@edith
Active 4 years, 9 months ago
I worked a little more on the leaves. I did it only using just colored pencils. In the end I used the ivory pencil for burnishing, but I am a little bit hesitant about it. I feel I loose the texture of the pencil stroke – which I like so much – as it washes the colors. Maybe I just have to get used to it. View
If you like the texture of the pencil, no need to burnish, or as I do burnish selectively only where you want to darken and smooth out more! There is an art to burnishing just like every aspect of drawing! These leaves are lovely. For example you might want to burnish your shadow to quiet it down but not burnish elsewhere
Thank you for the insight! I’ll continue to experiment with burnishing to get the hang of it.