Submission for assignment - squinting for shapes, values and edges.

Hi Morgan, This is my submission for assignment - squinting for shapes.

Hi Morgan, This is my submission for Skin mixing chart assignment. I also have two questions. Q.1: How do you decide the intensity of skin tones ? When I try to mix realistic looking skin tones, the chroma gets too low and if I try to mix skin tones with a little more chroma, it starts looking cartoonish. Q.2: I'm not sure if it is discussed later in the course or not but in your example, you did a little hue shifting in case of halftone. I came across this term not too long ago but I have seen that it makes the transition of a color from light to dark more natural. Like in your example, the halftone leans towards Red and your average light leans towards Yellow. When I try doing this, my halftone either starts looking too Red (Not in the same hue family as average skin tone) or if I don't add Red, the transition from Average light to Halftone doesn't look natural (I think due to lack of hue shifting). I tried shifting hue but your's look way more natural and correct. p.s. Please tell me what I should add to my current mixtures to make them better. Please help, if I get this, I'll be able to color properly.

Hi Morgan, This is my value scale assignment. In skin tone mixing lecture, you said that shadows won't be affected by the temperature of light. Going by that logic, I kept the values of my shadows unchanged and only darkened my light values for subdued lighting. Everyone seem to lighten their shadow values for subdued lighting. But if the lighting is dull, it should have even darker shadows. In case of bright light, the bounce light will also be brighter which should lighten the shadows. This is just my logic and I might be totally wrong. Your words will be final. Thanks.

Can I use Hair spray as fixative ? I use hair spray on pastels and it works.

Hi Morgan, Words are not enough to thank you for this course. I have watched lessons till intermediate portrait section and then decided to begin the assignment. The amount of knowledge you have shared here surpasses any other course online. And yet there is so much more to learn. I'll wait for your advance courses. Meanwhile, this is my submission for 1st assignment.