Great color choices Bonny! As I remarked on your maple leaf post, be sure to have some highlights and shadows. Without them the leaf does not have any definition and reads very flat. Good job!
Those colors are great Bonny! The toning in between those veins is really nice, and is giving those areas some nice form. Leaves like this that aren’t shiny with obvious highlights can be really hard. If you draw things exactly as you see them, then you can lose that overall 3D form. So you have to force yourself to just apply that open book “formula”, and exaggerate the highlights on the light side of the leaf and the darks on the darker side of the leaf. I still struggle to do this. You are doing great!
Working on color with watercolors and polychromos pencils
Great color choices Bonny! As I remarked on your maple leaf post, be sure to have some highlights and shadows. Without them the leaf does not have any definition and reads very flat. Good job!
Those colors are great Bonny! The toning in between those veins is really nice, and is giving those areas some nice form. Leaves like this that aren’t shiny with obvious highlights can be really hard. If you draw things exactly as you see them, then you can lose that overall 3D form. So you have to force yourself to just apply that open book “formula”, and exaggerate the highlights on the light side of the leaf and the darks on the darker side of the leaf. I still struggle to do this. You are doing great!
Thanks for the encouragement!