Draw 50 Things - I "think" I did it...

[Will Terry]

@Wendy-Plybon Yes - I think the interest in your character will balance it - especially if you put the contrast emphasis on your doctor/scientist character. Here is an example of that strong foreground framing in a tree...

[Wendy Plybon]

@Will-Terry Ok, awesome! That was the plan. Thanks again!

[Jose Ramos]

@Will-Terry Great advice Will.

[TessaW]

Well done! It's awesome that you challenged yourself, you'll grow so much from it. I love Will's suggestions, but overall you did an excellent job.

[Wendy Plybon]

Ok, so I started adding color. I'm going to show how green I am because I have zero confidence adding value and color to my drawings. I did do value thumbnails and such but implementing them larger scale is intimidating to me... Here is my progress so far and I want to know, am I pushing my lights and darks enough? Do I need more contrast? Or should I wait until I have color on the rest of the drawing to fiddle with it too much?

[MOO]

@Wendy-Plybon I really like it. I always end up touching up and changing my values in layers when I do watercolor. I'm not yet a digital artist so I don't know how that works but it seems like it would be a similar process. I start with light colors to get a feel for it and to be able to distinguish the objects better, and then start adding darker shading or brighter accents, etc. to that. Great job! I still need to do that challenge (properly) myself.

[Felixius]

@Wendy-Plybon OMG Wendy...IF you are green... I can say that I am a seed... looking great!

[aska]

Nice colors!

[Wendy Plybon]

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen Thank you. I don't work digitally either. I'm too in love with traditional mediums. I've been working in layers and slowly pushing the contrast on each piece. I think I need to get the color on the rest of the piece though to get a better idea of what really needs to go where. I keep trying to remind myself, I can always go darker, but I can't always go lighter.

[Wendy Plybon]

@Felixius Haha Thank you. I just haven't really done a scene this complicated before.

[MOO]

@Wendy-Plybon Oh! It looks so perfect and uniform I thought it was digital! Wow, beautiful!

[Wendy Plybon]

Finished (I think)! Let me know what you all think! Does it need any tweaking? I feel like maybe the right foreground could be a little darker, but I also think I have stared at it too long and would appreciate a fresh perspective. Any advice would be welcome!!

Thank you, @Will-Terry for the challenge! Working through this from start to finish was definitely challenging. I definitely learned a lot and it makes me appreciate how much work goes into something like this that much more. And I'm already planning another one.

[MOO]

@wendy-plybon Awesome!

[Will Terry]

@wendy-plybon It turned out really nice! Great work!

[Wendy Plybon]

@marsha-kay-ottum-owen @Will-Terry Thank you!

[Leontine]

You did it! its a piece to be really proud of!

[aska]

Fantastic!:)