Strelok's Art Diary

[Strelok_2012]

I was just looking at the cast shadow part of How to Render coincidentally. I'm kinda stuck on the sphere cast shadows tbh. The other objects seem fairly straightforward.

For the figure drawings, honestly I think making the nice lines just comes from drawing over your sketch, giving more emphasis to important parts, and less to the parts we don't really need to see. Your drawings might look nicer with a bigger brush and more pen pressure, so we can see more of your hand in it, rather than very thin, even pencil lines.

I'll give bigger brushes a try, thanks for the advice. As for sphere cast shadows, its not too hard. Depending on whether you have a area light (like the sun) or a spotlight (like a lamp) you'd use a slightly different method. Overall you're just mapping shadows with lines.