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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 :D:heart: 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! :heart:

Here is my attempt at explaining how to shade things :O

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 :O.

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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~LoneWintress Feb 17, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
and regrettably, my shading method is B...;_;
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*Shattered-Earth Feb 17, 2013   Digital Artist
the first step of improving is understanding what you did wrong :)
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~LoneWintress Feb 17, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
yes thank you for making me realize that (i still have that)
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:iconjustiraziel:
~JustIRaziel Feb 14, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Quit funny written tutorial, like the light beam explanation :P
(and Noom nom nom- kun ,too)
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*Shattered-Earth Feb 15, 2013   Digital Artist
Thank you, glad you could get something from it :)
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=Lulie Feb 11, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Why doesn't this have a DD yet and why is it so hard to find in searches? D: This is like the best (or maybe second best -- definitely best for figures and beginners) lighting tutorial on DA.

HOW DO I MAKE YOU MORE POPULAR D:
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*Shattered-Earth Feb 12, 2013   Digital Artist
Probably cause it's so messy and ugly XD i'm too lazy to polish it up if i can get the point across already >_>
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:iconcrystel86:
Thanks a lot for your tutorial ! Light and shadow is really difficult for me, but with your tutorial, it's really cleary and helpful! Thanks lot !
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*Shattered-Earth Jan 22, 2013   Digital Artist
oh yay great!
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~2artgirl3 Jan 8, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
this is so amazing! I feel like i had an art breakthrough moment :D thanks soso much!
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