Jessica’s Lesson One sketch [Pass]

hahaha I can’t believe I missed that. That’s great! Three more it is!!!

hahaha no worries. I grew up hearing dude all of the time, regardless of gender. ;-) I was excited to do more roses, here is my second. A sort of “second chance” to show my black and white.

I’m pondering #3 and #4…. :-) This is fun.

I was hoping to do something more graphic … and so I used a new marker I bought. Well, the colors were not what I thought (the pen cap is deceiving) and I know that I should have stopped at an earlier point. (I wish the grey didn’t look like black)… anyway … sorry about the blue leaves.

Shoot, this graphic one reminds me of a 1970’s school book cover. …… the coloring is NOT what I expected …. sometimes markers just don’t pull it off which is why I’ve been sticking to pencil.

Ok so here is #4 – I feel like I learned a little …. ha!

On this one (first thing in the morning with a cup of coffee vs the #3 which was late at night after the kids finally fell asleep) … I used only my ink pen. I wanted to work on line and only line. I didn’t touch a single marker (hating them right now, color liars!) and I wanted it to be something that I could do without so much struggle. What?

By struggle I mean this one is entirely out of the head. The first three I had a rose in front of me (#1) (I have vases of roses in the house) or it was a photo that was taken I used as a guide. But from drawing so many roses, getting this right out of my head was pretty easy (Wow, practice works! SURPRISE!)… hahahaha

does it? :-)

So there we go. Lesson One assignment complete.

@Lennart82 wrote:

@Ramenuzumaki wrote:

btw by dude i totally meant Dudette :P

The marker rose, it looks like a feature in photoshop, when you artistic/metallic the whole part. And no, not saying its a photoshop picture ;) I can see its made by hand
All in all, awesome work Dudette :P

I am going to take the Photoshop comment as a compliment at this point. Hahaha :-) But I know what you mean. My first reaction was, “really, jessica? You’re going to try and pass this off?” ……. What I do know is it would have looked better if the rose was in less bloom and the lower pedals were not drawn in. It expands composition too much and is a bit tiring on the eyes.

Thank You!! Lesson Two here I come.