Hi Dee,
I am excited to see so much hard work here. You are doing a great job. I want to make some general comments that relate to all of your work:
1. I like your vibrant clean edges and saturated color
2. However I think you are ready to work on your contours of your forms and make them less stylized and more irregular as nature does if you study leave and flower petal edges.
3. On this radish in the future consider the shape made from the root and perhaps make these kinds of gestures less abrupt and angular. Also on leaves highlights are not usually a bright circular pinpoint. I would study highlights on leaves to see what I mean. All in all though great job. One more thing on your calligraphy. I really like your own handwriting the most and perhaps you could not always trace the script handwriting, but look at it and draw it freehand. It would be interesting to see what that looks like!
Thanks so much Wendy for taking the time to help me move forward with my drawing! Honestly, I’ve been a bit discouraged because I don’t feel that my work is improving much and I’ve certainly spent a lot of time trying to get better. Would you recommend I withdraw from Practice and go back to Basics for a bit? It will definitely not offend me if you feel it would help me improve!
I was a decorator and a perfectionist and I think this has held me back a bit in terms of trying to make my drawings look more stylistic and less realistic. I’m not doing it intentionally and will work to retrain myself in this area. My head knows that nature isn’t perfect but my eyes and hands want everything to look nice and symmetrical.
I’m using an ott light at my drawing board and it has two 8″ long cylinder bulbs. Maybe I’d be better of with a different lamp that would show the highlights differently. What do you think?
I will stop tracing the lettering and see what I can do freehand. Maybe I’ll be surprised and hopefully in a good way. The lettering is my least favorite part of the process so fingers crossed!
One more thing . . . I know I post more work than most students and I never want you and Vern to feel that you have to show it all during the monthly webinar! The accountability of posting helps me stay focused and I feel I have a better chance of getting honest feedback from others who have more experience than I do.
Great highlights.
Thanks so much, Susanlora!
Hi Dee,
I am excited to see so much hard work here. You are doing a great job. I want to make some general comments that relate to all of your work:
1. I like your vibrant clean edges and saturated color
2. However I think you are ready to work on your contours of your forms and make them less stylized and more irregular as nature does if you study leave and flower petal edges.
3. On this radish in the future consider the shape made from the root and perhaps make these kinds of gestures less abrupt and angular. Also on leaves highlights are not usually a bright circular pinpoint. I would study highlights on leaves to see what I mean. All in all though great job. One more thing on your calligraphy. I really like your own handwriting the most and perhaps you could not always trace the script handwriting, but look at it and draw it freehand. It would be interesting to see what that looks like!
Thanks so much Wendy for taking the time to help me move forward with my drawing! Honestly, I’ve been a bit discouraged because I don’t feel that my work is improving much and I’ve certainly spent a lot of time trying to get better. Would you recommend I withdraw from Practice and go back to Basics for a bit? It will definitely not offend me if you feel it would help me improve!
I was a decorator and a perfectionist and I think this has held me back a bit in terms of trying to make my drawings look more stylistic and less realistic. I’m not doing it intentionally and will work to retrain myself in this area. My head knows that nature isn’t perfect but my eyes and hands want everything to look nice and symmetrical.
I’m using an ott light at my drawing board and it has two 8″ long cylinder bulbs. Maybe I’d be better of with a different lamp that would show the highlights differently. What do you think?
I will stop tracing the lettering and see what I can do freehand. Maybe I’ll be surprised and hopefully in a good way. The lettering is my least favorite part of the process so fingers crossed!
One more thing . . . I know I post more work than most students and I never want you and Vern to feel that you have to show it all during the monthly webinar! The accountability of posting helps me stay focused and I feel I have a better chance of getting honest feedback from others who have more experience than I do.