The Shading Course
Welcome
Module 1 - How to Separate Light & Shadow
Module 2 - How to See Light Effects
Module 3 - How to Control Values
Module 4 - How to Organize Values
Module 5 - How to Create Realistic Shading
Module 6 - How to Use Light Probes
Module 7 - How to Show Form
Module 8 - How to Invent Shading
Module 9 - How to Use Maquettes
Module 10 - Bringing it all Together
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Anastasiia Karnaukh
1mo
h3art
2mo
Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time?
Carlos
3mo
Here are the eggs!
Carmen Álvarez
3mo
murai
3mo
Julia Arrighi
3mo
cindygs
5mo
Thieum
6mo
Norbert Grill
6mo
Karlo H.
6mo
Kendall Smith
6mo
This made me painfully aware that I don't know where the terminator or cast shadow go without a reference
Tess Enarsson
7mo
So simple but in the same time hard to know how the shadows are falling and if the terminator always follows the widest edge. ?
Vini Almeida
7mo
egg
Chris Bodary
9mo
Practice Egg Sketches Assignment
Kwame Alexander
9mo
ivat
10mo
Val Vlahovic
1yr
These look almost painfully "off" to me, but I can't pinpoint exactly what's wrong--this assignment has revealed just how limited my understanding of light really is!
As you can see, I completely lack any understanding of where to place the cast shadow. I know that lines can be drawn from the light source and through the endpoints of the terminator to project one axis of the cast shadow, but I don't see how those lines alone give you enough information to place the cast shadow--how do you its angle and degree and center point (if those are even the right terms)? Am I missing something obvious here?
afty
10mo
the cast shadow technically is where the light will be incident at an 90 degree angle to the surface when it is smooth
i would suggest you to learn how to draw cross contours and and understanding form before shading as it will make the process to learn shading smoother
Tanya Cooper
1yr
Lil FatWombat
1yr
My 1- 100 egg sketches
Daniil Pershin
1yr
I tried to do this in procreate, because I don’t want draw on paper. When I decided to learn more about shading I’ve not expected that my eggs would be so ugly.
Juan Manuel Duarte Pallavicini
1yr
You are using the wrong tool, pen-like brush preset only for linear drawings, and a more air-brush like brush for shading. Don't use opaque lines to portrait shadows, use a brush that blends and/or has transparency.
If you want to know how good a brush is for achieving good rendering, look how easy you can do a 5 values chart (five squares of different tones of gray, where the darkness gradually increases every square) with said brush preset.
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