In this lesson you draw the three-dimensional form of a sphere with a focus on light, shadows, and a cast shadow. The medium is charcoal, and erasers are the drawing tools.

Preview lesson G02 - Coming Out of the Dark

This is a clever technique.

THis is a wonderful, informative, and engaging lesson. I feel like I could do this because of the ease in which this lesson was written. Made me feel confident that I could complete this lesson with some success.

good lesson. shading that way is fun and differnt.

A fun lesson. It worked really well.

Enjoyed the lesson. Just getting started!

Very interesting! Was fun! thanks for the lesson

This was a good lesson. I personally didn't do as the lesson said. I just drew a circle, filled it, deleted a bit and voilaa... It came out quite bad because my paper was awfully smooth and I was gentle with my pencils... Exuses, excuses, I know... but really, I'm telling the truth

Anyway, here are the result
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Just wanted to say this is a wonderful way to learn

Fantastic lesson....though mine did not come out too good.....still pratice,pratice, pratice.

Dear ,

u definately have done agreat job , craeting this site.Only a person with great ideas , and revenue can do this.
Only one thing i dont respect is why do u ask the visitors to pay for the down load?
Also how do u expect a budding artists (who are really interested in learning fine arts) , who even is not able to make his daily leaving n aproper/prosperous way pay for this learning.if possible give it for free.

c u later

thanks

raju.

This one was so fun! I used a charcoal stick and held it with a piece of tissue, so I did the shading and blending in one motion.

In reply to the why must we pay?! thing, that would be because this site costs money to run, and doesn't have ads. If you can think of another way to keep the site running other than ads or premium membership, please tell Brenda. Oh, and I'd like to point out that that wasn't sarcasm in my post

good lesson, specially good to know about the reflected light.

And to Raju, why don't you just look at the lessons online, then it is for free...

I didn't do good with this. It just wasn't smooth. Oh well I guess I need more practice with this.

This is one of my favorite lessons form the series.

Very informative and really fun to do. Thanks for the lesson!

Oh my! this is not as easy as it looks. I need to practice more.
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Geez, Love this place. Great lesson, really!

cool, would be real fun doing this one...

Mine looks more 3d from far.

I drew the same thingin my drawing class. I had never been able to draw, a straight line before I went to classes. I found it astonishing that i could end up drawing something just by shading, really confidence builder. I am going to take it back up now I live on my own, my daughter got married, we all moved home and now I am on my own with a bit of peace and quiet I am going to take up drawing andpainting again.

Liked using charkoal! It was fun and messy

Great lesson! I've never thought of doing it this way! The effect is amazing! Thanks!

That's awesome! I've never been much of a painter (it's way over my head) but I sketch practically everything I see. Have any painting tips for me? It seems really interesting and the effect is amazing!

--Nicole Bender, age 14

I enjoy using charcoal, too, but I always get it everywhere and it smudges everything! Haha, that must be the fun of it...hey, I like using charcoal too!

--Nicole Bender, age 14

Thanks for this lesson, but I do have one question:

in the final product, what is the reason for adding the white highlight on the bottom right of the sphere? It looks good to me and its easy to follow the lesson, but if I was creating this without looking at something, I would think the bottom right area would be the darkest of the whole sphere since it is not in the path of the light source. Can you explain where this highlight comes from? Thank you!