I’ve had my tutorial and am feeling positive about my feedback, we were in agreement about my strengths and weaknesses and her comments on my assignment piece made me feel like I should trust my instincts – if I’m not feeling excited about a piece then there’s probably good reason! With that in mind I’ve reworked the assignment piece and now I love it! I’m so glad I made time to have another go. We talked about possibly using collage which could have been good but I wanted first to have another go at my original vision for the drawing. It was lacking the contrast and liveliness of some of my other drawings – I hadn’t been able to get the effect I wanted with dip-pen on this larger scale and so I layered over the top drawing first in black ink with a brush, then white ink with a brush, and then black again and finally put in details with white ink and dip-pen. I’m really happy with the result, this is something I would happily put on my wall.
Here for contrast is the previous version:
Flora OCA drawing 1 