Zizka's Sketchbook (Nudity and Vulgarity, NSFW)

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At step 3 you are possibly hurting your accuracy by overlaying.I don't know if you pick that method from one of my intervention but i think i have been pretty clear that this is a correction method it meant to be use at the end normally to check how good of a work you did with the lineart. It not to modify anything but to note where you have miss calculated it just a tool to check where you are in term of accuracy if you use it anywhere else it probably hurting yourself .Of course here i say it perfectly fine since you trying to go directly to the value part of the drawing so basicly it like your trying to speed run to a certain point of the fundamental.So if your intention was to go directly to value you could have skip 1,2 and directly go to overlay done the whole line art aspect aswell as using the overlay and than really start what you were interest to pratice which is step 7 to 9(value).

Here a perfectly good advise if you want to do what i call speed running a fundamental is to not take complex subject matter which slow you down to the point your interest in.For example your interest by value what i would suggest would be to just go google some lineart with black and gray value you than trace over the line art part then you keep the reference open and once your done with the line art you use the value of the reference to start praticing your hatching value pratice this would have no value this process i how i would approch dealing with hatching specifically.One other simple exercise would be more abstract but even more straight to the point you create a random shape and than you define the light intensity and direction. This one is a more advance technic that require understand of light which you have not really shown to much so far so it just to point out that the more you know the more you can refine your process.
Of course everytime i talk about speed running certain fundamental i have to remind people the importance of mixing fundamental so that they can acess where they stand when it come to putting it all together.