The last month I’ve only been trying to do roses and I’m not sure I’ll draw a rose for a long time. Help with shading please on petals. It just looks too cartoonish to me. Ugh!
Well Elizabeth, you should be happy with the result. You didn’t just do one rose, you did four beauties! The colors are beautiful and I like the untraditional composition very much!!!!! I don’t see the cartoonish aspect you referred to. You have good highlights and toning so the flowers have great form and clarity!!!! The leaves look great too!!!!
Beautiful Elizabeth. I really like this composition. My eye moves around to every flower, and then the leaves lead my eye down to that bottom blossom to rest, The colors are gorgeous and you did a great job with showing the movement of each of those petals while maintaining 3D form. And the leaves are wonderfully rendered. The color of the leaves compliment the colors in your roses beautifully. Great work.
Thank you Doug and Pam for the encouragement. I actually bought Wendy’s Rose video and copied the rose sketch in her book which were both very helpful.
The last month I’ve only been trying to do roses and I’m not sure I’ll draw a rose for a long time. Help with shading please on petals. It just looks too cartoonish to me. Ugh!
Well Elizabeth, you should be happy with the result. You didn’t just do one rose, you did four beauties! The colors are beautiful and I like the untraditional composition very much!!!!! I don’t see the cartoonish aspect you referred to. You have good highlights and toning so the flowers have great form and clarity!!!! The leaves look great too!!!!
Beautiful Elizabeth. I really like this composition. My eye moves around to every flower, and then the leaves lead my eye down to that bottom blossom to rest, The colors are gorgeous and you did a great job with showing the movement of each of those petals while maintaining 3D form. And the leaves are wonderfully rendered. The color of the leaves compliment the colors in your roses beautifully. Great work.
Thank you Doug and Pam for the encouragement. I actually bought Wendy’s Rose video and copied the rose sketch in her book which were both very helpful.