Pax's Progress

[Pax]

Pieces 4-6/7 for my IB art portfolio. Can't wait to finish these and actually get to studying, so I stop churning out garbage. Albeit, these pieces have been seriously eye opening on how much my composition in tandem with values and my usage of values needs work. Looking forward to seeing some serious improvements in those areas with some serious study of value in a macro and micro sense.

Seriously considering redoing the values top down for the first two with a softer pencil and greater attention to the value range; I feel as if my values are way too muddy and concentrated in the center to be effective at moving the eye or effectively illustrating the element of the scene that I am trying to.

Also, I have no materials for painting aside from watercolor and printer paper (which I believe is a disaster waiting to happen). Is it time to make the leap to digital, or should I keep working in traditional and get those fundamentals in check? Keep in mind that all I have for traditional is conte and a few 2B pencils; should I invest in some oil/acrylic paints and focus on values that way or attempt digital with an emphasis on learning how to deal with value properly?