Tried again with procreate

My attempt to put lessons learned into practice. I wanted to use a different portrait because I found trying to do the example portrait after the demo and critique I was heavily influenced by Stans picture. I’m happy with my effort, again my proportions are off.

The biggest take away i had from the critics was " that the value range could get restrained and the light one could get extended " in order to give more interest to the focal point .

wow, these were very hard. I have to admit I find shading very tedious so it's no surprise how messy it is. I added some doodles of how wonky the faces looked like to me lol.

The posture isn't quite right, he has too much hair and his ear is too small, but I'm pretty happy with this.

I really need to make my shading cleaner. That was fun though.

Um, Venom Colin Firth…? Anyways. And yes I used 6 values. Ready to move on!

second attempt at the portrait exercise after watching the demo and critiques

Any tips for the portrait? I had some trouble organizing the values ;(

As a level 1 beginner, this portrait was a real challenge. I think one of the problems was my attempt to create a resemblance rather than focusing essentially on the light and shadows. I will reattempt to capture this portrait while concentrating on blocking out the five values.

Again I draw this long time ago and back to this course today. Is not my first time to draw portrait and also after the pear exercise. I am glad that the result is beautiful. Is still a very challenging to use only 5 tones to draw, maybe it’s not simplified enough.

Here are my homework

No idea if this is where I’m supposed to send my pics. But if it is please critique. Thx, Zig

Final attempt. Dunno if I improved upon the last one but Im gonna move on from this

Third attempt. Better than the others but the proportions of the eyes are off

Did 2 attempts plus one in pen. I honestly can't tell if I did better on the second attempt. The proportions are worse but the shading looks better

After completing the official assignment, I decided to tackle another portrait because I really wanted to understand this concept of shape simplification way more. I did not do this in 1 sitting. It took me a couple of days because I tried to do it digitally first, but I wasn’t happy with the progress. I decided to do it traditionally because the feeling of pencil on paper is just unbeatable. There a lot of things I would change and I still wanted to do to this, but I’m training myself to stop working on a drawing endlessly. I feel I could’ve pushed the values even more. There is a ton I still need to learn, and this assignment is really challenging! But I kinda feel I can move on to the next lesson…. (?) I doubt myself a lot so I’m working on that as well…. So, jumping to the next lesson isn’t easy 😮‍💨

well, in the very end sketch becomes something totally different xD second try after the critique

Feelin good about this not perfect but I think I stayed true to what you were asking for in terms of simplicity and tone

Hi, After watching the 2 critiques, this is my first attempt. Please give me some feedback on this.