Tried doing this one digitally which is new for me. Other than figuring out the brush and some line inconsistencies, I think that I struggled to communicate shadow in some areas on the light and shadow trace. I'm open to any advice

The first one is Line Weight Hierarchy, and the second one is Light and Shadow. I appreciate any advice.

1. Light and shadow 2. Hierarchy of importance light and shadow was definitely a bit longer then the Hierarchy of importance one since I really did have to vary the line and had to squint really hard for the wrinkles. Hope it reads well :)

The light and shadow method was really hard. Had a lot of fun experimenting between finding the shadows and finding the biggest contrast. With the changing backround it was definiteöy tough.

My first attempts before the demo. I don’t have access to a printer right now so had to do these digitally which I find a little awkward. Would much prefer to stick with pencil and paper as that is the main medium I want to work with. Hopefully I can get printed copies soon to try attempt number 2.

Importance and light. This was so helpful, isolating this skill

First one is importance and the first one is light. I'm happy with the first one. Second one I don't like the heavy mark on the back of the rhino. Minus that I'm happy with it.

Here's my attempt at applying line weight according to the lighting... it was really tough trying to still communicate the shape of the rhino while thinking about the lighting. In particular, at parts that were bright but were immediately adjacent to a dark spot (i.e. the head, and then under the head), I had difficulties deciding whether or not to use less weight to communicate the brightness, or more to show the clear separation.

These are my second attempts. I also changed the lighting angle in the first linework. Not quite sure how I did, so I would be happy to get a comment on the work I did 👀👀

Project - Organizing Line Weight - Hierarchy of importance & Shadows and light direction

Starting with my first attempt of hierarchy of importance, at times I tried simplifying lines a bit to much for example the leg closest to the camera I simplified to a straight and an s curve even though there was more variety in the drawing Stan provided us with. Stan also mentioned to try having more variety in your lines to make you drawing feel more organic, I interpreted this as in my lines transitioning from thick to thin although I’m not sure if that’s what he meant. Lastly to make lines feel lighter they don’t necessarily have to be thinner in comparison to the surrounding lines. You can convey lighter lines through value as well and how I understood this is that it comes down to the contrast between your lines soft vs sharp, dark vs light and thick vs thin. For organising line weight bye light and shadow I didn’t quite understand what Stan mentioned about contrast between forms and light and shadow. And I’m generally unsure about both of my attempts after watching the demos if I clearly conveyed the ideas of organising line weight bye a hierarchy of importance and light and shadow. For me personally i think i didn’t exaggerate the the concepts or ideas enough. i also took different photos some i took with my my phone and the others i used a scanner it would be great if any one could let me know wich ones they prefer and find easier to critique. critiques are always welcome.

Wasn’t quite sure how to handle the light and shadow lines on the side of the rhino that is mostly in the light (this is before watching the demo) - at any rate here’s my first shot at this.

Level 2

Here we go

I suspect that I missed something with this exercise. Off to watch the demo for the “ah-ha” moment…

This was a fun exercise, not watching out for proportions :-). Never realized the difference it could make and invites to experiment with this.

my attempts left to right. The first I did on my own the second and third were with the demo.

living room. just experimentation with depth method

These were more difficult than expected. In both cases I wasn't entirely confident about where I placed the heavy lines. I also wasn't sure how light to make the light lines. I think I may have made them too light? I need to checkout the demos and critiques now.