Hi Vue, I just wanted to say I was inspired by your next-level shading skills and used your work as a reference to create my own exercise page. Thanks so much for sharing! I have a question about edges. How do you get the edges of your shapes so precise while keeping the shading so uniform? For me, when I wanted to sculpt the edge of one of my shapes, I found I often had to change the direction of my pencil strokes, which sometimes messed up the shading. In your shapes the shading is so uniform, it doesn't look like you're changing the direction of your pencil at all - or am I wrong? Thanks again!

It looks textured, kind of like pointillism. Is that just the texture of the paper coming through?

How did you get the lighter effect?

I've been trying to get 10 values from a 2B Pencil, + 1 (White) . I'm not sure if I'm blindsiding myself into thinking these values graduate from one to another or if some are the same. I realise there should be no transition line as such between values as they should blend. from on to the other. I’ll keep at it. After a while focusing on the values them your eyes go cross-eyed! 0. I started with White (Paper colour). 10. Next I layered 10 as dark as I could. 1. I Shaded value 1 off white. 5. I then compared 1 and 10 to get value 5. 3. Next compared 1 and 5 to get value 3. 2. Then compared 1 and 3 to get value 2. 9. Value 9 I shaded slightly lighter than value 10. 7. Compared values 9 and 5 to get Value 7. 6. Next compared values 5 and 7 to get value 6. 8. Then comparing 7 and 9 to get value 8. Lastly, I trying to bring them together with putty eraser and more layered shading as explained in the video. I think it means I can get 10 values from a 2B pencil but not sure how to do this shading from values 1 to 10 in order cleanly. Any shades of advice would be great, thanks.