' Wrote:Bain, seems to me that you didn't put a lot of effort into the shading. Shading is not hard, it takes time and patience. There are many techniques of shading and none of them is easy. I would say the cross-hatch shading is the hardest and smear shading being the easiest. I drew a pic out of my head once, back in a day when i was in HS, and the teacher told me to stop tracing images from magazines. I was confused... I did it all by myself, put a lot of effort into it and the result was that " I copied"...The other part of me was saying that I did a damn good job, that she didn't believe it was my own work.
I guess when i do a drawing, i never want to ruin it by attempting to shade it:(
i think ive done cross hatching before, sometimes it looked good, others not so good.
And yeah, i hate it when people say "You traced that" :angry: :P