Posts tagged how to shade
Realistic Botanical Flower Pencil Shading

Traditional pencil shading is a wonderful art form that can show both space and form. In today’s video tutorial, I’m going to teach you my process for realistic botanical flower shading with a pencil. I’m excited to share some of my thought process and some pencil shading tips and tricks along the way.

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How To Shade a Realistic Bumble Bee

Part 2 of our realistic drawing series explores modern shading techniques using ink! This was in no way intended to be a series, but I was thrilled to hear how much you enjoyed part 1, where we explored the contour (outline) and followed a few simple drawing tips. In that video, many of you requested a shading portion of that tutorial—so I’m here to deliver!

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