Lighter Shades of Grey

We have been struggling with drawing and noted the importance of shades of grey in a drawing to add volume (see previous blog entry).

I have selected below picture of my younger brother, my nephew and sister-in-law at their wedding, to practise the use of shades, also known as 'toning'.


Married couple with ring attendant

For the purpose of simplicity, I will use only three different screentones (i.e. dotted tones):

Light grey screentone (10%)	Mid grey screentone (30%)	Dark grey screentone (50%)

First thing I am going to do is convert the photo to lineart. For the purpose of 'focus' I will turn each person in a different linecolor. This is the result:



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