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Summary: Watch an art expert teach you how to draw shadows and shade on 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
So, I'm going to start dark, I'm going to darken in the box so you can see what we're looking at. Alright this is the sun. The light. Okay, so we have a box, we have our lines. I'm actually going to draw these lines a little bit darker so you can get a, so you can see they're nice and clear of what's going on. What we just did is connected these lines from the box. Just like as if the light was shining down on it, so to making a complete shadow around the box. Okay, now I'm going to throw in shadow. So basically the best way to do shadow, to make it real quick is throw some random jagged lines across. There you go. You have your basic box with a shadow.