#shading

[themythecho]

She’s looking at shel <3

reblogs are appreciated lol </3

[snippit-crickit]

some shading/lineart experiment i did yesterday with the weird creature once again its inspo'd from an artist i found on fb! but um they dont link to any of their social media accounts i think its their undercover account, this is difficult to tag.... anyways they have this kinda leyendecker shading style and i like it one person asked me about it so heres the brush i modified and used for lineart, here... keep in mind its an ABR file, works best for pts

[laboratoryrats]

GoldCanines: “I had lots of questions on how I go about my shading ! ✨

Here is how I pick my colors, determine my layers, and lay out my shading !”

Source: GoldCanines on Twitter

[ae-llish]

Hell yeah' more shitpost drawing studies'

I mostly to these scribbles/notes for myself, but sharing is caring and my brain simple won't acknowledge and comprehend how light works.

It's actually so simple doing shadows ( in theory ), still' i wanna rip and tear at my hair whenever i actaully have draw dynamic ones.

[obscure-entity]

your shading is AMAZING specially when its conveying organic forms..... do you have any tips for people who dont know wrf going on (with shading)

ok so HI. hi. my old tutorial pisses me off so i will make a new one

i made a guy whose sole purpose is to be shaded so dont worry he likes it. and his name. his name will be mr. Boob. mr boob does not have to be blue

theres probably way better explanations of how to do it but unfortunately trying to "emulate" shading does ask you to somewhat understand ur character in a 3d way. like what would the 2d shape be if you "sliced" it? mr boob is made of so many circles. his tail also does a kind of weird perspective foreshortening thing because its pointing at you. is this being conveyed

you obviuously dont have to draw a horrendous grid on your characters skin to do this . BUT it helps you put down (or at least envision) the lines of the form shading :

dont worry about cast shadows or the shading color because this is FORM SHADOW time only. think about what surfaces of the character are obviously facing away from the light source and put down the "separation line" of the shading based on that. thr most important thing is that youre trying to separate light from dark

im going to pick the first one for cast shadows bc it will be the most obvious to me

ok so. his ears and snout are blocking other surfaces of his body from the light, which means a shadow is cast!!!! bam. i saw someone describe cast shadows as what the light's pov "can't see." his entire body is putting down a cast shadow on the ground too

im impatient so i blended the form shadows now. its usually the easiest to just NOT blend cast shadows as a way of conveying that they are still cast shadows. but you can still blend them if you want to show "distance" between the obstruction and the surface its blocking. but its just a way of saying form and cast shadows should not be treated the same even if their softness coincides

im going to lump reflection and ambient light together because theyre like. similar. reflections dont just happen in mirrors

since the sky is blue, making the ambient lighting, i tinged mr. boobs existing shadow to be a bit blue. (*this is kind of important because it can help you decide a shading color, which should USUALLY be based on the environment) (unless your character is just in the transparent void then it doesnt matter)

since the ground is pink, i made pink light bounce off of him. pointed and labelled. i dont rlly know how to go more in depth than that

contact shadows are literally shadows formed from direct-touching contact. very little light can reach in there, even from how reflections disperse, which means youre free to use the darkest color available (black). in this case mr. boob is making contact with the floor. because he is sitting on the floor.

i touched him up a bit and wow!!!!!!!!!! look at mr. boob!!! he is so beautifully sculpted.

and one more thing

thats right. i made mr boob PINK. hes fucking ruined now. just kidding i would never say that to him

what im trying to convey here (its the easiest with really light colors) is a transitional color. this can also show subsurface scattering depending on how you use it which is fun to look at. the mistake i made on my last tutorial was "Just pick a warm saturated color!" which is really wrong in examples like Blue mr boob. because it would be weird to use a warm color to transition from blue to blue.

if you have a character that isn't bright enough then obviously the shadows wont be as visible. its BEST to bring more attention to highlights and reflections to reveal the form a bit. they play the biggest role with darker colors

thats all i can think of. fun things to look up:

structuralization + contour lines + foreshortening etc. 3d lingo

form shadows

cast shadows

ambient light

contact shadows

subsurface scattering

im also just speaking out of my ass otherwise. i didnt look up any of these terms until the end now im inferring and hoping i got them right

and remember every time you shade mr boob will be rooting for you

[aldermoth]

(they/them)

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[randominktm]

One final flight.

I don't really do backgrounds, or perspective for that matter, very regularly so this was a nice change of pace! I have a couple things I know I need to work with specifically but honestly it turned out a lot better than I thought.

[arc-hus]

Kew House, Victoria, Australia - Sean Godsell

[skyhoarder]

Phase 3 complete - i gave this to a coworker for their birthday today 🎂 🥳

Find me on instagram @sky2dirt

[drawingden]

Sketch Notes by ben_eblen_design

Check out the artists Gumroad for more in-depth versions of the tutorials!

[temiree]

I was hired by Todd Aldrington to make the cover for his newest novel, A Christmas Reunion! :D Todd writes, "A Christmas Reunion is about the two guys who secretly become boyfriends when their families get together at Christmas, and they spend the whole holiday trying to hide it from their suspicious families." From what I know, this book is supposed to have a comedic lean to it compared to his previous books. :3

If you're interested in buying the book (either for yourself or as a gift), here are links to the ebook and paperback versions!

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If you enjoy his work, you can also follow Todd for announcements on future releases!

Todd's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AthleteRaccoon

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[skechindeed]

Recent Commission!!

[tdillustrates]

[seren-dipitous-art]

I’m curious, since I have a feeling we have several comic fans here. Hands up if you have opinions.

[villetela]

At the stage singing..

THIS TOOK ME 6 HOURS OR MINUTES PLEASE 😔- but anyway- I did the meme that has been going on in Twitter (I'm calling it that cause I want to. YOU CANNOT MAKE ME SAY "X" SIMPLY. IT'S TOO SHORT. 👹) This is Sammy btw, also tried to make her dress in a more "80s" way and the microphone too 😂 I took some references from pinterest but my storage went boom and made me delete some stuff. So I couldn't really find the references I used, also made her dress in a 80s woman suit (I think) and made her hold a 80s microphone (I THINK??) cause of course- it's the 80s what do your expect- and made her hair a little curly and put ring earrings on her (to make it more fancy 😁) I spent a lot of time shading the clothes and stuff (WHICH HURT MY HANDS.) and here's sun and moon going crazy about my y/n (mostly sun cause he's hyper rn) but here's also one reference I can share:

I also added some dramatic light as if the stage was getting in the moment now, the characters don't belong to me btw-! (Except for Sam.) LDR sun and moon rightfully belong to @spadillelicious 😁 anyways this is all I can post, I will post more I promise!! But for now have this art of Sammy singing while sun is in ultimate hyper mode and moon is getting MORE in love with her. Idk what she's singing lmao. Anyways bye-!!

[starlight-art-333]

Nimona drawing! 🦍