Do THIS to Make Your SHADING Better

lets learn how to shade lol

Clip Studio Paint (my drawing program)
*affiliate link btw

link to the interactive portrait thing:

Equipment:

my brushes
フラット (flat pen)
old pen content id: 1358977
new pen content id: 1702959
hair brush: 1868700

give my vid a like if you're reading this description uwu

[mxsimpterest]

Finally! The shading toturial! Now I can finally shade my art in "the right way" so it doesn't turn into some black eyed, uneven toned individual.

[koolkaylie]

Kooleen is actually being my art teacher right now and I am loving her class and would come here everytime.

Edit: Sheesh 3.6k likes 😭😭

[moment__]

"say goodbye to your nasty shading cuz today we're gonna learn how to shade" and that's when i knew this would be a great video

[tengentopka]

I recently found out that adding different colors reduces muddiness and makes the artwork pop out. For eg. let's say you're painting a skin that is usually in the yellow-red spectrum but adding the opposite spectrum like blue-magenta really makes big difference, it feels as if colors are communicating with one another.

[blujaynotblu]

Kooleen ain’t shady, she’s very bright when it comes to art tutorials 😎








I’ll show myself out.

[maxeriashade]

(i use ibisPaint X for mobile yes i draw with my finger)

i use a mix of the multiply and hue shading with a dash of Alpha Lock

hue shading is basically my friend and i love doing it considering the main brush i use is Pencil Graphite at varying opacities and man its great—

i only use multiply to “darken” my base colours and then i work from dark to light (its like oil paints except i do it in reverse)

but regardless great tutorial, and i like the chaotic format on how the video presents itself as i feel like thats how i’d teach others how to draw lmao

[tiramiisu]

i personally like to start my portraits using the hue shifting method (with no blending modes), then use the multiply layer to deepen the shadows or add cast shadows. it’s a lot less time consuming and gives everything a nice flow!

[eremikaglamour]

She deserves a lot of subscribers. Literally, all of my knowledges about how to draw in digital was I learned to her

[sedoro]

Ayo? you read my mind! I was just binging your vids while finishing up my lineart. Thanks for the videos Kooleen! Youve helped me stay motivated on improving my art.

[mya]

I love your personality, sarcasm, and art skills…I’m here for it 🙌🏽 and to also learn more 😭

[markanthonyabot]

Thanks kooleen for this shading tutorial, I really love your humour and wittiness, I'm also amazed by how much you can teach us stuff very well in such a short period of time. And this also helps me with the portrait of my mom I'm drawing, it looks really plain and dull because I'm just eyedropping every color therefore making it dull and seems desaturated

[k_zll]

best virtual art teacher ever, btw Koolen had grown so much and i literally didnt notice, even tho I've always watched her vids ( i remember i sub at her when she was in 5k subs) i feel so at youu, keep it upp

[Rediactive_]

AAA I swear I needed this so so so bad I've been just using the multiply layer for so long and I've been feeling really bad about my final results, but haven't known any other way to do it. This really really helped! :D

[girlynixine]

1:19 "Light bounces everywhere" 😭 yagami..-

[ansuz]

"say goodbye to your musty shading" this line goes hard wtf

[kodaniiji]

Dude, I've been so lost when it comes to digital art. My art looked so fuzzy and plain and after learning you can mix hue shifting WITH multiply?! Why didn't I think of this before LMFAO. Thank you so much, this genuinely helped me and I feel like I learned more off of this 8 min video more than my art teachers ever taught me. The fact I never thought of how shadows might work and I assumed all shadows should be blended, I legit couldn't figure out why my paintings looked so fuzzy and blurred but now I know. You're literally a life saver 😭

[jooblian]

Love it! Juicy and controversial fact re: 2:42 - its actually the other way around! Sounds counterintuitive, but if the light source is proportionally smaller than the object, the shadows are harsher. The bigger the light, the more it wraps around the object, creating diffused shadows. Learned this in photography school. That’s why midday sunlight is harsh- with hard, defined shadows. The sun is massive, but tiny in proportion to us. Also why soft portrait studio lighting uses huge diffused light sources.

So distance can effect the quantity of light (brighter or darker) but it also changes the quality (hard or soft) and these are separate things.

Hope this helps. Gotta put my photography diploma debt to good use

[Jaymeandfam]

Your literally the best person to go to for art tutorials!! You make it so simple and fun to learn!! Thank you for blessing my day❤️

[nairym]

The thing is that Kooleen's tutorials are either a video you don't expect but you actually need or a video you need and you got
And I'm not complaining
Thank you for making this actually I have been struggling with shading myself. It had me pretty confused so good thing I'm subscribed ;)

[Lunar_Banshee]

I've been watching your vids for a couple days and can i just say.... I feel like I've learned so much more about how to improve my art in the last couple days and actually retaining the information and trying alot of your tips and tricks than I have for years watching any other random art tutorials/tips. I feel like I've found a hidden gem on youtube thank you so much! xD