Shading a Drawing: Understanding Form, Planes, and Light
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A brief tutorial on shading techniques for drawings, covering form, planes, light on form, and the elements of light such as highlight, core shadow, reflected light, and cast shadow. Also discusses how local value and light intensity affect tones.
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· 3 pulledLet's get into shading a drawing! We'll explore form, planes and light on form.
I'll guide you through making an object feeling 3 dimensional by indicating the elements of light on form - highlight, center light, halftones, core shadow, reflected light, cast shadow and occlusion shadow.
How the local value of the object affects the tones. And how intensity of light affect tones.
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