How to Draw & Shade Objects with a Light Source in Front of Viewer with the Following Drawing & Shading Lesson

A STUDIO LIGHT IN FRONT OF THE SPECTATOR.

Effect largely shadow.

Fig. 11 represents the group when placed in front of a studio window. This position causes the visible surfaces to be largely shadow surfaces. The light strikes, however, the top parts of the cube, the cylinder, the sphere, and the plinth, and these surfaces are light; but in outdoor subjects the upper surfaces of objects are generally invisible, and there is less light than in Fig. 11. The cast shadows are dark and prominent in the effect, as they are wholly visible and extend toward the spectator. Fig. 11. in contrast with Fig. 10 (below), presents a mass of dark which is the general effect indoors or outdoors when the light is behind the objects ; it also shows that the shadow surfaces with the cast shadows form the larger part of the subject.

Strongest shadows on the nearest parts.

The increase in the strength of the shadow upon the cone towards its vertex is well shown, and also the fact that the strongest darks are generally on the parts nearest the eye.

Strongest lights on the contours.

The strongest lights are on or near the contours of the objects. On the pencil the glitter light is at the contour, and makes the black pencil lighter than the light parts behind it.