[john gray]

I signed up for the basic plan. Do I upload homework? I decided to anyway.  I’m not planning to change careers or go to art school.  This is a bucket list present to myself.  For what it’s worth, let me add that if I didn’t see the value of these exercises I’d curse the instructor and all his descendants for all eternity.  I discovered that I (expletive deleted) at seeing values.

I did most of the work after O dark hundred and it shows. Maybe it’s my eyes but the darker values were much harder to judge. Comparing the charcoal, 25% and 50% were pretty close but the 75% was too dark. It’s also very hard when there are multiple shadows. If you use two lights to reduce paper glare you get rather confusing shadows. Just looking around the rooms reveals multiple shadows of different depth with hard edges, soft edges.

I wonder if it’s a useful exercise to draw a rectangle continuously shaded from light to dark and seem how closely it matches a shadow scale.  I tried it and I tend to stay too dark reflecting the problems I had judging values in the exercises.

I accidently used 9 boxes instead of 8. Luckily that gives 12.5% steps so you get boxes at 24%, 50% and 75% .

 

 

 

 

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