good morning mike
I hope you are doing better, I must also apologize for not responding for so long. Yesterday I had lunch with Renate Mosimann and she told me that you reacted to my 2nd butterfly project. Unfortunately, I haven't looked at the forum for so long. Thank you very much for your, as ...

Hi Mike here my own group work project. I tried to immerse myself completely in the picture and neglected the template. I enjoyed taking part in the group work, it was a very good motivation.

Thank you Mike for the detailed analysis of my picture. By the depth they mean that the black areas are a little interrupted. This can be easily loosened up with blu tack. .I understood correctly that you fix the masking paper to the drawing with a paper clip. I always have a piece of paper under my ...

Thank you rideum 51 i also opted for the dark one. Will post it when the drawing is done. ..

I decided to try Mike's template first.
The greatest difficulty I found was that I could keep bright areas clean, which I didn't quite succeed. It was a lot of fun to deal with the different shapes of the leaves. I started with the dark places to reach the depth.

Now I have put together two ...

Thank you Mike for judging my Capricorn picture I will try to implement your suggestions. .

Thank you very much for the suggestions Linda, Laurene and Rideum.
It's nice to hear how you judge the picture and I see it that way that the mother disappears with the two boys. I will try to put them more in the light so that they serve better as eye catchers. Taking away the group is almost ...

Thanks pogArt for the nice words and I am glad that you like it

Last September I put together a picture on the PC for the first time in Mike's course. A mountain landscape with ibexes and suitable shrubs for this height in the mountains. I worked on Conqueror Diamond white 250 size 45 / 58cm. I used clutch pencils 4H 2H HB B2 B4. While I was drawing, I got the ...

Thank you mike for all the suggestions from this interesting and fascinating nature project the way you go about analyzing an image is interesting and so instructive. Thanks