Adding Light Tones for a Still Life Background

Video Transcript

"Okay for the light to mid background part of this drawing. The three shadows in the back are basically the same tone but they do, closer to the table, they do get a little bit darker. What I'm going to do is I'm going to loosely just kind of fill these in all the way down. But I'm not going to go real dark with it yet. Until I get closer to the bottom of the shadow and then I'll come in and do a little bit mid grade shadow. And same thing with the bottle. It's pretty much consistent all the way down to where the table sits or it meets the table. I'm just going to come in here and do this. And right at the bottom of the table it gets a little bit darker. And the same with the glass container. These are the lighter of the four shadows that I'm working on right now. And also I've got these darker shadows underneath the seal. So if I want I can start to get into the mids of the seal shadow. And that shadow is actually being cast by this light coming down. So these are your lights and mid shadows on Coquille board."