This was trickier than I thought. Quite fun tho :D

Definitely could use some fixes but it's surely a improvement from where I was before

Seems, after takeing my pictures, I always see my mistakes, fix, retake, fix……. And then they look too over worked, and not that good….. I feel, I'm not satisfied, and want to redue the assignments again, and again….. Any suggestions?

This exercise was a lot of fun even if it messed a bit with the shading and planning order. I realized that I erroneously used white, the color of specular highlight, as the fourth and lightest color during planning. This was because I got a bit confused by the four-value instruction after getting used to working with five values. I should've just forgotten about the specular white, even though it's technically the "fifth", lightest and last value to be put down. I adjusted this misunderstanding as I went along the four stages and it turned out just fine.

Here are my shaded creatures. I followed the steps, and I do feel they look more realistic than what I have drawn before. Although my digital drawing skills are still very limited…(I am still trying to find a suitable brush to use in krita.)

here's my assignment submission. This helped me of breaking my bad habit of jumping all over the place when shading. Any feedbacks/critiques will be greatly appreciated.

Here's my shading creatures assignment. I was so much into it that I combined steps 3 and 4 in...step 3.

I found this a really helpful assignment, and I was able to identify that I struggle the most with reflected light, like determining where it would be strongest.

I messed up the notan version a bit, but no big deal.

I don't have a printer so had to do everything by hand, hope it's ok!

This is with graphite 2H and 2B on regular computer copy paper

I found this harder than I would have guessed. Pretty cute idea for an assignment.

Shading Creatures (II). Does anyone know if there will be a 2nd round with critiques from Dorian?

Shading Creatures (I)

Here's my first attempt.