I have not seen the videos or read the books, today is the first I heard of this controversy. I do have a BA in fine art. 2, 3, and 6 are not arbitrary for value scales when teaching drawing. In Drawing 101 my professor was teaching us about making judgments, first is black and white (2), is it dark or light? Then we started with a neutral gray, and had to decide if a color/shape/texture etc. in the still life we were drawing was lighter (white) or darker (black) and draw it that way (3). From there, I can see moving to 6 values from choosing lighter or darker of your white, gray, and black, i.e. shades of gray = value. We practiced this concept many times in many ways starting with simple - a starkly lit table and its cast shadow (blocks) for black/white, and eventually moving to complex - round objects (fruit and reflective objects) for shades of grey. Am I close to guessing what and how they presented it?
I have not seen the videos or read the books, today is the first I heard of this controversy. I do have a BA in fine art. 2, 3, and 6 are not arbitrary for value scales when teaching drawing. In Drawing 101 my professor was teaching us about making judgments, first is black and white (2), is it dark or light? Then we started with a neutral gray, and had to decide if a color/shape/texture etc. in the still life we were drawing was lighter (white) or darker (black) and draw it that way (3). From there, I can see moving to 6 values from choosing lighter or darker of your white, gray, and black, i.e. shades of gray = value. We practiced this concept many times in many ways starting with simple - a starkly lit table and its cast shadow (blocks) for black/white, and eventually moving to complex - round objects (fruit and reflective objects) for shades of grey. Am I close to guessing what and how they presented it?