Shading
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Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4887
Printed Date: 11 October 2022 at 3:04pm
Topic: Shading
Posted By: inspiredmarine
Subject: Shading
Date Posted: 26 August 2007 at 11:06am
Hello all! I'm new to pixel art, and what I was wondering - what is the best way to learn the art of shading? Are there any step-by-step examples or anything? Thanks for taking the time to answer this 
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Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 26 August 2007 at 5:19pm
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This might seem so obvious as to be silly, but the best lesson I've had in shading has been to view the world around me anew, with an artistic eye.
All you're really trying to do when you shade things is to duplicate the way light behaves in real life. Thus, light in real life is your best teacher. There are tutorials out there that show you, step-by-step, how to shade specific things, yes, like a sphere, but you rarely if ever learn anything more from them than how to shade a sphere. Just start looking at things--correction, start seeing things--then start drawing things that you enjoyed seeing. Honestly. It will help you improve faster than any tutorial. ------------- |
Posted By: Kfuchoin
Date Posted: 27 August 2007 at 10:04am
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use references photos.. when you aer going to draw/make something you can look out in Google for a reference photo from what you are drawing (dog for example) and you can try to move the shading to other places for practicing  in this example you can see how light hits an object.., how light isn't there (object over it that blocks light [arm]) you can see how a shadow is made.. this may not be the best example but you can learn from it. but i assume this isn't what you are looking for.. so.. actually there isn't a best way to shade is just matter of practice so you can try to master one technic of shading or the one that you most like.. or it's easier for you and looks good.. just go and look some tutorials of how to shade a ball like hatch said so you can apply that.. ------------- may the pixels be with you.. ~Kfuchoin eMo looking for people for an RPG info: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4903 |
Posted By: inspiredmarine
Date Posted: 28 August 2007 at 11:54am
| thank you guys! I will try this! |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 28 August 2007 at 5:25pm
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Also, as a side note, the amound of midtones in your colors help define the surface reflective ness. Materials such as rubber or wood have more midtones, materials like plastic and glass are very reflective and have less. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/"> 
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