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2023/09/10 Report

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When you add light and shadow to your line-drawings, you can make your subject come to life by creating the illusion of form and depth.

You can make a flat line drawing jump right off the page or push things far away into the distance!


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In order to shade better, here are 3 things you’ll need to learn…

There are more, but let’s keep things simple! I’m going to walk you through all 3 topics and then we’ll shade something together, step by step!

This blog post is a written version of my video tutorial below:

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