Hi Jody, I mentioned in your previous drawing of the Bay Laurel that I liked your heavy hand. It’s like mine. In this case however it may be a case of too much, too soon. Or it could be that whatever paper you are drawing on is not holding the wax or oil of the pencil. I wish I could see this drawing in person. It looks like you are trying to get the darks and the paper is not responding. In any case, if you can, try to get richer darks in the shadows, especially in the leaves. Darkening where they overlap will really help define their forms and position in space. The left side of your pear is nicely drawn and toned, but the shape on the right side is a bit too angular and if your pear’s shadow side is that dark, you need to make the cast shadow a bit darker.
Also cool lettering here! Also, leave me a bit more space to breathe in the lettering, ie between the Cap S, between the 2 words, and between Cap K and the i. Love the style of handwriting.
Hi Jody, I mentioned in your previous drawing of the Bay Laurel that I liked your heavy hand. It’s like mine. In this case however it may be a case of too much, too soon. Or it could be that whatever paper you are drawing on is not holding the wax or oil of the pencil. I wish I could see this drawing in person. It looks like you are trying to get the darks and the paper is not responding. In any case, if you can, try to get richer darks in the shadows, especially in the leaves. Darkening where they overlap will really help define their forms and position in space. The left side of your pear is nicely drawn and toned, but the shape on the right side is a bit too angular and if your pear’s shadow side is that dark, you need to make the cast shadow a bit darker.
@katylyness thanks. This was an experiment using vellum parchment.
Wish I could give you advice, but I’ve never used colored pencil on velum.
But would seem to explain the difficulty getting the saturation of color.
Also cool lettering here! Also, leave me a bit more space to breathe in the lettering, ie between the Cap S, between the 2 words, and between Cap K and the i. Love the style of handwriting.