Level 1 challenge! 1. Two value study on Cornwell's. 2. Two value study on Zorn's 3. Two value study on Joaquin's but it doesn't look good, so... 4. I tried it again with three values(2B and 6B), Charcoal. I made the 4 x 3 inches thumbnail for this but it might be too small as value training.

Level 2 It was really fun but the result looked messy XD (blots on 1 and 6 are glue I accidentally got there) Level 1 challenge: https://www.proko.com/s/Ha9c

1. Sunset 2. Mysterious light from above 3. Morning 4, 5, 6. Reference scenes and a photo I used to study. Here’s a warm-up I did before those assignments: https://www.proko.com/s/JANN

I wonder when is the deadline, but I created three paintings first as warm-ups anyway: 1-1 The animal in a dark room with pale ambient light from the left side. 1-2 Sunset light through a window. 2 1 Very cloudy mountains. I'll post to try other lighting situations later!

Level 1 Eleven values with graphite (HB, 2B, 4B, 6B, and 10B) and ten with markers(COPIC Cool Gray 1, C3, C5, C7, and black) Filling squares evenly with markers is hard, I see some blots in these values. I also have difficulty in taking good photos with a smartphone!

6 values with graphite and there values with charcoal. Making value with charcoal is always hard!

(1) Another warmup(monochromatic ball) (2) Complementary palette (3) Split complementary palette (4) Double split complementary palette (5) The reference I used was N.C. Wyeth's work, "Leaping from Rock to Rock in Sheer Delight" The Orangish yellow ball(1) looks tasty for some reason. I don't like how (2) and (3) turned out. Maybe my choice of colors wasn't good, I failed to handle texture brushes, or I focused on details too much and lost the balance of colors/light and shadow. I'll do those challenges again. The series was fun, and I feel what I learned in this course has already, and will improve my color skills significantly. Thank you, Marco! Previous post: https://www.proko.com/s/T4jP

Part 1 0. The first challenge. I painted this after watching Monochromatic Palette Basics In July. 1. Cold green light with a warm gray shadow. It looks ghostly, magical, or ill. 2. Warm gray light with a cold blue shadow. I tried to make gray relatively warm but it doesn't look so, hmm. I feel this sphere is peaceful or logical. It's also more dramatic than the green one. I'll work on Part 2 tomorrow!

The demo and the example Marco created in it look amazing. I never knew a limited palette could produce such a fun work. I want to master it, but I feel it would take 10 years or more. I'll post assignments this weekend.

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