How to Shade a Sphere Part 1

This video shows how to create values on a sphere. Using a graphite pencil. The basic ideas for creating value on a sphere.
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Kevin McCain is an artist working in both fine art and illustration for over 20 years. Working in drawing and painting Kevin works in an impressionist manner. He has been sharing insights into drawing and painting with students to give them the tools to be successful with their exploration of art.
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[@RoyRossow]

After hearing you say "know your medium, respect your medium" i had to subscribed to your channel. i think you should be known for that comment. its simple, but a very important statement any professional should master. Drawing is such an eternally rewarding medium......i'm about to teach my 1st workshop. ( super nervous!) but i love discussing about the medium that everything should go ok.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you Roy for your comment! Good luck with your upcong workshop!!

[@ncford1]

Great video! This was the second sphere that I ever did. It looks so much better than my first sphere, which I did using blending tools. Comparing the two really drives home the importance of applying graphite with a lot of layering while using a soft, light touch. This one looks so much better! My cast shadow needs a lot of work though. I'm hoping one of your videos that I haven't watched might go into a little more detail about cast shadows. Thanks so much all of your hard work in creating and posting this video.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad you enjoyed the video. I am glad it helped your drawing. I don't have one just for cast shadows. However for cast shadows look for the reflected light. The shadow will get darker the further it gets from the object. That will really help. Take care.

[@jennyvindin6976]

Thank you for taking the time to show this process, it all makes a lot more sense to me now.

[@KevinMccainArtist]

Thank you Jenny

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

glad you enjoyed the video!

[@lamsartlessons6447]

Nice work on the tutorial, I love how you slow down and work so methodically.

[@KevinMccainArtist]

Sarah Lam thank you Sarah

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

thanks again!

[@rubykeiss1540]

This was fantastic,thank you so much. I was able to draw along in real time. I learned alot.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad you enjoyed the video Ruby!

[@avidraksharam6463]

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[@cheannbal]

I wish so much that you'd finish this tutorial. I learned so much about the behaviour of graphite in this video by watching and listening to you. Thank you.

[@KevinMccainArtist]

Hello Cheryl, this is really the foundation of the sphere. To finish it I take an hour and a half and carefully do everything over, again and again, taking more time to carefully control the values. It's a layering process as the graphite builds it looks more uniform and smoother. I am thinking of creating another 20 minute to show taking it to a more finished state.

[@cheannbal]

I look forward to the possibility and I'm not subscribed. :)

[@cheannbal]

I AM subscribed. sigh.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I finally put up part 2. Thank you again for watching.

[@gast4215]

Thank you so much for this video! I learned so much by watching you doing the whole process - e.g. the blending from the shadow to the light side and how you did the reflected lights! There are a ton of videos out there showing how to shade a sphere but it helps a lot to see the whole process. My main problem up to now was a) that I used just one pencil hardness and b) that the blending, the transits between the single values are too abrupt. The next time I'll watch your video I'll be drawing along).

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for your comment. I think you would also like to watch part 2 of the video. The kink is in the description. Keep drawing and take care!

[@cmonaco577]

Excellent Kevin McCain. Bravo. FINALLY! I get It!! Thank you, thank you. I Get It!! I actually get it. Shaded Spheres by Kevin McCain for everyone! Yeah!! Thank you.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad it helped. Thank you for watching.

[@KevinMccainArtist]

This is a very general way to work with value in graphite and is based on my twenty years of working as a professional illustrator and fine artist. Except in a very general way it has very little to do with Darrell Tank's "Five Pencil Method" neither his techniques nor his methods. I actually know Darrell both personally and professionally as we have worked for many of the same clients over the years and he lives in my area. He is a great artist but we work very differently.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Darrell does great stuff! Love his insights on drawing

[@rosieyh]

Thank you for this great tutorial 👍👍

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you for watching I am glad you enjoyed the video.

[@patsat007]

Very nice tutorial. Helped me complete my assignment

[@KevinMccainArtist]

I am glad you found it helpful

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad it helped!

[@yeyo5103]

Nice video, pal 👍

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Thank you I am glad you enjoyed it.

[@artbillcorner]

Hi Kevin. Thank you very much for the tutorials. From the above tutorial, the paper is not Strathmore. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thank you in advance.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

It's Strathmore, but it's from a drawing pad it's not their nicer more expensive single sheets or rolls.

[@katierussell3695]

Hello, I was wondering if you can give me tips on how the same concepts apply to colored pencils on a sphere. I am trying to work on how to create skin tones with faber castell polychromos colored pencils but when I try to layer for example dark candium orange with magenta I get either too much orange or too much magenta and it does not look blended together. And when I add dark walnut or burnt ochre for shadows it looks odd. Should I start with the shawdows first then go on to Mid tones and halftone?

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Hello Katie thank you for contacting me. Unfortunately I haven't worked much with color pencil so unfortinately I have any tips on working with the medium.

[@rich3419]

Great tutorial. Many thanks.

[@KevinMccainArtist]

Thank you.

[@KevinMccainArtist]

I appreciate that

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

thanks again for watching!

[@shayankhan4968]

I am very happy

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad you enjoyed the video.

[@poppopcupboy]

Great tutorial. Have you said which grade of pencil you are using for each step in this project. I know what pencil you brought to the project H2 up to 4B but which grade you started the dark shadows. I’m gonna watch again, but will I find these answers. I’m learning and this tutorial is better than the rest for shading, thanks.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I was using one of five pencils on this particular drawing I was either using a 4H, 2H, HB , 2B or 4B. If you turn on the closed captions it will be easier.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I started with the HB to establish the basic light versus shadow shape I believe.

[@ncford1]

​@@KevinMcCainStudios Thanks for clarifying because I couldn't find what pencil you started with. I assumed it was an HB pencil, which you confirmed here, because you transitioned from your first pencil to a 2H pencil because your first pencil was "a little darker than what I wanted."

[@sarahb933]

Whay pencil do you use in each step? H 2h 2b 3h ...??????

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I appreciate your comment. O use a combination of the 4h, 2h, HB, 2b and 4b. It says in the video which one is being used in each step.

[@renzo6490]

It would help immeasurably if we could see a reference photo of the sphere that is being drawn..

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

There was no reference, this was from memory and understanding the way form shadows wrap a sphere. As well to show the process of layering graphite.

[@dianemellott5278]

@@KevinMcCainStudios Great tutorial. ( I think Renzo was thinking you have a reference photo as you referred to a picture of a sphere a few times in the beginning. I was thinking the same thing, that I would have liked to see the image you were working from. Perhaps you were referring to the picture you were working on, not from.)

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

This video was used for a class and I sent the a photo to the students to see the different families of form shaow that I was referring to in tge video. I myself wasn't using any reference to create the drawing.

[@yousafjamil7031]

thank God finely a saw a person who is sketching with left hand...i am left handed person and i think that's why i can not sketch good😑

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

Left hand, right hand doesn't matter with practice anyone can sketch good.

[@KevinMcCainStudios]

I am glad you enjoyed the video.