Gold star for Silke!
First submission - and a gold star ⭐ goes to Silke this week for a colourful and delightful drawing of fancy fish - guppies. She remembers these fish well, having spent hours watching them swim around and around her father's aquarium. Using Polychromo colour pencils in her Stilman + Bern journal, her fish are excellent, shimmering and colourful. The rendering of the scales is particularly well done, I think. About the drawing Silke says:
'I tried to build up the (background) colour to make it dark and the fish stand out, but hit a limit with the number of layers I could apply.'
Personally I think the background as it stands does that already. But it can be frustrating when you hit the limit of layers and you haven't quite achieved the depth you were envisioning. All I can suggest you try is a light spray of fixative - this can create a new surface to add more colour to, but you will not be able to blend into the under layers after you spray.
Maybe the change from blue to green is a bit abrupt and the blue could blend further into the green, but it does make a nice division in the work. Two halves, two fish. Great work Silke, thanks for showing!
'Dad's Guppies' by Silke
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