Bjulvar's Sketchbook

[MrFrenik]

Good stuff, man. For your value studies, you might be better of actually sticking with 4 or less (Howard Pyle stated that your image isn't good if you have to use more than 3 values to make it read!) But try it with 4: 2 lights and 2 darks, and constantly be thinking about planes. Treat your painting as if you're sculpting, always aware of your side/front/bottom/top planes. Remember that for any 3Dimensional object you'll only see 3 sides of it at any one time, such as with a box. It also might be helpful to do value studies of simplified geometrical objects before you really hit hard with your complex forms. Keep up the hard work.