Pat's sketchbook

[Percival]

Percival, nice improvement. Your portrait drawings are getting better. One area you need to watch is your value structure. For the most part, a lot of your portraits do not have a great value change from shadow to light. I am mainly seeing shadows and half tones but no lights and high lights. You could push it a little more to really emphasize the facial structures. Also something to keep in mind is how your values shift in relationship to the light source. So if your light source is hitting more of the upper portion of the face, the lower portion would be slightly darker in relationship because its getting less light (minuus reflected light).

You're right,

This lack of values is something I get alot from my peers, I'll paint with a more variariety of values from now on. This has to do with my comfort zone wich is boring grey flat use of values.

Anyways, spent another hour on this dude. Worked mostly on the eyes, after a while I felt like I was polishing a turd, gues I'll have to read a book or something on this subject.

Starting on a new one tomorrow with a more variariety of values ofcourse.
Time to get rid of these flat paintings!

Have a great day!