Quick 2 Value (Only) Studies

30 Sep 2025

The excercise here, based on the YouTube video below, is to draw the reference images (black and white portraits are useful for this) in just 2 values. The idea is to force decision making around where halftones fall in a value scale. Following this excercise - I intend as suggested to increase the number of values to 3, 4, 5 etc.

For the purposes of this excercise, let's conveniently ignore the fact that my drawings don't look much like people in the reference images!


Joaquin Phoenix

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Mads Mikkelsen

Mads Mikkelsen 2 Value Portrait

Mads Mikkelsen Black and White Portrait

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood 2 Value Portrait

Clint Eastwood Black and White Portrait

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