Draw the Value Pattern
Draw the image from your cropped photo on a piece of drawing paper. Don’t make it too large—about the size of a credit card is perfect. Use a 6B pencil to roughly draw the grays and blacks, leaving the white space. Don’t dupli- cate the photo; respond only to the value pat- terns. The photo is a springboard. This exercise will give you some great ideas for composi- tions you may not think of otherwise.