Hmmm. This is one of those pieces that didn't turn out quite as I'd envisioned. Maybe I should've used richer colors, or should add a background—I'm not sure. Things just haven't clicked: I even felt like the hot weather was affecting my pencils, making them waxier than usual!
These little "SunSugar" cherry tomatoes are so beautiful on the vine—the way the clusters become a rainbow of color as they ripen. I wanted to capture that stage, as I've drawn fully ripe ones in the past.
Here are a few work-in-progress pics. This time, I used an empty slide mount instead of my usual viewfinder that I've shown you before:
I decided to enlarge it to 5x the original little thumbnail sketch on the right:
The tomatoes continued to ripen and change colors as I worked—what a show!
As I look at this next pic, I'm thinking that I like this "unfinished" stage more than the final one. The negative space where the vine will go might've looked more interesting left alone."Food for thought" for the next piece.
Well, while there's nothing horrible about this drawing,
I think that I'll chalk it up as a learning piece.
(Or maybe I'll just have to add a background before it drives me crazy...!)
I think its lovely Sarah. But black would work as a background, if you're so keen to do one? Too heavy?
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