Really nice Liz! Colors are beautiful! And those roots!!! What I find missing is a sense of form on many of the plant’s parts. I can’t tell where your light source is because you are missing the toning and highlights that would establish that. Adding that would also achieve the missing form I mentioned above. I see the dark recesses in the cluster of blooms, but even with those clusters, the blooms would have highlighted and shadowed areas and emphasize the clusters cylindrical form. You are almost there!
Wow, Liz. All those petals! Such a challenging subject, and you did a really nice job with it. You have a really great drawing skills, and it’s impressive how you are able to get such beautifully rendered and believable details. You are showing some really nice 3 dimensional form on those leaves and stems. I want to see more 3 dimensional overall. It’s so hard to do when working on something so complicated, but I think if you could get a little more 3D form overall it would take your already beautiful drawings to the next level. Maybe do some thumbnail sketches before beginning just in grayscale to try to work out how to approach 3D the form before even thinking about the details and color. I would look at this entire subject as one big cylinder to get the overall form, and then break down each major shape into their own 3D forms (each inflorescence would be it’s own cylinder, the bulb would be sphere). Am I making sense? Again, really lovely work.
Thanks so much for the feedback, I really appreciate it. Yes I do understand what you’re both talking about, I will be adding more darks and try to get more of a 3d quality.
Really nice Liz! Colors are beautiful! And those roots!!! What I find missing is a sense of form on many of the plant’s parts. I can’t tell where your light source is because you are missing the toning and highlights that would establish that. Adding that would also achieve the missing form I mentioned above. I see the dark recesses in the cluster of blooms, but even with those clusters, the blooms would have highlighted and shadowed areas and emphasize the clusters cylindrical form. You are almost there!
Wow, Liz. All those petals! Such a challenging subject, and you did a really nice job with it. You have a really great drawing skills, and it’s impressive how you are able to get such beautifully rendered and believable details. You are showing some really nice 3 dimensional form on those leaves and stems. I want to see more 3 dimensional overall. It’s so hard to do when working on something so complicated, but I think if you could get a little more 3D form overall it would take your already beautiful drawings to the next level. Maybe do some thumbnail sketches before beginning just in grayscale to try to work out how to approach 3D the form before even thinking about the details and color. I would look at this entire subject as one big cylinder to get the overall form, and then break down each major shape into their own 3D forms (each inflorescence would be it’s own cylinder, the bulb would be sphere). Am I making sense? Again, really lovely work.
Thanks so much for the feedback, I really appreciate it. Yes I do understand what you’re both talking about, I will be adding more darks and try to get more of a 3d quality.
Beautiful Liz! Wow, so much work. 🙂 Those roots! And colours.