@sandraje78
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As you can see on the photo of the branches it self, the have way more different colors then i used. I don’t know how to get that green on top. Which color pencils do i use? And also all the details on a branch. Most of the time i had already to much layering to add stripes or dots. So is it the last step? The webinars are in the middle of […] View
2021-04-26 10
Magnolia from my garden, blooms in april. Don’t know how to draw the light pink on top. en bottom. Too much lines.
Instantly recognizable as magnolia! As it blooms in April, did you draw this from a photo, Sandra? You can always smooth the lines out with some layers of watercolour, or watercolour washes. You can also burnish some portions by colouring over the layers with a lighter pencil like ivory or white. Have you done a tone bar where you lay out the range of colours to try to match your petals?
Sandra, this is beautiful. Such lovely colors, and you are doing a great job of showing those gorgeous curving petals. To define those lighter petals, you can carefully add some sensitive line (variation in line) along the edges of your petais, and add a little bit of feathered out tone where you see some little shadows at the edges of those light colored petals. Here’s a link to a video of Wendy’s that may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOs3_CM1GFI You might want to add just a few itty bitty punches of dark tone where the petals meet the green bits to give it just a little more contrast. I love how that branch gets smaller and smaller as it recedes into the background – great use of perspective. Really lovely drawing.
Great advice above. Nice to see you here again, Sandra!! Hope all is well with you. This drawing is lovely!
I did the sketching in the garden, and used a photo later on. I did try to burnish with ivory but stil to much lines.