Category: 3) Team Value Drawing

All 36 drawings together. Above is the high-resolution pencil version, and the one below is the pen rapid hatching version. Click them open and zoom in to see your pieces in context with their neighbors. The value and resolution differences between them is inevitable but makes the image interesting in a different way.

Note also the overall difference between the “complexion” of the pencil version and the ink version.

The image is a painting by Georgia O’Keeffe, called Jack-in-Pulpit, No.2, 1930, Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

Here it is in black and white, which you worked from:

And the original, in color:

Good value relationships but all values are altogether darker. The darkest spots, at the lower left and right should be nearly black. You’re exaggerating the differences in the lower right. Those forms are there but they’re almost imperceptibly different.

Lower right is perfect but all of the other values should be much darker. The lightest shape in this one, in the lower left, is much darker than the white of the paper.

Good,  but darkest areas should be darker.

Good, but needs to be categorically darker. The lightest values in yours are comparable to the white of the paper but should be much darker. Even the very lightest value here doesn’t rival the white of the paper.

Good job on the lower left. The triangular shape on the right upper half should be the same darkness or very close to that. You need more contrast along that “breaking wave” shape by sharpening the edge and darkening the value that borders it there. Very top shape is too light and needs more hatching in multiple directions.

Upper left corner is darker. There’s a dark shape like a leaf and a stem in the upper half that needs to be more unified. You’re breaking it up into too many sub-values and sub-shapes, when in the reference it’s more unified. There are differences in it but they never overtake it’s unity and simplicity as a shape.