Shading After Construction
Shading After Construction
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Head Drawing and Construction

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Shading After Construction

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Michael Hampton
Let’s move from line drawings to adding light and shadow by viewing the head's features as basic forms: boxes, cylinders, and spheres. Each form has a corresponding edge quality—soft for spheres, firm for cylinders, and hard for boxes. By linking these edges with light and shadow, we create a more natural and realistic look. The key is to map core shadows and edges, then replace lines with edges to guide the viewer's eye, enhancing depth and realism.
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Mikael Gustafsson
Done, such a good course. Learned a ton these weeks and I love all the easy ways to remember the proportions. Halves and thirds simple and clean, clear and concise teaching style. Big thank you Steven for making this. Now I'm looking forward to an Anatomy course that goes more in depth than the figure construction course ;) Take care :)
Ian Aaron Fuentes Sejas
I just finish this course and it was incredible! I learned a lot and the video instructions are clear. It is worth the price.
@phonon24
2mo
This month I spend some time on practicing head construction and shading. This 11-step method is so efficient that I can even finish head drawings. This lesson let me understand better about shading. Here is a drawing according bonus lesson. Thank you very much, Mr. Hampton!
Michael Hampton
Nice work!
Diana Reid
2mo
I would like to thank Michael Hampton on his excellent instructions. I know that I still have much to learn, but before this class I could have never drawn this portrait.
Michael Hampton
That's amazing! Well done 👏
@lucastoonz86
Just wanted to share my latest light and shadow drawing I haven’t really dealt with midtones yet but I got close too matching the form with this one except the neck. I will keep practicing, one thing that has been tripping me up is expressions especially this hinging of the jaw and trying add asymmetry along with it
Michael Hampton
Very nice!
@purpleart
3mo
Great lesson. Took my drawing from the Fully Constructing a Head from Scratch lesson and followed along. Thanks Michael, do you have any new courses in the pipeline? In the meantime I will contruct more heads and also return to the figure contruction course.
Michael Hampton
Nicely done! Actually, I did record a course on Gesture drawing that should release through Proko at some point. Otherwise, really nice work. Keep it up
Mark Gallegos
This lesson is incredibly informative. Thank you for breaking down the process in such an understandable framework.
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