Practice Creating Value
What is Value?
Value is how light or dark a shade is on a scale of white to black. It’s how we understand how something looks around us. The shade helps portray if something is flat or round. Understanding value is easier to understand if you make your own value scale.
The Value Gradient
A value gradient shows a gradual transition of tones from light to dark. If you examine a black-and-white photo, you can place the value of anything in the scene somewhere along the gradient.
But the range of values in a black-and-white image can be overwhelming! The scope of possibilities is almost endless.
To “see” shapes of different tones, artists must simplify a subject even further…
You can make your own value scale using graphite pencils. It doesn’t matter which brand you use, just use what you have. Use pencils with different values, look at the numbers written on your pencils. The lightest graphite pencil I use is the 2H and the darkest is the 8B. H stands for hard and B stands for black. The harder the pencil lead is the lighter the pencil and the softer the pencil lead is the darker the pencil. To create a smooth graphite layer it’s easier to shade with a softer pencil lead, that’s why I usually start the shading with the HB or 2B pencil instead of a lighter one like the 2H
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