I noticed my problem is the half tones I might have to go back over the lesson this weekend. Does this apply to color cause they feel connected.

If any more projects and demos with shading are planned, it would be helpful to know what pencil hardness is used in each step of the drawing process.

I did som digital spheres also. The unlimited and first one took me a lot longer than my untimed traditional one. Many hours since I’m still learning my digital tools. But second one was going a lot faster i was aiking at 25 min but felt finished after 15 min. And I learned some tricks that made it faster. Using much bigger brush. Wich actually made it look better than my untimed one so i went back (since it is untimed i could still continue) and used that trick.

This was quite challenging, from wonky circles and ellipses to blotchy values and total disasters where tried erasing large areas of dark tone and had to give up…too much erasing changes the texture of the paper surface making it impossible to get smooth areas of tone. Best attempt (image 1) I tried mapping in a lot more value zones first (image 2) like we did in the various value study exercises. Seemed to help even tho far from perfect.

oI did a lot of untimed ones before these til I felled comfortable enough to do the timed ones. When I did my first one it felt more uncomfortable than I first thought trying to shade even in de same direction as the ball and not just little circles everywhere. Some angles more uncomfortable than other. Ive also got used to draw on loose paper I can change angle on so I can draw from comfortable angles. But I used sketchpad on my easel on my armchair table and it wasn’t as easy to turn around. Especially not at the shorter times. But after some untimed ones it felt alot better. At first I used HB for the light halftones and 4b and 6b for shadows. But after a while I just used HB for marking everything out at first then I used 4b for also light halftones because it wasn’t easier to get smooth and was faster. When I began I thought that it would take me about 60 min to make the sphere when I took all time I needed. But it took me just 25 min. And allmost felt like I missed something. But till the timed ones I took it slower for the long one and took a bit more time to erase some little stuff around and be more thorough. With my 6b that a woodless pencil. I don’t know if it because its a woodless pencil or if its a difference between 4b and harder and 6b and softer. But I use that pencil at last and try to be thorough so I don’t neeed to erase something of. But it happend that I needed to erase something little on the light side of the core shadow where I used 6b. And when its erased something happends with the glossiness on the paper. Wich makes it look like darker spots in some angles and when I take a photo. Its same value but different gloss wich changes the value in some angles. When I did these spheres one of my focuses was to be sure the bounce light was darker th

That 5-minute study is a doozy!

I would like some feedback, please guys. Love u

This took me way too long and I ended up with way many layers. And many time was layed on figuring out on Wich layers some scrap lines or dont i wanted to erase were on. I think i rather use auto actions i learned from another course with lights shadows and everything in there so it helps to stay organised. To this i wanted to make a cyberpunk scene and then i wanted to make something my own. Also a opportunity to practice drawing from imagnination especially whole scenes. Because its something i feel very hard. Its like i have a big hurdle to get over to begin. I just used some loose references

What do you think of this sharpener? 😅 its that crappy standard sharpener but made as a drill bit so you can use your screwdriver for sharpening 😅. Uri Tuchman on YouTube’s invention.

Good lesson. Ive watched this many times now. The parts when you talk about wich values you use where on the sphere Are the hardest parts to Grasp. But I did screen dumps of those pictures so i can study it