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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h3art
2mo
I Feel like I didn't do good shapes on the cap but then started to experiment more with the onion.
Paloma Yglesias
3mo
I will do another practice since I forgot to take a picture of the first item :)
duddu
3mo
cindygs
5mo
Romain Decotte
5mo
It was really good fun! Here are my attempts :).
Thieum
5mo
Kendall Smith
6mo
kemon
6mo
Me: The Terminator couldn't stick around but said "I'll be back"
Everyone: Boooooooo. We have read better jokes in those free news papers.
Sita Rabeling
6mo
Karlo H.
6mo
Tess Enarsson
7mo
Fun but also challenging. May find it difficult to decide where to draw the line.
Question: is it an estimate or more definitive? Or to put it this way - how many level differences of shadow can be accommodated within the boundary? In my opinion, I prefer to mark only the darkest parts that are almost completely dark. How should I think?
The pictures may not match exactly where I stood/sat.
If someone can answer me I would be grateful! Thanks!
Suvi Järvinen
6mo
There are lighter parts in the shadow area where there's reflective light, but it's still in the shadow - i.e., the light source does not directly cast light on it. This whole shadow area is what we're looking for here :)
Vini Almeida
7mo
It's very cool to see how the drawing even without great rendering, if the terminator and perspective are correct, they'll end up looking pretty nice.
Charles Litzelmann
8mo
orcamain
8mo
taking it slow, only worrying about 2 values and throwing down the form shadow and cast shadow for now.
Chris Bodary
9mo
Terminator study assignment.
The perspective and drawing aren’t the same as my subject’s poses but I tried match the light direction and terminator placement best I could. I don’t always feel certain that what I’m interpreting as the terminator isn’t just the dark halftones.
Bradley Forbush
9mo
Thieum
9mo
Cool studies! The terminators look good to me. You could gain in realism and 3D effect by varying your edge qualities: hard or soft, according to the forms of the surfaces: soft edges for round surfaces, hard edges for angles
Kwame Alexander
9mo
The angles I drew from and the angles of the photos are a little bit off. Also, I just had a bit of trouble drawing in the dark. In any case, I think I got the terminators and cast shadows identified correctly.
Chris Bodary
9mo
Nice job on the tougher subjects especially in the dark. I’m not certain, but it looks like there might be a bit of that light touching the back right “windows”. If you included those little touches of light it would probably add some more dimensionality to the drawing. They also might just be some reflecting lights or tricks of the camera, I can’t tell exactly. Terminators and shadows all look correct to me though god work
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alcyonair
10mo
for the fire alarm i wasnt sure if the slanted, middle shadow form was a cast shadow or form shadow. the light i had was above to the right and it felt to me it was due to the form on top of it but please give me your wisdom on that. i have no idea why for the egg the secondary cast shadow had a flattened edge but that's what i saw.
ivat
10mo
Vini Almeida
7mo
cute!
Val Vlahovic
1yr
These were really fun! The garlic one was done on tracing paper over my original sketch, which I accidentally ruined with some spilled tea. I did not stop to establish proportions on any of these because I was hubristic and impatient, and some pretty egregious proportional errors resulted, especially on the skull. Oh, well. Critique would be greatly appreciated and is badly needed, as I don't feel confident that I understand what I'm doing.
Tess Enarsson
7mo
Hi Val, I think this is looking really good! Nice cuts of the terminator edge.
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