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

Updated

Top, before demo bottom, After demo

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.

Added some more shadows after watching the demo. Before and after.

Here are my attempts from before watching the demo compared to after: Before: After:

So, when indicating shadow/highlight with line weight, it's contrast we're after and not strictly where we see dark and light tones? Areas with high contrast are indicated with darker lines despite not being the darkest values while some other areas with dark shadow but little contrast are done lighter?

From left to right, First attempt at light and shadow, middle 2nd attempt, and finally 3rd attemp with different light source. Feedback welcome.

before and after

Further redo after watching the demo. Any further critiques would be appreciated thanks.

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