Excellent video. I especially love that you get right to it instead of blabbering aimlessly for the first 10 minutes as so many of these TH-camrs seem to do 😆 Got great benefit from your simple and concise demonstration/explanation. Thanks for posting.
I totally thought you were stoned, and looking at the comment section, glad to know I wasn't the only one- it made the lesson much more enjoyable knowing it was done with a free spirit. The information was absorbed with enthusiasm from my end. Thank you.
Massive help, Michael. Clear and concise and something we can really use on a practical level. Perhaps you could do some tutorials on how to sketch tonal values in landscapes/still lifes and how to convert them into the correct hues (preferably in soft pastel). I really could be doing with the help. So glad I came across your tutorial. I'll be spending the crest of my day watching any others you've made. Thanks again, mate. Really appreciate artists like you who take the time to help those of us who are dying to create something but run into so many fundamental problems.👍
Many thanks for this great tutorial. I took notes, and will certainly use your teachings to do shadows appropriately. Also, I will make myself more familiar with the color wheel!
This is absolutely THE BEST, most simple explaination I have EVER read n unfortunately I've read books about shading n didn't get as much understanding as I got in your short video! THANK YOU THANK YOU! I am now a subscriber. Too bad I can only like this once!
It would also have been good and informative to see a demonstration of cast shadows from each of these coloured balls unto different coloured grounds !
Appreciate this so much! Wonderful tutorial. Cleared up so many things for me. Thank u so much. Best video I've seen so far on shadows and shading. Takes me to the next level.
OMG thank you so much this video was so helpful!!!!!!!!! I have just gotten back in to painting and had to do shadowing in a portrait and used black (because i couldn't remember anything from art in school) and it completely ruined my painting and I was about to give up when I found this video it honestly makes so much sense now and I really appreciate the help! I'm gonna try some shadowing tomorrow before I get back in and try fix up my portrait! Thanks again!
Just learning which colors to use for shadows & ty for this video as was going to use orange to shade some place on blue pants! Now going to try Burnt Umber. My question is must you use a cool shadow w a cool color? If you use a warm color for a shadow to a cool color will it look strange? Ty
There are warm colors in shadows sometimes. It depends on your light source and any bounce light coming off of subject. Regardless you can paint whatever you want. If it works it works. Shadows just require a correct value of light for your brain to register it as a shadow. Color comes after value.
excellent using the color wheel and demonstrating how complementing colors create excellent shadows. I have had a very hard time teaching this to students, they run for black. Excellent not using black and demonstrating it. hues and imitations/ substitute colors are another thing.
I've been watching so many totorallys to show me how to paint and every time i see them paint i look at there hands and see how clean they stay while painting and then i look at my hands (I'm painting while watching this vid) and then i wonder "HOW DO THEY KEEP THEIR HANDS SO DAMN CLEAN OMFG!!!!" Xp
Very nice! I learned a lot. Did you know that when you moved your body that you stepped in and out of the light and the colors changed? It was interesting to me because when I paint- I can really see something totally different depending on where I stand or where the light hits.
Caren Kaziyev When I was a boy I went to a museum in Philadelphia. They had a room with a color chart and three light switches: red, blue, and green. The lights demonstrated how colors of the lights would change the colors on the color chart. Every color changed dramatically. Even as a young boy that exhibit really fascinated me. Good eye and good brain you got there!
Michael Schmitt Thank you for your reply! Sounds like a really cool exhibit and a great way to demonstrate how colors blend. As a child I would have liked that, too. Hmmmm.....maybe I will make something like that for my children. Probably not difficult to make..... I find light fascinating and when I am painting I am very aware of it. In your video I actually thought there was some kind of editing going on with the colors until I realized it was your body was moving in and out of the light. I really enjoyed watching you paint the shadows (and highlights) on the ball and the colors you used. I am going to try and stay away from black and see what happens. I grad from photography school many yrs ago and so I see things that way- but I have always loved to paint even though I have had no formal training. Thank you for your tutorials. Also- can you explain more about a color picker? My eyes can become confused as sometimes and I will literally just blink and then look back and see different colors.
