Ok so I went back to it one more time. About an hour of little detail stuff. Using my 2H to try and make some edges pop and define forms better. I think the whole thing looks a little muddy. And I can't start over so off it goes today. I gotta say these are very hard to photograph. I am happy with three of the leaves. So so on a couple and really don't like one of them but don't know how to fix without risking destroying everything. The assignment was to show leaves in different perspective. Did that. Show the form of the leaves -- the cylinders between veins. Tried to do that. Show some underside. Check. Actually my favorite leaf is the little curled one that shows only underside. So cute. Demonstrate awareness of light source. That's a tough one, oddly enough. Demonstrate atmospheric perspective. I think I got that. Show texture. Use a full range of values. I'll get dinged for that I am sure. Neatness counts. Last one is tough cause the graphite gets all over no matter how hard you try to protect the drawing.
So now I take a break from classes. Finish packing, close on my BK condo, go to Ptown for a few weeks. Come back and move to Beacon. Do some paid work. Then in the fall I will either take pen and ink or colored pencil.
I plan to take my box of pencils and stuff to Ptown to draw beach flora and maybe some shells and such.
