That was very interesting to analyse these images, asking questions I had never asked myself before. It's magical, this feeling of discovering certain manufacturing secrets of these artists that I admire. Very rich in lessons

PRACTICE PAGE: Circiling back to the mushroom Excersise, now on to more figure studies. 😀

This one was hard, but interesting! I tried making it in watercolor, getting the right values with that medium is pretty hard and it did not work out well. I tried pen, pencil and variations. I am happy with the gouache one and the pencil one. Impressive what other people made. Thank you!

This is a really fun assignment. The oceans, lakes, and rivers analogy is so helpful. I could spend all day refining this guy. For now, this is what I have.

I had the pear exercise on the brain so I went into this trying to simplify and design the shapes with a limited value range. Great project!

Another attempt, full page this time. I tried to organize myself, with 4 steps: - lines - separation between shadow and light, trying to think about the design of shapes - a stamp pass to soften some edges and to start to work on halftones - and a very very long last step trying to model shadows and halftones (and an evening to fill the black background)

Here are my level 1 and level 2 projects and it really took a long time, almost 5 hours each! I tried to design each shape, however small it be, as interestingly as possible to the best of my current ability. I struggled most with maintaining ‘the dance’ of 2D composition along with depicting 3D forms. In level 1, which I did first, I started with thinking only about the 2D composition and kept changing shapes and values here and there but later found it a bit difficult to conform them into 3D forms. In level 2, I tried to think about both simultaneously and it seemed to be easier. But I do find my shape design in my level 1 project more appealing. So, my question is what should be the ideal way to proceed with this? What should be a priority in the beginning at least, the 2D shape and value compositions or 3D form depiction ?

Level 2 .. I work hard to get this result around 6 hours … I hope to be in the critique video!

2 attempts at designing value groups. This exercise was an opportunity for me to put @Michael Hampton 's Head Drawing and Construction course into practice 😉. So I started by studying the structure of the head, then I related that to the light direction and the shading. And I tried to design all of this with today's lesson in mind. I first separated the shadows from the light, then I went into the details and nuances. I didn't have the courage to work on a whole page (for fear that it would take too long), but it is true that it bothered me a little in the details