Leysan's Sketchbook

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Well a common technique to simplify value is to squint to group value by squinting you compress the value you see and you reduce the noise to bigger shape.Notan aren't about capturing pretty picture they are good to analyse how other artist create contrast in many way how they use value to bring attention to certain point in there composition how there positive and negative shape balance each other .Those are some example of what can be extracted from doing those type of study.

It up to you to try to extract some knowledge out of those study.One can do so many of them without intent and that a trap to avoid setting intention can be a great way to work toward a better understanding of some concept.Note taking can be as effective as doing notan in extracting knowledge from master but some people learn better by imitation they learn intuitively from doing will some other learn from observation.What i always encourage is a mix of both whatever make you retain the most information will be the way to go.

2 value notan are better suited for ink artist in my opinion will more than 3 value seem to be more valuable for most other type of artist.