Great job Ishbel! Love the colors and your lettering too! This is a tricky view to do and you are mostly there, but I find the toning confusing. The right side looks lighter than the left, except the cast shadow is on the right. I think part of the reason is your reflected highlight is too light and needs to be toned down, Also there are a few areas that are highlighted that I would expect to be in shadow. Such as the the 2 “V” areas top and bottom where the sepals meet. Also the area on the persimmon to the right of the upper right sepal seems like it should be toned darker rather than highlighted. You did a good job conveying that the sepals curve up and over and I think you could emphasize that a little more. The one area is the bottom of the lower right sepal. It is very light and I would expect that area to be more in shadow. That would help the feeling of the curve and also correct that that is not the highlighted side.
Great job Ishbel! Love the colors and your lettering too! This is a tricky view to do and you are mostly there, but I find the toning confusing. The right side looks lighter than the left, except the cast shadow is on the right. I think part of the reason is your reflected highlight is too light and needs to be toned down, Also there are a few areas that are highlighted that I would expect to be in shadow. Such as the the 2 “V” areas top and bottom where the sepals meet. Also the area on the persimmon to the right of the upper right sepal seems like it should be toned darker rather than highlighted. You did a good job conveying that the sepals curve up and over and I think you could emphasize that a little more. The one area is the bottom of the lower right sepal. It is very light and I would expect that area to be more in shadow. That would help the feeling of the curve and also correct that that is not the highlighted side.
Thanks Doug. I see what you mean – I’ll work on that a bit.
Lovely, Ishbel. I didn’t try the top down view – next time.
Gorgeous work on those sepals. I can really feel the structure and how it’s attached to the fruit.