Caren Kaziyev No problem! I'm here to help. I take color a little too seriously sometimes. I go a little crazy sometimes. A color picker can be made with a hole in a piece of cardboard or wood. Paint the cardboard white or black for more contrast. Hold the color picker hole like a telescope towards the color you want to figure out. Without a color picker and your eyes are confused Squint! Squinting helps you see color and value. Allowing your eyes to go out of focus can really help with shadows, colors, and value. If you ever take a portrait painting class they will drill squinting into your head. I believe this gentleman has a video about making a color picker out of a spoon. This is very helpful because you can compare the paint to the actual color. th-cam.com/video/ZbQepj179RQ/w-d-xo.html
Michael Schmitt Thanks, Michael. I see you have other tutorials. I am going to check them out! I hope you have a classroom to share your knowledge and skill. You are very clear when you break things down.
Wow!! This is the best video i have seen. I have a lot of problems with shadows. How would i transfer this knowledge when i have to do skin color palets?
this was very helpful! can you please do a quick demo on creating shadows of a white object? such as the shadows of teeth or a white ball in a white background or a white wall? thank you so much if you can do that
+mangoekiwi If you are looking for colors to start with I would go with the good old red, yellow and blue. In theory you can make every color. However pigments and dyes are limiting. I would go with ultramarine for blue. Terra vert or red ochre for an earthy red. Bright reds are useful too so I would go with a imitation cadmium red (cad red hue). Unless you want to spend the money on the real stuff. That can come later though. I would always suggest yellow ochre or raw umber for a starting yellow. As with the red you will need a bright yellow. I would go with a hue or a cheaper yellow first. You sometimes get what you pay for but practice shouldn't be TOO wasteful when you start. Expensive paints are better but they can come later. You can also just buy a little starter oil or acrylic set. I hope that answered your question..
Some colors are just going to be lighter by their very nature. Its okay to mix more of a tetrarch of colors. Once you get to your shadow maximize your darkness with burnt umber and blue. Then either pick a different blue color like ultramarine and burnt umber. If you are trying to go for a pure dark shadow mix up some cadmium and viridian. That will give you a deep black. Remember value is more important than solely focusing on colors. Especially when it comes to shadows
TY. This concept was never really explained to me and I was just thinking about that recently when implementing a shadow for a tree- I used dark green/brown. green red combo would have been better
Thank you Michael your video is clear nd informative , I would be grateful for a reply to my query which is for the highlights since ur using a combination of yellow and white does this go on top of the base color or mixed into it
When doing the shadow for the blue, instead of using brown (which i do like) Could you instead just use less yellow instead of doing a 50-50% mix of the blue and yellow?
Do you mean red and yellow? If I'm mixing from the basic colors then I wont use a 50-50% of red and yellow to make orange. I'll use more red. I find it easier to mix a brown first then add blue. To make brown I first make purple, then mix in yellow for more color control. Yellow is strange in that it can make for some great shadows but its a fickle color to mix for shadows. I hope that answered your question.
4 people call themselves an "artist", but they are really amateurs, I think even amateur is too good of a label for them (very sad!). Michael explained it like a pro, pure and simple.
One question. "If we need to darken our base colour, add the next colour down on the colour wheel". A bit misleading? Adding orange to yellow makes it orange. It doesn't exactly darken it. It changes the colour.
You would need to add a dark version of the colour down so to darken yellow with Orange you will use brown, think of brown as a dark Orange. And same for green you would use a dark blue not a light one, well, to the degree of colour of the paint your starting with and how much you want to darken it. And then if its too bright desaturate with the opposite colour. Hope that helps.
cnith2 I'm sorry if you just confused it, but I have to point out that PURPLE is the opposite of yellow, and orange is the opposite of blue. They are complimentary colors, it's even showed in the color weel in the video..
Excellent video. I especially love that you get right to it instead of blabbering aimlessly for the first 10 minutes as so many of these TH-camrs seem to do 😆 Got great benefit from your simple and concise demonstration/explanation. Thanks for posting.
As a beginner, this is by far the best tutorial I've seen. Thanks for this. Subscribed.
the best shading video that makes simple sense thanks.
I totally thought you were stoned, and looking at the comment section, glad to know I wasn't the only one- it made the lesson much more enjoyable knowing it was done with a free spirit. The information was absorbed with enthusiasm from my end. Thank you.
Far out myan!
