haha thank you I still have a long way to go though!

Wanted to share a head study I did:

Two studies on value! I'm planning to do about a dozen more of these (and through this also practice perspective when I get to houses and such), got motivated from listening to a professional artist's talk on youtube (ง •_•)ง And shoutout to Xybb for pointing out my value-weakness in a last post, thank you! (if you see this)

What I learned is to stick to the basic formula of dark, medium light--the dark values being concentrated in the closest area of land to the viewer. I might have struggled with that a bit, since the two photos I referenced from seem to have a lot of local values covering the floor, for instance.

it might be a bit too much to post 12 more of these here... oh heavens i don't know

Value study #3
aw man I'm already exhausted on my 4th one >_<

thanks dangras 😊

Thanks Lockenheim! I assure you, I am still a student; there's so much I don't know, especially since I want to become a professional artist in the film and game industry.

Value studies #4 and #5
I'm not really satisfied with my results, but oh well ;-; I get impatient and my brain gets fried often when I try to do the details. Almost every study took has been taking more than a day to complete. But of course, I was taking longer because I sometimes get very distracted ::>_<::

Thank you Xybb for the critque! The latest picture was indeed darker, and I guess tried to emulate that too much without really thinking much about how to distribute the values. Perhaps the pics I have also might not be the best, since I get confused from the lighting and local values.

Now that I look back to it, the pic for value 5 also had more darkness to the foreground. Oops! Thank you for the tips, they were helpful and I'll keep them in mind!

I can't anymore 🥲 The trees kinda look like blobs but have been really feeling that mental strain ( ﾉ ﾟｰﾟ)ﾉ I think I've been working on this painting alone for about 8 hours

I tried to pay more attention to making the midground and background of a similar, and lighter value. But for the reference, I found that light and local values kinda make the standard dark, medium, light value distribution a bit mixed. So I think I relied on more of the shadows to help me know that standard order of values. Hopefully it's evident that the darkest shadows are in foreground.

Which created a question: would shadows, or areas not affected by light, generally be a guide to how I should establish the "standard" values? This would be great to know if I were to create my own landscape. If anyone knows let me know! I'll prob search it up too later

value #6

Thanks Lockenhein! Will take a look

Took a whole day to complete one of the term 3 assignments ;-; Liking how the boxes fit with the muscles, although I messed up one of them unfortunately

Middle stage and final result: