Before and after Stan’s instructions and demo.

Hello everyone! Here are my attempts at the pear assignment. In my first one, I was really surprised at how simplifying the values made the image look pretty good, especially when I look at the picture from far away or a small thumbnail! However, I felt it looked really flat. Also on the first attempt, I felt like I had no process, and I kept trying to create the values relative to each other and spent a lot of time darkening other areas after making another too dark. So on the 2nd attempt I tried to lay out the planar structure and shade along the curving flat planes. I also changed my approach to work on the values in this order, which helped me feel less chaotic. 1) Light shadow 2) Dark shadow 3) Highlight 4) Light halftone 5) Dark halftone To create the dark shadow and dark halftone, I would shade on top of my light halftone, which made it easier to get a darker value by simply layering more graphite on the lighter values.

I am not very happy with it. My pear looks more like a potato. I got lost in the details again.

I think I went in on the detail waaaaaaaaayyyy too early. Need to SIMPLIFY shadow shapes much more. Was a good exercise learning to stick with just using five (four) values. Had fun.

Shading with mechanical pencils wasn't the most time efficient idea I ever had.