Hello! As you can see from the three pictures, it is obvious that I am VERY new to value studies, and I was wondering what are the things that I need to improve?
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I hope you’ll see and read my answer with the humor I wrote it in!
At first:
The skill to ask your questions in the categories or sub-categories of the forum corresponding to your topic? 
Then those who you address get a chance to discover your question at all, since most won’t monitor the sub-category Artists Feedback & Testing.
And that, where it is relatively easy to find out a category’s dedication, because you’ll find a pinned post, describing its dedication, in every category. That post always is named after the scheme “About the XYZ category”, so here that is the posting About the Artists Feedback & Testing category which should have told you, you have chosen the wrong place.
But now, after I moved it the chances are good that you will get answers on your question, unfortunately I never used that technic and can’t help with it.
And now I hope you’ll get the answers you are looking for! Good luck!
Michelist
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Hi hi! I think this is great work for values. The blocking you’ve done is great, and shows understanding of the values in the picture. The only thing I would suggest if you wanted to continue working on it is refining the scale and shape of objects. I notice you are using a hard round brush, I would typically use a hard rectangular tipped brush or a fill brush. Here’s a really good video by Sinix that covers distillation/values: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwRa5qTnr8o
Thank you for such a good study example, I have decided to steal it for my own studies:
Main 2 things I kept in mind while working was sticking to only 2 values before I added a third value, staying on scale, and only using the fill brush to cut out shapes.
This is the bush I used. It’s called “t) Shapes Fill”
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