Massive help, Michael. Clear and concise and something we can really use on a practical level. Perhaps you could do some tutorials on how to sketch tonal values in landscapes/still lifes and how to convert them into the correct hues (preferably in soft pastel). I really could be doing with the help. So glad I came across your tutorial. I'll be spending the crest of my day watching any others you've made. Thanks again, mate. Really appreciate artists like you who take the time to help those of us who are dying to create something but run into so many fundamental problems.👍
I had been struggling during a few days, but now it's all simple man, thank you so much really
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Many thanks for this great tutorial. I took notes, and will certainly use your teachings to do shadows appropriately. Also, I will make myself more familiar with the color wheel!
Your the first person I can understand when it comes to shadowing. Thank you so much
I love short and sweet and simple explanations. Thanks. I like 'purple' also!
used this with my students. you do not appear stoned!
😂 wtf
Well that explains it 😃
Would you be surprised tho ? 👀
wtf
Thank you for your simple explanations and demonstrations. Not a lot of unnecessary talk, right to the point. Thank you!
Thank you so much! I was just adding black to the color. I can't wait to start painting! 🤗
When you know what your are teaching you make it simple and easy to understand. Great job thank you.
THANK you so much. Being a beginner Im always looking to discover how things are done. YOU hit it out of the park for me today, thank you!
Great teaching. No artist provides me this info.explicitly. It's the first time I learn about the use of opposite colors for shadows.
This is the best video on shadows, no more adding blacks for me. Thank you!
This is absolutely THE BEST, most simple explaination I have EVER read n unfortunately I've read books about shading n didn't get as much understanding as I got in your short video! THANK YOU THANK YOU! I am now a subscriber. Too bad I can only like this once!
It would also have been good and informative to see a demonstration of cast shadows from each of these coloured balls unto different coloured grounds !
Awesome !!!! I feel as though I learned a lot about color and using the color wheel. Thank you so much for sharing
Appreciate this so much! Wonderful tutorial. Cleared up so many things for me. Thank u so much. Best video I've seen so far on shadows and shading. Takes me to the next level.
Great advice my man
“Have fun!” So tough to do but do right
This sure created beautiful rich colors! I'm eager to try it. Thanks for sharing.
"Look how soft that's gettın', Ah yea *snicker*" 😉
Very well done. I like that you also speak to watercolorists.
Thank you for short and yet clear explanations and nice demos.
Really useful especillay the blue. I wish someone had explained the colour wheel to me 50 years ago!
Paul Stratford Upon Avon UK
good basic advice, and very helpful. shadows are very deceiving & hard to figure out for their colours, as often as not
great tutorial Michael
For a beginner like me this has been a real help, thanks!
OMG thank you so much this video was so helpful!!!!!!!!!
I have just gotten back in to painting and had to do shadowing in a portrait and used black (because i couldn't remember anything from art in school) and it completely ruined my painting and I was about to give up when I found this video it honestly makes so much sense now and I really appreciate the help! I'm gonna try some shadowing tomorrow before I get back in and try fix up my portrait!
Thanks again!
Of course. I am so glad to help. Yellow and purple make a great shadow color for many skin tones.
Thanks!
Thanks
This is super useful thanks ! And I love your commentary
That was good Bob Ross kind of tutorial, dude. I can see that you try to use the same tone as him, good call.
Just learning which colors to use for shadows & ty for this video as was going to use orange to shade some place on blue pants! Now going to try Burnt Umber. My question is must you use a cool shadow w a cool color? If you use a warm color for a shadow to a cool color will it look strange? Ty
There are warm colors in shadows sometimes. It depends on your light source and any bounce light coming off of subject. Regardless you can paint whatever you want. If it works it works. Shadows just require a correct value of light for your brain to register it as a shadow. Color comes after value.
I was looking for such a video for a long long time. Finally I found one. Thanks a lot
Your tutorial will be very helpfull to me. Thank you.
Thanks Michael for this video. You need to do more.
excellent using the color wheel and demonstrating how complementing colors create excellent shadows. I have had a very hard time teaching this to students, they run for black. Excellent not using black and demonstrating it. hues and imitations/ substitute colors are another thing.
This is really good. I wish you did more on acrylic painting. I struggle more with highlights than shadows.
Yep! Easy to follow for a beginner like me. Informative and very helpful. Thanks Mike!
That answered questions I've been asking for too long, thank you. That was lovely.
