How To Draw Perspective Shadow - Drawing Shadows In Perspective

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Adding shadows to the objects in your perspective drawing is a great way to make it look realistic. So in this lesson, we are going to learn how to draw shadows in perspective
For detail instructs on how to draw shadows, please refer to the video above.
Here's a quick summary off the shadow drawing process:
Step 1: Draw your objects
Step 2: Determined the location of the light source
Step 3: Locate the shadow vanishing point. (The shadow vanishing points will be vertically aligned with the light source)
Step 4: Draw a line from the light source through each of the top outer corner of your object (be sure to extend the line pass the corners)
Step 5: Draw a line from the shadow vanishing point to each of the respective bottom outer corner of the object (be sure to extend the line pass the corners)
Step 6: The points where the top and bottom line intersect will be a corner of your shadow. Connect the points together to form the shadow shape and shade it in.
And that's how you draw a shadow in perspective for a simple object.
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Until next time, thanks for watching and good luck drawing!:

[@DesignDensity]

Wow this tutorial is insanely amazing, I have been drawing for over 10 years and was never taught how to work out the shadow lines like the way you teach in this video, I always struggled with shadows boundaries, this tutorial definitely helps me improve my shadows, I can't tell you how grateful I am watching this video, thank you so much 🙏

[@rachelm7525]

This is great stuff! Shadows can make or break a drawing, this is so important, better than just guessing!☺

[@opera46]

You're an excellent teacher. Thanks for posting.

[@MyDrawingTutorials]

+leon harris Thank you! And you're very welcome, Leon!

[@yishakart]

Cast shadow drawing kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZaTdnqaos-Gm8k

[@RingoWild]

I can't begin to tell you how helpful this tutorial is! Thank you for taking the time to really explain how it works. Now it makes sense!

[@washitbyagianttruck9275]

This is so genius like WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING THIS WHOLE TIME GUESSING WHERE TF THE LIGHT HITS AND STUFF OMFG, CAN´T BELIEVE IT WAS THAT SIMPLE ALL ALONG! Thank you so muuuuuuuuch, Sir!

[@sylviahowell7802]

Thank you for this FANTASTIC video on shadows in perspective. You made it so easy! Many thanks.

[@MyDrawingTutorials]

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[@MyDrawingTutorials]

Thank you very much, Mary!

[@Yeame143]

My Drawing Tutorial you obviously know your stuff you can reach it. If you want to know how well you know something try to teach it to another person. I just learned how to shadow objects in under 15min.

[@Olivia-bh7vs]

I want to cry, I’ve been struggling all day with trying to understand shadows and you go and give me the equation. I cannot express how great full I am!!!

[@lynnallen6996]

I’ve been working on this for weeks - book, tutorials - this is so well explained. Thank you!!

[@mrcodez]

Almost 10 years later and this video remains very helpful! Thanks, this was really easy to follow.

[@treelogicllc9167]

This may be one of the best, to the point, zero excess, most instructive, videos that I've seen. Others could learn a lot from your style. 👍👊💪🤛👏

[@MyDrawingTutorials]

Thank you!

[@PriyaRamanujan]

Amazing tutorial!! The best tutorial on youtube for shadows...!

[@ruthstriby6653]

I have learned a great deal from you regarding perspective, thank you.

[@rosacobos]

thank you very mich for your great tutorial. I have learned a lot from it, because it is clear and simple. Greetings from Bilbao. Spain. Rosa

[@ct4883]

You're a wonderful teacher. I really got a lot out of this tutorial. Thanks for all your work!

[@mandarancina]

You are a very good teacher and very clear in your explanation. Thank you.

[@skye5818]

I think something just clicked in my brain

[@yishakart]

Cast shadow drawing kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZaTdnqaos-Gm8k

[@xE92vD]

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[@opsam6052]

Wow what an relief...I was looking from so much time for someone who can explain me this concept thank you very much ....Love from India

[@FABIOh1976]

Thanks for putting effort to teach drawing. This video was very helpful for me.

