For your first foray into an exploration of value (or the issue of light - dark perception), you will be creating a high contrast value study in the studio. This study will ignore subtle gradation or transitions in the shadows on your model, and you will instead see those shadows as solid shapes that help to define the mass or volume of your subject. You will be using ink to create these solid areas of shadow, created through the use of a single lighting source.
Here are a few student examples:
