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In more complex forms than eggs (something that has more than
just one rounded surface) shadows can be drawn by making contour shapes and then filling them
in with varying grades of shadows.
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Here's a sample set of wrinkles you
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Take a towel, shirt, or silk
handkerchief and mound it up on your desk. It should be a
larger piece of cloth so you can get nice, flowing, deep folds
and creases. Put one single light source on it and just look at the highlights and shadows that are shown in the heap.
See how there are hills and valleys created in the wrinkles?
And do you see that the "valleys" are in shadow? Can you see that you can draw
the shadows in the valleys as shapes here? Remember, if you
draw shapes, your logical mind isn't going to protest too much
because you're not drawing anything it knows.
Try to draw your
mounded up towel without your picture frame to guide you.
Start by picking a prominent shadow-shape somewhere near the
center of the mound and draw it's outline. Now move to a shape near the shape you just drew and
draw the contour shape there. Keep in mind the "negative
space" between the shapes and measure the distance and
angles from shape to shape. You might want to draw several
shapes before you start shading them all in so you can get the
negative spaces correctly spaced. When you have several of the
key shapes drawn, go ahead and start shading in the shapes.
The shadow shapes you're filling in will not be all the same
tone. The shadows that are closer to the light source will be
darker than the shadows further away. The shadows will also
not be the same tone within the same shadow-shape. Keep that
in mind when you're shading. This is a bit more complicated than an egg, but it's a heck of
a lot more fun, too.
These are the basics in drawing: Line, shape, perspective,
and light shadows, and shading. Knowing and understanding
these points will make you an artist. Being able to manipulate
these points in an appealing and beautiful way will make you a
GOOD artist.
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