My class had a mini lesson on watercolors and I brought in a pepper to paint. Before this I had only used watercolors to draw dogs that looked like pigs when I was 3.
I don't know how I did it, but the pepper looks really good to me. I didn't use a resistant to get highlights because I forgot put it still turned out with them. I painted with a lot of water at first and kept working my way down to almost no water so that I went from lightest red to darket red. After that I added some green and orange because peppers have some of that in there tints. I then started working on the stem. That's the part I don't like. I didnt really add any shading. I was starting to add some, but I accidentally didn't add enough water and it made the whole stem dark. It was also hard to put detail in so that's what I need to work on more. Overall, that mini lesson made me grow a lot as an artist. I figured out that I have to put in more detail and that shading looks a lot |
better than no shading. Another mini lesson we did was with prisma colors. Our goal was to draw a lollipop and make it look as realistic as possible using tints and shades. I did a pretty good job, I think. I could have added some more shading, but it's ok.
My first drawing of this was in my sketchbook and, just like the butterfly, I worked really hard on the sketch so that it looked like a final piece. What I did realize was that I have a TON more detail in the final piece than the sketch and I'm really happy about that. I was scared of detail because I thought you could put too much and it would just be a bad piece of art, but I then thought there is no bad piece. It's all just art no matter which way you look at it. It gave me confidence in using detail and using prisma colors. I figured out how to put in detail and shade over it so I'm very happy with myself about this. |