Making Values from Scratch

I found making light to dark values out of the same basic patterns to be fascinating. I've done similar things while studying pen and ink drawing. Some of these patterns became more and more awkward, the darker I made them, but that was part of the fun. I see it would be possible to add quite a few more levels.  I will go back and do more on first part of this assignment soon. I completed these two drawings while sitting on a bench in an out of door museum in Oakhurst on a perfect morning at the beginning of this week: no wind, warm but not too warm, nice smell of drying leaves.

This is another assignment that I need to work more on. These were my two tangerines for my morning snack and I confess I ate them before I could sketch them more. I did try to just draw the shading and not the outlines, but there wasn't a direct enough light source for there to be combinations of shadows beside the fruit. My daughter and I have a plan to make some basic shapes and practice sketching them in this same manner, so it is another project to be continued. It did make me see the importance of the deep shade that ran under the two tangerines, and how they were differentiated from each other by the shadow of the left one on the right one.

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NOTE: This study is from an online design class I am taking with Lyric Kinard called The Artist's Toolbox, part 1. Information on the next offering of this class can be found here: https://app.ruzuku.com/courses/34574/about.