[@elversegarrido3848]

This is amazing, and easy to learn. Thank you teacher

[@morgandennis6116]

this is so incredibly helpful! thank you!

[@timmyskidoo2253]

Nice tutorial. You seem to teach with ease, well done. I was just browsing different perspective drawing tutorial videos when i came upon your video. At some point soon i will attempt to draw and then paint (water color possibly) my mothers childhood home. The technique learned from this video is already becoming part of the drawings finished product. Thank you for your talent and time sharing it.

[@EvilMP5]

Hey I have that mechanical pencil, best one I ever owned. Lately have been using traditional Blackwing pencils. Awesome tutorial, very clear and concise.

[@drabsyo5490]

Thank you for this. I owe you bigtime.

[@diclark9442]

Very clear and interesting video. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

[@yehudamenachem8357]

Thank you keeping it stupid simple, u r an angel

[@apaiiyui8488]

Thank you, I never really understood properly how we can know the size of a shadow and this was very usefull and clear 😊

[@mohammedshahidrahman8276]

Wonderful, awesome, informative tutorial!!! plz upload more like these...thanks a lot for the video!!

[@BY-hw6om]

Really simple and helpful THANKS

[@logan3586]

wow you made that so perfectly clear. thank you so much!

[@maddiekelch9273]

Thank you so much for this video! Very helpful

[@yilinglaozu9103]

literally my homework for tomorrow. That helped

[@karl6149]

I learned shadow drawings very fast because of this, LIGHTning fast😂 Thank you

[@epicpatato2571]

my guy slow down on these puns

[@FeminineSky]

very clear and simple tutorial !!! i love it .. thank you so much

[@chpapermagic1370]

thank you so much for this helpful tutorial

[@miskylan]

this is way better than my drawing lesson! THANK YOU

[@abosedetaiwo-jq5jw]

❤I love this

[@Roman-is4jj]

Thank you. Very helpful.

[@devandestudios128]

Damn this makes shadows seem easy. Thank You.

[@daumantasercmonas2500]

Awesome tutorial with perfect explanation!!

[@terrycardinaldesigns]

That was excellent! I bought an online class and it was explained so quickly I ha to do more research. Now I think I understand. Thanks!

[@amybell6459]

Wow...that makes a LOT more sense!!

[@gsupulnieks]

Very simple and importante tutorial, thanks

[@MyDrawingTutorials]

Guntis Šūpulnieks You are very welcome!

[@cristobalbg2069]

Gracias por este vídeo y explicación. Un saludo

[@ericeinarramirezgarduno4611]

Just what I've searching for, thank you 💓

[@HyperHrishiHD]

Very Helpfull! Thank you!

[@aubreyowakefield5994]

Good lesson. Very clear.

[@karinl3524]

Great clean explanation!

[@TAMMYTUBETIME]

AWESOME TUTORIAL! thank you!!

[@unknownartist2801]

what a great teacher.

[@Alcatrax0]

Good explanation. Thumbs up 👍🏼

[@killswitch9790]

This helped me a lot. thank you!

[@jenniferborges4116]

so helpful thank you so much!

[@Angelsanchezjr]

Thank You Very Much!!!!, Great and Simple Tutorial easy to understand.!!!!

[@MeronMelese-nk1sg]

This tutorial still very useful!

[@jpulv123]

thanks mate. good tutorial!

[@adithyasuresh4300]

This was a very helpful and easy to understand video

[@peteraraujo4662]

Awesome tutorialll!

[@sassy6292]

You fill in the shadow right to the edge of the paper.

[@taylahgooch5631]

It was better than I expected that video tough me how to shade its so C00L and awesome

[@Retro-zn2jt]

Thank you very much, now what if the light source is filtered, or reflected by matter, objects, water? if there is 2 perspectives points, the rules stay the same because we are in 3 dimensions ? that's for another lesson I suppose. if you have any links please i'm interested

[@afnanelmahankar462]

Thanks for your help ♥️

[@silkieshag9703]

very well explained, thanks .

