My rendering skills are not there yet, but I am happy how this turned out! I learned so many amazing techniques from this lesson! <3

This was a great lesson. I have struggled with the value separations for a while now, when there is more than one material to consider. But this has added another tool in the box. I'll trying keying each material: local value lightest light and darkest dark, and work within that range: up from shadow, down from light. keeping the steps small, and adjusting when needed. Keep midtones subtle and account for the degree of plane changes. My biggest challenge is not the technical aspect of painting. it's the simplification and editing. But, with lectures and processes like this, with enough practice, I am confident that will come. I certainly get bogged down in trying to think about all the things while painting or drawing. The internal dialogue is cluttered and noisy that moment trying to keep track of it all, but again, with time, hard work, and not being too focused on a "pretty picture" but on the process, I will get there. And so will you, fellow student. And so will you.

this took forever but its the best drawing i did so far so thank u for that. Still i hope the next one will be a bit shorter.

Here is my exercise number 3. It was really complex. It took me several hours because I am also learning how to use the necessary Krita tools. It is a very rewarding process.

My Assignement 2. RG

My second grayscale image, the reference, and a wip shot. I’m happy with it overall, especially compared to my first greyscale images, but I can see that my drawing was off, particularly around the nose.

Tried with a similiar reference image. I think the talk about making choices and not copying everything 1:1 was very good, When practicing / doing daily reference exercise I always followed reference images completely and accepted weird looking part, because it has to be correct in the real image. Propably rushed too much and I would've done some parts differently in hindsight, but I think it's better to move forward.

Here is mine. It's not great, but I tried to add a bit of imagination while rendering. I have to study more how to draw clothes, I'm really not very good at it.

2h 15min later, i realized my resolution is making all my brush strokes look like crap. don't make this same mistake of just rolling with the default settings. couldn't even finish this one, it was so dissatisfying.

did it as accurately as possible to increase my observation skills. Use different texture brushes for cloth and skin. Any critics are welcomed

Another one!

Difficult but I am starting to get the hang of it. I am doing my best to make the hair and face look like a real portrait. Switching to the painting layout that provided a lot of swatches helped so much.

Third assignement. Painting the folds was a very interesting challenge!