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Well, I'm no Jimmie Arroyo but here's my experience:
The tooth of paper makes a big difference on how much contrast you can hold. In general, I notice you don't have as much value differentiation as he does, e.g. the darks don't go as dark and the lights don't go as light. In my experiments with his techniqhue, I just pushed each as far as they would go on the section where I first "keyed" the drawing and then forced myself to follow that example.
Don't worry about the light going too light. You have more to gain by following his direction on a practice run than by trying to figure what a good drawing would look like. It all works out. Regarding the darks, I found that waiting a few minutes allowed me to add layers of value. I don't know why - it may have been temporary blindness. But, I did have to use the pencils in sequence, not skipping any, to get the maximum darkness.
Good luck! Please post your work after the seminar too!!
Best
Lisa
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