Art Veggies - Values (Patreon)

I'm a bit out of order with posts, I hope you forgive me for that. I wanted to post Thursday (value studies) and Friday (color studies) together but I spent last weeks and this weeks Friday only reading up on color theory. If you are interested in getting into the topic, "Color and Light" by James Gurney is a great book for that.
So here is last weeks and this weeks value studies. I am not super happy with all of them, but I feel like I learned a lot doing them. I wonder if I will feel a difference after the four weeks.
I tried to stick to landscapes first. The first one with the greens was a really stupid idea because greens, when greyed out, are really hard to capture. The whole picture lives off of the different hues of green, if you take those out there's not much left of it.
I also tried to not get too invested in detail, which is why I painted these pretty small (I usually tend to work really big and overdo details). And I tried to not get obsessed with the right proportions. I know the face of the girl is weird and at a wrong angle, and the window is not in the right perspective, but that was not what these paintings were all about.
Sometimes it is hard to just let go, but I think I'm getting better at that.
The pics I all found online. I have a reference folder with various stuff saved, not all of them with source which I realise is bad. I need to get better at that, but Pinterest is source hell.

I hope you have a great start into the week,
<3 Sarah