7 Tips to SHADE like a PRO!

Understanding how to draw highlights and shadows is crucial for any artist! 💡 Whether you're drawing backgrounds, characters, or objects, good shading can take your artwork to the next level. In this short art tutorial, instructor Jessie goes over her list of the top 7 things to keep in mind when drawing lighting. She goes over bounce light, light placement, colour theory, and much more! Did any of these tips help you? Let us know in the comments below! 🤓

🕓 Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:09 - How colour affects shadows
1:20 - Shadow intensity
2:16 - Shadow proximity
4:04 - Light Placement
5:01 - What's blocking the light?
6:32 - Primary light source
7:14 - Secondary/bounce light

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[sirmangees]

Every time I watch one of these videos, my motivation just goes through the roof
And I ACTUALLY draw.
I learn.

I learn more from these 10-20 minutes videos than an entire year in art class :’D

[kimchi]

Man..Jessie is such an amazing teacher. The format of these classes is so fun, detailed and informative and just a really great and easy pace that I feel works for a lot of people. Following along is a big plus to these classes for me!

[peirogi]

a quick note: the terminator is different from the core. the terminator simply refers to the line between the shadow and not shadow area. immediately after the terminator is the core shadow, the darkest part of the shadowed area. some people include the subsurface scattering in this area and use the term terminator interchangeably. it's important to know how it's different from other parts of the shadow because this is where you'll be deciding whether the edge is soft or hard, and also where texture will be most obvious

[U.R.coolkid]

This'll be so helpful im drawing something for someone and have always struggled with proper rendering

[PKL]

I just started getting this channel in my recommendations, and I've learned more art stuff in the last 24 hours than the last 20 years of my life!

[Stellefeder]

So my friend sent me this video when I was lamenting about not understanding the basics of colour theory and lighting well enough to do it properly. After watching this I went back and re-did the lighting on a piece I had just done less than a week before... And ooooh my goodness, I truly leveled up.

Jessie did such a good job explaining this in a way I could wrap my brain around - Thank you so much!

[grandpa_gerald]

i love just talking about what i learn on this channel to my parents and i sound like a literal genius 🤣🤣🤣

[axletheartist]

These lessons are so good that my art teacher uses them to teach us. I’m not kidding

[Alfos]

Wow!
I love the uniqueness to this tutorial!
I've seen so many shading guides that mostly just boil down to shapes and light direction but almost none of them ever describe shadow behavior or the logic behind them.

Thanks a bunch for this! I know it's still gonna take loads of practice for me to improve but I feel like a good chunk of guess-work in my shading process may finally have been reduced thanks to you ^_^

[seriousyak]

I’ve been learning so many art skills from you, it’s insane. I’m so glad I found your channel!

[Csklfjaoiwefhlksd]

THIS IS SOOO COOL!!
I sent this to all of my friends XD this is sooo awesome!!!


why do i feel the need to take notes 😭

[starfilledsky.]

Learning about bounce light helped me sm

[Nettles_Cauldron]

The light color actually doesn't affect the shadow color, items under yellow lighting only seem to have blue shadows because the shadow is cooler in comparison to the areas colored by the light

[ThatMMArtist]

that was so helpful and amazing! I've been struggling with lighting lately so this was perfect!

[strangeaelurus]

YES! I've always been good with sketching and lineart and such but cheating always gets me.

[skillengine]

"The sun is obviously gonna cast the shadow... Hehehehe"

[maryannlupus]

This is so cool!! I love how these videos are interesting enough to just watch for the fun of it, but are also really informative as well.
Makes me want to stay up past my bedtime learning about art! 😁🤩

[Diavolo_]

i like this channel because i learn two things at the same time, art ando english

[brie_a_cheese]

This is so helpful. I’ve been looking for a video like this for ages.

[summero-myin]

This feels like a lot to take in, and I become overwhelmed... Ahhh but im trying