Hi. I am looking for any advice on how to improve this drawing. It’s a wildflower called Musk mallow. I am trying to draw as many of the local species as possible before the end of summer. I think there could be enhancement to the color intensity. Maybe some sepia added to the leaves could give them a more real feel. I was also thinking of adding a butterfly to the top right corner, a pink-edged sulfur would fit nicely.
Yes please to the pink-edged sulfur flying in. Once the butterfly enters, you might take a look at the bottom of your page and see if you want to change the fact that both stems end at the same line. Compositionally, my eye goes to the centre of the blank page – so I don’t yet have a focal point in this composition. The stems are very straight and my eye just keeps going up and down. I think something has to cross into the middle, another flower with its pinks? or the two subjects interact in some way. Maybe these guys need to get a little “wilder.” 🙂
Thanks so much for all the advice. I agree on all points. I will diversify the pod colors and add the sulfur. Composition is not my strong point I admit and I am having trouble imagining how to create a focal point with the plants but what if I added a second sulfur dangling from the flower that is partially opened? I wonder if that would work?
Second sulfur there I think yes is a good idea – and also maybe one more smaller leaf reaches into that centre space too.
20 August 2020
You could also place a flower petal or a cross section of a flower in the center. All great points. I also think you could intensify the contrast in the flowers so that, for example, on the left flower, we feel the depth of the flower as it moves inward toward the reproductive parts… perhaps darker in the center with lighter reproductive parts? Do these stalks ever split into more blooms? You could add another bloom coming off the upper right side of the right stalk, just above the second leaf. Some variation in the green color of the leaves could be nice, too; you could add a little Chrome Oxide Green or Dark Sepia in a few places, just to create some variation and depth. I love those seed pods!!!!
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Hi. I am looking for any advice on how to improve this drawing. It’s a wildflower called Musk mallow. I am trying to draw as many of the local species as possible before the end of summer. I think there could be enhancement to the color intensity. Maybe some sepia added to the leaves could give them a more real feel. I was also thinking of adding a butterfly to the top right corner, a pink-edged sulfur would fit nicely.
Yes please to the pink-edged sulfur flying in. Once the butterfly enters, you might take a look at the bottom of your page and see if you want to change the fact that both stems end at the same line. Compositionally, my eye goes to the centre of the blank page – so I don’t yet have a focal point in this composition. The stems are very straight and my eye just keeps going up and down. I think something has to cross into the middle, another flower with its pinks? or the two subjects interact in some way. Maybe these guys need to get a little “wilder.” 🙂
Thanks so much for all the advice. I agree on all points. I will diversify the pod colors and add the sulfur. Composition is not my strong point I admit and I am having trouble imagining how to create a focal point with the plants but what if I added a second sulfur dangling from the flower that is partially opened? I wonder if that would work?
Second sulfur there I think yes is a good idea – and also maybe one more smaller leaf reaches into that centre space too.
You could also place a flower petal or a cross section of a flower in the center. All great points. I also think you could intensify the contrast in the flowers so that, for example, on the left flower, we feel the depth of the flower as it moves inward toward the reproductive parts… perhaps darker in the center with lighter reproductive parts? Do these stalks ever split into more blooms? You could add another bloom coming off the upper right side of the right stalk, just above the second leaf. Some variation in the green color of the leaves could be nice, too; you could add a little Chrome Oxide Green or Dark Sepia in a few places, just to create some variation and depth. I love those seed pods!!!!