Lilly's Sketchbook

[Adam Lina]

Nice studies. If I understand you correctly, you're copying the study from a color into black and white? Thats a good way to improve your eye for judging values. Another way to switch an image to B&W is to make a layer over top of the other layers and fill it with a black box and switch the layer to color mode. This make all the layers below show through in black and white with the correct values. That way you can hide that layer to switch back to color and only use the black and white to check your values.