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=6236
Printed Date: 30 September 2025 at 3:36am
Topic: Shading?
Posted By: RandyByond
Subject: Shading?
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 7:10pm
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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?  Thanks  |
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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 7:37pm
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Here's the http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=706 - thread for tutorials . Looks those over, if you're still having problems we're here to help.
-------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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Posted By: RandyByond
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 7:58pm
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Before i go into all this tuts i would like to know what a light source is?
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Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 8:26pm
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A lightsource is the direction that the light is hitting your subject. this shows some examples  ------------- |
Posted By: RandyByond
Date Posted: 21 March 2008 at 9:30pm
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So if the light is facing away from the light i make a darker shading? |
Posted By: greenraven
Date 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. ------------- "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso
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Posted By: RandyByond
Date Posted: 25 March 2008 at 5:43pm
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Yea this just confuses me... Sorry i have a short attention spam when comes to this |
Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 25 March 2008 at 8:02pm
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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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Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 26 March 2008 at 10:25am
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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? -------------  http://larw-ck.deviantart.com">
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Posted By: inbntly
Date Posted: 16 October 2008 at 6:47am
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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. |
Posted By: H|F
Date Posted: 05 January 2011 at 11:06pm
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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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