Value Drawings

We just finished our value drawings in Drawing Studio.  We did one in class and one at home.  I had never done a 'true' value drawing before; consequently, the process was very foreign to me (but I enjoyed it and would do another in my free time!).  First we did a line drawing of the objects or still life.  Then we toned the entire paper.  Basically, we took our graphite stick or our charcoal stick and put an even layer of graphite/charcoal on the entire page.  We made it fairly dark, too!  Then we started with the eraser and added values with it by erasing some of the tone and added darker values with more graphite/charcoal.  I used graphite on both of mine. 

This is my in-class value drawing.

This is my at home drawing.

So our value drawings are done and we started portraits followed shortly by figure drawings.  I'm really excited; I didn't expect myself to be.  We got to draw a model in class, my first model!!!  We didn't have that much time in class to draw because we critiqued our value drawings.  I wanted to make my drawing look like a Renaissance drawing, like one of Leonardo's, so I used cross-hatching rather than blending of graphite.

Can you guess which one is mine and which one is Leo's?