How to Draw & Shade Cones with Drawing & Shading Lessons & Tutorials for a 3-Dimensional Cone Shape

How to Shade Cones

This drawing lesson will guide you through the steps of shading a 3-dimensional pyramid. Learn how to make gradual graduation of tones to pyramids to create the illusion of depth on your 2-dimensional piece of paper.

Drawing Cones & Hemispheres

How to Draw Cones from different angles - and how to draw hemispheres (half circles).

How to Draw Cones, Vases, and Vessels

Learn about drawing and shading cones, vases, and open vessles with the following 3-d shapes and objects drawing tutorial.

Drawing and Shading of Cones

Learn how to draw and shade cones by recognizing cast shadows and where the light source is coming from so that the drawing of graduated shading can be drawn.

Deconstructing FreeHand Graphics Part 2: Draw and Shade Cones

Shading a cone is a challenge because neither a linear gradient nor a radial gradient accurately produces the highlights and shadows of the cone shape. Cones are often included in still-life images for this reason. After you learn to draw and shade a cone, you can use the same techniques when drawing other irregular shapes.