Art shading faces

ok ive been drawing for a year or two now and have improve a good deal on my faces except in one area which would be shading so if any one has any advice on shading that they could give me that would be mcuh appreciated. if ud like to see a sample of my work give me an email and ill send a copy cause i cant figure out how to insert an image ><

 

id be interested in seeing some of your pics
i myself have been drawing for about 9 months, shading is a bit tricky, but i still find drawing torsos in funny poses the hardest :dizzy2:

face shading isnt that tricky, figure out the light source, and highlight the eyes to ****. its preferable to draw the point of the nose away from the light source, that makes shading behind the nose easier.

shade where hair covers the forehead, shade petty much everywhere past the original centre line, and possibly a bit of lighter shading along the jawline and under the bottom lip.
and oh yeah - a LOT of shades between the eyes and the eyebrows.

hope that helps some

 

hmmmm yeah that helps alot but one thing do i have to upload my piccy onto a website somewhere?

 

You can upload you piccy as an attachment when you're posting. However you should check the size of the image, because there is a limit to the size of the file you're uploading.

 

i tried but i dont know how to show an attachment on a post

 

I might misunderstand, cuz I didn't quite understand what your saying

You don't need to show us the image directly. You can attach it and then we can access it on our own. ^_^ I think this is the best way.

for example

 

heres a sample of my work

 

^_^ GREAT, I can see it! It's very good I like your style. As for the shading you first have to determine where the light is coming from. Let's say from the left. I've used you piccy to demonstrate if you don't mind. I'll use the anime style shading since it's an anime piccy.

Side note-----
When attaching your images make sure that they are JPG format, since not all computers will be able to view Bitmap images. They also take time to load

 

*bows* arigatou gozimasu! thats one of my better images id say although i did a decent piccy of Chester Barklight from Tales of Phantasia u wouldnt mind if i use that shading tech in my up grade of my piccy would u?

 

Please don't bow ^^;;;;;

Not at all, I'm glad that I can be of help. It's my job ^_^

 

well i got another piccy done while i was waiting for the computer to not be stupid and freeze so take a look tell me whatcha think

 

i have another drawing that i did thats really good cept even at 3/4 of the size that its supposed to be at its still too big for the maximum size. and it looks like crap at any other scale. so if u want to see it which i must reccomend u do ^^;;;; email me at HeeroYuy0021@Aol.com or catch me on AIM under HeeroYuy0221 or DomonKasshuKOH

 

HB the main reason why your image files are soo big is not the fact that the actual image size is big, it's the format of the file. You have your images saved in Bitmap format and that why it says the image is soo big, so when you save your images try to save them in JPEG or GIF format which makes the file much smaller!