Week Three focused on value, how light and dark something is, and laying down smooth swatches. The first exercise created three- and five-value scales of graphite and charcoal pencils without and with blending. You can see the difference blending makes to the same medium. In addition to graphite and charcoal, I opted to use a colored pencil for the non-black swatches.
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| Week 3 exercise 1 |
The second exercise was creating a more accurate value scale that moved up in value proportionally. In this case, it's an eight-step scale, with an empty swatch and seven swatches up to the darkest value. I actually did it twice, the first one using the 2B pencil I used for the first exercise, but I didn't like how it turned out. The range wasn't appropriately varied, a bit too dark. So I did it again with the charcoal pencil, which is what I post below. I ran into the same problem. My reviewer pointed out that my set-up for the scale was off, so I could redo it after changing the set-up so it can have a better first, lighter first value.
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| Week 3 exercise 2 |
Exercise Three combines the first two by using the measured value scale to adjust the scales created in the first exercise. As you can see, while I was able to adjust them, the limited values meant the revised swatches are closer in value than they should be.
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| Week 3 exercise 3, non-blended swatches |
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| Week 3 exercise 3, blended swatches |
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