Bringing the Foliage Forward
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10/25/17 complete |
Here’s the same drawing you saw last week – a cluster of trees at Green Lake. With Suzanne’s
helpful feedback and a few more hours of work, I made three significant changes:
I made the shadow shapes behind and around the foliage darker and more cohesive
to bring the foliage forward (my primary objective); I erased out most of the distracting
small tree behind my subject trees in the lower right to push it into the
background; I changed the shape of some of the branches and foliage to improve
the composition. There’s probably more work I could still do (that’s the
problem with a drawing based on a photo reference – you can keep tweaking it for
the rest of your life!), but I’m calling it done. (Below it is the version I
showed last week so you can see the changes.)
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10/21/17 in progress |
Much better!I like it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Allan! I'm getting into it. Much to learn!
DeleteLooks so much better! I think the added darks make the branches pop and lightening that background tree moved the main tree forward. Nice improvement!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Joan! I'm learning! :-)
DeleteThe end result is definitely worth the few more hours work!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ching. . . I agree that it was worth it!
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