Love this I understand now why my shadows always looked out of place. Thank you
Me too
Great demo. Now I know how to mix shadow colors.
Loved the way you explained that. Thank you!
I've been watching so many totorallys to show me how to paint and every time i see them paint i look at there hands and see how clean they stay while painting and then i look at my hands (I'm painting while watching this vid) and then i wonder
"HOW DO THEY KEEP THEIR HANDS SO DAMN CLEAN OMFG!!!!" Xp
You can make a great black with Ultramarine and Burnt Umber... you can take towards warm or cold depending on the proportions.
+Fabrizio Aldonne That is a great point. I love playing with those colors on skin.
Great lesson well demonstrated
What colour do I need to make a shadow on something white?
thanks for the video 👍
It was very nice to watch, this is a very soulful video 😌
Excellent tutorial for this beginner! Thanks. Judi
Very helpful. Thank you. Your light was giving a glare, but very helpful.
Great video! Very helpful 👍🏼 Thanks for a clear, concise demo.
darker shade of the color can make a shadow effect
Thanks! I really liked the video and I'm excited to get started on my painting
Nice video. Good delivery of the subject matter.
thank you for this I always wonder about the shadows on paintings
Thank you verry much love from thailand
Very nice! I learned a lot. Did you know that when you moved your body that you stepped in and out of the light and the colors changed? It was interesting to me because when I paint- I can really see something totally different depending on where I stand or where the light hits.
Caren Kaziyev When I was a boy I went to a museum in Philadelphia. They had a room with a color chart and three light switches: red, blue, and green. The lights demonstrated how colors of the lights would change the colors on the color chart. Every color changed dramatically. Even as a young boy that exhibit really fascinated me. Good eye and good brain you got there!
Michael Schmitt Thank you for your reply! Sounds like a really cool exhibit and a great way to demonstrate how colors blend. As a child I would have liked that, too. Hmmmm.....maybe I will make something like that for my children. Probably not difficult to make..... I find light fascinating and when I am painting I am very aware of it. In your video I actually thought there was some kind of editing going on with the colors until I realized it was your body was moving in and out of the light. I really enjoyed watching you paint the shadows (and highlights) on the ball and the colors you used. I am going to try and stay away from black and see what happens. I grad from photography school many yrs ago and so I see things that way- but I have always loved to paint even though I have had no formal training. Thank you for your tutorials. Also- can you explain more about a color picker? My eyes can become confused as sometimes and I will literally just blink and then look back and see different colors.
Caren Kaziyev No problem! I'm here to help. I take color a little too seriously sometimes. I go a little crazy sometimes. A color picker can be made with a hole in a piece of cardboard or wood. Paint the cardboard white or black for more contrast. Hold the color picker hole like a telescope towards the color you want to figure out. Without a color picker and your eyes are confused Squint! Squinting helps you see color and value. Allowing your eyes to go out of focus can really help with shadows, colors, and value. If you ever take a portrait painting class they will drill squinting into your head. I believe this gentleman has a video about making a color picker out of a spoon. This is very helpful because you can compare the paint to the actual color. th-cam.com/video/ZbQepj179RQ/w-d-xo.html
Michael Schmitt Thanks, Michael. I see you have other tutorials. I am going to check them out! I hope you have a classroom to share your knowledge and skill. You are very clear when you break things down.
Caren Kaziyev Thank you very much.
and what would be the colour of the cast shadow?
but what about reflected light?
Can you do one on skin tones?
How would this technique apply to reflected light in the shadows?
No. Reflective light color depends on the surface of the light is reflecting off of. Its usually the same color but not always.
Can one painting use different colors for shadows in different areas? Thank you
I love this guy,he helped me so much!(coming from a BEGINNER artist) :)
Wow!! This is the best video i have seen. I have a lot of problems with shadows. How would i transfer this knowledge when i have to do skin color palets?
Good info, can always learn more...
this was very helpful! can you please do a quick demo on creating shadows of a white object? such as the shadows of teeth or a white ball in a white background or a white wall? thank you so much if you can do that
+Sahgee Totally.
+Michael Schmitt (Master MadCraft) thank you SO much. you're the best and i value the time and effort you put into your videos. :) thank you sir.
Sahgee Oh wow. Thank you
Loved this. So clear and simple
what materials do you use???
