How to Improve Your Art - UNDERSTANDING TONAL VALUES 

awesome explanation

Great advice! Gonzaga art instructor would only let his students use black and white for the 1st Semester so they would learn values. Everyone wants "color", but without understanding values they will run into issues pretty quickly.

Your right about one knowing the "Rules" before "Breaking" the Rules. I think it's one of the key reasons why there is so much contemporary art out there today that will not stand the test of time. I am a collector of art, not an artist and as a collector, and as such I facilitate the dissemination of art in and around its many venues. I implore novice artists to visit galleries of the great artists and really spend time with a single painting, at least an hour, and really look at it, texture, tone, color, size, composition. Up close ! Fare away ! Different angels ! See how the ambient light changes as your perspective of the artwork change along with the texture, tone, color, Etc... When I consider a artwork for my collection I do this.

The best explanation of tonal value I've heard in a while! In my experience, most people will often over think it. And, I have been guilty of this myself now and again (especially with hyper realistic water).

Super great ❤🌈

Excellent video! Value is the most important aspect of any undertaking, and you've described it perfectly! And....great hat!

Superb way of explaining!!! Very complex subject yet very well explained...Thank you ..Liked n subscribed 🌹

Great video very informational thank you

Thank you for the wealth of knowledge 😉

Hello Mr.Owens! Do you have any tips for graphite drawings? I'm trying to work with graphite and tonal values, but I'm having a hard time with it since I'm used to acrylic/oil paint and fineliners

Tonal values? What, are there some other kind of values in painting? No. There are just values. Use of the words tone, and tonal can be very confusing because they are not well-defined terms (like chroma, saturation,etc.). Tone means different things to different artists, leading to a lack of clarity.

gRACIAS Maestro: he estudiado o investigado cosas de arte desde que tuve 16 años. Han pasado 50 años ya y no despego, pero esto me gusta. El concepto de valores tonales. Gracias sinceramente.

Use steam punk red lenses glasses, and you'll see black and white/gray values easily.

I work with pencil and not paint but I can still see this exercise being incredibly helpful. Love the encouraging tone in your videos, thank you for teaching this method , especially the cardstock! :)

thank you very much, this will help me a lot!

Thanks for the tonally rad video! Great information!

This dude needs more subs!

Thank you

Enjoying this. You really deliver content. And reminded me of an old basic exercise I've neglected for too long Thanks We never outgrow our need for basics.

Really excellent James! And your last tip is priceless! Many thanks mate 🔥

Great work and a beautiful reference photo to help demonstrate tonal values.

Wow! What an all encompasing and jam packed video. Tone is exactly what I've needed work on. This really helps. Thanks.

This was great. Thanks! Im going to show this to my year 10 students 🙂

Great help. thank you

Epic!

Great exercise.

Great stuff mate thankyou

great video.

You reminded me so much of what I learned 60 years ago in my college art classes. Thanks so much.

One of the best videos on tonal value’s I’ve watched thus far. It scratches the itch of “why” instead of just the how