I wanted to do this in colour, but I realized I did a lot of shading with my graphite pencil.. not sure i feel like drawing another just yet. I found it challenging. I know there’s a lot left to be desired in this drawing. But I wanted to do it so much, because in my basket of nectarines ooh! there was a tiny leaf on one of them! 😃. Thanks for having a look and letting me know what you think.
This is a lovely drawing of an adorable nectarine. I especially like the left side and the area where the leaf is attached. You are getting lovely 3D form in that area. I think you have lost a bit of your main highlights, and you could take your kneaded erase and see if you can lift a bit of the highlight back out. And then I think you could get a lot darker on the right side and bottom of the fruit (in the core shadow area). You have the right idea with cast shadow, but you could erase the upper 3rd of that shadow. If you look at your photo, and hold a pencil horizontally along the top of your nectarine, you will see that that shadow stops well below the top of the nectarine. I love that you are getting really dark right where the nectarine meets the surface that it’s sitting on. That’s where you want your cast shadow to be the darkest. But you want it that dark only in that area where the nectarine is contacting the surface. You can lighten up that really dark toning as it continues around the form. Once it’s no longer hitting the surface, that cast shadow isn’t nearly as dark. I think if you make those changes it will make it look more like it’s sitting on the table. Does that make sense?
I wanted to do this in colour, but I realized I did a lot of shading with my graphite pencil.. not sure i feel like drawing another just yet. I found it challenging. I know there’s a lot left to be desired in this drawing. But I wanted to do it so much, because in my basket of nectarines ooh! there was a tiny leaf on one of them! 😃. Thanks for having a look and letting me know what you think.
This is a lovely drawing of an adorable nectarine. I especially like the left side and the area where the leaf is attached. You are getting lovely 3D form in that area. I think you have lost a bit of your main highlights, and you could take your kneaded erase and see if you can lift a bit of the highlight back out. And then I think you could get a lot darker on the right side and bottom of the fruit (in the core shadow area). You have the right idea with cast shadow, but you could erase the upper 3rd of that shadow. If you look at your photo, and hold a pencil horizontally along the top of your nectarine, you will see that that shadow stops well below the top of the nectarine. I love that you are getting really dark right where the nectarine meets the surface that it’s sitting on. That’s where you want your cast shadow to be the darkest. But you want it that dark only in that area where the nectarine is contacting the surface. You can lighten up that really dark toning as it continues around the form. Once it’s no longer hitting the surface, that cast shadow isn’t nearly as dark. I think if you make those changes it will make it look more like it’s sitting on the table. Does that make sense?