Two value drawing

Use these tips to develop your "artist's eye" and make the most of your value sketches.

As we step out of figure/ground drawings (positive/negative drawings) we progress into the VALUE drawings that builds 3 Dimensional space on a 2 dimensional surface. You will have several drawings this next week to complete. The Unmade Bed Drawings (One finished at the next Critique) The Paper Bag Drawings (One finished at the next Critique) The Egg Drawings (Done in your sketchbooks) The Value Chart Drawings (Done in class and in your sketchbooks.) These type of drawings create the illusion…

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This post follows on from last Saturday's, which was the beginning of some simple exercises with cubes painted in the Munsell neutral scale. Simple in that all I've done so far is paint three cubes, but I have a feeling that it was one of the most useful exercises I've done yet with regard to tone.

'value cubes' (SRJC) in High key & low key value range

Value is a term we use to refer to lights and darks, which are arguably the most important of all the visual elements. Without value variations we could not even see the subject - in pitch black or blinding light or even thick gray fog, for example, we see nothing.

Quick Composition Sketches with Values by Klaudia BezakHere are some quick composition sketches I've created this month. Here are ones with different values not only black and white.

Rafael R. in AZ: three value studies - 2 value, 5 value, 9 value.