Art Fundamentals: Shading

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Continuing the Art Fundamental series with illustrator Clint Cearley we discuss the terms and kinds of shadows, shading the basic forms and simplifying complex forms for easier shading.
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[@LillenArt2]

I highly recommend doing a few photo studies in black and white for a while to everyone who is struggling. if you're really struggling you can also paint each of the basic shapes (sphere, cubes, cone, pyramid) until you feel yourself grasping the concept of light. Doing these things and reading about "ambient occlusion" really helped me.

[@Habasmall93]

This is the most informative tutorial about shading out there. I even feel guilty that I can watch it for free. Thank you very much!

[@nasrshapanya394]

he gets money from this videos so don't feel guilty

[@cherylsturdevant6811]

Thank you I am 60 years old and I have been so ill for many years, but by God's grace I am better. I could draw but never got theses basics taught to me. Thank you for your time.Cheryl

[@Swatches]

Glad to hear that your health is improving and that you're getting back into art! Drawing and painting honestly become a lot more fun after you get these basics down, you'll get to focus more on the ideas and less on struggling with the more "technical" aspects :)

[@polish_soap2360]

Why is this the most wholesome comment I've seen

[@地熱-l5k]

I've been watching your fundamental series on a marathon, I really like how you get the point across without spoonfeeding it. It really urged me to figure things out by myself and make these fundamentals as an inseparable part of my skillset. Bravo!

[@KGOVINDADITYA]

thought i was the only one watching this now lol

[@ryannixon4138]

I'd notice pinched and bounced light when opening a composition book. It appears brighter where the pages meet. Glad someone else noticed this and described it!

[@partingmist8550]

Now I might be mistaken but I believe that the pinch light is actually just ambient light or bounce light as well. it is not actually brighter then the other bounce lights it is just surrounded by darks so it appears bright. In order to test that I did color picking in paint and the spot labeled bounce light is actually brighter than the area label pinch light!

[@ElFantasma13]

This guy is a good teacher.

[@sunnie-chan502]

Forget all the videos I've watched this is the most effective.. I have subscribed..... I have been doing it all wrong..

[@ayushbaral8269]

Thank you for making all these videos and helping us out. 1000 likes and no dislike shows how valuable you have been to us.

[@Paintology]

cheers, thatnks for these core funamental points, i have subscribed!

[@obama7792]

shapes and forms may break my bone but values will never hurt me

[@user-wt5if6rx8m]

Thank you so much for this series, I've been looking for something like this for months, as a guide. I've been lost not knowing where to start, now I know which subjects should I explore in books, articles and lessons in order to develop my techniques! I can't believe I haven't found this even earlier this year. I should let you know, this is life changing for me. Thank you! Wish you the best x

[@Swatches]

That's awesome! Very glad to hear that the series is being a help to you :)

[@gabryelaury8882]

I thought I knew everything about light and shadow, but still decided to review my fundamentals, and damn, you explain everything, great video, I even learned more !

[@kellivallier5948]

Thank you for all the information you convey in this series. I am incredibly grateful.

[@kennyespinel4453]

Hey that's the most useful video I've ever seen!!! I'm a graphic designer and art student, this help me a lot of!!!! Thank you so much

[@graphiteforest3358]

There's a lot of useful information in this video. I'll definitely be returning to this every once in a while. Great job, Clint! :)

[@hectorsantiago4371]

Just wanted to say thank you for posting this video, it has really helped me improve the quality of my work. Liked and subscribed!

[@Swatches]

I'm glad it helped and thanks for the sub :)

[@GarmanyRachel]

I'll be looking for pinched light everywhere now, I was lacking that tool, thank you!

[@missfoufa4938]

Thank you

[@bongkem2723]

awesome vid ! so far the most clear explanation i found. thanks man !!!

[@Swatches]

Glad you liked it!

[@BIitZ-Z]

This amazing , it would be great if you could break it down the shading of a rock mountain? I find it hard to distinguish which one is which

[@howardchng6066]

Whats the difference between Core Shadow and Occlusion Shadow? And also is the bounce light being brighter at the bottom considered Pinched Light?

[@Pelperfect]

This helped alot

[@sghfsdhfssghgfjsgfjs9739]

Thanks Clint, I learned a few new things.

[@64Mutt]

This is a great series. Thank you.

[@djebbariyassine8795]

So glad to see you again ! love it thank you alot

[@nicolaizafra9705]

Great mentor! can't wait for your next lessons :)

[@Grutbrushes]

Fantastic overview Clint, ---Subscribed!

[@ivanalantiev2397]

Thank you Clint! That was amazing lesson!

[@jewishskydesloges1746]

talking about ambient occlusion

[@DCBeatemx]

Sir Clint! I am at a roadblock. I see the work of such great artists like yourself and I notice this among you: an ability to light objects of your conception as if they are in 3d space. Should I first create objects in a 3d program like ZBrush to increase my knowledge of a form? (I would have to learn it though, I still don't know it.) Or would I be safe without learning other 3d methods of draw, and instead paint an object in Photoshop in an array of angles and lighting setups to build a sort of understanding that way? What would make the most sense to do assuming I want to make great looking paintings and don't really care about 3d pipelines? *sorry long question

[@ДимонЦунами]

DC Beatem definately you should learn 3d

[@partingmist8550]

The best way you can increase your knowledge of form and lighting is to draw simple objects from real life, that way you can move around them and view them at different angles. paper towel rolls or cups for cylinders, carboard or furniture for boxes, balls of some type for spheres. I like to shine a lamp on a clay sphere I made and check different angles of light. then take them outside and draw them is different lighting conditions.

