How to Shade: A Beginner's Guide to Shading Techniques, Including Step By Step Exercises, Tips & Tricks

Extremely helpful for beginners in understanding all aspects of shading and shadows. Mostly every shapes is represented. Written in a conversational manner, easy to understand and follow. I would have liked to have seen more facial shading examples included.

This is a very good book to learn all about the process of shading. I purchased the kindle version and it looks great on my iPad. I find the book to be very helpful in order to understand how shading works. The author does a great job in covering important points when sketching and he goes into detail explaining what to look for when attempting to sketch an object from real life or photos. There are many illustrations demonstrating how and why shading works to bring an object to life, and the author offers tips and tricks to help you improve your sketching. I found that the book holds my interest, which is important for me because I get distracted easily. All in all, I like the book and would recommend it to anyone who loves art and needs a little help with their work. Very nice - glad I purchased it.

The book has many examples of shading and shadow, good for a begginer art class.

I would recommend this book to any beginner or advanced artist. It really gave me a better understanding on how light and shadow work.

So far what I have read is exactlyWhat I needed to know , am usingA cutting board to burn designs,Wanted to accent and shadow , bring the 2D lines into 3 dimensions, working out great

This book really does go step by step for shading. A quick read! Interesting and slightly humorous! I’ve only read the first two chapters but already learned a lot! Would recommend especially for newer artists! Most artist books are just to show off a professional ‘s work but don’t really teach anything, but this book teaches!!!!

This is an awesome book!!!! And I was NOT PAID TO GIVE A GOOD REVIEW! The steps are gradual and even a layman like me was able to understand. The analogies make total sense. Until this book I only sketched lines... but now I can finally add depth to my drawings. This is definitely a must for anyone who would like to take their art to the next level.

This is a great book for the beginning drawer. It has some of the best explanations that I have seen concerning the process of shading. Most of the books for beginners that I have seen do not provide the detailed explanations found in this easy to read text.

Amazing book, learning from scratch and for people who would like to get better and learning how to shade, like me! followed what he explains in the book, haven't completed yet, but amazingly brilliant result, in the first few chapters, you won't be disappointed, really good book! Thank you Liron!He also has other books too!

A very useful book to help beginners with this difficult technique

One of the best art books I have ever brought. I am a beginner and I find this extremely helpful. Thank you Liron for sharing your knowledge.

Highly recommended for beginners to learn about shading. Very simple language and easy to understand instruction.Author assume that the reader knows nothing and explain every concept from the ground.Advice author to write more books like this.Thankyou.

Yankonsky greift hier gezielt das Thema Schattieren beim Zeichnen heraus. Er erklärt Schritt für Schritt Anfängern, wie man Schatten sieht und mit welchen Mitteln man sie zeichnet. Ein gelungenes Buch für solche, die noch am Anfang ihres Zeichnerlebens stehen. Und, wie er auch sagt: Zeichnen kann jedermann lernen!