Sphere Shading Practice
A week of practice
I’ve been spending my drawing sessions this week on shading a sphere. Building off of my teacher’s method (rather than what I was previously taught), I think I’ve made some progress with my shading skills.
After my lesson, I went home and I drew a somewhat uneven sphere:
While it looks rather shiny and somewhat metallic, there’s a lot here to improve…
Not pleased, I decided to immediately try again:
I think there was quite a bit of improvement, but my hand really started to get tired, and I started things far too dark. Nonetheless, the improvements felt really encouraging, so I shared them with my teacher. After receiving her feedback, I decided to give things one last shot before my next lesson:
Now, I think I rushed this one, and I unfortunately made a lot of poor marks as I continued to shade despite my hand getting so tired. More than increasing my comfort with a pencil, I got much more practice with my kneaded eraser. I was being stubborn, and I just wanted to try a lot of different things this time. While I really struggled to incorporate the feedback, it still seems I’m getting somewhere! I’ll just have to keep on drawing 😌