I think you are doing great! I find that I gongo back and forth many times on a drawing. I burnish, and then add more color, and then burnish and add more color, etc.
I love that expression “gongo”! I’ve never heard it before.
I burnish with polychromos ivory, add more color but then have been burnishing the 2nd time with prismacolor verithins. Maybe that’s a mistake and I should try burnishing only with ivory. I’ll give it a try on this drawing and see what happens. Thanks for your kind words and advice!
25 July 2018
I love the color variation in this leaf. I’m not sure that burnishing with verithins is the best idea… for me, things get sort of weird if I try to “fill” with verithins, rather than use them for thin lines…. Because those pencils are wax-based, they can sometimes act funny if you layer too much polychromos on top. I’d save the verithins just for sharpening edges and maybe creating shadows. Do you guys agree? I also think, Dee, that you could make that nut more round looking by feathering in some more dark tones on the shadow (bottom right) side. Great work, and awesome discussion here!
I just saw your comment, Vern and will go back and add more dark tones. The nut wasn’t totally round but was interestingly miss-shapen and had more texture than I was able to show. You answered a big question for me about burnishing with Verithins. I have been doing that in almost all my drawings and have been feeling disappointed and blah about my work. That makes total sense about the wax/oil based pencils not mixing the best. I think Wendy explained that to me about Prismacolors but I wasn’t applying the same rule to Verithins. I love all the discussion and so appreciate this site, the teachers and students!
I think you are doing great! I find that I gongo back and forth many times on a drawing. I burnish, and then add more color, and then burnish and add more color, etc.
(Gongo=go)
I love that expression “gongo”! I’ve never heard it before.
I burnish with polychromos ivory, add more color but then have been burnishing the 2nd time with prismacolor verithins. Maybe that’s a mistake and I should try burnishing only with ivory. I’ll give it a try on this drawing and see what happens. Thanks for your kind words and advice!
I love the color variation in this leaf. I’m not sure that burnishing with verithins is the best idea… for me, things get sort of weird if I try to “fill” with verithins, rather than use them for thin lines…. Because those pencils are wax-based, they can sometimes act funny if you layer too much polychromos on top. I’d save the verithins just for sharpening edges and maybe creating shadows. Do you guys agree? I also think, Dee, that you could make that nut more round looking by feathering in some more dark tones on the shadow (bottom right) side. Great work, and awesome discussion here!
I just saw your comment, Vern and will go back and add more dark tones. The nut wasn’t totally round but was interestingly miss-shapen and had more texture than I was able to show. You answered a big question for me about burnishing with Verithins. I have been doing that in almost all my drawings and have been feeling disappointed and blah about my work. That makes total sense about the wax/oil based pencils not mixing the best. I think Wendy explained that to me about Prismacolors but I wasn’t applying the same rule to Verithins. I love all the discussion and so appreciate this site, the teachers and students!