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Quote RandyByond Replybullet Topic: Shading?
    Posted: 21 March 2008 at 7:10pm
Hello I've been practicing with making shapes on paint and i get how to use all the tools.

Now it time for me to learn about shading and light source and stuff like that .

Can you guys give me tips and tuts that might help me?

I have no idea what light source is.
Can you guys give me a objective to do once ina while?
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Quote greenraven Replybullet Posted: 21 March 2008 at 7:37pm
Here's the thread for tutorials. Looks those over, if you're still having problems we're here to help. 
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Quote RandyByond Replybullet Posted: 21 March 2008 at 7:58pm
Before i go into all this tuts i would like to know what a light source is? 
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Quote jalonso Replybullet Posted: 21 March 2008 at 8:26pm
A lightsource is the direction that the light is hitting your subject.

this shows some examples

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Quote RandyByond Replybullet Posted: 21 March 2008 at 9:30pm
So if the light is facing away from the light i make a darker shading?   

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Quote greenraven Replybullet Posted: 21 March 2008 at 10:21pm
Yes.



My suggestion is use a first hand study of light. Go turn on a lamp and put something under it, study that, draw that.

Get the basic lineart done and post it in the WIP forum, he'll help you from there.
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Quote RandyByond Replybullet Posted: 25 March 2008 at 5:43pm
Yea this just confuses me...  Sorry i have a short attention spam when comes to this


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Quote pixelblink Replybullet Posted: 25 March 2008 at 8:02pm
and a short attention span to your art in general. This is not helping you. You need to focus on a single piece first. Then get some critiques. THEN ask about shading on that particular piece.
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Quote Larwick Replybullet Posted: 26 March 2008 at 10:25am
I dunno pb, i think it's a good idea to learn the general fundamentals of something you don't understand rather than first learning the specifics on each individual piece.

Randy, look over your posts before you click the post button, or you'll end up having embarrassing typos like the one you just made of 'spam' rather than 'span'. Okay?

So you understand what a lightsource is now?
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Quote inbntly Replybullet Posted: 16 October 2008 at 6:47am
I personally feel the tutorial that jal posted is a bit confusing, especially for someone who doesn't understand what a lightsource is. Majority of it is fine, but there are a few examples that don't seem to fit, ex. the side light, and pillow shading.

For the Side light, why are only the goggles lite when surely the right side of the mask would show this as well.

Lastly for the pillow shade and mirror (which I'm not very familiar with) only have the front piece of the mask lit up, and only gray..

Those are my only complaint of the tut. but this is coming from a good size newb myself.
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Quote H|F Replybullet Posted: 05 January 2011 at 11:06pm
Lightsource.... is the source in which the light is coming from. By that it could be the sun, a lamp, a window, WHATEVER makes light. Light hits objects/people as well as creates shadows (thus we have "shading")
 
Whatever is closest/sticks out the most gets the most light and the further is darkest. Not hard. What is hard is when you have to learn how light reacts to each thing.
 
THIS takes time and practice. I still need to learn allot and have been drawing my whole life (age 21) and been pixeling for about 5yrs (which is nothing).
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