Tyger sketches

[Tygerson]

Thank you Peter, neopatogen, Triggerpigking, Darantha, darktiste, and others for your advice on value.  I've spent a lot of time thinking about the advice each of you gave.

I'm sure this is all well understood among artists, but it helped me to organize my thoughts on how to get beautiful light in my paintings someday.  

The basic idea is that I broke "value" into several smaller skillsets.  Right now I need to emphasize form drawing (to understand the planes), simple still lifes (to understand light), and some anatomy (because it's a long haul to understand those forms).

If I'm missing something, or if you know good exercises I haven't thought of, I'd love to hear.