How to Apply Light, Shading, and Shadow to Round Objects
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How to Apply Light, Shading, and Shadow to Round Objects

on Sep 21st 2011 with 30 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 25 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 9 of 25 in the Digital Art for Beginners Session
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Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own concept art and matte paintings in Photoshop.

Today’s tutorial Part 9: How to Apply Light, Shading, and Shadow to Round Objects will continue to talk about shading and working with light and shadow. This time we will take a close look at round objects. We will learn how to define core shadows on cylinders, cones and spheres and we will practice how to create realistic cast shadows. Let’s get started!

 
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Martin is a Hungarian graphic designer, digital artist and an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor (Design Master). He is currently teaching and working in London but usually travels around the UK and share his love for Adobe products and graphic design. You can follow him on his blog or on Twitter.  

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  • http://sarethdesign.zzl.org/ Sareth

    Nice tutorial ;]
    how did you made that watermark in right corner ?

    • Sonusmac

      @Sareth – Its done with the help of Sony Vegas Pro(a very powerful video editing tool).

      Nice tutorial.. I love it. Thanks psd tuts+.

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Hi Sareth,

      I used Adobe Configurator to create custom panels in Photoshop. Check out the first part of the Digital Art series, I talk about it in details there.

      Cheers,
      Martin

      • sonusmac

        Oh yeah.. Its made with the help Adobe Configurator.

    • http://www.emaarworkx.com Emaar

      Its done with Adobe configrator, go on video 2 to find about it or labs.adobe.com

  • http://blog.amsomr.com/ amassine

    nice tuto
    thank you

    • Ana

      Cool

  • http://leonking.com.ua leonking

    Thank you Martin, and psd tuts +.

  • DJ

    Wow! Nicely explained.

  • Muffy

    You shade the objects very nicely, but the shadows aren’t quite there!

    Before anyone starts making shadows in Photoshop, please research “real life” and understand how lighting/shading actually looks and interact with objects. Find an object, use a lamp/torch to see how exactly the shadows form and where the light hits on the objects, practice and keep looking at stuff!

    Have a look at this image: http://www.learntosee.com/v/vspfiles/photos/LTS-108-0-2.jpg – this is a very accurate drawing on how to shade these kind of objects, it all starts from Art Class.

    Best shadows come from 3D renders, you can even make PS 3D layers interact with each other to create more realistic shadows, check out this tut to see how: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT5zWYlA33k

    Good luck!

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Hi Muffy,

      Thanks a lot for the links and your comment. I completely agree with you that it is best to learn from real life objects and study how light affects them and how shadows work.

      Cheers,
      Martin

      • http://www.ddeveloperz.com Ddeveloperz

        thanx a lot……………….

      • Muffy

        No Problem Martin!

        Keep up the good tuts, looking forward to more :)

  • http://lutfietutor.blogspot.com/ Lutfie Tutorial Blog

    itas very nice thanks for tutorial

  • http://www.parasuniversal.com Paras Universal

    The last two videos have been so educational for me and I just want to say I love you Martin ;o) On a serious note for those that didn’t get a chance to go to uni or study this we’d not think how important this was and it’s been eye opening so thank you very much.

  • Trevor

    Many thanks, you make a relatively boring subject very interesting.

  • http://inspiks.com loswl

    Very nice tutorial!!

  • Carlos

    As a experienced illustrator, I am loving this series
    thanks so much for this, having those simple concepts in mind saves me a lot of time guessing!

  • Shashwat Patel

    Where are you from? I’m having trouble deciphering your accent

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Hi Shashwat,

      I’m Hungarian, but people usually say my accent feels like a mixture of Swedish, Scottish and Italian. Nice mix :) I just hope it is easy to understand me.

      • http://creatiface.com Thoriq

        Thank you for the tutorial, it reminds me to Basic Drawing subjects in college

      • andrés

        Hi Martin, thank you for taking your time to teach, and in a very, very clear way!!! For me is easier to understand your pronunciation than from many others whom English is their mother language.

        Greetins from Colombia

  • http://mmovz.com/ mmoVZ

    Can’t wait until I get my students pack for Adobe Photoshop CS5 and some other Adobe programs, then I’ll finally be able to do stuff like that. :)

  • jul

    nice tut !

  • jul

    awesome !

  • http://www.developer.web.tr Oğuz Çelikdemir

    Hi Martin,

    I have a small request from you.
    Is there an option to show pressed keyboard shortcuts in screen recorder? If it’s available, please open this option which we can easily recognize the shortcuts. Also, this may help you without say continuously keyboard keys.

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Good point Oguz, I will keep that in mind for later tutorials!

      Cheers,
      Martin

  • http://visionblast.blogspot.com/ Mike VisionBlast

    Interested much to the round object… it is what I like most! Bookmark this one.

  • DrunkenDrummer

    Scott Robertson would probably recommend you to watch his DVDs again, man.

  • carlos

    Thank you so much Martin

    It is a neccesary

    thanks again