where to shade tutorial ♥
a few people in my last post requested a tutorial about how you know where to shade when coloring. here it is~
going from this to this:
Start out with the picture you want to shade. Here I took a nice simple image of Ringo from Air Gear. I won't cover anything before here, if you need to know that, check out my last tutorial.
Before shading anything, choose a light source! This is where the light is coming from and the lightest areas will be closest to it. I choose the upper right, because it seemed like the artist was suggesting it was there. And to help me remember, I drew a little sun ♥
I usually start shading the face first. Here I started shading the places where light is blocked by hair. We see shadows because they are places that light can't reach, making them darker than the surrounding areas.
tip for shading under hair if when you shade, you make the shading "pull away" from the strands towards the ends like I've done on some here, it makes it look like the hair is lifting off the face instead of plastered down.
Here I started to shade the facial features. Keeping the light source in mind, I put shading in the places where there is something coming between the area and the light.
tip for shading there is a slight shadow where two objects meet, even if normally they wouldn't be shaded. Look at the fingers, where they meet it's good to put the tiniest bit of shading because they are cylinders, and get darker towards the edges.
To finish up the face, I shade under the neck and put shading on the entire left side of the face, because it's round, and light can't reach back there. Shading's done now!
I do some finishing touches like color in the lips and boost the saturation, and now I'm done!
I'm not going to cover shading anything else in this tutorial, because the things you learn from the face can be used to color everything else. I might make one to cover hair sometime though because that can be challenging.
What do you guys think? Helpful? Not helpful? I'd love to hear from you ♥
WATCH? ♣ AFFILIATE?
going from this to this:
Start out with the picture you want to shade. Here I took a nice simple image of Ringo from Air Gear. I won't cover anything before here, if you need to know that, check out my last tutorial.
Before shading anything, choose a light source! This is where the light is coming from and the lightest areas will be closest to it. I choose the upper right, because it seemed like the artist was suggesting it was there. And to help me remember, I drew a little sun ♥
I usually start shading the face first. Here I started shading the places where light is blocked by hair. We see shadows because they are places that light can't reach, making them darker than the surrounding areas.
tip for shading under hair if when you shade, you make the shading "pull away" from the strands towards the ends like I've done on some here, it makes it look like the hair is lifting off the face instead of plastered down.
Here I started to shade the facial features. Keeping the light source in mind, I put shading in the places where there is something coming between the area and the light.
tip for shading there is a slight shadow where two objects meet, even if normally they wouldn't be shaded. Look at the fingers, where they meet it's good to put the tiniest bit of shading because they are cylinders, and get darker towards the edges.
To finish up the face, I shade under the neck and put shading on the entire left side of the face, because it's round, and light can't reach back there. Shading's done now!
I do some finishing touches like color in the lips and boost the saturation, and now I'm done!
I'm not going to cover shading anything else in this tutorial, because the things you learn from the face can be used to color everything else. I might make one to cover hair sometime though because that can be challenging.
What do you guys think? Helpful? Not helpful? I'd love to hear from you ♥
WATCH? ♣ AFFILIATE?