Knowing where to draw light and shadows can turn shapes into forms, such as a circle into a sphere. In this article, you examine four aspects of light and shadow created by a dominant light source, which show artists where to draw light, medium, and dark values.

fantastic, brilliant, excellent, superb. run out of superlitives

Useful lesson. Glad I backtracked for it.

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an amazing tutorial

Nice lesson, learned a lot

This lesson was great, so easily explained. detailed so you can see just what to do. Is good for anyone. It is well-worth going through!!

it WAS hard but than i realized i had the WRONG pencils opps LOVE THIS SITE xoxoxo

I decided to draw one of my paintings again after reading this tutorial. Here is the initial version, and I can see what to do much better now. Thank you very much.

What pencils are the best for this? How much does it matter? I can't seem to get it right, I probably am doing it wrong

A very BIG WOW

Very informative lesson. Thank you!

This lesson was really cool

useful lesson thank you

Great section...just about onto the next, learning tons! A great place to get back into the art scene, thanks!!

on this issue here, we know that we will see what is in light shade and some pictures to highlight the ways in which we see these objects.

Gave a try at drawing the sphere with shadow

It was a very good lesson that can be repeated over and over again. The more times you draw the spheres the better is your shading and the better you can apply the tones. I will definitely do it again in the future. Thank you!

I like that////:-)

I'm having some trouble with shading, then I need some help so that it'll be possible to tackle it over...
My problem is that my curved long lines are not beatiful.
They tremble, moreover, they do not follow the shape...
Then, what can I do in order to draw perfect curved long lines?
I 'm looking for some special exercise or hint.
Thanks.

Leandro Batista
Brasilia D.C,Brazil

I liked it, it gives alot of info on what to do in future drawings. Thank you.

bellissimo stupendo! il problema è che in inglese spero che qualcuno di voi mi sa dire cime tradurre queste lezioni in italiano grazie in anticipo

Overall another good lesson, although I was hoping for a step-by-step exercise. Like one of the previous posters, I would love to see something about the spherical shading with the longer curved lines, and more detail on how to determine the shape of the highlight. Perhaps that will be covered in later lessons?

well i gave the 3d ball a go...
it's not the same...but i think it's ok as it is....no?
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How did you do such smooth color transitions? I'm always having sharp. =(
Also how did you draw such ideal curves? It looks like computer graphics. Each line is perfetly lie on sphere surface and i always have them overlaped they are all "dancing". Pray explain how do you do this?!

First of all thank you so much for all your good comments..
Now to answer your questions, the pencil lines are smooth because when i finished shading it i used a cotton swab to smudge it a little bit cause i didn't like how it looked with hard pencil lines. As for the circle lines i did what Brenda always says: Constantly rotating the paper as i draw!So this is how i did it!:P

Here is my attempt at this lesson, yes i know its shocking lol.

I found this lesson tough, I will keep trying on my shading.