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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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*Shattered-Earth Jan 9, 2013 Digital Artist

yay! i'm glad you like it

*Zeta-Haru Dec 28, 2012 Student Digital Artist

Ultra helpful! and I lol'd at carbon kun D;

*Shattered-Earth Dec 29, 2012 Digital Artist

yay i'm glad it helped!

=mishihime Dec 17, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Great tutorial. I also like the one you recommended but I was looking for a basic one to show some friends just like this.

*Shattered-Earth Dec 19, 2012 Digital Artist

Great, hope it's useful

~Sir-Drago Dec 3, 2012

E-excuse me, I'll just go lay on that corner for a while D: .... No, better for like... A millenium

*Shattered-Earth Dec 4, 2012 Digital Artist

wat what's wrong LOL

~Sir-Drago Dec 4, 2012

All this time I was doing it wroooong, and now I see "the light" but still, even if I would need loooots of time and practice and dnifhbiuwshui to do it right, that's just THE BASICS so... I'll just lay there lamenting lol

_{Still, it's a vvery good tutorial, thank you for making it}

*Shattered-Earth Dec 6, 2012 Digital Artist

lol we can't get perfect instantly, everything takes time yup :U

~Sir-Drago Dec 6, 2012

I knowww, but, buut... TTATT

Pffft, I clicked the "how to use a ref" one.... I was doing that wrong too (just using the same pose or giving it some tweak and adapt the character's body and clothes and stuff) holy moly, I'm screwed XDDDD

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