Practice: Shading Creatures
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Practice: Shading Creatures
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Jean-François (Jeff) Durix
I ended up redrawing this little cutie as I like to work « traditional ». I added a 5th step which consisted of a cleanup and rework of some of the values. The only digital part is the fun one at the end. if it would not be in space this cutie would Muuh…
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ASSIGNMENTS

Overview

Let's practice shading simple forms! In this assignment, you'll create a realistic rendering of a little creature.

Steps

  1. Download or print at least one of the project files below.
  2. Complete the four stages.
  3. Upload your image.

Duration

This project should take 1–2 hours to complete.

Examples

Newest
@samanthelle
Morif
6mo
Lin
7mo
Here we go :3
Maria Bygrove
Did the drawing by hand and photographed all the four stages. Am I right assuming that in order to do the reflected light (step 3) we need to add core shadow to general shadow group?
Maria Bygrove
@doublejon
11mo
My other creature
Dedee Anderson Ganda
my weakness is with terminator to dark halftone gradient, and I'm slowly yet surely getting the hang of it!!
@doublejon
11mo
@tonyhcf
1yr
Kristina Gehrmann
This was trickier than I thought. Quite fun tho :D
Dedee Anderson Ganda
I love that you give a happy face at the final image :))
@marq777
2yr
Definitely could use some fixes but it's surely a improvement from where I was before
@rfrimpong3
Derek Adams
Seems, after takeing my pictures, I always see my mistakes, fix, retake, fix……. And then they look too over worked, and not that good….. I feel, I'm not satisfied, and want to redue the assignments again, and again….. Any suggestions?
@kotka
2yr
This exercise was a lot of fun even if it messed a bit with the shading and planning order. I realized that I erroneously used white, the color of specular highlight, as the fourth and lightest color during planning. This was because I got a bit confused by the four-value instruction after getting used to working with five values. I should've just forgotten about the specular white, even though it's technically the "fifth", lightest and last value to be put down. I adjusted this misunderstanding as I went along the four stages and it turned out just fine.
Vin
2yr
Here are my shaded creatures. I followed the steps, and I do feel they look more realistic than what I have drawn before. Although my digital drawing skills are still very limited…(I am still trying to find a suitable brush to use in krita.)
@rfeistauer
Nice!
Samuel Sanjaya
here's my assignment submission. This helped me of breaking my bad habit of jumping all over the place when shading. Any feedbacks/critiques will be greatly appreciated.
@cindygs
3yr
Romain Decotte
Here's my shading creatures assignment. I was so much into it that I combined steps 3 and 4 in...step 3.
@selenitis
3yr
I found this a really helpful assignment, and I was able to identify that I struggle the most with reflected light, like determining where it would be strongest.
Dorian Iten
Nice! On the first one, you could get a stronger sense of form by pushing the dark halftones a bit darker and letting them come into the form light more. But these are both really solid overall!
Kwame Alexander
I messed up the notan version a bit, but no big deal.
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