Shadow & Light: Drawing Asymmetrical Boxes

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Okay, on this one we are going to actually talk about shadows and light and just the basics of the fundamentals on how light actually works. How it bounces off objects, refracted light, reflected light, things like that. You're also going to learn how to draw an asymmetrical box at the same time, so it's a two for one on this one. Let's get started with that. So we have refracted light. We have here, is where the starting of the shadow starts so it's easy to assume that here is where one of the darkest parts on the box is going to be. So it would go from dark to more light, not such a big change, also the same with here. But when drawing a box and shades it's important to pick out a side that will be darker than the other. Since this part looks like to be more of in the dark area we will make this one darker than this side. As far as the light is concerned, on the top we have light coming on the top of the box and since it's coming from behind the box, this part in this corner here, might even be highlighted. So it's not easy to assume that this is going to be the brightest part of the box. It's going to kind of become not as bright, but still bright, but just not as bright. So if we have the brightness from here and we'll just kind of dissipate slightly, just ever so slightly to this part. That's basically how a shadow box would work. Just remember, instead of drawing solid colors or solid shades that you have to keep in mind of such things called reflective light, and other things that if you wanted this to be actually shiny then you could actually have reflections in these. As far as the shadow goes on the ground itself there are other parts that are going to be darker and lighter around the shadow. If you actually look at a shadow, it's not always the same color, or the same shade all throughout. The darkest parts, showing the least amount of light towards it, is going to be actually the bottom of the box. So here at these points all along this part of the box are actually going to be the darkest. From there it's kind of less of a shadow and becomes brighter and brighter and brighter, but still within the darkness. That's your basics on how light works, and shadows work on a basic square.

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