This artwork set explores color transitions and texture through different drawing styles. On the left, a side-by-side lip ...

How to cel shade Cel shading, or 'toon shading,' is a common illustration technique for shading comics, animations, and even some video games. The shadows and highlights in an image are simplified ...

Use a darker shade of the color you used for the center. In my drawing, the light is coming from the top left, just above the flower petals. So, the shadows will be deeper on the opposite side.

Rendered with stark realism, each area of shade and shadow precisely drawn, Minoru Nomata’s fantastical follies and monumental structures evoke visions of a long-forgotten World’s Fair.

Houston Matters ‘Commander Mark’ Still Teaching Kids To Draw Mark Kistler of Tomball taught kids how to draw in 3D on his public television series The Secret City, and he’s still at it today.

Students begin drawing shapes with charcoal on newsprint and move on to shadows and shading. Jennifer Wilson, 12, was finishing her last lesson in charcoal, drawing a vase, a basket and a candle.

The simpler display makes it clear that shading and shadows are the brain’s cue to interpret a two-dimensional image as having a third dimension (something artists have long recognized). Once ...