Here is my level 1 and 2. This was fun!

It is hard to squint and get a good blur. But someone here said that if you use glasses, take them off for blur. And that works very good! 👍

I also need a Bowser figure to Hold my brush!

My problem was that my lightest tone was to dark. And the steps on my lighter Tones was to big. And my dark Tones was like one big dark value. I will do it again and use my new led i got. 2H. Before my lightest pen was HB. Had the same problem with my alkohol markers. Dont know how to make the lightest marker lighter. Maybe use a layer of uncolored alcohol first by using the blender. And use white colored pencil afterwards.

Hey thanks Stan for reviewing my value scale. Here is the sketch pad I used. And yes, it is a kneaded eraser. It's yellow, not green. Just very dirty! ;)

Now I have a reason 😁 to visit, my most fav place on earth.. 🫠 art store..

Here is my level 1 assignment. And it sure was a challenge. Using the markers in this excercis was alot Harper than i first thought. It was also a bit different to use them on sketchpaper also when the paper can not handel so much ink. I wash ended it up with a bit too dark light side and a a large middle that would be the same gray. iI used a black Brushpen to push the black darker. First value scale with markers was with my cold Gray markers and the second with my ice grey markers. On the last one i also used a white colored pencil to push the light side brighter. I will test level 2 for this later. But this was allready challenging how will it be to not see the other shades . Super difficult. Edit. I see it was some difficulty to take photo of the pencil row due to its shinyness that reflexs the light and effects the values. I will try tomorrow in daylight.

I took my turn at playing around with drawing—just making things up and taking some time to mess around in a childlike way. I hope it’s okay to post it here!

I combined several warm-up exercises and found that setting a clear goal alongside a brief definition of the skill I want to learn helps provide self-feedback and a clear target to aim for.thanks Stan

I tried to create a scale now that I have two extra pencils and I have some new learnings! I created two scales. Top one with 3 pencils (4B, 2B and HB) and a bottom scale with 5 pencils (4B, 2B, HB, 2H and 4H) It's really hard to get the value gradient smooth for 9 values. The pencils are different in hardness, but they have huge value overlaps. Meaning the lightest tone of 4B can still be lighter than normal pressure 2B. So to create the scale I had to apply a lot more pressure on the pencils in the darker end of the scale to push them further out. And at the same time use minimal pressure on the pencils in the lighter side of the scale to push them away in that direction. Only then was there enough "breathing room" in the center of the scale for the middle tone pencils. My previous presumption was that light pressure on 4B would still be darker than normal pressure 2B, but this is not the case. A lot of overlap in value ranges. What does it mean for me? I can't rely on my muscle memory of pressure and switching pencils if I am going to use 10 values. I will have to judge this by vision. Or I will have to just get more pencils and broaden the range of values I have available.