Was this done on textured paper Emily? It has a fuzzy appearance to it. The colors are very nice, but you have lost a lot of the form when you added the color. The stem and sepals are missing a highlight and range of tones so it is reading very uniform. There are highlights on the tomato, but it needs more range of tones (from light areas around the highlight to darker tones in the shadow areas) to emphasize it’s form. The reflected highlight should blend into the darker tones above it so it looks more like a reflected glow off the surface it is sitting on. With the cast shadow – it is too dark and should be lightened. You do not want it to compete with the subject. The cast shadow will be dark where it meets the tomato but it will fade lighter as it angles back at a 45 degree angle. It should have a roundish outside edge to convey the rounded shape of the subject,
Was this done on textured paper Emily? It has a fuzzy appearance to it. The colors are very nice, but you have lost a lot of the form when you added the color. The stem and sepals are missing a highlight and range of tones so it is reading very uniform. There are highlights on the tomato, but it needs more range of tones (from light areas around the highlight to darker tones in the shadow areas) to emphasize it’s form. The reflected highlight should blend into the darker tones above it so it looks more like a reflected glow off the surface it is sitting on. With the cast shadow – it is too dark and should be lightened. You do not want it to compete with the subject. The cast shadow will be dark where it meets the tomato but it will fade lighter as it angles back at a 45 degree angle. It should have a roundish outside edge to convey the rounded shape of the subject,
Hi Doug I think it’s probably not the paper… I’ll do another one Thank you. I’ll also work on my tone range practices, I just got the correct pencils