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.

Hey, I'm still struggling a bit with light and shadow values. Do you have more drawings *with the reference itself* side by side (like in the video) so I could see more examples of what to look for and what I am doing "wrong"? P.S. I tried looking online, but I don't really know what to search for in Google or if the thing I find is good (by a known master artist) or bad (that can teach me bad practices).

Took me until the end of the video to realize I had already kinda learned a little about the shading method of line weight. I could be wrong but I believe It was taught in the proko portrait course when we studied how to shade the ear. Separating cast and core shadows , it’s apart of shadow mapping.

My attempt at the rhino again after following the light and shadow video demo! Any constructive feedback would be great. Thank you!

@Stan Prokopenko I'm a bit confused about lines. First, in the other projects, you told us to draw with the whole arm or from the shoulder or elbow or wrist, and now in these line-weight ones you are doing very fiddly little lines using your fingers. Previously this was a no-no. Please explain? If you were drawing this rhino from scratch and not just tracing over it, how would you go about it if you wanted to include a hierarchy of line weights?