the shiny, silky quality. You could also pull a single one out and lay it near those seeds and use verithin pencils to really get in there and show the individual threads. The pod at the top is so interesting!! What a cool plant. Is this related to milkweed? Great job on the overlaps in the leaves.
Thanks Katy. I’ll try those ideas.