Hi Terri @robichon
Thank you. I’ve been learning to paint in watercolour for just over an erratic year. Slowly gaining confidence. I will post more, thanks for your encouragement.
Nan
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Hi Nan, this is a very nice watercolor painting! For me, watercolor is super hard to handle, you did a great job! Hope to see more of your art ;).
Lucy
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Hi Sonia @Meme5,
I dont know why, but this lemon looks so yummy! 
Not that I usually eat lemons like apples, but I guess it is the juiciness of it that you captured. Looks great, thanks for sharing.
This is a picture of a Silver Appleyard duck I used to have. It’s done with carbon pencils on sketch paper. It was really an eye opener on proportion. I hadn’t really realized how big ducks bills are compared to their heads until I did the drawing. Their bills are huge!
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“King Goat” carbon pencils on sketch paper. I planned this as a quick exercise, but I started to have fun with it and wished I’d done it on drawing paper instead of sketch paper so there’d been more tooth to develop values more. Still learning…
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Trevor @trevowen, what a beautiful, classy, sassy lady drawing. I love it! All the values are great as always!
Sonia Alonzo
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A lemon, free reference picture by Jennifer Morrison in soft pastels centered on a 9x12 black Canson Touch paper with pan pastels, unison and rembrandt sticks, plus a few pastel pencil strokes. The tooth of the canson touch paper fills up way quicker than the pastelmat, a struggle to blend. I loved the lemon I did not long ago from one of Matt’s lessons, so I had to make a bigger one. Critiques welcome.
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It’s unique to see a lemon with leaves. Well done.
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Here is a pastel drawing I did. I don’t know what else to do with it, but I don’t feel like it’s “finished.” Thoughts? It is a Dalmatian Pelican from a photo reference.
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thank you sonia ! work is occupying a lot of my time last few weeks , very frustrating but this one was such a happy photo i wanted to try it. Some adverts are a source of good quality photo references , clothing ad for this one. Top photographers of course always help. Thanks again for lovely comment x Trev
That’s very cool still life , the variation in the greens of the leaves is beautiful Trev
ok well this was a bit of a rushed attempt before I collected my kids for the weekend , based on a cliche image [AI I think] and my learning takeaway is that it’s worth marking and measuring horizon and perspective lines as she is a little tall and the parapets at the side of the path aren’t accurate. Never mind on to the next !
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Hi Sonia @Meme5
If I say wow, wow, wow I hope you’ll know that I really like the lemon.
Terri Robichon
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Hi Lisa @HarleysMom
In response to your question, I think you need a broader range of values which can be accomplished by pushing the dark shadows, making them darker. Watch the most recent Members Minute (a dog drawn by Brenda) and you’ll know what to do to improve this drawing. And it will take less than a half hour to watch the critique.
Terri Robichon
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Hi everyone. I’ve been creative on most things since a teenager. Stopped drawing in my early 20’s but started again in early 2023 and drew my best drawings then. Sadly my mom passed in late July 2023 then in May 2024 I had emergency open heart surgery. Anyhow I am getting back into my drawing again and look forward to learning more 
. I just did the pen and ink exercise but haven’t done much pen and ink in the past.
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Absolutely beautiful work! Your skills are amazing. So glad to see you around the forum. So sorry for your life struggles. I hope you keep posting your wonderful drawings. Are they all done in ink and what paper sizes? I am learning pen and ink, just practicing here and there, my skills are improving.
Sonia Alonzo
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Thank you so much! The last two pictures were done in graphite. I was just playing around with pen and ink in the picture I did in my first post. I needed a break from a drawing I was starting…the line drawing has been hard lol Cars are not easy…and I may just switch my project for now and do the elephant in graphite. I prefer graphite but want to widen my horizons in the future. These last two were done on 9x12 paper size.
Keep practicing. Honestly, I drew as a teenager and into my early 20’s but nothing like the last two drawings…it helps having people on social media that teach properly. So keep practicing and improvements will come…I am learning too, the proper way 
I have a hard time doing trees in graphite!
Lee-Anne
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