Today's prompt was 'Sprout', and I do love me some brussels sprouts, especially roasted with bacon and a bit of maple syrup. Here's a nice fresh one I made today, though, no bacon, no maple:

It's tricky differentiating between shading has caused a darker green and when the color is actually a darker green, which was interesting. I found out the hard way then when you shade in advance with a soft graphite pencil and then try to go over it with a light-hued waxy colored pencil, the shading smudges some, and of course then you can't reasonably erase because the wax from the colored pencil has sealed everything to the paper. OOPS. I also need to work on making the layers of sprout leaf look like layers instead of just lines, and making the veining look a bit more three dimensional. Probably that means more fabric practice in my future.

All that aside, I am actually pretty happy with how this came out. The overall shapes are fine, it's I think totally recognizable, it looks pretty spherical rather than flat. I think a lot of the trouble I ran into, I could have avoided by going directly from the very hard, light pencil shaping I started with directly to the colored pencils - rather than the intermediary step of shading with a softer, darker graphite pencil.

It's fun being back to this more-or-less daily drawing habit!