Technique+1

Shading and rendering, or colouring in as you might hear some people call it (PLEASE DON'T! ), is a process of making 2D images seem 3 dimensional and giving the object volume or depth. The process of creating this would be first of all to draw a 2D image, start simple i.e, circle, triangle, or square. Secondly work out where the light would be coming from and which side it would be hitting the image on. Now you know where the light is coming from, you know that that part of the image will be the lighter and the other sections will be darker. Creating the darker section will give the image depth, thus making the object seem 3 dimensional. Now get a pencil, pastel, or marker pen and start to do light shading on the side the light is hitting and darker shading on the side where the light least hits the object. Now you have a brief idea of shading and rendering, go and put it into practice. REMEMBER: practice makes perfect!

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