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Adding Shadows in Pencil Drawing

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Summary: Create a dark scene in your next pencil drawing by learning how to draw shadows from our expert in this free video art lesson.

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By Kristine Mueller, eHow Presenter

Kristine Mueller is an artist and designer who has studied drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, and design at Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL, Otis...read more

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"So you can keep going back in there and going over your highlights with these pencils. Go back in there if you want with your smudge tool and continue to you're really sort of sculpting this shape out of the paper with your lights and darks, that is really what it comes down to. So play with it go back and forth really sort of trying to find those places that are going to make the shape pop. So basically you just want to keep playing with it and really it's about trying to see the lights and the darks. Don't worry so much about getting it to look perfect right away so just keep practicing and practicing, try to see those highlight and shadows that are helpful to make your image pop."

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