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cubicle gangster
Jun 26, 2005

magda, make the tea
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cubicle gangster fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Jul 6, 2018

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cubicle gangster
Jun 26, 2005

magda, make the tea
Just for a quick one - the reason why your shadow looks weird is because you're treating it as an on / off thing with a very soft transistion. In real life you get shadows in the light parts in crevices, and light leaks into the shadowed parts.
You should think of shadow as a means to define a volume and shape rather than something that has to be there. Add color later.

A good excersize I found was to copy a simple photograph with a pencil, shading and all - then copy it again, but this time just the linework and try to change the direction of light. It all kind of fell into place when I did that.

You should definitely be working on learning shading on known real world subjects before you try it on your own design/characters.

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