Derpy Charcoal Study

I continue to be infatuated with this picture by Hinoraito
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As much as I really want to learn digital painting, I thought it'd be better to start with the basics. So I attempted to render a copy in charcoal, as few lines as possible, just using values to separate areas.

It takes up about half a sheet of 11 by 17 sketch paper so it won't fit on my ultra-cheap scanner. So I just took a photo. Makes it look way grainier than in person. Oh well.

Toward the end when I held up my little value scale cheat card [link] I found that I was already pretty close. I think if I did a few hundred more of these kind of studies, I might actually get better at rendering.