[@squary101]

Thank you Clint!

[@elvinchan6796]

it's quite good!

[@kaylarumph1303]

Is there another word for pinched light, I was trying to look up an alternative definition but couldn’t find “pinched light” anywhere. Or could you describe it a little better?

[@Kogirius]

great short video again. The idea to use that "shading" word is great, so many types in one picture! perhaps you could show the direction of incoming light... wish we could see your process of drawing it in a bit more detail. I've almost skipped it with that 01:33 description skip! How did you do the transitions so smooth? in general, i ve found it really hard to find a tutorial on how to imitate the analogue method of stumping/blending charcoal for smooth skin moddeling with some cloth, and blending with the colorpicker seems not very efficient...if not telling what to watch directly, perhaps you could include general recommendations? like whom to watch/which words to google. thanks for the files too

[@Kogirius]

oh, you have the timelapse included in the files! nice)

[@ShadowForeverCG]

Thank you a lot for videos! Allways wathcing them, helps a lot! Keep up the great work! ;)

[@ryannixon4138]

Thanks so much for this series

[@EGV88]

Is there a way to practice this? Or help memorise it?

[@stealcase]

Love the format and the explanations, but could you do something different about your mic setup? Other than that, great video. :)

[@steliostoulis1875]

1.2k to 3. That's one of the most impressive like/dislike ratios I've ever seen

[@ingridfong-daley5899]

I'm not at all an artist, but i had a brain injury three years ago and lost certain aspects of 'language facility' or processing or something, and i began to see 'geometrically' or spatially sometimes when 'words stopped working', so i suddenly began drawing recently and it's SO WEIRD because the one thing that literally kept me afraid of even trying to draw my whole life--the aspects that seemed insurmountably difficult (perspective and shading in particular)--became 'instinctive'. So it's made me start watching videos like this to learn better terminology/conceptual accuracy i guess... which is my long intro way of asking "why is it called 'terminator' instead of 'terminus'?" The jargon is new to me, but my background was music and linguistics, and i swear it feels like 'terminus' would make way more sense. Is there a reason/history behind that? (I may have even learned it before, but 'head injury' so i honestly have no idea) :) Thanks in advance!

[@sadhoodiee]

Thank you for that moment I really needed that

[@BilianaBiBiShiBiBiShaN1111]

Excellent video! Thank you !!!

[@AleRees]

Excellent advice as always. Keep it coming!

[@antonioblanco3086]

Thanks a lot! great job!!

[@mostafaofficial5062]

Cant you write a pdfbook about it>?

[@yakigesher-zion7289]

Where’s the link to the diagram???

[@supatvrd]

Mans got an RTX 5090 in his head

[@flifluflofli]

seems like like bounce like wifi ... and it does not bounce like a ball even on a flat surface against a direction it still bounce back and emit everywhere ;) what i notice from your tutorial .. the only thing that bother me how to know where the shadow is and light when started even with explanation is sort of guess ... or i need to build a structure with the shape with3dmax ? :)

[@partingmist8550]

You gotta look at a real object and shine a real light on it, you will start to notice a pattern in how the light affects the object. And gotta draw the way it looks.

[@atocomics801]

Onde está o link do site para estudo?

[@Swatches]

gumroad.com/l/shadingfiles

[@DuckSlinger11]

@@Swatches Very useful, thanks a lot!

[@IlustradorJBM]

Hi Clint, I have a big question that I could not answer, about color and how color mixing in RGB. A few days ago, I heard something about the fact that we can not get pure Green in photoshop when we mix yellow and blue. And I tried and it's true !! At least not in photoshop. The colors do not mix as they should showing some gray tones that are not pure green. Researching I discovered that the only way to get similar colors would be with dodge color .... but it would not be like a traditional paint job. Do you know if there is any way to be able to mix colors in a traditional way on a screen? I would appreciate all the help they can offer me. Thank you very much

[@LillenArt2]

RGB color is a lot different from mixing paint in real life, mostly because your computer monitor is backlit whereas your canvas is not. The result is that digital painters have access to colors that can't be printed on paper. There are almost too many colors. One way around this is to find a Painter's wheel plugin and make your own swatch palettes. Color is a funny thing. What might look green might not actually be green. The surrounding colors affect what you're seeing. Something could look green but might actually be blue or yellow so if you can't get an exact color keep this in mind.

[@lana-ana-ana]

pinch light sounds a lot like bounce light

[@totopoo123]

nice vid

[@indonesiashounen8168]

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[@ossarmyriade8878]

Dude how the fuck... not 1 dislike

[@JohnDoe-co7kc]

im of the opinion that if you cant do it with paper and pencil then, dont bother.

[@Uhcip]

you're a lot more upbeat these days, did something good happen?

[@Swatches]

Yes, my health has improved. I had low energy for a long time but my friend recommended some stuff that's helped turn it around. Now I have more energy, have a clearer head and I've been making changes to my what direction I want to go with art.

[@jasminenatasha-art]

Is it just me or is this video skipping a bunch??

[@danitomes3206]

Yea same :/

[@ClowReedx]

... were you trying to deepen your voice?

[@Swatches]

My voice will significantly change pitch depending on the air temperature.

[@nicktezuka27]

Great video! Thank you so much!

[@moumu6649]

Very helpful. Thank you!

[@eleniver]

Great video! Thank you very much!