Fixing up the values to be a bit more precise. Can be hard to really see the subtle differences in values. More practice needed!

I see now that the neck folds are still too light and the edges are too sharp defining the shape in between the brightly lit ear and the face. I could likely darken the left side of the face a little more too.

Hi Morgan, Created a new drawing for squint values, more accurate. Thanks for critiquing last drawing.

squint values attempt

Hi Morgan, Got going and forgot to take photo of progress, my drawing for values.

I was surprised to see squinting at the background anchored the subject and gave the sketch some movement

Here is my HW assignment for the values portion. Decided to stop while I was ahead -- felt like I was starting to make some dicey moves. Excited to keep going!

Hello Morgan, my drawing for squinting for values part. I'm used to putting in edges before halftones, so got my stages a little mixed up

Squinting - values

Here is my assignment for values. Please ignore the noise in the shadow inside the hat area. It is my old printer that made the paper wrinkly. Thank you.

Started from scratch after realising I scribbled too much over my shape study, values are a bit better here too