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Oh man my head hurts so bad.

But doing this tutorial makes me realize how little I still now about color and I probably made things wrong and those typos and askdkasd blah. But I hope this makes you think more about how color affects other colors in your works! And maybe not use gray to shade stuff. :U;;;

Ugh I need to lay down.

AND SORRY THE FILE SIZE IS HUUUGGEEE

Edit 8-17-12:::
HOLY MOLY where did you all come from? I just woke up with over 1K feedback messages and I'm used to seeing less than 10! Aaaa thanks so much! ;; I'm so happy so many people found it useful.

So I went in and fixed some typos, reworded some things, etc, so it's all nice. C':

ALSO for traditional artists, especially painters, the book I mentioned in the tutorial talks a lot about this stuff.

As for colored dry media: for colored pencils, I was taught in high school to use dark, cool colors along with the compliment color and dark brown as the base for shading. You'll need to experiment with this, since I haven't used it in a long time and I'm not sure how it'll turn out.

And the journey continues on!

Edit 8-21-12:::
I... got a Daily Deviation for this?! Wow!! I... I don't think I deserve it but I feel so honored! I feel bad because I wish I could've explained things better in this and cleared things up that were misunderstood... but I'm glad this helped people! That made making this tutorial worth while!

Thank you so much *Tristaeza for the suggestion and ^Elandria for the feature!

Edit 8-25-12:::
I just wanted to feature a tutorial by ~ArchAntoinette about this same topic. Before I give the link, I just wanted to point out that even though my tutorial was uploaded first and the format and photos are eerily similar, she touches upon things I didn't talk about, not to mention she's a very talented artist. Check it out! [link]
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[Stock & Resources] The suggester states "I've always had trouble figuring out how my shading is supposed to look and every tutorial I look at seems to just say the same thing. This tutorial, however, showed me not only how, but why the shading looks like it does. Why shadows aren't gray by *RianaLD is amazing!" ( Suggested by *Tristaeza and Featured by ^Elandria )
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~SongOfCrow May 1, 2013  New member Hobbyist General Artist
This steak... it makes so much more sense now. Brain is full now. Thank you!
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~LisaReneeWentz Apr 11, 2013  Student
WOW! Thanks so much!!
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~silvermoon442 Feb 23, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Wow, this is so amazingly helpful.
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~Grasschamp Jan 27, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
I will have to keep this in mind when I do shadows, since I know one of my pieces had weirdly-colored shade.

Thank you for pointing this handy fact out, really!
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~TheLoneDucky Jan 27, 2013   General Artist
Never really thought of it like this, but I suppose we were taught the similar aspects of shadows back in middle school in art. Either way, this is helpful!
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Mood: Wow! *covert15 Jan 27, 2013  Student Digital Artist
WOW!!! THIS WAS JUST SO SO SO HELPFUL!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
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~hunksurvivorx Dec 13, 2012
best tutorial ever *w*
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~Paulobolmon Dec 13, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Amazing!
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~violetense Nov 23, 2012  Student Writer
Hi, you've been featured here: [link]
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=Lulie Nov 18, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Though I should mention that I think a couple things are not quite right, for example I'd give heavy qualifiers to the idea 'warm lightsource/cool shadows' and 'cool light source/warm shadows' -- as you mentioned, it's not always the case. And as you sort of imply, the reason is partly about reflected light (it happens to be the case that in common situations the parts that are not the light source are the opposite, like the sun/sky example), but also often because of simultaneous contrast (in such cases, the shadows aren't actually coloured, and if you painted them as coloured you'd be exaggerating the effect more than is strictly realistic).
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