Drawing With Pencil - Shading Exercise

From the Free Online Art Classes lessons, use shading and highlights to depict volume and dimension. This classic lesson is great for achieving dramatic shading effects and learning how to create space and dimension by using shadow and light.

artist/instructor: Lois DeWitt

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[nervepoison65]

Thank you for sharing this!

[ishallgolightly]

@nervepoison65 I'm glad you liked the video. This is a basic drawing exercise I did in art school long ago. It taught me that lines can represent shading and illumination. To this day, I still think it is one good exercise and teach it to my basic drawing students.

[ishallgolightly]

OK, the way I teach..I teach to see. In this exercise, it is a skill to learn for shading with lines. If you want to learn how to draw anything, you have to learn how to see. I'm going to start making videos about this in the new year. I think it is very important that people that want to learn how to draw or paint, learn how to see, because then they can draw or paint anything in their world.

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Thanks for your comment,

Lois

[ishallgolightly]

I'm so glad you found this exercise helpful! Thanks for your comment!

[cazabladna]

hi lady first of all ty for this useful leson and i wish if you put new one and be about the tools of drawing and how we can draw the eyes and lips and nose very well ty again

[Oddiland]

Thanks for showing me. :)