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So as you're working in this method of tracing specific areas, especially when you're working
in something such as specific as a face or a specific object, and you're trying to create
a sense of realism, a sense of value, you want to be thinking about the value tones
that are inside the color paper that you are choosing to use instead of so randomly selecting
and area such as we did with this pattern of water to fit inside of a piece. Whether
that matters to you or not is entirely up to you. But, for intent and purposes of achieving
this sort of effect, I wanted to be thinking about the way that I would draw or value or
tone a piece like this if I were using pencil or paint in the same way that I would use
the paper. So when I was thinking about her cheek bone here, when I was thinking about
her eyelid here, I was working in darker tones to create the shadows and then I made sure
that the shapes that I was pulling out for the highlights had a value shift, had a value
scale, because if this piece itself were just completely the white tone, it would obviously
change the variation of the piece and the extent to which it's dynamic holds. So you
want to be thinking about those things as you're cutting out and laying down your tracing.