Progress on my latest work: As you can see, I have added lots more layers of colour particularly on the yellow pear and some of the red.
For Artists: One of the things when I am at this stage of working is to be always checking my values. I constantly check a black and white reference of the pears just to make sure I have the values of the shadows in the right position and that they are dark enough.
It’s really important with a round object like this to also use pencil strokes in direction of the contours of the object you are creating.
This is where it’s really important to have knowledge of how the object is 3D / real life.  I tend to imagine how that curve is rather than try to copy what is on the photo. If I was to copy exactly what i see on the photo then I would get a very flat looking piece.
This is why drawing from life regularly is so important even though you use a photo as a reference in your final artwork, its important to understand how something REALLY is in order to capture that.
This is my first coloured pencil piece where I think I am going to leave a lot of the paper white. In most of my pieces i will generally cover all areas of the paper but I don’t think it needs it in this instance, we will see how it progresses when I get further to the end.
That’s it for now, on for more layers.
