Secrets of Shading
Course by Steven Zapata
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Lessons
10 Lessons
Duration
4h 49m
Skill Level
All Skill Levels
Views
182K
overview
Secrets of Shading gives you the foundational knowledge you will need to render organic forms from imagination and better understand your references.
We begin with diagrams and exercises to help you understand shading and rendering as "drawing on the inside" of dimensionally conceived forms, and move on to several practical demonstrations.
The demonstrations are done with pencil and provide insight into working with graphite, but the concepts are applicable to all media. The videos total five hours of content and all chapters are fully narrated. All videos are 1080p full HD.
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What others are saying
Dylan Coleman
The Secrets of Shading course delivers on what it promises by providing the secrets you need to know. Your favorite artists all do what Steve will teach you: from the basics, to the advanced knowledge and practice. The difference Steve makes, the secret I've only ever seen him tell, is what matters. I made a huge leap forward in a single day after watching these videos and you can too.
Gordon Tran
The Secrets of Shading course opened my mind up to the flexible nature of the seemingly concrete, objective nature of light and shadow. In the past I have had great difficulty in understanding how to transition between geoforms like boxes and cylinders to more organic forms such as the human figure, so I nearly cried after Steven taught me how to render arms without building them one geoform at a time.
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Steven Zapata Shading Demo (10 lessons) 1 free lesson
Lessons
An overview of the materials used in this demonstrations to achieve form and solidity.
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A review of the basic behavior of directional light on a sphere.
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An explanation of the differences between directional light sources, point light sources, and soft/diffuse light sources.
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We see how the core shadow deforms to indicate the nature of the surface on the simplest variation of a curved form.
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Moving on to a more advanced curved form, we see how the core shadow determines the viewer's understanding of an object's volume.
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Using an abstract piece of "anatomy", we see how to apply all these principles to complex organic forms.
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Using an abstract piece of "anatomy", we see how to apply all these principles to complex organic forms.
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Using anatomy we're familiar with, we see how to apply all these principles to complex organic forms.
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We apply all the principles we've learned to a complete figure with fantastical elements.
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The drawing shown in this demo is a refined version of the tentacle demos from earlier in the course.
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Steven Zapata Shading Demo (9 Files)
Secrets of Shading - Part 1 - Light on a Basic Sphere and Intro to Compression.mp4
2 GB
Secrets of Shading - Part 2 - Point and Soft Light Sources.mp4
778 MB
Secrets of Shading - Part 3 - Light on Elliptical and Lozenge Shapes.mp4
1 GB
Secrets of Shading - Part 4 - Light on Complex Organic Shapes.mp4
3 GB
Secrets of Shading - Part 5 - Tentacle Demo.mp4
2 GB
Secrets of Shading - Part 6 - Tentacle Demo 2.mp4
3 GB
Secrets of Shading - Part 7 - Two Arm Demos.mp4
4 GB
Secrets of Shading - Part 8 - Full Figure Demo.mp4
2 GB
Secrets of Shading - Part 9 - Bonus World Tree Process.mp4
1 GB
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