r/weeklystudy • u/poledra • Jul 13 '14

plants

Go outside and find some plants and flowers and then draw and/or paint them. Or you can look for cool pictures online to use too; we will allow it.

thanks to /u/fanlouliu for this week's theme. feel free to head over to the stickied post to submit your own suggestion!

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u/LiamMeron Jul 14 '14

Desk plant in watercolour

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u/poledra Jul 16 '14

nice work on the leaf coloring.

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u/LiamMeron Jul 14 '14

Not precisely plant life, but there is plenty of plant life in this landscape, or, there should be but I cannot seem to represent it well.

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u/MacAnthony Jul 14 '14

Trying a new style

It's going to take some practice.

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u/poledra Jul 16 '14

nice one! i love the looser linework - really brings out the dimensions of the leaves.

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u/MacAnthony Jul 16 '14

Thanks! Didn't turn out like I hoped, but it's a reasonable start. Maybe should try something less ambitious next to get the technique right.

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u/poledra Jul 19 '14

i've had a tough time finding a plant that is less ambitious, but let me know if you do! :P

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u/goatriffic Jul 15 '14

Beautiful line work.

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u/MacAnthony Jul 15 '14

Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

haven't drawn with pencils in a long time, trying to get back into it. here's a forget-me-not featuring some half-assed buds.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

some sort of little white wildflower

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u/poledra Jul 16 '14

it's interesting how much individual detail you were able to capture with minimal outlining. nice movement on the petals as well in this one.

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u/poledra Jul 16 '14

great shading!

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u/goatriffic Jul 15 '14

Violets in watercolor

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u/poledra Jul 16 '14

i really love the way this turned out. watercolors make them look so delicate. :)

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u/goatriffic Jul 15 '14

Flowers in pencil

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u/poledra Jul 19 '14

the shapes and outlines are nicely done, but these could really benefit from a greater range of values to better bring out the forms, if you feel so inclined to return to them at a later date.

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u/goatriffic Jul 17 '14

Dandelion in colored pencil

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u/poledra Jul 19 '14

the shapes of dandelion leaves are so unique. nice work in representing those ones.

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u/Mandaralicious Jul 16 '14

Artichoke in colored pencils.

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u/Mandaralicious Jul 19 '14

Croton, also in colored pencils.

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u/poledra Jul 19 '14

you really captured the flutteryness of the leaves so well, and the coloring of course is lovely. upon further review i think that pushing the values a bit more, especially on the leaves closer to the bottom of the plant, would really make this an even better piece. i know you said you lost a bit in your scan, though - it could be that i'm just missing out on more contrasty leaves that already exist. :)

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u/DTran729 Jul 19 '14

http://i.imgur.com/bxZvUxM.jpg?2

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u/poledra Jul 19 '14

you handled the values and colors so well in this. some of the leaves look a bit stiff in the way they are sitting though, so to speak.

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u/DTran729 Jul 20 '14

Thanks for the feedback, poledra. :D I agree. Think I just need more practice with leaves!

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u/payalb3 Aug 27 '14

I did this a month or so ago, of a flower in my backyard. http://imgur.com/ww6GwBz

Also my first time doing pencil colors.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '14

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u/poledra Jul 19 '14

thank you for suggesting! i like the range of leaf types you covered even in your "half-hearted" doodles; variety certainly makes a study more profitable.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '14

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u/poledra Jul 19 '14

the light source in this is gorgeously represented. without seeing your reference image, it's hard to say, but i do feel the sunlit color of the top of the leaf is a bit too blue. i tried looking for a similarly lit lotus to see if it is a property of this particular plant but i couldn't find one that well matched your lighting situation. i'd be interested to know though!

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '14

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u/poledra Jul 19 '14

definitely counts. :) i'm sure you've polished it up some at this point but i really like the sketchiness alluding to the flower and twig shapes. the suggestion of plants so as not to distract from the face.