That s truly inspiring to me, now I want to do more of these... In the last thumbnail of the demo, I start seeing the subtle difference between values in the painting now. Thank you very much for the demo and the painters that you introduced in this assignment.

Um sorry for the long passage, but I am struggling, lol I am attempting to go with the flow for the value thumbnail, coz I am still not sure which value in the painting = which value in the black and white scale. At first I did the edgar payne's one, I think I am doing it without much thought to it, simply copying every shape in the pic... Later I tried Zorn's painting, coz I am more familiar with drawing people, so I felt great with the flow when doing it. The last one is Richard schmid's one, Just tried to see if any improvement after seeing some of your submission. But nah, drawing nature scene seems too random, and did I block the flow in the painting that guide viewers' eyes? I am also amazed by the shape design in the painting (nature scenes), but not sure how to do that? I have to say, doing value block in is funnnnn, even though it s difficult so far. Heading on to watch the demo next.

Played around with bringing shapes forwards and pushing them back and then added some water for the final one...

This isometric optical illusion assignment was actually pretty fun, even though it took a lot of focus and really made my brain work!

ok I almost forgot to submit my work. Spend quite some time to understand the isometric illusion. The more rough ones are sketch stage 1, the digital ones re sketch stage 2. the 1 st pic is my study, the 3rd pic is something I try to play with., Quite honest I feel like the canvas is my playground in this project. It s easy to understand but hard to apply, thankfully I made it through.

Lvl 2 project with demo. Any feedback appreciated!

Thx for the advice Stan, The graphite one is definitely something that I am proud of, although the 0 and 1 could be done better. The airbrush one is not a trick or what, I just use it like a pencil, use the pure black (value 0) and use pressure to adjust the value, things got me confused is that it s hard to make the value consistent... Anyone have the experience on using that?

The project is harder than I expected, keep going back and forth to adjust the value for graphite. Used HB and 7B to do it, the dark side of the scale is really difficult, I got confused about 0 (darkest) and 1. Tried some new tools coz I think I am going to use them in the future. A fine liner and procreate. How do you present a value 0-10 when ink is pure black...? Also tried airbrush in Procreate, I knew there were other ways to do value assignments digitally, but I really wanted to figure out the airbrush mechanism. Does anyone have experience using it? It just kept creating this stain-like effect... By the way, I love the new update on proko web

This looks really cool, and before I say anything I want to mention I'm far earlier into the Drawing Basics course then you are, so my opinion may be less valuable. I really like the line weight for most of the drawing, and how the brush obviously has hierarchy over everything else, but to me the sheer difference in heaviness between the brush and the foot make them look disconnected. So I would try to add some sort of flow and ease into the heaviness in the brush's line weight. Of course line weight is subjective so if you think it looks better that way then that's also fine!

Hey Brandon, I like the concept of your drawing, very surreal. What I noticed is that the torso is too short and the head is too big. Also, you need to have more foreshortening in the limbs, especially the legs. I did a sketch to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)