Video: Shading Techniques for Pencil Drawing

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Pencil drawings are a perfect opportunity for using shading techniques. Learn how to work on shading with help from an expert in this free video art lesson.

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What is really going to make your object pop? It's shading. You really need to get in there and find your shadows and go dark with your pencil because otherwise it's going to look flat. Where your object is meeting the ground, obviously it's going to be the darkest. If it's round, you're going to sort of see you need to follow the light and see sort of how it curves around. The reflections of the light on the bottom and it's obviously very detailed which I can't get into to much right now. But even under the peel you really want to look for that shadow that is going to make it pop and separate the shapes. It's what you're trying to do here. So just go into it and really look for those shadows and of course, you are going to have one on the ground as well, right. From where your light sources so don't forget that otherwise it's going to look like it's floating so go in there and really get your shadows down.

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Shading Techniques for Pencil Drawing

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