Nice Lucille! This is beautifully rendered! As you continue on with it I would be sure to add more dark toning where there are overlaps and those “V” areas.
@doug-milne Doug, Thank you for the feed back. Question: Have I done too much shading (apart from the dark toning you mention) to proceed with a water color and color pencil? I love shading so much, I don’t know when to stop. Can I still proceed with color? Thank you!
Hi Lucille- no – you haven’t gone too far. You could still go darker in spots as we discussed. Be sure to leave your highlights! Is this color (red-violet?) you used good for your grisailles layer? If the flower is a deep red, you could even be a little more saturated with the shading.
I love sketching and shading– and it happens that shading turns into a monochrome study. Lucille
Nice Lucille! This is beautifully rendered! As you continue on with it I would be sure to add more dark toning where there are overlaps and those “V” areas.
@doug-milne Doug, Thank you for the feed back. Question: Have I done too much shading (apart from the dark toning you mention) to proceed with a water color and color pencil? I love shading so much, I don’t know when to stop. Can I still proceed with color? Thank you!
Hi Lucille- no – you haven’t gone too far. You could still go darker in spots as we discussed. Be sure to leave your highlights! Is this color (red-violet?) you used good for your grisailles layer? If the flower is a deep red, you could even be a little more saturated with the shading.
Also good at this stage to think of the lighting on the whole form, ie the oval-esque form made by all the individual petals.