Felt a bit frustrated by this one, I feel like I got the main gist of it right but wasn't able to capture some of the complexities the way Stan does.

I decided to redo this assignment after watching the demo because I felt like I saw a lot of room for improvement. I think I was a little too timid the first time so I made sure to add more variety in my line value and thickness. If anyone has any critiques I’d really appreciate!

2nd attempt after watching the demo

Maybe is to light?

Before and after watching the demo. It's an improvement but I'm still not sure I quite get it. I tried to show contrast with line value and shadow with line width but I don't thin I quite succeeded. I'll have to come back to it again at some point

Feeling very proud of this rhino with the light and shadow attempt, might start posting projects using what I learned from here that I’m proud of too!

Decided to practice line weight with some additional references

Here’s my attempt with pencil. I usually practice an exercise over and over, which is why I’m only on this lesson after being in the course for close to a year now. But then I start looking elsewhere for details on proportions and time to chug along through this course, I think, despite the fact that every exercise I could spend countless repetitions on and gain so much from each one.

I feel much better after watching both videos. Helped me understand how to use contrast for line weight in light and shadow! Hoping I made some improvement!

I feel like this might be a bit of a dumb question but I'm confused about this contrast concept. Would this also be okay? (it's the opposite of what Proko did) Idk if that's how it works but I choose to emphasize the shadow of the body in the head. And the light of the background in the leg.

This is my light and shadow attempt after watching the demo. This was definitely more challenging than the other one, but it was fun nonetheless :)

After demo

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Light & Shadow before and after demo

Struggled with this assignment. Here is my initial attempt. The one on the right is with the demo.

Tried the light and shadow version again after watching the demo. Using different line values and widths was key. I’m much happier with the result although I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more attention that could be paid.

Practice makes progress. I can see how the pencil being sharp v. a little dull makes a big difference in the line weight. I have a hard time working from the sharp (dark?) clean lines to the soft (light) squishy lines. I find that I am going back over the same lines a few times to try and ‘clean’ them up and that’s not helping. I have a few more print outs left, so I will do this one a few more times.

Left: before demo Right: after watching demo light and shadow. By far the hardest exercise to me compared to the hierarchy of importance. I watched stan demo twice to understand how he is choose his line width and saturation. I tried my best on the second attempt, something just feels off to me, what do you guys think? feedback is always welcome! :)

First attempt before watching the demo. Happy with how it turned out overall.