Essential Exercises for Beginner and Intermediate Artists

Secrets of Shading gives you the foundational knowledge you will need to render organic forms from imagination and better understand your references.
We begin with diagrams and exercises to help you understand shading and rendering as “drawing on the inside” of dimensionally conceived forms, and move on to several practical demonstrations.

The demonstrations are done with pencil and provide insight into working with graphite, but the concepts are applicable to all media. The videos total five hours of content and all chapters are fully narrated.

Watch a free preview chapter here: http://youtu.be/_9tcy2436iM

Here are the chapters:

1. Introduction

2. Box Men Explained (33 min real time with commentary)

3. Box Men Scenes (20 min sped up with voice over)

4. Real Room from Memory (35 min real time with commentary)

5. Creating Textures (47 min real time with commentary)

6. Emoji-Based-Expressions (40 min real time with commentary)

7. Form Design- Vases (40 min real time with commentary)

8. Bonus- Refining Room from Memory for Thumbnail in Procreate (2 mins no commentary