12-05-2013, 09:21 PM
The simple value studies are great practice, man, so good job on that! Don't forget to include your background as a part of the image as well. How we create edges on a form is how we "frame" our objects using the things in front of and behind it - in this instance being the background. Playing with gradations and different value patterns (black/white on grey, white/black on grey, grey/white on black, etc) we can get a lot different ways to play with values and edges.