Shadows

SHADOWS AND LIGHT

Shadows are one of those things you have to figure out for yourself, and I’m not the correct person to explain, there are so many tipes of lights you can choose from, but for the sake of making this simple I put my light source on the right side and went from there.

All your shadows should be coherent at least, and unless you’re drawing realism there are a lot of shortcuts.

Logic should be enough but you can also steal it from another image of you find it hard. If you need an specific type of lighting look for a reference.

At this point I also added blush to her cheeks and ear, this is something I do a lot with all my drawings, I would do it also on visible shoulders, elbows, knees and fingers.

Another tip for shadows is: don’t use black. This is a common mistake and black watercolor will make your colors look muddy. I usually take the time to mix a darker and less saturated color for the shadows.

Remember watercolors are transparent and some artist line their drawings before coloring them, feel free to do that with water resistant ink but I usually do that almost as a last step.