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[citrakayah]

As always, feedback and critique are welcome.
These were another attempt at reducing a landscape to geometry. Think the one on the right turned out better.

That's supposed to be mist against a background of trees.

And this is my first time trying to draw a vertebrate. Not enough shadows, but the body form turned out okay, and I think I got the texture down okay. Head turned out a little weird though.

And here are some landscapes. I'm most proud of the auroras, of all the work I've done so far.
 

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>>These were another attempt at reducing a landscape to geometry. Think the one on the right turned out better.<<

I like the one with the triangles on the ground.

>>And this is my first time trying to draw a vertebrate. Not enough shadows, but the body form turned out okay, and I think I got the texture down okay. Head turned out a little weird though.<<

It is quite recognizably a fox.

Some artists find that studying animal anatomy helps. Others prefer gesture sketching. With watercolor, you can't force it, so the flowing lines of gesture sketching may be more useful.

I quite like the mountains, and the green aurora.

Re: Thoughts

[citrakayah]

Thanks. I think what I'm doing is similar to gesture sketching? Though I haven't done it before, so I'm judging off the description I got when Googling. I'm getting the main lines and shapes in, then adding the details.

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yes, gesture sketching is about quickly capturing the main line of action, and if you have time, the core shapes. There are various approaches, and lots of resources online if it's something you'd like to explore further. I like what you're doing so far.