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Drawing Lesson: Corner Shadows

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Summary: Watch an art expert teach you how to draw shadows on the corner of a floating box or a cube, including shading and perspective tips in this free illustration video.

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Craig Browder Craig Browder started drawing at an early age. He has a Degree from Kendall College in Industrial Design. He provides freelance work which can be seen on su... read more

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Drawing Lesson: Corner Shadows

Okay, well how do shadows work? Nothings really make sense without shadows, gives us a sense of where it is on this plane. They tell you this is a horizon line, but what gives a sense of grounding, where it is on the ground. So, shadows will help with that. So we're going to do that. Okay, first let's pick a point in the sky, where the light's going to be coming from. So, let's pick a point. Let's say if you want to put like a light in it. Or, or like that's where the sun is shining at. Okay, so take this. And the light is going to be shining down on the box, so it's safe to say that we can draw lines from the light through the box. And since the light is above the box, it's going to be catching the first thing it runs into which is going to be these corners of the box. And since we're going to have it behind the box, it's going to catch these front corners. So let's project front corners. There's one, two and three.

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