Awesome... Just Awesome

This was a great class. For a long time, I could never figure out why my drawings felt 'flat'. Now I know ;) Thanks Jake and Will!

It's a very basic course that takes things r-e-a-l-l-y slowly. It also seems to have been recorded from some online class taking place (there are emntions of incoming questions, etc). I think it would have been nicer to have a longer course that maybe looked at more techniques and was more concise in its instruction.

This course is a recording of a live lecture/demonstration about how to add shading to objects in your artwork. It is not a course with exercises for you to do, though at the end Will Terry gives excellent advice on how to practice what you learned while watching and listening to Jake Parker. Everything Jake Parker does here in Photoshop you can do with traditional media; it will just take longer. (Also, you may have to start over if things go really awry!). In fact, I would recommend practicing with pencil and paper rather than digitally; I think you will better train your eye, hand, and mind. As an art school graduate, I thought Jake and Will balanced scientific explanations of how light and shadow behave with practical, workable techniques to render it. If you want more scientific information, check out James Gurney's book "Color and Light". In fact, watching Jake work in real time through shading objects gave me a better understanding of some of the illustration examples in the Gurney book! After watching this lecture, you will better understand how to create realistic shading in your artwork. Thank you, Jake Parker and Will Terry.

What a fascinating topic expertly covered by Jake and Will. I enjoyed Will's "Devil's Advocate" questions to Jake, making sure nothing is left out. At one point Will clarified that sometimes professional artists take for granted the skills that made them successful, and gives and example of Jake's selecting the ball, and "painting through" the full stroke to get the correct shadow effect.

Excellent class. Thank you.

The Basics of understanding light and shadow is the foundation upon which we build superb art. This is a vitally important class and recommended to anyone who wants to get an edge in their art. Gets 4 stars only because at one point this was a very light shade of impatience in lecturer when he had to stop what was being done to oblige someone's question about the eyedropper tool. It was very slight, however off putting for that few seconds. Thank you SVS for this lesson. It's brilliant even in it's black and whiteness.

This class isn't super long, but everything in it is so important to creating dimensional shapes with depth!

It covers the basics in a clear manner, although I wish Jake would explain his process while he paints the various examples, mostly with the complex forms. It would help the student to memorize the rules better and clarify doubts if there were any during the first explanation.

Easy to grasp for beginners. I am here as an intermediate artist who wants to see other professional's theories and methods of teaching art. Jake does a good job showing applications of shading and value here. If you are not looking to learn something entirely new and know much about values and shading, head over to more advanced lectures as this one will definitely be a long recap. I'm taking these to work my way up to Painting Color and Light, as this and How to Work with Color are recommended lectures to work with.

I've loved this curse because for me is very difficult to understand how the form works.