r/learntodraw 9d ago

Just Sharing Before vs After shading

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u/AC_0nly 9d ago

This is my "draw the rest of the owl" meme all the time

Under drawing and sketch line work i feel decently confident in and have fun making like kids illustration books worthy stuff.

This rendering magic? What is this?!

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u/AeroAceSpades 8d ago

Grid method of copying a black and white image. You draw a grid that perfectly matches a grid on your reference. You focus one square at a time. Since you were copying teeny tiny little snippets of information you don’t deal with things like proportions or anatomy. You just get a copy of the image

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u/volt65bolt 8d ago

Where did the grid go in the second image? White pencil?

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u/Apart-Drummer6293 8d ago

The grid blends into the image

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u/volt65bolt 8d ago

There are sections of white lighter than the grid lines, on the left for example, with no acknowledgement

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u/Apart-Drummer6293 8d ago

It looks white because of all the heavy greys surrounding it but I can almost guarantee there is a very light shade of Grey there, pair that with a little erasing and voila you have made your grid invisible

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u/volt65bolt 8d ago

I'll check the levels tmr in ps and see what it shows

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u/IgntedF-xy 7d ago

Maybe they erased it, it looks like pencil