I’ve tried to work out the value study based on the main shapes. I think I could have used a more convincing grouping or value distribution, but it was a fun exercise.

To be honest, I didn’t struggle with choosing the shading. My main challenge was letting go of the details and keeping things simple. It was also hard to avoid rending since I rely on it a lot when shading. I couldn’t finish the drawing within the time limit as you can see in the old lady, so I gave myself a few extra minutes to create a version that matched my vision.

Took some liberties with the boy and the wings. I like to wrap my head around the limited scale of greys - I usually just use black and white, so thats quite an interesting challenge ^^

The picture comes out more light than in reality. I drew with graphite pencils and tried to stay within the low key value range. I wanted to put the attention most on the watching woman, so I gave her more light and contrast. The horses I didn't want to stand out, and so I made them going up into the background. If I would spend more time to this, I would go more deeply into the darker darks. But I wasn't supposed to take more time than 1-1,5 hours ;-)

I finished today's assignment. It's a little bit roughly drawn, but I believe that composition and objects are distinct enough. I clipped darks and added more variation to the light values. On the second thought, maybe I should have to do the opposite, by clipping light value of the boy's costume to one and adding more variation in darks. But I guess it's just a matter of personal taste, there are a lot of ways to paint this image, depending on what you want to achieve.

I took a long break from this assignment as I was unsure how to approach it. Still not quite satisfied with the contrast of the limited values but a good challenge to solve with some knowledge from the previous assignment.

I had a lot of fun drawing all that. Super challenging to maintain everything coherent with such limited values.

This was a tricky one. I think it was good that the assignment photo was so different from the example so you couldn't really copy the approach. I could spend a lot longer working on this. definitely forces you to make choices.

This was way more difficult than I thought it would be!

This was extremely difficult. Really hard to manage such small value range. Here’s my assigment. Any feedback is more than welcome😅

Here is my attempt at this one. Tried to keep these values closer together on the lower end of the scale. It’s a constant battle to resist noodling on details. I can already tell that simplification and shape-welding are going to take a lot more practice.

This was a great exercise! I learned so many things from this class even in just a couple of lessons. I am looking forward to the rest!

it really forced me it something i wanted to explore. and from this i need to practice it more

My attempt for the assignment! I tried not to exceed an hour in this one as I did in the previous one and it helped not get into too much details!

This is a really cool assignment! Here’s my attempt. I tried to keep it simple and not spend too much time here.

I found it quite difficult. The photograph is super complex, and I didn’t work very efficient so it took me waaaayyyy longer. But it was a good challenge.

Here is my submission. I do not have tools to work digitally so this is hand drawn. I simplified the drawing a bit. Any critiques are most welcome!

Here’s my submission. I tried to form a triangle between the woman’s face and the child’s body, while keeping the lighting minimal, just enough to make the scene understandable.