Well here's the real test of my value assignment submission. Not enough separation in the shadow family. I kept adding black to pull the core and occlusion shadows out more. Got a bit sloppy. When I added to the core, it'd pull from the halftone. I also tried to soften the edge between the halftone and average light with my finger as I've seen @Morgan Weistling do. It exposed the average light beneath the halftone and I tried to fix it with a brush. Is there a trick to softening with a finger?

SUBMITTING 2 ASSIGNMNTS HERE. STILL HAVE THE GRID PORTRAIT TO COMPLETE. The grid is new to me. seems restrictive but at same time helpful to the structure accuracy and keeping me on target. in this 1st lesson i dropped a line and eyed it.. reworked lines a few times, attempting to get it in right place. thanks!

I have done spheres in the past which were simply duplications of the instructor's reference. You have made this make sense. Rather than memorizing terms, I now know the terms and understand the terms. I get the purpose now. I think I can do a better job because I now know what is going on. I can't believe that all these years (30) I haven't picked up on this better. Thanks.

Hi, here is the exercise. Thanks

heck this is such a wonky lookin sphere

Not sure if I submitted assignments in the right place. Will resubmit.

Here is my sphere assignment.