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" A Beginner's Tutorial" : An Introduction to Shading

Uses: For those who are new to the world of art and are starting with pencil and paper as their medium. You could use it for some digital art programs, but this is mainly directed towards new "traditional" artists.

1: Copy the shading from darkest on one side, to the lightest on the other. Try to keep the shading even throughout and do not use your finger or any other tool to blur your shading. Do so with your pencil or graphite pen/pencil. Try different techniques doing so, maybe only shading in one direction works for you? Maybe you feel more comfortable using small circles for your gradients?

2: Use a technique called "Hatching". Hatching is where you criss-cross straight lines to make these shadings. The more lines you put in one area, the darker it is. The more sparsed out between your hatches, the lighter it will be. I apologize for my horrible "Hatch", as I have no scanner to properly show you what it would really look like, so I have used my Vector program to demonstrate this as best as I can.

3: "Speckling" is where you use dots to make up your picture/shading. Putting your dots closer together with many of them creates a darker shade, while putting less dots gives you your lighter shades.

4: Self-Explainitory. Shade the cube, sphere, and cone with the light-source directing from one side (it does not have to be the left side as long as you know what you're doing).

5: Finally, pick one object around you and compose of its basic structure using plane shapes (meaning, no 3D shapes like a cube or sphere. Use a circle, square, or rectangle only for example). Try to decompose your chosen object in your mind into their separate shapes. Like a dog's face can be made of squares and circles, so can any other object. Once you are satisfied, use different shades to show what parts of the object are receiving the most light, and what is shadowed.

Use my quickly drawn book for an example. I have composed the book (without pages) into three rectangles. The lightest rectangle is the binding, which has the most amount of light and so is the lighter shade of grey than the others. The biggest rectangle is the cover of my book, which would receive a little less light than the binding. The third rectangle is my back cover, and as I would not be able to see the outside of the back cover, it is the darkest as it is on the inside of the book and would have no light showing on it. The mid-grey area in the cover of the book just represents where the back cover is located, and how big it is. As the front cover would hide this part of the back cover, I showed this by making this part of the rectangle lighter than its back-cover-brother, but darker than the front cover as it is not part of the front of the book.

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My little sibling is taking art classes and asked me to help her get into art (she's never done any drawings before, only crafts like making bracelets and painting her nails). So, I'm giving her a crash course. Her teacher doesn't care if it's a real picture or not, she just wants to see some progress from my sister.
So, I figured that while I'm making this, it could be of some use to other's out there just now stepping into the world of art. If you have questions, ask me! I don't have a scanner to properly show this, but this is the best way I can.

As for anime, I'm still trying to convince a certain somebody into helping me out Would you guys likes to bug him here on dA to help? :creepystare:

If it's not showing up, click "Download" over on the side of the screen. It will not really download anything (let me know if it does try to though), but brings the picture up!

Tutorial done by me. Free to use but don't claim it as your own. I don't think you should claim my mud 'n' crud as your own. X)

Description
" A Beginner's Tutorial" : An Introduction to Shading

Uses: For those who are new to the world of art and are starting with pencil and paper as their medium. You could use it for some digital art programs, but this is mainly directed towards new "traditional" artists.

1: Copy the shading from darkest on one side, to the lightest on the other. Try to keep the shading even throughout and do not use your finger or any other tool to blur your shading. Do so with your pencil or graphite pen/pencil. Try different techniques doing so, maybe only shading in one direction works for you? Maybe you feel more comfortable using small circles for your gradients?

2: Use a technique called "Hatching". Hatching is where you criss-cross straight lines to make these shadings. The more lines you put in one area, the darker it is. The more sparsed out between your hatches, the lighter it will be. I apologize for my horrible "Hatch", as I have no scanner to properly show you what it would really look like, so I have used my Vector program to demonstrate this as best as I can.

3: "Speckling" is where you use dots to make up your picture/shading. Putting your dots closer together with many of them creates a darker shade, while putting less dots gives you your lighter shades.

4: Self-Explainitory. Shade the cube, sphere, and cone with the light-source directing from one side (it does not have to be the left side as long as you know what you're doing).

5: Finally, pick one object around you and compose of its basic structure using plane shapes (meaning, no 3D shapes like a cube or sphere. Use a circle, square, or rectangle only for example). Try to decompose your chosen object in your mind into their separate shapes. Like a dog's face can be made of squares and circles, so can any other object. Once you are satisfied, use different shades to show what parts of the object are receiving the most light, and what is shadowed.

Use my quickly drawn book for an example. I have composed the book (without pages) into three rectangles. The lightest rectangle is the binding, which has the most amount of light and so is the lighter shade of grey than the others. The biggest rectangle is the cover of my book, which would receive a little less light than the binding. The third rectangle is my back cover, and as I would not be able to see the outside of the back cover, it is the darkest as it is on the inside of the book and would have no light showing on it. The mid-grey area in the cover of the book just represents where the back cover is located, and how big it is. As the front cover would hide this part of the back cover, I showed this by making this part of the rectangle lighter than its back-cover-brother, but darker than the front cover as it is not part of the front of the book.

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My little sibling is taking art classes and asked me to help her get into art (she's never done any drawings before, only crafts like making bracelets and painting her nails). So, I'm giving her a crash course. Her teacher doesn't care if it's a real picture or not, she just wants to see some progress from my sister.
So, I figured that while I'm making this, it could be of some use to other's out there just now stepping into the world of art. If you have questions, ask me! I don't have a scanner to properly show this, but this is the best way I can.

As for anime, I'm still trying to convince a certain somebody into helping me out Would you guys likes to bug him here on dA to help? :creepystare:

If it's not showing up, click "Download" over on the side of the screen. It will not really download anything (let me know if it does try to though), but brings the picture up!

Tutorial done by me. Free to use but don't claim it as your own. I don't think you should claim my mud 'n' crud as your own. X)