[@28lester]

I was getting headaches trying to figure this out by myself, thank you.

[@estherherat4977]

Fantastic. Thank you.

[@H0peAnL0ve]

Great teacher

[@knharidas]

Really good one!

[@jinyoungpark2341]

As clear as a bell, thank you so much!

[@knickolasboston4016]

Thanks, I really wanted to find some more fundamentals to make my drawings seem better and more realistic, so you were a BIG help.

[@taylahgooch5631]

It was better than I expected that video tough me how to shade its so cool thankyou for thatvidieo that was awesome

[@jimmcrae7475]

that was really cool

[@jameshadley488]

Is this correct, considering sun light is almost entirely parallel rays? This technique seems to treat the sun as a spotlight in the sky. I could be wrong of course, just curious.

[@林潮篁]

James Hadley i'm just talking nonsense, our eyes are a kind of magnifiers, therefore, every difference of the distance between the eyes and every part of shadows will twist the picture we see, i mean, the farther the shadow is, the more it will shrink, and eventually twist the whole shape. it's just like when we see the railway, they are almost parallel, but why will it contract into a dot? i think both phenomenons are because of the same thing.

[@fergylucia6549]

Awesome tutorial!!!

[@pecintalagu4723]

Thank you for info

[@hyang140]

Clear enough! Thank you very much!! :) It's useful

[@poetryjones7946]

Well done effective tutorial , and thanks for getting right to it, without a lot of babbling and annoying music. Subbed.

[@aisy4559]

Thank you for this

[@lttled9212]

Thank you sooo much!! This video will really help me a lot thanks

[@Yesupathamcg]

long time headache now cleared, great explanation.. thank you . One question! if light source hit in front of the object how to draw perspective lines?

[@kumarakannusamy6114]

:P

[@OfftopicStuff]

this is exactly what came to my mind when watching this...

[@tedrastlin7972]

you put the light source an equal distance underneath the horizon, like a mirror.

[@phaniramlalpet]

pretty helpful. thank you.

[@vandanawadher1502]

Very good drawing

[@Lanaprivitera]

That was an excellent, fast explanation. Many thanks!! :-)

[@timetorun9]

really amazing helpful tutroial thank you so much

[@PrakharPaawanSaxenaInqalab]

Very easy explanation....

[@Ellie1097]

Very helpful tutorial. Now I can improve more on my interior and exterior perspectives. Thanks mate :) -BS Architecture student

[@MyDrawingTutorials]

RacheSensei GCPH Thank you very much! For the longest time growing up I wanted to become an architect. I ended up pursuing other things but I hope to be able to study the subject one day. It seems so interesting. Good luck with your schooling!

[@abheetrajput]

You saved my life bro!

[@kuljeetsingh8395]

Very informative

[@jamalnaserhamzaei5806]

Great video. Thanks 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️

[@kantakotwani9326]

great explanation! thank you very much. can you please explain how to cast shadow in figures also. Is this same method applies in figures also

[@bookbug1133]

Finally, i get it now. Thanks

[@rohanbhate9505]

Amazing!!!

[@deepaksm4956]

It is a great video, i think we need to know how to make shadow at curved ends or curved objects like an egg,sphere,boll,etc.

[@christinehutton1026]

Do you have anything books of learning how to determine cast shadows at different times and angles

[@HangLe-cg9mg]

Thank you.

[@learnwithaasim]

So helpful❤⚡

[@bobmarkerson]

Thank you man

Thank you very much 🖒

[@Mureirsa]

Thx helpd a lot

[@queenofthepierats]

Thank you so much for this video! You just explained what my graphic design professors at the Art Institute couldn't give, and it was the one thing I've been trying to figure out for years.

[@aceanimations3214]

10 years ago :o Still great video 💜 Thanks for the video!