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Summary: Watch an art expert teach you how to use lighting to draw an asymmetrical box, 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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Lighting Tips for Drawing Boxes

Alright, so what I've done is I've drawn an asymmetrical box and I've drawn the shadows from a symmetrical point in the sky. Now we're going to talk about shadows and highlights and how all that stuff works out. So you've watched so far and you're like okay I understand how to do this but I want to make the box look more real and like I want to do shading and stuff like that. I'm going to explain that to you. When you have light coming down from a box, you're going to have all sorts of different shades in here. So the question is how do you know, what goes where. You know what's darker, what's lighter? Here's how I'm going to start explaining it. Very simply, I'm going to start with each side. We have the shadow, right, so that shadow is obviously going to be darker. It's going to be the darkest part because it's the shadow, but not necessarily because you have to remember, there's a such thing that's called reflective light. Reflective light is when a light beam is coming down and it's actually bouncing off the ground and bouncing into this surface. It's called reflective light. So from there you've got light, so although this being in the shadow area, this all being in the shadow area, these both parts. You still have reflective light coming from not only this part, but also here, coming from this side and bouncing in to this side as well. Let's keep that in mind when shadowing a box. It's not hard to draw a box or shadows or things in real life if you understand how shadows work, or light.

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