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Reagan Lehman's avatar

Loved your stylized trees!! I always struggle sticking too close to my references, so these are really inspirational.

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Danielle Bennett's avatar

Thanks Reagan! Totally know the struggle! Practicing deviating from references to create new designs and compositions has lead to some of my my biggest breakthroughs as an illustrator. 😊

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Livamoah's avatar

I love this so much danielle, big inspiration!!

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Danielle Bennett's avatar

Thank you so much, Liv! ❤️

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Kiki Carr's avatar

The "being too precious" line is oh-so-perfect. I needed to hear that 💕

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Danielle Bennett's avatar

I’m so happy to hear it resonated with you! ❤️

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Betsy's avatar

I love the tip to create a photo collage up front to make getting started easier!

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Danielle Bennett's avatar

Glad you found it helpful! ❤️

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Anoosha Syed's avatar

Congrats Danielle! You should be so proud :)))

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Danielle Bennett's avatar

Thank you so much, Anoosha! 🤗❤️

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Rachel Michelle Wilson's avatar

So impressive Danielle! A great post!

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Danielle Bennett's avatar

Thank you so much, Rachel! ❤️

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Alyssa's avatar

Oh gosh, your paint palettes are a work of art themselves! I am so impressed you managed to paint every single day in April. Such a joy to follow you along the journey!

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Danielle Bennett's avatar

My paint palettes are my babies, I cherish them haha! Thank you so much, Alyssa! ❤️

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Alina Chau's avatar

Love your paintings, so much joy and fun!!

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Victoria Yu's avatar

Thanks for sharing your exciting new art challenge. And I would say you did fantastic Danielle! From this post I learned that I should probably do more painting from life. I don't do much of that anymore since I mostly paint hyperrealism portrait paintings which has intense detail. But it's good to also replenish on other places where I'm less confident and want to improve in and get more familiar too. You inspired me to try!

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Jessica Elena's avatar

Aaah this was such a wonderful read!! I adooore your stylised trees! And those gouache pans look so yummy!!!

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Cagla Zimmermann's avatar

This is wonderful! I think, I might need a challenge like this as well :-) Your writing style is as lovely as your paintings. Thank you for all the tips, quite useful! I can’t wait to see your next blog post! Love, Cagla

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Danielle Bennett's avatar

Thank you so much, Cagla! That really means a lot. ❤️ I’m really enjoying writing blog posts, there are definitely many more to come! 🤗

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