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Drawing Lesson: Light & Shadow

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Summary: Watch an art expert teach you how to draw using light and shadow, including shading and perspective tips in this free illustration video.

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By Craig Browder
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Craig Browder started drawing at an early age. He has a degree from Kendall College in Industrial Design. He does freelance design work which can be seen on surf boards, boogie boards,...read more

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"Okay, in this next segment, I'm going to show you how to actually, how to use shadows and we're going to show the basics of like how shadows and lights work, and just basically two point perspective. So the first one is just going to be shadows and basics of, of, just on a box and two point perspective, so let's start with that. So let's get started with our horizon line, and our two points. One. Two. Vanishing point. And vanishing point. And this is our horizon line. Bingo. Okay, so let's draw a box. Just like you would last time. A normal box. Let's pick a round spot. Excellent. This is going to get kind of complicated, so I'm going to use all the construction lines. And there's the front of our box. Okay. So let's put the back side of the box in. And as we learned, parallel, parallel, and this one parallel back to the vanishing point. We got this down already, so. "

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