Antony parks Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 (edited) Good evening All, Slowly making progress (but lots more practice needed), going to keep going on this and see if it gets better....dew drops causing me problems at the moment. Texture will be the next problem. Edited February 16, 2021 by Antony parks typos Smee Again, jmwellborn, GarryP and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorVonDoom Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 As dew drops are clear they show through both the colour and texture and also magnify it. So if this is imaginary rather than from a reference it's tricky to do until the underlying flower is done. If it's from a reference then you need to look at them and break them down, I'd imagine there are lots of them. You're unlikely to be able to get it to look right with just a gradient and another shape, but that depends how realistic you want it to be. The edge highlights and shadows make the petals look very thick, I think it's probably because they don't vary, or not by much. But it's hard to say if they are wrong as it's not finished. Quote Marc ArtByMarc.me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antony parks Posted February 17, 2021 Author Share Posted February 17, 2021 Good evening VectorVonDoom, or can I call you Vector for short? I'm a great fan of your work so your criticism is very welcome. Thank you for looking carefully at the Dew Drops; each dew drop is a pen drawn elipse with several segments drawn inside and blurred, and set to various colours and various levels of transparent. They then sit on a blurred shadow..... And yes there are lots of them. These two are my nearest to success yet. No Gradients are used except fo the background. Each colour is a shape that has been blurred and set to various degrees of tarnsparent. The petal edges: yes, also a bit plasticy, I will try to change to a bit finer. I do have reference and will try and do some more work and then post again over the weekend. Will also post the reference and some line work. Thanks again for taking time, Antony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorVonDoom Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Hi, You can call me whatever you want lol. Is it only me who hates trying to think up user names? Ah ok, I was just guessing how you did the dew drops as the colours aren't obvious but when things are reduced to post on here you lose a lot of details. If you have a reference then they shouldn't be too difficult although it's surprising how a lot of fairly simple things ends up taking so long. It should look good when it's finished. Quote Marc ArtByMarc.me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antony parks Posted February 18, 2021 Author Share Posted February 18, 2021 Good Morning Vector. I gave up thinking of user names and just use my own every where. Grey and wet here so will work on the Rose a bit more. Yeah, the "faifly simple things" are going to take ages and give me lots of practice! Have a good day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 8 minutes ago, Antony parks said: Good Morning Vector. I gave up thinking of user names and just use my own every where. You could do worse than to extend that principle and use Marc’s own name when addressing him directly! Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antony parks Posted February 18, 2021 Author Share Posted February 18, 2021 Hi Alfred, Thanks for the heads up! Antony Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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