Seeing Red!

[outlander]

thanks @Faith-and-Hope i dont have a very good range of colours. they are pretty basic ones so i dont have all the different tones in there. you know how you paint over them with water, thats the part i  find really hard as i cant get them to mix properly.

this was one i started before switching pencils- these were done with just the average ones

i find i cant really paint well at all, i find that i paint abit better without so many disturbances and people around and yesterday everyone was around so made it harder. and with pops friend coming over 4 times yesterday by the time i even got my drawing stuff out i had to move everything off the table again. mondays coming though so might give it another go

i want to try and improve even this drawing so any tips for this one with just the standard pencils

[Faith-and-Hope]

Waiting for the image @outlander .....

[outlander]

@Faith-and-Hopeits been approved now

[Faith-and-Hope]

Not through at my end yet ..... has to cross the Nullarbor ..... 😏

[outlander]

hah oh right.. 

[Faith-and-Hope]

W8ing ..... w8ing ..... 😏

[outlander]

@Faith-and-Hopelol im not sure why they arent showing on your end when they have been approved on my end. strange 

[Faith-and-Hope]

Okay .... there it is now ..... and it's perfect just as it is @outlander ......

Look up an artist called Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. He started out with very detailed impressionistic painting, but deliberately developed a simplistic minimalist poster style. He is famous for an image of a black cat, but also Can-Can showgirls. He was part of the Impressionist movement in Paris at the end of the 1800's and early 1900's, but Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a dwarf, and for people with extra-ordinary issues, as that was at the time, they had to try to carve out a life for themselves somewhere ..... off en in the circus or show-business of some kind. Toulouse-Lautrec work and socialised at Moulin Rouge ..... the famous show-girl theatre in Montmartre, and that became the basis for most of his work. He may have been producing advertising posters as a living.

To make your poppies more like his work, you would only need to paint the background a bright yellow.

[outlander]

ok ill take a look at his work thanks @Faith-and-Hope

i wanted it be better better than what it is. it just looks like not much effort or thought went into it

[Faith-and-Hope]

Have a look at Toulouse-Lautrec's work @outlander. If you like it, then maybe do the yellow background, and put a thicker black outline to the image, unevenly. Give it a bit more of the poster style .... and maybe add a ladybug ont the leaf or something simple like that. You can also write words on it, like I did if you want.

Here is the classic Remembrance Day poem -

They shall grow not old
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

From Laurence Binyon's poem For the Fallen, written in September 1914