This is beautifully rendered Maureen! I love the soft colors and it looks so good on the Kraft paper! The bulb on the left is amazing! The bulb to its right needs a little more dark toning on the right side to enhance it’s form and it will be on par with the other bulb.
Thank you @doug-milne — your feedback is always so helpfully specific and appreciated! I was tripped up on the leaf but now I see what you mean with the bulb on the right.
I really love the light sensitive feel of this. It’s lovely. I know what you mean about figuring out the light while drawing in the field. It can be tough to get the brain to imagine the light source. It’s something that definitely gets easier with practice. One thing that I sometimes do when I’m drawing in the field is try to position myself in a way that when I’m looking at my subject I see it’s cast shadow projecting to the right and behind it. This isn’t always possible, but when it is, I find that it can help. You did a great job with this, and I think you imagined the light source really well!
I hadn’t yet done the leaf lesson in the Practice of Botanical Drawing course, as you might be able to tell.
I did the leaf in the field where the light source was the opposite of where I wanted it on the page, and my brain had a hard time handling this.
This is beautifully rendered Maureen! I love the soft colors and it looks so good on the Kraft paper! The bulb on the left is amazing! The bulb to its right needs a little more dark toning on the right side to enhance it’s form and it will be on par with the other bulb.
Thank you @doug-milne — your feedback is always so helpfully specific and appreciated! I was tripped up on the leaf but now I see what you mean with the bulb on the right.
I really love the light sensitive feel of this. It’s lovely. I know what you mean about figuring out the light while drawing in the field. It can be tough to get the brain to imagine the light source. It’s something that definitely gets easier with practice. One thing that I sometimes do when I’m drawing in the field is try to position myself in a way that when I’m looking at my subject I see it’s cast shadow projecting to the right and behind it. This isn’t always possible, but when it is, I find that it can help. You did a great job with this, and I think you imagined the light source really well!