My attempt for the first photo reference. After a while I started to lose a sense of how much contrast the image had and wasn't sure if I it was too contrasty or not enough. Same with the overall brightness. After viewing it on multiple devices, like my phone and computer monitor I got even more confused! I also think I overworked it and started looking at small details too much. Any feedback is appreciated. I'm looking forward to painting the other three references.

This was my favourite assignment of the course so far. I think I messed up a lot of the proportions and values but I'm still happy with how most of them turned out. I love the way my sheet of thumbnails looks as a whole. It's very inspiring to see how these great compositions can be boiled down to these tiny thumbnails and 3 values. This was a very valuable exercise for me.

I had to take a picture from an angle to avoid the reflection of the light. The darkest block on the left is super reflective. I used a 4B and 2B pencil.

This was a lot of fun. The first two pages without numbers were from imagination. The rest are from reference. After torso number (9) I watched the critique video. From 10 to 18 I tried to exaggerate the gestures.

This Proko tool is super helpful for simplifying values! https://www.proko.com/values

Enjoyed this one a lot. I feel like perspective boxes are slowly starting to become more intuitive. This feels like a tremendously useful skill to have.

This was harder than I thought it would be. I think a lot of boxes ended up wedge shaped.

First three attempts. The boxes were very helpful for the first two. For the third one I really only used the centre line to position the features of the face and then drew from observation. The guy's hair is so puffy it was hard to think of it being in perspective.