I was a little hesitant about posting at first, but once i decided to go for it, i realized it was the best choice. It put me in a mindset of accountability and allowed me to complete the assignment to the end. One thing that helped me was establishing the color for each tone and literally creating a legend for each of them. Whenever i had doubts or felt confused, i would look at the tones and then at the drawing to figure out the best way to communicate the form of the subject i was trying to draw. It wasn’t easy at all, but it allowed me to create a thumbnail in a way i most likely wouldn't have thought of otherwise. I’m looking forward to your feedback.

Definitely challenging to group areas together and resist the natural inclination add details. Really interesting to simplify a whole scene into just three values. Loving the course so far. Really excited for the journey ahead!

Here is my value study. This was an interesting and challenging assignment. I enjoyed it, even though I got caught up a bit in the details and had to make myself stop adding more information that wasn’t relevant.

Here is mine. I did watch The Third Man before starting and it was a great lesson on values. Especially the opening. Values is a subject I am always wrestling with lately. But after a bit of trepidation I gave it a shot.

Took a 3 weeks leave from drawing and man was this rough as a first assignment. Cold turkey like that I was having so much trouble just simplifying things and I won't comment on keeping the values consistent. Will maybe do this again at a later date, want to get on with the course since I just can't seem to get on with my personal projects.

hopefully not reposting this but it doesn't look like me first one went through. i found this project really useful and thought provoking as someone who tends to struggle with having clear value distinctions in their work.

While consistently hearing about the importance of value studies and playing with lights and shadows this was an aha moment for me. although I feel that I didn't commit to the inversion of the tones.

Just removed some things here, thought it'd read better this way!

I find it very interesting what colors and values do for an image. I also would like to learn to work with limited colors, because there is often something powerful and graphic about it. It feels unnatural to make trees red or skin yellow (or grey as with this assignment), but the result can still work or be interesting.

I've never done an exercise like this before, and I have to admit it can be quite confusing at times, but here's my attempt.

Hello, here is my submission for this assignment. I did the first one while following along with the lecture and then tried again with the second one, referencing ever so often, while with the last one I tried my best to finish it first before looking back at what I did before. I did have difficulties figuring out where to place what value to make the picture read better while also trying to keep the shapes simple and clean, avoiding rendering. Since abstraction is something I struggle with, I will definitely keep trying. This exercise was challenging for me, but I enjoyed it.

Unfortunately I struggle with finding the time, but it was a lot of fun

A really fun exercise ! Im definitely going to keep doing this as practice

Here are some variations I did of one of the frames that was provided. I wish I had been able to flesh them out in more detail but I got distracted from the course by some life events. But I am recommitting to doing these lessons every day before working on my own projects.

One of the reasons I took this course was the recognition that I need to do more preliminary work when I tackle a project. To that end, I'm trying to incorporate what we're learning here into some of the projects on my to-do list. Here is the progress on a Superman cover that I'm working on. The first image is the original thumbnail followed by the value study options.

Gave it another try:

I tried putting the bugs and the field higher up in the hierarchy because I think they are important to the story, but I might’ve made it confusing and now I’ve looked at it for too long to be able to tell if it’s successful or not. Feedback appreciated :)

I noticed when I was done with this and checked out the video one more time that I have only use three values, instead of four. I guess I made the challenge even more difficult in some ways. The first version was the hardest. It really goes against intuition to do white cast shadows, and that I guess is what is great with these kind of exercises.

This is definitely a habit I need get into my workflow. Too often I develop one solution and do with it rather than slowing down a little and exploring options.