Digital Art Shading for Dummies
Shadows are formed when an opaque body comes into contact with light from a light source. We often think of the Sun and lightbulbs as the chief sources of light, producing photons when the atomic electrons are excited by way of heat. The truth of the matter is that all visible objects are sources of light. As light bathes the Earth, all objects reflect light, with what we know as color being the different electromagnetic wavelengths formed when light collides with stop STOP STOP. It happens every time. Click a video on YouTube about shading – any video – and 0.5 seconds in they start throwing words like “refraction” and “occlusion” at you. I’m not a scientist; I don’t know what all them big fancy words mean. I just wanna draw cartoons, for God’s sake. Here's what I know about shadows as a newbie - 1: they exist, and 2: they go where the light doesn't cuz something's blocking it. Let's just get right to it. I'm using Paint Tool SAI 2 for all this, but I think (or at...