How to Shade a Sphere

Here is a shaded sphere drawn in Muzy… It’s actually not too difficult to draw. Just start with a circle. One of the benefits of Muzy is that you can make a circle by choosing a large brush and just making one dot on the canvas.

Once you make a circle with your darkest color, it’s time to start shading. In this case, I used white, with a low opacity (10%). Starting with the highlight, I colored a small area… then colored a larger area over it… and so on, so that I had rough shading, starting at the highlight and getting darker toward the edges of the sphere. Read the rest of this entry »