You made this so much more SIMPLE for me THANK YOU
what does this mean for the beginner in terms of the colours to buy in the initial stages?
+mangoekiwi If you are looking for colors to start with I would go with the good old red, yellow and blue. In theory you can make every color. However pigments and dyes are limiting. I would go with ultramarine for blue. Terra vert or red ochre for an earthy red. Bright reds are useful too so I would go with a imitation cadmium red (cad red hue). Unless you want to spend the money on the real stuff. That can come later though. I would always suggest yellow ochre or raw umber for a starting yellow. As with the red you will need a bright yellow. I would go with a hue or a cheaper yellow first. You sometimes get what you pay for but practice shouldn't be TOO wasteful when you start. Expensive paints are better but they can come later. You can also just buy a little starter oil or acrylic set. I hope that answered your question..
I am now a fan of you I wish we could hang out and just paint the day away you seem like and awesome dude yo. forever be a fan now
Great video. Thank you.
hi! how would you approach this on a dark blue turqoiuse color? im struggling getting dark enough, without it becoming grey
Some colors are just going to be lighter by their very nature. Its okay to mix more of a tetrarch of colors. Once you get to your shadow maximize your darkness with burnt umber and blue. Then either pick a different blue color like ultramarine and burnt umber. If you are trying to go for a pure dark shadow mix up some cadmium and viridian. That will give you a deep black. Remember value is more important than solely focusing on colors. Especially when it comes to shadows
Thank you for sharing this.
Shereen Timmerman No problem. I'm glad it helped you.
Great video!
TY. This concept was never really explained to me and I was just thinking about that recently when implementing a shadow for a tree- I used dark green/brown. green red combo would have been better
Thank you Michael your video is clear nd informative , I would be grateful for a reply to my query which is for the highlights since ur using a combination of yellow and white does this go on top of the base color or mixed into it
it would be nice to see your pallet while you're mixing. Nice tut, though.
Great video
What's the shadow colour for light orange? Dark orange with black?
what would you use as a shadow for permanent rose?
Would you paint the shadow cast on the table/plane/surface the spheres sit on with the same color?
Help, I'm having some issues with shadowing. I have a black base canvas it has a blue ring around a red, orange and yellow flame??? Any suggestions?
Need a color wheel now
When adding the lights and shadowing you can do this when example the red ball is dry?
simple and clear. thanks for this video!
Beautiful!! This is extremely helpful!
just find out bout your channel, its old i know but still gonna say thanks, now i am sharing this with my students.
Best tutorial !!! Thank you
This was awesome!!!! Thank you!
There are other ways. For example, try using the colour next on the colour wheel
When doing the shadow for the blue, instead of using brown (which i do like) Could you instead just use less yellow instead of doing a 50-50% mix of the blue and yellow?
Do you mean red and yellow? If I'm mixing from the basic colors then I wont use a 50-50% of red and yellow to make orange. I'll use more red. I find it easier to mix a brown first then add blue. To make brown I first make purple, then mix in yellow for more color control. Yellow is strange in that it can make for some great shadows but its a fickle color to mix for shadows. I hope that answered your question.
4 people call themselves an "artist", but they are really amateurs, I think even amateur is too good of a label for them (very sad!). Michael explained it like a pro, pure and simple.
Dude, 35k+ views with 1k+ subs, fuck yeah man!!! Awesome
thank you, i struggle so much with shadows,
TY for the excellent video.
wonderfull video .
One question. "If we need to darken our base colour, add the next colour down on the colour wheel". A bit misleading? Adding orange to yellow makes it orange. It doesn't exactly darken it. It changes the colour.
You would need to add a dark version of the colour down so to darken yellow with Orange you will use brown, think of brown as a dark Orange. And same for green you would use a dark blue not a light one, well, to the degree of colour of the paint your starting with and how much you want to darken it. And then if its too bright desaturate with the opposite colour. Hope that helps.
but the opposite of orange isn't yellow... yellow is the opposite of blue.
cnith2 I'm sorry if you just confused it, but I have to point out that PURPLE is the opposite of yellow, and orange is the opposite of blue. They are complimentary colors, it's even showed in the color weel in the video..
Helpful and inspiring! I been wanting paint but afraid
theresa dyer, I was afraid too, and now I have done a good job in painting...atleast I think I did.
Very nice video, thank you!