SIMPLE Painting Practice - EASY to use ANYWHERE! 

You can, but the point of this exercise is the different values and to keep it super simple, concentrating mainly on simple compositions, shapes and values, taking concern about color out of the equation.

@@janicetribbiani7535 It's still taking color almost entirely out of the equation, which is good enough unless you're really struggling with values. If you choose your colors before you go, then you'll have to use whichever color has been assigned for each value regardless of the subject's local color. That means that the decisions regarding color and all the mixing to create those colors are still eliminated from the exercise, and that's what people usually have problems with when it comes to working with color. If that's too much for someone, using different shades of blue or green or brown or whatever isn't any harder than using different shades of grey. Burnt sienna is a common color used for value studies in portraiture. Personally, I don't hate the color grey, in fact I generally prefer it to browns or greens, but looking at nothing but greys too much makes me depressed. I once took a drawing class where we used nothing but charcoal and graphite and by the end of it I was so, so sick of grey. It's like listening to a song on repeat until you hate it.

Glad you liked it!

You are so welcome!

It's pretty fun once you get going with it! Glad this is helpful for you.

Yes, it usually bleeds through to the other sheet.

Water based markers on a mixed media sketchbook or watercolor sketchbook usually won't bleed through. For alcohol markers, the Rendr sketchbooks are amazing for preventing bleedthrough.

Yes they do.