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Published: 2017-03-09 23:36:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 1094; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 3
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I've been practicing again. I focused on the expression and trying soft shading with this drawing.I find soft shading to have a very amateur look to it, like someone just figured out how to use Photoshop for the first time likes how easy it is to give anything a shaded look, but there are plenty of artists who make soft shading work really well and I'm currently not sure which I should go with for future drawings.
Please enjoy and bestow on me all the critiques you feel like giving.
Oh yeah, I referenced a lot of work to get an idea for how to do soft shading.
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Wow, He looks soooo Badass 
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I'm glad you appreciate the drawing so much. Thanks.
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widening the gradient helps with soft shading... it looks like here you only used one tone of gray, then blended it... try using 3 tones of gray (a light, medium and darker one) then blend them together (just make sure they follow eachother fairly closely, otherwise they won't blend)
hope that helps ^^
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Thanks, but, is that really the trick?
See, when I look at drawings like this www.furaffinity.net/view/20059… it looks like there's only one shade being used for the shadow yet it looks better than my own shading.
For me as an artist I try to find a style that's good but not overly complex. I'm not trying to be ultra realistic but I do want my drawings to look lively and vibrant.
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hmm, well, now seeing what you were referencing, I understand what you mean, though it may just be that you were going for a harsher light (with the gray being a medium-dark gray) and then putting the shadows in the places they'd be for a softer light... here's an "egg-sample" ricksieminski.com/tag/soft-lig… sorry, couldn't resist the pun
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