Any tips on adding depth?

[Version2]

I'm practicing shading, ha ha. Anyways, what I'm going for is kind of that graffiti style shading/highlighting. Anybody got any tips for me?

[Daverom]

At 10/10/09 03:36 AM, Version2 wrote: I'm practicing shading, ha ha. Anyways, what I'm going for is kind of that graffiti style shading/highlighting. Anybody got any tips for me?

Well I don't see any highlights, and I don't see any shading. I see a few lines on it but they don't show a light source. For something this simple, you could have put more than 7 strokes or so and the bucket tool into this, that's all I see.

[Ksmittlez]

You have shadows but no highlights. Having shadows along all the edges sugjests that light is coming from where we are viewing so try adding some highlights to the center of the object.

[Wolf96]

Some ways of adding depth is through showing light and sizes of things. Choose a spot where the light will come from and whatever is closest will be brighter, whatever is furthest will be darker, and solid objects will cast a shadow going in the opposite direction of the light source. An example is if you draw a box and the light is coming from the left then it will be brighter on the left side perhaps with a shine near edges and it will darker on the right with the shadow in that direction. With sizes, the closer something is to the viewer the larger it is. An example is if you have a person standing still with one arm by his side and the other arm going tword the viewer then the hand going tword the viewer is going to apper larger then the one by the persons side. I hope i didnt make it too long of an explanation haha.