strong light bleaching often means your light side has less detail (reduced number of values) therefore to further constrast and interest. Introduce 2-3 more values in the shadow side of this piece. your values are working quite well with what you have thus far and its actually a VERY good thing that youve limited your values to practice. The biggest BUT of this style is your values do not reflect the local colour of the material. Im aware this is a stylistic choice but for better practice in Gray scale think about the local values first.











