This is really good Tamara! Once again you have great color selection and saturation! I would point out a couple of things. First, your cast shadow is a little too dark. Shadows should be more of a suggestion to ground the subject to the page. If they get to dark they create contrast which distracts the eye from the focal point. Since your light is coming from the left, the shadow toning on the bottom left edge of the orange is too dark. It is darker than the shadow toning you have on the right which is further away from the light source. I would lighten the shadow toning on the left and make the shadow toning above your reflected light darker. When your subject is orange, pink, etc using red violet as the toning color (instead of dark sepia). This helps the orange color from getting too muddy. Citrus texture is a big challenge! Creating all those dimples is not easy. You might want to play around with different techniques like using an embossing tool, or making the dimples with dots of ivory pencil or leaving areas uncolored. Using the embossing tool and ivory pencil would be done before you add color to the subject. It is great seeing your work!
This is really good Tamara! Once again you have great color selection and saturation! I would point out a couple of things. First, your cast shadow is a little too dark. Shadows should be more of a suggestion to ground the subject to the page. If they get to dark they create contrast which distracts the eye from the focal point. Since your light is coming from the left, the shadow toning on the bottom left edge of the orange is too dark. It is darker than the shadow toning you have on the right which is further away from the light source. I would lighten the shadow toning on the left and make the shadow toning above your reflected light darker. When your subject is orange, pink, etc using red violet as the toning color (instead of dark sepia). This helps the orange color from getting too muddy. Citrus texture is a big challenge! Creating all those dimples is not easy. You might want to play around with different techniques like using an embossing tool, or making the dimples with dots of ivory pencil or leaving areas uncolored. Using the embossing tool and ivory pencil would be done before you add color to the subject. It is great seeing your work!