Okay guys, we're back and in this unit we're going to study shading. Whoo. I need more enthusiasm from my students. Anyways, what I want you to do is have a blank piece of paper in front of you right now. And I want you to draw eight cubes. Okay, you can look at my sheet how I've got it here and ignore my little light bulbs for right now.

But Joey, why don't you start drawing eight cubes. And now you see before this joy was asked me She's like, Well, can I just copy yours? Can I just get you to send it to me or something? I'm like, no. Like you is so bad because I'm a cruel dad. But also because you know what?

There's no harm In you practicing drawing cubes and stuff, right? That is not a cube. Anytime you want to draw this cube, I'm struggling. Okay, so while she's drawing cubes, I'm going to be explaining what's happening here. Okay, um, what we're going to look at is lighting and I'll take a look at each one of these before we get into it. You don't even have to, you can be listening to me as you're drawing out your cubes like Joey's doing here.

Yeah, I just want you to kind of, yeah, just just listen to what I'm saying. Just keep sketching, and I think you'll be good to go. Okay. So what I want to show you is that we've got this light bulb here, right? You don't have to have this perfect light bulb. I copied it off the internet.

You can just draw some enough. You can draw some ugly light bulb if you want or whatever, doesn't matter. Okay. What I want you to realize is we're going to look at this light bulb as the light source where the light is coming from. And so this one is off to this side of this box, right? And if it's going to hit, the light is coming from here, it's going to hit the side of this box.

Right? So that means all of this area here that it's hit. It's kind of it's going to be bright, right? Where's the opposite of this area? Well, that'd be this side. Right?

And so that's what we're doing. We're going to go look through and see, well, how would it look if, you know if we shift this light around the box and the box is kind of the easy one to look at to start. But then eventually, as you get deeper and deeper into all these courses, you're going to see how maybe the face might be you know, it's a more complex box, obviously, right? Okay, so, Joey, how's it going with your cubes? Um, I'm drawing squares first and adding the key required. You know, that's smart.

I think that's exactly what you should be doing drawing a bunch of squares. If you can draw squares. Didn't we cover this like What five units ago or something like that? Just drawing basic squares? Um, it's okay. It doesn't have to be perfect.

You know, I don't I, I'm not worried about having these perfect or anything like that. I just want you to be able to draw some rough cubes, right? Like I said, if you can't draw a cube, you need to go back to that unit and work on a little bit. Okay. I don't expect perfect, but you should be able to sit here and sketch out a bunch of cubes. Yeah.

Okay. Keep sketching. And while she's sketching, and you know what, if you haven't figured if you haven't drawn out your cubes yet, go ahead and put me on pause here, okay? Don't Don't stress that you have to keep the same pace as me. Um, if you feel like I'm going a little fast or something. If you feel like I'm putting too much pressure on my child you are I'm trying to draw as fast as I can.

Then, you know, just throw it on pause. I'm not here to give you stress. I might give some stress to my kid, but I'm not trying to have stressed other kids. Um, so throw it on pause if it's too fast. If not, then let's get rolling into it. Okay, so I want to show you how to shape depends what you're using, you can be used actually, it doesn't really even matter that much, you could be using like a big pen, a pencil, a thicker lead pencil or something like that.

It doesn't really matter that much. It'll look a little different, right? But it won't be that that different. So what I want to show you here is for an example, if the lights coming from this side, that means all of this is going to be the whitest, the brightest, whatever color the light is and stuff again, and the opposite side is going to be over here. And it's going to be dark, right? We're going to have the darkness on this side.

Okay, we can darken it up on that side, right. So this is going to be the shaded part that The opposite of the light here, right? We're also going to have what's called a cast shadow, that means coming off of this onto the ground is going to be a bit of a shadow that's being pushed out from this light right? Now, it depends how strong this light is, there might be a little bit of a rim effect on the top here, you know, like this light might be coming in this way so we can gradually color it in. Same with here and underneath, there's probably some lighting in here. It's kind of coming up, really depends on where the position is, if it's really close up against close up against the, the kind of the side of it here, then, you know, this shading would come much further.

