I’m new to the course, and it’s great to be here. I began by trying to do the exercises Wendy ran through in the Intro. I found myself struggling a lot when working with the watercolor. So while still practicing that, I went to part 1 of the Twig exercise. My submission is colored pencil only, just to get me started. I think one problem I had was placing the highlight so far to the left that I had very little space for toning from 5 down to 1, the latter being the paper [for now]. Another issue ius whether to scan my drawing in [are there any preferred settings you can recommend?] or photograph them [iPhone 11 Pro]. Thanks so much for any input you have. Again, it’s great to be here. And my scanner is an Epson V600 Photo.
Welcome Mary! Wendy does a few toning exercises on the Botanical Basics section and by repeating the exercises plus working your way through the courses it will become easier for you. As you can see on the ArtFeed many artists start off doing a tone bar on every drawing they do. You are off to a good start! The colored tone bar on top is the more successful of the two. There are a couple of areas to work on. The highlight is a too thin and you could lighten the color a little to the right of the highlight. I would also add a little more dark shading on the very right, which should be the darkest area. Doing those two things would help a lot. With the sepia tone bar a number of the tones look too similar and I would re-examine it. You don’t need to go to tone 5 on the left side. The location of the highlight is not too far off. I think the fuzziness you mentioned is due to the low saturation of color. Try practicing adding layers in different directions. I will leave the technology questions for Wendy or Vern as they are out of my realm of experience.
Thanks for your input, very helpful. I, too, noticed that the mid-tones all look the same, sputter, sputter. I’ll use all your tips when moving forward. Oh, and Wendy sent along a helpful e-mail to me re using a scanner and related issues [I’d emailed re same], it was also very helpful. thanks.
I’m new to the course, and it’s great to be here. I began by trying to do the exercises Wendy ran through in the Intro. I found myself struggling a lot when working with the watercolor. So while still practicing that, I went to part 1 of the Twig exercise. My submission is colored pencil only, just to get me started. I think one problem I had was placing the highlight so far to the left that I had very little space for toning from 5 down to 1, the latter being the paper [for now]. Another issue ius whether to scan my drawing in [are there any preferred settings you can recommend?] or photograph them [iPhone 11 Pro]. Thanks so much for any input you have. Again, it’s great to be here. And my scanner is an Epson V600 Photo.
I’d just add to what I wrote above that my drawing looks quite blurry, even though the printing I added looks much more crisp. Thanks again.
Welcome Mary! Wendy does a few toning exercises on the Botanical Basics section and by repeating the exercises plus working your way through the courses it will become easier for you. As you can see on the ArtFeed many artists start off doing a tone bar on every drawing they do. You are off to a good start! The colored tone bar on top is the more successful of the two. There are a couple of areas to work on. The highlight is a too thin and you could lighten the color a little to the right of the highlight. I would also add a little more dark shading on the very right, which should be the darkest area. Doing those two things would help a lot. With the sepia tone bar a number of the tones look too similar and I would re-examine it. You don’t need to go to tone 5 on the left side. The location of the highlight is not too far off. I think the fuzziness you mentioned is due to the low saturation of color. Try practicing adding layers in different directions. I will leave the technology questions for Wendy or Vern as they are out of my realm of experience.
Thanks for your input, very helpful. I, too, noticed that the mid-tones all look the same, sputter, sputter. I’ll use all your tips when moving forward. Oh, and Wendy sent along a helpful e-mail to me re using a scanner and related issues [I’d emailed re same], it was also very helpful. thanks.