/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

alright, since the last attempt frustrated me so much, i wanted to try something new, which is to block things out with the polyline tool and fill in the block with the fill tool. this has felt more natural so far but i'm not sure if it's only because i have predetermined value blocks that i can just copy the shapes of 1:1. it feels like i'm not learning much about what i set out to learn, but i wanted to see if anyone had any thoughts on this so far. i think this weekend i want to try real faces again using this method and see what happens, or maybe something that isn't a face like a still life subject of an animate object. i think it just as easily could end up like the attempt i did with shave-face willem dafoe where i don't know where to put the borders of a value block because everything is a gradient unless you have dramatic lighting, and how do you determine where the dividing line is inside of a smooth gradation? it's a very abstract thing to do.