Okay. If it's further away, then it's going to have a bit of a Low that kind of bounces around a bit more here and stuff. But it's usually going to be darkest right underneath here, and then maybe fade out just a little bit there. Okay, so this is an example of what it would look like if the light sources on the left. Now, what I'm hoping you do is you take a little pause and you try to shade in your box to, okay, it doesn't have to be perfect. But draw in a little light bulb off to the left hand side of your first box.

And then imagine, you know, where that light would be touching, right? It's touching here and it's going to be touching here. And this the surface that we can't really see on the other end, and then it's going to kind of the light will come over on the edge here and come over on the edge here a little bit. And of course, you know, if it's close, there might even be a little bit of cash shadow off to the side here as well. Okay, okay. When we take a look at the number to one um, I finished my cubes.

Oh, you finally finished good stuff. You know, these guys are lucky they get to put me on pause. Yeah, I have to do it in like, certain amount of time or you got to get fast. Okay, so where's the light bulb? On the second example, up top up top looks like it's directly up top right. So what does that mean?

If I'm actually gonna imagine that this is a yellow light bulb, then that means that you know, this is yellow, that the yellow light is all going to be up top here, right? Maybe spill down a little bit on the edges. And that would be the light, right? Yeah. Now where's the shadow? First part right underneath it.

That's probably the darkest part, right? And then maybe the shadow projects a little bit the drop shadow the casting shadow here, right? And then it might work this way. up and kind of lighten up as it gets closer to that light source, right? It might work its way up the sides and then just lighten up a little bit. So the furthest away from the light source, you know, that's going to be the darkest it is.

Okay. Okay. Now a little little thing. Um, there's different ways to shade. I don't know if you guys have seen this before, but why don't we try a different technique on this next one. One way to shade is called patching or cross hatching.

So like it would be like lines like this, like straight lines. This would be hatching. Have you ever heard of that before? You know, here's my light source, right? So it's coming at it from the right arm. So if I was to do some hatching on this, on this side, it might look something.

Something like this, right? Yeah. So that's it. hatching I'd like to go with the direction of the shape of the object sometimes on this hatching. Yeah. You want to try some hatching?

Yeah. My cube is like kind of wonky. Yeah, I'm, listen, I'm not critiquing cubes today. I'm just working on. Well, hold on, you got to choose your light source there. Well, I'm doing the same light source.

Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. So that's hatching. Yeah, these nice lines, right? And you can see if you want to increase the intensity as it gets further away, you can do the lines closer together, right.

And you can see how that darkens it as we get into that dark corner that's far away from this light source. Right? Yeah. Okay, so that would be hatching. Yeah. Another one.

This one's going to be tough because this one's in front, right? So another one might be up here. And this is going to be cross hatching. Watch what I'm going to do here. I'm going to hatch it like I normally, like the one I just did, right that example. There's this you know, the light sources in the front.

So, back here is going to be world of shading is right. And I'm going to kind of go like this cross hatching. And you know, you could twist your paper or turn the paper just a little bit here, right? cross hatching is when you do it, like this, you, you do a second or third sometimes, but usually just a second level of hatching that intersects with the first one. So it's basically you know, your first one is kind of like this. And the second one's crossing it.

That's the word cross hatching. Okay, and that has a kind of cool, cool look to it as well, right? cross hatching. Um, those two are the main ones and you could do those with pens, pencils, whatever it is right. Keeping in mind, you know, you always recognize where your light sources, the light sources, as of this front one is going to hit this front of the block and then it'll be behind and then yeah, probably behind there's some type of shadow shadow cast shadow going on back there. Yeah, another one that you can do.

But this really only works if you've got a pencil is you can do something like just whereas this, this one's behind it, we can see the light bulb small. So it's coming from behind, right, it's kind of back there. So, this whole thing is going to be kind of blacking out and you can you know, you could do it. This is just a normal straight shading, you know, squiggly lines back and forth, right? Um, what you could do is you can use your, you can use your finger and can use a Q tip. You can use a bundled up, bunched up piece of paper or something like that, and just kind of smudge things.

