4 Digital Shading Tips I Wish I Knew Earlier!

We all start off as beginners in digital art, which is why instructor Jessie is here to share the top shading tips she wishes she knew earlier! She goes over factors to consider when shading hair, metal, as well as other general objects. Did you find these tips useful? Let us know in the comments below! 🤓

🕓 Timestamps:
0:14 - Tip 1: Shadows using complementary colors
2:04 - Tip 2: Combination of soft and cel shading
3:55 - Tip 3: Shiny stuff use less blending
5:45 - Tip 4: Don't over-blend hair

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[feldspxr]

This was so helpful!! Now my pictures are one step closer to looking less like abominations 😅

[InsanityVirus]

As someone who still has a lot of trouble with good shading & lighting, this is so helpful! You really are awesome for posting stuff like this! Beginners can learn these tips early, and even veterans can improve their art and make life easier for themselves!

[tonakuma]

The FIRST ONE with the colour wheel and being like... hey if your light is this OPPOSITE ON THE WHEEL... every damn tutorial I have watched so far, nobody, NOBODY has made it that easy or pointed that out. That one piece of advise makes this the best video ever and, you're based af. Thank you!

[spiceo]

I've been drawing for 4 years and I have never heard the tip of using complimentary colors for light/shadows until now... you have absolutely blown my mind

[OliverJValentine]

Your videos have helped me improve my art so much, I have been in a huge art-block for what feels like years cause I always felt my art wasn't any good. Thanks to your videos, the easy steps, reassuring words making me feel like I could actually do it, and overall amazing art on your part, I have been feeling SO happy with mine. Every video is absolutely amazing, thank you so much!

[Hyginx]

Love the video, and it did have some super useful information, but there was one thing I think was missed with metal in particular. Metal reflections are always tinted the color of the material. When you render metal, reflections (including that of the sky) will be in the color metal you are working with (such as yellows for gold and browns for copper). Huge shout-out to a wonderful artist on YouTube, BoroCG, for that tid bit of information.

[cursedemoji]

Thanks, I did not know about that way of shading (choosing the opposite of the highlight color)

[dorothymorris]

thanks for the tutorial!! I've always had difficulty when rendering faces because there's so much stuff concentrated in one area... so many folds, corners, shapes, sometimes I just felt like I ran out of space specially when rendering

[RadishTheFool]

Wow, this is amazingly to the point and helpful! Many '4 tips for beginners' lists are either super basic or very specific.

Your video actually provides short clear tips that are immediately and broadly applicable for most beginners. I, for one, will use these tips from now on for sure. Thank you very much.

I honestly hope your channel blows up soon because your content is fantastic quality, and lots of people would benefit from it so much.

[marcotiics]

Tried this on some of my recent art and WOW did that make it look so much better

[imlearninghowtodraw]

Do you have a video explaining the difference between cel shading and soft shading?

[razena]

My mind is officially blown, the RGB shadowing technique is one I definitely need to try, I really think it's what I've been missing. God bless!

[TerraBlo]

I love this!
It's so simple but really good

[typid]

you have the absolute BEST art tips known to humanity, AND you teach it so well!! thank you so so much!

[leeislosinghermarbles]

The fact that I have actually learned more from your videos than an actual art class that I payed for (college) is continuously shocking

[black-nails]

thank you, i have seen other videos on this topic and understood non of it! yours is really simple to follow

[tewtheaxolotl]

you explain everything in your vid’s so well

[musingsofmessa]

Let's say for things like brown hair, what would the complementary color or shadow color be?

In one of my latest pieces, I had a blue highlight color and it looks pretty nice. 😊

[emeraldplayer]

Now all of these color wheels images actually making sense now!