Welcome to the ArtFeed Maria! You are off to a good start. I am glad you realized that the color is off. I think of most poppy pods and stems to be a lighter green and many of them a blue/green. If a subject is very shiny then a white highlight helps to convey that. Less shiny subjects (like a poppy seed pod);are going to have a softer highlight made possible by adding some spots of appropriate color to the white (color of the paper). The area surrounding the highlight should be a lighter tone that will transition darker as you move away from the highlight. In the future, thinking about composition, you might want to cut open the seed pod and add that to the drawing. Nice job!
This is nice! The greens are very rich. Is it a poppy pod? (I’m not great at IDing flowers/plants.)
Yes, a poppy pod. I got carried away with the greens; in actuality it is a much lighter green.
Welcome to the ArtFeed Maria! You are off to a good start. I am glad you realized that the color is off. I think of most poppy pods and stems to be a lighter green and many of them a blue/green. If a subject is very shiny then a white highlight helps to convey that. Less shiny subjects (like a poppy seed pod);are going to have a softer highlight made possible by adding some spots of appropriate color to the white (color of the paper). The area surrounding the highlight should be a lighter tone that will transition darker as you move away from the highlight. In the future, thinking about composition, you might want to cut open the seed pod and add that to the drawing. Nice job!