I always like my finger but my fingers are kind of oily. So that's one Good and bad to it. And so you're going to find, you know, a way that works for you this kind of smudge shading, right? So you can come in, you shade it up. right this is because the lights coming from back there. I'm going to kind of shade it up.

Make sure I got a lot of it here. Usually with smudge shading, you kind of got to lay down a lot more. Like I said, if it's pencil, you gotta lay down a lot more pencil on it and stuff. And then you just kind of rub it, smudge it out. Smooth it out. And it gives a kind of a nice effect.

Depending this really depends on the pencil you're using, and the paper you're using to write. So realize that it might look a little bit different than what I'm doing here. But you know what, it will look different each time you pick up a different type of pencil or different quality paper and stuff, right? So, experiment with it. Um, What I usually do, especially if you're working on something you really want to make, make it look really nice, dude. I mean, like, you're like, Oh, I want this to look perfect.

Do it off to the side, do this kind of smudging off on another piece of paper that's the same and just make sure that it's, it's having the impact and effect that you want it to. Okay, because sometimes the inconsistency is can get kind of wonky, you know, like you'll get, it'll be like, Ah, no, I smashed it in. I ruined it. And that's not how it worked last time, right. So out of the techniques for smudging Which one do you like? I'm sorry for a for shading for shading here.

Smudging probably it's like one of my favorites. I like to do it like a lot of smoky. Yeah, yeah. Um, do you think that it looks different, like on a on different objects or anything like that, like, for example, you know, on the face or something like that, um, I feel like smudging looks better on the face than cross hatching or hatching. But that's just Yeah, no, I think you're right. I like how smooth it looks.

That's exactly, but like, I guess if you have like a certain style and you like patching, like, it can look good sometimes I just personally like switching better. Yep, yep. Yeah. And so you're gonna find like, you know, whichever works for you. That's the one you roll with, right? Here's the next light source.

You know, what I'm hoping is that with you guys, when you have all these blocks drawn out, you're going to find and just play some light sources around, I'm giving you some some ideas for where to put them, right, this one's kind of upper right. So that means, you know, the lights can be hitting here and here. But that, you know, you've got eight different examples here. You can put them wherever you want, you know, start to mess around with it, and say, Okay, well, if it is over here, where's the shape? How do I do this? Right?

Like, you start to experiment and stuff, right? Yeah. You can even put a bit of a bounding box Like the shape of the object that's casting the shadow, and see if that helps you to rough it in a little bit. Right? The main point with this was really recognizing where the light source is. Okay.

Um, we talked about how to make objects look 3d. But, you know, having a light source will really help that. Yeah, let me let me give this example. Let's see if I can find I'm gonna erase this guy. And I'm gonna draw and what am I gonna draw here? I'm gonna draw a sphere.

Okay, so I've got this sphere going on. Yeah, well, right now it looks like a circle, right? It has no 3d feel to it or anything like that. Right? But what if I draw my ugly little light bulb? Here, right?

Yeah. Whatever. And the lights coming down. Right? Well, it's kind of shooting all around, but it's gonna come down in The light is going to be touching around here. Yeah.

So that means that the dark is going to be around here on this side, this is going to be dark because the lights coming from this direction. Yeah. And then below it is going to be this cast shadow of the circle, right? Or of the sphere at this point, right? There we go. So you can kind of you see how, like when I'm shading that sphere, I sometimes or an object, I sometimes like to have it that my shade kind of follows the flow, the sides the the shape of that object, right?

Gives a nicer feeling. Okay, so now this looks like a 3d object. Right? You know, before it kind of semi looked like it could pass for a circle. We weren't quite sure, but this is guaranteed. If I want to I can crush it here.

This is guaranteed to feel more like a story. At this point, right, yeah. Cool. Okay, so that's shading. Um, you don't have to follow all of where I placed my light bulbs. You can place them all around, experiment with it a little bit join.

Let's see what you got back up. I want to see. Okay, so you've got some good techniques there. Everything looks good. Yeah. Um, you choose whether you want to do hatching, cross hatching, smudging, whichever, you know, find what suits your style, but at least try each of them.

Right. Yeah. And then you'll figure out what style is best for you. Okay, good luck. Have fun shading.