Hello, community and above all Hivearte artists, it's me again, Cristhenos; I hope you all are doing well today. In this opportunity I present you some exercises that you can practice to improve shading, since in my previous post we covered everything a beginner should know in the theoretical part about light and shadow and what better way to reinforce that theory than with practice. Anyway, if you didn't have the chance to read my previous post, I will be giving some information related to the subject to cover. I won't keep you any longer. Before I start, here's something you should know.
Shading is a basic artistic concept that consists of giving areas of light and darkness in a drawing. This technique is directly related to realistic drawing and is the basis for learning it. Most of us, as artists, only focus on a linear shading, which we already talked about in the previous post, where we only make a gradient from black to white or vice versa without taking into account the tonal values where a tone, even if it looks black, it is not, and this we can explain in the following chart.
2 luz alta
3 luz
4 luz baja
5 tono intermedio
6 sombra alta
7 sombras
8 sombra baja
9 negro
Where 1 is white.
2 high light
3 light
4 low light
5 intermediate shade
6 high shade
7 shadow
8 low shadow
9 black
Values are those shades of gray that exist between black and white or between light and shadow. All colors have shades comparable to the grays that come out of the black-white mixture, which are called values in order to be able to identify them gradually. The values are represented on a scale from 1 to 9 and it is necessary to know that the values are the intermediate tones between the extremes of the scale, which are white and black. Now, let's move on to the exercises
A very good way to learn how to shade is to take into account the values of each pencil and if each type of pencil can have different values than others, and this can be seen in the following picture. Where we can see that each type of pencil has independent values, but they all follow the same rule: the more pressure, the more darkness, and the less pressure, the less darkness. And this is good to keep in mind, because when working with many pencils, it is advisable to know which tones to choose and which are not the right ones.
One of the exercises that I have found very useful is to draw geometric figures; they are quite simple and perfect to work with shadows. Here are some examples.
When I work with a light source, I like to imagine that light as a cone; this way I know that when it hits the circle, it will be stronger in the center and, as it moves away, it will turn into shadows, and this way I can create a mental image of how the shadow would look like. To shade the sphere, I first create a layer of gray with the H pencil and then move on to 2B, where we will highlight strongly in the parts where there is not so much light, and, in this case, it would be at the opposite end where the light does not impact; and to soften the strokes, we can use a sphumino. It also helps to blend the layers to give that touch of realism.
Para finalizar, vamos a poner todo esto en práctica y qué mejor que el clásico de dibujar objetos, que en este caso es un jarrón. El procedimiento es el mismo que todo lo dicho anteriormente para no repetir todo nuevamente y el resultado sería el siguiente.
And in this way we can rotate the light to achieve different angles where the only thing that changes is the direction of the light, but the procedure remains practically the same and in this way we can develop a mental plane of how the light works and, in addition, we also improve our shading.
If you feel that the circles are too simple, you can change the figures; on the internet there is a lot of content related to this type of figure shading, so we can have a reference or we can also choose to create paper figures and illuminate them on our own, which is also an excellent way.
Finally, let's put all this into practice and what better than the classic of drawing objects, which in this case is a vase. The procedure is the same as everything said above so as not to repeat everything again and the result would be as follows.
Well, that's all for today. Thank you very much for having come this far; I hope it has been useful to help you or to solve any doubt. With nothing more to say, I'll say goodbye until the next post.
Guau, qué maravilla de publicación. Es como asistir a una clase individual, paso a paso y con lenguaje comprensible nos haces una magnífica descripción de la técnica acompañada de la práctica mediante tus propios ejemplos. Me encantó el detalle de colocar la bombilla para indicar la procedencia del foco de luz, jeje, queda graciosa y es un recurso excelente para que no se nos olvide la idea. Tus ejercicios muestran el gran talento que posees para el dibujo y su enseñanza, gracias por compartirlos con nosotros.
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