Hi Susan- once again your leaves are beautifully drawn with accomplished toning! Though I am having trouble discerning which is the front view and which is the back. I think the back view is the one on the right because there is no break where the stem meets the primary vein. Often on the backside of leaves, the veins (at least primary and secondary veins) sit up on top of the leaf surface, which makes them very prominent. Opposed to the front of leaves where the veins are flush with the leaf surface or even a little sunken. Often the backsides of leaves are also lighter in color or even a different color. By doing one view in color and one not it also adds to my confusion. It is possible that the leaf you used as a model did not have the characteristics that I described above in which case a different leaf might be better for the lesson.
Nice Susan! Doug’s suggestions are great. This drawing is doing that thing that happens with leaves. When I first looked at this, I couldn’t immediately tell that the leaf at the right was the back of the leaf. But then all of a sudden my brain did something where all of a sudden like magic, it morphed to an obvious back of a leaf for me. I don’t understand why that happens, but I think that incorporating Doug’s suggestions might make it so that that brain interpretation would happen more immediately. Beautiful drawings, Susan.
Hi Susan- once again your leaves are beautifully drawn with accomplished toning! Though I am having trouble discerning which is the front view and which is the back. I think the back view is the one on the right because there is no break where the stem meets the primary vein. Often on the backside of leaves, the veins (at least primary and secondary veins) sit up on top of the leaf surface, which makes them very prominent. Opposed to the front of leaves where the veins are flush with the leaf surface or even a little sunken. Often the backsides of leaves are also lighter in color or even a different color. By doing one view in color and one not it also adds to my confusion. It is possible that the leaf you used as a model did not have the characteristics that I described above in which case a different leaf might be better for the lesson.
Nice Susan! Doug’s suggestions are great. This drawing is doing that thing that happens with leaves. When I first looked at this, I couldn’t immediately tell that the leaf at the right was the back of the leaf. But then all of a sudden my brain did something where all of a sudden like magic, it morphed to an obvious back of a leaf for me. I don’t understand why that happens, but I think that incorporating Doug’s suggestions might make it so that that brain interpretation would happen more immediately. Beautiful drawings, Susan.