I’m almost done working on this succulent. It’s on a pastelmat 7x5 (can’t remember exact size) with pastel pencils. Still have a few petals to finish adding details to plus edges to cleanup. I’m leaving the background plain brown, unless anybody has a not so major change suggestion.
The blurry pebbles background on reference photo is not my favorite to spend a long time doing .
Critiques welcome!
I love the colours and the form of the succulent. Well done
Thank you @Kathy_uk. I really enjoyed the process. I had never used only pastel pencils until now. I used a lot of colors and omitted some petals/leaves than I covered up with the brown pastel. Used a sennelier pastel stick to paint the background brown.
OH SONIA - this is just WOW!!! Is this one of the lessons, because I absolutely LOVE IT. Your skills are evolving and it’s a pure delight to see your work.
Terri Robichon
That is very realistic. Want to transplant that one in a pot at my house! Help it the excellent work.
Thank you, I’m happy how it turned out, as opposed to the one before it that wad made with colored pencils.
Thank you @robichon,
I’m happy to say that it was my own trial and error. I consider it a success, but I tried to draw one with color pencils which I ruined after using pencil solvent thingy -twice-on background and couldn’t salvage it. I should’ve burned it while the solvent was still wet so I moved on to drawing the successful one with my beloved pastels
Unfortunately, we all have to go through a few of those to get the good ones!
This succulent–I can FEEL the plants texture through your art! That’s crazy and amazing! Well done!