Hi Richard- beautiful fresh colors! The majority of of your reflected highlight is really good! It gets to be too much of a contained line near the top and should be blended more like you did below that. The cast shadow looks good! You want to start dark as you have shown and then fade lighter as it moves away from the subject. I would like to see yours fade lighter. It is a little too consistently the same mid-tone. There are a couple of other areas to revisit. I would add more dark toning along the right side of the lemon to enhance it’s form. You don’t have to use dark sepia,etc, but one of the greens, so you don’t muddy your beautiful yellow. The shadow on the leaf on the left looks like the light source is on the right, which contradicts your highlight and cast shadow, etc.. Lastly, I would not expect the black lines delineating the seeds and sections of the cut view. There are some great examples of whole and cut citrus on the ArtFeed in addition to Wendy’s work to use as reference.
Hi Richard- beautiful fresh colors! The majority of of your reflected highlight is really good! It gets to be too much of a contained line near the top and should be blended more like you did below that. The cast shadow looks good! You want to start dark as you have shown and then fade lighter as it moves away from the subject. I would like to see yours fade lighter. It is a little too consistently the same mid-tone. There are a couple of other areas to revisit. I would add more dark toning along the right side of the lemon to enhance it’s form. You don’t have to use dark sepia,etc, but one of the greens, so you don’t muddy your beautiful yellow. The shadow on the leaf on the left looks like the light source is on the right, which contradicts your highlight and cast shadow, etc.. Lastly, I would not expect the black lines delineating the seeds and sections of the cut view. There are some great examples of whole and cut citrus on the ArtFeed in addition to Wendy’s work to use as reference.