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The BASICS : Light + Shadowby *Shattered-Earth

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If you like this tutorial or do not like it, please take some time to tell me why so I will know how to make any future tutorials! Thanks And thank you for all your favs, it makes me happy that anyone could find any help from this at all, I am so sorry I cannot visit all your pages and say thanks personally as it's become far too much work for this deviation ATM. Please know i still truly appreciate all the support!

Here is my attempt at explaining how to shade things

Again inspired by lots of art I see where the same mistakes are being made a lot by many many artists. Most tutorials I see are about how to shade in a certain "style" or how things look like if they are shaded like. Like, here's a cube, shaded! UNDERSTAND?

Of course not @_@, it takes lots of practice to understand things like that, not a simple tutorial. So my goal with this was to equip beginners with the concepts needed to examine how things are shaded and WHY things are shaded. With this, i hope people can begin to practice on their own and work their brains on shading and 3D forms, and apply it to their own art

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Check out the other BASIC Basics:

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THE ONLY TUTORIAL ON COLORING I RECOMMEND AT THE MOMENT AFTER YOU'VE MASTERED THESE BASICS IS THIS ONE: [link]

It is FANTASTIC, but i realize it is of little use if you do not understand the very FUNDAMENTALS of lighting and shadow, so once you get it, please check that one out it's AMAZING

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~ScillAsylum Mar 26, 2012 Hobbyist

Clear, to the point, with silly faces to keep one interested..thank you so much for this. I definitely learned a lot! <3

~esohes Mar 21, 2012 Student Digital Artist

I can definitely agree that I was one of those people who jumped into art without learning the fundamentals. I started drawing years ago but never took it any further than simple sketches up until just recently when I bought me a tablet. I went head on into drawing and painting in photoshop.. observe my seriously crappy art in my collection lol. I float around in forums on various websites doing requests for people who don't know what good art really is so they think that mine is great. To be honest, I learned bad things FROM those forums, where NONE of those people, not even the "artists," know what good art should actually look like because majority of them are like me (or how I WAS before; which is simply just being lazy imo) and they never learn the fundamentals. I am trying so desperately to learn and practice. I spend many an hour drawing everyday. I tend to sleep deprive myself in my dedication. So I truly appreciate you taking the time out to help noobs like me learn these things. I've spent countless hours that I will never get back searching for tutorials on where to begin but most of them are for those who have a "basic understanding" so it was a complete and utter waste of my time. You have now saved me from wasting more time on said "basic understanding" tutorials. You are my savior. So thank you!

~Bellabanda Jan 30, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

You are really cool and funny! This tutorial is the BOMB!! My coloring style is letter "B" and I laughed my ass off when I saw the illustration. I was like.. Holy... He's right! You are a great teacher! Keep it up. Please post more tutorials!

~Scriptwidgets Sep 22, 2011

This is great!

~ToriaWu Aug 9, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

SOOO HELPFUL =u=. Thank you so much!!! <3

~Astrodynamicist Aug 2, 2011

This helps me SO MUCH. I've never quite understood how to do shading, but now I get how to start by visualizing the light beams as you described. Thanks so much for this tutorial!

(I also quite enjoyed your sense of humor in it. ^.^)

~Galithor Jul 7, 2011 Professional Filmographer

OMG! It's like... Raytracing! Never saw it that way when painting. Thanks!

*Torheit-die-Katze Jul 7, 2011

Great tutorial! It's very helpful to learn the basics of shading!

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