Try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever ... merely think here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape..."

- Claude Monet

Shading practice

SHADING PRACTICE

Shading is very important.shading practice is very necessary.Practice by using pencils of different grades(from 2B to 6B)on different types and textures of paper.
By practicing the strokes as shown below on can gain command over the shading of the light and dark tones.While practicing try to maintain the pressure for different tonal gradation in the constant width of the patch from start to finish without stopping in between.

                                     

                                           From darktone                  From Lighttone
                                           to light                                to dark

                                     
                                          Very Dark     Dark tone    Middle tone  Light tone
                                          tone      



Maintaining even
Tone from start to end
Start with light tone and end with dark tone
Start with light tone to dark tone in the midway and end with light tone
Repeating strokes from light tone to dark tone and vice versa

Different types of shading

                                          Flat                Dotted                      45degree slant
                                          shading          shading                     shading
        
                                         Multiple                Hatching                Scribbling
                                          Shading                 Shading      

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