very difficult. i was sticking to the refference too much.

Here is my painting. Epiphany's I ran into: I thought that I have to split every material into ints own value range and avoid the values of one material from going into the value range of the other. This gets harder, the more materials are in the painting. But in reality you have to split it into "bright materials" and "dark materials" and keep these values seperated. Another epiphany: I split the value ranges evenly. But my area of interest should have the strongest contrast and therefore the biggest value range. The less detailed areas can have smaller ranges. Also: I had to adjust the double edged brush for me, because in my settings the soft edge was dependant on the direction of the stroke - not on pen rotation. I welcome any critique to become better :) Next one: The dude's face.

Didn't used a soft brush at first but it was a great challenge to limit myself to this brush afterward. And I saw that I didn't replicate well the pattern too late in the process, so I sticked with what I had. Please do not look at hands.

Did my best

Putting all the finicky details on an extra layer is a really good suggestion to keep things organised.

I tried this one in color too.

It took me seven hours to finish the exercise, I took a little liberty on the face, but I’m sure no one will notice.

This was very challenging. It took me a lot longer than the first greyscale assignment, but I’m glad that I didn’t give up. I really like this course so far. I'm learning a lot.

I got a lot closer on this attempt, still a tough one.

I tried a figure painting with some drapery, i'm using photoshop with a wacom intuos...some critiques?

Had a lot of fun on this one. Painting fabric became really interesting and even relaxing when I realized I didn't need to stress about getting every detail correct. Still couldn't nail her left eye to a degree that I was satisfied with, so I hastily put an eye patch on her and called it a day. I felt like I got what I needed out of this assignment anyway.

I think I'm going to try this again, I got the jist of it from my 1st attempt but I can see that I need to practice drawing some figures via PS b4 I give it another go. You're just using the hard round brush for sketching in PS correct?

Some good, some bad from this one. Learned a fair amount, and had to push a lot of comfort zones, but still lacking some of the finer skills to really pull it together.

Finally done with this one after two days intense studying all the tips and tricks from Jon’s lesson.

Thanks for the lesson! My work: