!["Shading Practice" Cedar Park, 2017](https://www.10nineteen.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/FJKO3356-940x752.jpg)
“Shading Practice” Cedar Park, 2017
こんばんは。Good evening!
Today I practiced a bit with my watercolors. As you can see from these photos, it was all about trees! 🌲🌳 I watched a couple Youtube tutorials on adding dark shading to wet areas of the painting and decided to give it a go. The photo above is my second sketch after I watched the tutorial, and the photo below is before I watched the video. I think the photo below is pretty fun, but the one above is a little more tree-like. I really need to work on the trunks, though!
For the color in the top painting, I used mainly Sap Green for the lighter color, then a mix of Sap Green and Pthalo Green for the dark color.
!["Lollipop Trees" Cedar Park, 2017](https://www.10nineteen.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/FJKO3357-940x752.jpg)
“Lollipop Trees” Cedar Park, 2017
Later in the evening I practiced drawing a face, which I find is quite a challenge. I may have mentioned that one of the big problems I have is getting the facial feature more or less symmetrical. I watched another tutorial (isn’t Youtube amazingly useful?) and it explained a good way to divide up the face so that it is easier to match the size of the eyes. I think it helped my drawing quite a bit!
The technique of dividing up geometric shapes is easy to follow, but difficult for me to memorize, so more practice is needed. And of course, this is just a straight ahead angle. I think a three-quarter angle will be a lot more challenging!
Onward and upward!
!["Face Practice" Cedar Park, 2017](https://www.10nineteen.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/FJKO3360.jpg)
“Face Practice” Cedar Park, 2017
To see all the sketches I’ve been working on, you can check out the Flickr album “My Sketching Journey”, or my Instagram account barron.sketches which I created just for posting sketches, watercolors, and stationery items.
I hope you had a nice Sunday!
またね~