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.

🧐Organizing Line weight study🧐

Made a second attempt to draw the light/shadow version. I think the tip of paying attention to contrast too, not just shade, helped.

After I watched the demo, I realized I didn’t make much variation but simplified it, which made it a bit plain and boring. I also forgot to emphasize the nostrils and ears, so this time I did. Not to forget, I completed the second project without fully understanding how light interacts with shapes and planes, but I tried my best to make it clear that the light was coming from below and to the left of the rhino. I really hope I did better this time, but if you have any suggestions or critiques, I’d be happy to hear and learn.

I really like how you can use line weight, but at the same time, there are so many variations that my brain stops braining :D Today, only an example before demo and following the demo. But I'm sure I'll post more examples in the next post. I just need to organize the knowledge because right now it's too confusing for me.

This one looks more alive but a hard decision

The left is line importance and the right is the light shadow line weight. i think im getting the idea. i tired it digtially the lines are kinda wobbly abit

Did this by myself the first time, then I did a second page following the video. I think the lighting improved a decent bit.

Left was pre demo, right was post demo. Overall, for this one, I felt the two images were similar, just that for the post demo, the lines were bolder and thicker and carried the idea of light and shadow more. In the future, I'll try to push the darkness and thickness of my lines, and I think that will make the images pop more

My light and shadow drawing but with different light source

Here's mine for the 'Light and Shadow' exercise:

So much value in this part about line weight! Here's my try.