How to Shade a Sphere Part 1

Thank you for taking the time to show this process, it all makes a lot more sense to me now.

Nice work on the tutorial, I love how you slow down and work so methodically.

This was fantastic,thank you so much. I was able to draw along in real time. I learned alot.

Great video! This was the second sphere that I ever did. It looks so much better than my first sphere, which I did using blending tools. Comparing the two really drives home the importance of applying graphite with a lot of layering while using a soft, light touch. This one looks so much better! My cast shadow needs a lot of work though. I'm hoping one of your videos that I haven't watched might go into a little more detail about cast shadows. Thanks so much all of your hard work in creating and posting this video.

I wish so much that you'd finish this tutorial. I learned so much about the behaviour of graphite in this video by watching and listening to you. Thank you.

After hearing you say "know your medium, respect your medium" i had to subscribed to your channel. i think you should be known for that comment. its simple, but a very important statement any professional should master. Drawing is such an eternally rewarding medium......i'm about to teach my 1st workshop. ( super nervous!) but i love discussing about the medium that everything should go ok.

Thank you for this great tutorial 👍👍

Very nice tutorial. Helped me complete my assignment <3

Thank you so much for this video! I learned so much by watching you doing the whole process - e.g. the blending from the shadow to the light side and how you did the reflected lights! There are a ton of videos out there showing how to shade a sphere but it helps a lot to see the whole process. My main problem up to now was a) that I used just one pencil hardness and b) that the blending, the transits between the single values are too abrupt. The next time I'll watch your video I'll be drawing along).

Excellent Kevin McCain. Bravo. FINALLY! I get It!! Thank you, thank you. I Get It!! I actually get it. Shaded Spheres by Kevin McCain for everyone! Yeah!! Thank you.

This is a very general way to work with value in graphite and is based on my twenty years of working as a professional illustrator and fine artist. Except in a very general way it has very little to do with Darrell Tank's "Five Pencil Method" neither his techniques nor his methods. I actually know Darrell both personally and professionally as we have worked for many of the same clients over the years and he lives in my area. He is a great artist but we work very differently.

Great tutorial. Many thanks.

Nice video, pal 👍

Hi Kevin. Thank you very much for the tutorials. From the above tutorial, the paper is not Strathmore. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thank you in advance.

Hello, I was wondering if you can give me tips on how the same concepts apply to colored pencils on a sphere. I am trying to work on how to create skin tones with faber castell polychromos colored pencils but when I try to layer for example dark candium orange with magenta I get either too much orange or too much magenta and it does not look blended together. And when I add dark walnut or burnt ochre for shadows it looks odd. Should I start with the shawdows first then go on to Mid tones and halftone?

I am very happy

Great tutorial. Have you said which grade of pencil you are using for each step in this project. I know what pencil you brought to the project H2 up to 4B but which grade you started the dark shadows. I’m gonna watch again, but will I find these answers. I’m learning and this tutorial is better than the rest for shading, thanks.

Whay pencil do you use in each step? H 2h 2b 3h ...??????

It would help immeasurably if we could see a reference photo of the sphere that is being drawn..

thank God finely a saw a person who is sketching with left hand...i am left handed person and i think that's why i can not sketch good😑