First Step In Planning the Composition of a Painting - Line Drawing and Values for Artwork of a Seascape

This is the line drawing for a commission I'm starting. This first step works out the composition for the painting. It is roughly in proportion to the finished painting.  I'm pleased with this sketch so my next step is to add value to the sketch. I plan on painting a bright sunny day or afternoon but it is important to plan the values in the painting before I go any further.

This is a definition of value from http://www.artlex.com/  an online art dictionary.

value 

An element of art that refers to luminance or luminosity -  lightness or darkness of a color.







Below is a value scale or gray scale in eight stepped grades of values.


 

And another stepped scale produced by hatching and cross-hatching.

My next post will be of the value sketch for the line drawing above.