How to Shade a Drawing

Let'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 effects the tones. And how does intensity of light affect tones.

In this Premium Lesson I describe my complete process of drawing a figure, step by step.

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[giantevilrobot]

Premium course? What kind of sourcery do you teach in that? This has been one of the most helpful drawing videos I've seen.

[AllanGildea]

I learnt more from you in these few minutes than I did in a year at art school. No kidding. Thank you so much.

[andresiniguez]

Being completely self-taught, this video really helped me step up my game.

[bjolguin]

I'm an art major, and I learned more about how to handle shading in these few minutes than I ever did in 2 semesters worth of school.

[dianaocando]

Basically just put your sight on 140p quality

[benjaminravatsassolberg]

1. Core shadow
2. Reflected light
3. Halftones
4. Center light
5. Highlight
6. Cast shadow
7. AO/Occlusion shadow

Also, be mindful of local values and light intensity

[jcepri]

How can anyone dislike this video? It's outstanding! The best animations around, incredibly informative, unbelievable examples, and even humor! This guy needs his own TV show.

[koolbeenz]

As a beginner I’ve really struggled with a lot of the fundamentals, shading being actually one of the hardest to get used to, this video has been a serious help thank you so much!!

[luismaaah]

Damn, this is the most important drawing teaching that I had in the last few months. It's amazing how 12 minutes has change all my last year drawings... Thank you Proko!

[ericromano]

I can't believe I never noticed the difference between the center light and highlight. 36 years old and every time I draw something, I've only took the center light into consideration. Thanks for pointing out what I should have noticed 30 years ago!

[digitalsketchguy]

I always remember a great drawing master saying 'feel the forms with your hands of your mind' which i think is good advice.

[antonionmartinez]

Remember to step back from your drawing once in a while to see how its coming along, AND close your eyes 1/4 way and you will SEE more of the contrast of light and shadow.

[nyancatnyangirl]

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[danbutterworth]

Although I am not a beginning artist, I have found that working through your videos makes for improvement in my pieces. I appreciate your references to math, and being a math professor I have often found it difficult for students to understand that math is such an integral part of art. Thanks and keep the videos coming. Dr. B

[IT-jason-TI]

I've taught myself to draw when I was 4 (I'm 15) and I mastered strokes, the distance of something, etc. but I still needed a bit help on shadowing and this helped alot

[incanvs]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO! You don't know how long i've been looking for a lesson on actual shading theory. There are so many videos that teach you different techniques or how to shade based on color theory, but there's not a single one that teaches you how to do the actual thing. Personally, i've always had trouble placing shadows accurately, but your example of the polygons made it so much easier for me to understand it. So, thanks again! Keep up the good work!

[macheifach]

Talking about values... This video has so much of it :)
One of your best yet.

A little addition. The way you paint a highlight, adds a lot to the definition of the texture or material of the object. Paint a highlight with sharp, very clean edges and it will look like a glossy, plastic surface, add some irregular edges to the highlight, and it will look like some sand or stone texture etc.

[linganqueiroz]

As suas aulas não são apenas ótimas, também são impressionantes. Obrigado
"Your classes are not only great, they are also impressive. Thanks"

[_madbunny]

I'm so happy that I found this YouTube channel