Hi friends!

To start with how to add shadows to our drawings, we will do several easy and simple exercises to understand how it works.

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The Homework Contest

In this homework, I would like to ask you to do this exercise which is to draw three or more different shapes in different positions to gain more confidence in using vanishing lines in a two-point perspective or one-point perspective with a high eye level. This homework is related to the previous Masterclass 60 Masterclass so I advise you to read it if you haven't already.

Start by quickly sketching some shapes to define their position and the height of the horizon line.

Then, over our sketch, we draw the helplines that define the two vanishing points and the eye-level line to obtain a more precise drawing.
We get the first shape.
Note that the vanishing lines at the left fall out of the drawing sheet. If you don't know how to draw it, see the previous lesson.55-Lesson

Repeat the same process to draw the next shape.
Keep in mind that the vanishing lines must cross the same horizon line that we have already defined but not necessarily at the same point defined for the previous shape, remember that each object can have different vanishing points than the others in the same composition.

We get the second shape.

Repeat the same process as above once again to draw this new shape.
Once again, the vanishing lines will cross the eye-level line at new points.

We have drawn the three figures for our exercise.

Here the diagonal lines indicate the height of the sun in the sky given by the inclination of the rays on the ground.
This is my random decision, you can decide to give another tilt to the sun's rays.

Note that the crossover point between the diagonal helplines representing the sun's rays and the horizontal helplines representing the ground will define the shadows.
The horizontal helplines must intersect all the bottom vertices of the cubes and the sunray helplines must intersect all the top vertices of the shapes. To achieve this it is mandatory to draw the helplines on the back of the shapes.

I've drawn red dots here to indicate the intersections that will define the edge of the shadows.

I drew the border here in red so that it is visible to you. The portion drawn behind the cubes will be invisible, obviously.

I let you observe all the helplines and the shadows before erasing them so you can study them.

The finished exercise.

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I wish you a very nice day and good exercise!

And if you like to colour your drawings, I recommend the interesting and useful Color and Light classes of @fumansiu whose concepts you can apply both with traditional and digital techniques.

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SOME RULERS

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° The contest is open to the entire STEEMIT community
° The drawing must be a separate STEEMIT post with a link in the comments section and using the tag #woxartschool.
° You have 7 days from the day of this publication to post the link to your task in the comments.

The best homework of school participants will receive support from WOX curators.

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Many thanks to @bambuka and @stef1 once again for their encouragement and support.
Also, thanks to @xpilar for making these initiatives possible.

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